Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
WHAT a popuLrsr.v1croRY WOULD DO.
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| a Populist victory in the nation
would bring good times 10 the people
If the Populists had power in the ma
ton they would increase the money
volume TO fifty dollars per capita by an
issue of full legal tender paper money
and they would keep the per capita of
| money up to that amount. This would
| increase prices-money would be plen-
tier, aud men would not have to part
with SO much property or labor to get d
dollar as they now have to. Interest,
taxes and other fixed payments could
be met with half the property and labor
it now takes to meet them. People
would have more left to spend for labor
and products OF labor. Labor would be
in great demand at wages double what
they are now. Millions of nice residences
would be erected. The demand for ev-
erything made by labor would be dou-
bled. LabOrers would be practically
exchanging labor, for with the other
legislation Populists would pass, capt.
talists would not reap where others
SOW. Ii the Populists were in power
they would adopt the system of govern
ment railroads, which would haul
freight as cheaply for one man as for
another. so that no Rock efeller could
crush competition through freight dis.
criminauOn. These highways would
no longer manufacture millionaires.
They would be run 1T cost, and nobody
would make q cent. except wages, out
of them. Passenger fare would proba.
bly, be Is cents for 100 miles, and freight
so low that the yearly product of the
farms would be worth two or three dol
lars per acre more, from freight savings
alone. But the greatest blessing of
government ownership. would be equal
rates to all, thus depriving the trusts
OF the main thing they feed on-lower
rates than others. Ii the Populists
were in power they would provide for
government savings banks and govern
ment loans to the people at per cent.
1t is hardly necessary to mention the
advantages of such loans. The great
estgood however, would be stopping the
flow of wealth from the masses to the
few through tie accommodating powe,.
of compound interest. Interest world
no longer create mllllonaires. Inter.
est, instead of concentrating wealth.
would distribute that part represented
by interest payments. among all the
people, the interest received would
take the place of that much taxes.
These are the three principal prosperi-
ty measures advocated by the Peoples
party. They are based on sound busl.
ness principles. Enacted into laws
they would bring prosperity greater
than the most enthusiastic refOrmer
dreams of. Brother Populist, is not
the cause worth an effort on your part?
Do you know that we can win If we will
all do our share? Populists, if they had
the power, would adopt the initiative
and referendum, giving the people the
right to compel the passage Of such
laws as a majority want and the right
to veto such laws as they not want, and
taking from before our lawmakers
great temptations to abuse their power.
Populists, if they had power, would
exempt the modest home from taxation
and tax large incomes. They would
not levy heavy tribute on man for the
privilege of having a modest root over
his head and the means of making
living, and let the princely incomes go
untaXed. If the constitution were i'm
the way they would amend 1t. Are
you satisfied with present conditions?
Are you pleased to see more than half
of the people struggling for mere ex-
istence, when with the labor saving
machinery of the present time one man
is equal to several of fifty years ago.
and, therefore, the condition of the
masses of the people should be several
times better, instead OF worse?
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