, 1900-09-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

The silver orators from Bryan down
are never tired OF reiterating that the gold
standard is establish solely in the interest
of the creditor class, who want whatever
is due them paid in the best and highest
kind of money, They assume that the
debtor class is the poor who money,
and that the creditor class is the rich to
whom money is always due. On this
ground they endeavor to foment hatred
and bitterness among the poor against
class and employee against employer.
To stir up such ~jealousies and hatreds
opens the road to anarchy, anarchy leads
to the destrnctio nof the government.
But it is not true that the poor are the
debtor class and the rich the creditor
class. As a matter Of fact the great maj
ority people belong to both classes, having
money coming to them from one direc-
ton and having to pay it out in another.
1t is, therefore, difficult to draw any hard
and fast line to separate the debtors from
the creditors. But if there is a creditor
class in this country, a set OF people to
whom that designation is peculiarly app.
licable, it is not composed of the men
who are handle large sums of money and
who are engaged in carrying on great
enterprises. They for the most, are deb
tors.
The real creditor class is composed Of
working men and women. of employees in
every walk of business. of salaried people,
and of depositors in banks. Especially de,
positors in savings banks. These are the
men and woman to whom money is al,
ways due and who are entitled, if any.
body in all the world is, to the best and
most stable money, hat can be devised
A huctuating money. varying in value
from time to time, is to them a condemn
alton of poverty and loss.
There are over thirty thousand bank
| depositors in Colorado now, an in
crease of nearly a hundred per cent
In our years. Perhaps this is n O.
the many valid reasons why McKin
ley will carry Colorado this time.
1t would seem under all the circum
stances as if the sugar trust ought tc
do something handsome for Richard
son of Tennessee; at least they might
subscribe for a copy Of his book
without any of the long-talked. either
The following is a full, true and cor
rect copy Of proposed amendment No
/, to the Constitution of the State OF
Wyoming, to be submitted to the voters
at the general election to be held No
vember 9th, 1900.
ARTICLE xxi.
Any County Of the State of Wyoming
may issue and sell its valid bonds, at 6
price not less than the par OF their face
value, bearing interest at a rate not ex'
ceeding five per centum per annum. tc
raise money to refund its Indebtedness
outstanding on the first day Of January
A. D 1899, for the payment Of which in.
debtedness there vert no funds avail
able on that date, though such indebt,
edness, or part Of the same, may have
been created in excess of the limit OF
Indebtedness fixed by the Constitution
and Laws of the State OF Wyoming
Such bonds shall be issued in all re.
spects as the laws now provide or may
provide for the issuing of bonds by the
counties of the state Of Wyoming.
In witness whereof I have hereuntc
set my hand and affixed the Great Sea
Of the State of Wyoming. this fifteenth
day Of August, 1900.
Kenmore CHATTERTON,
[Seal.l Secretary of State.