Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-13
Who Are The FIoppers.


book of 1892. You should cut this
out and put it IN your scrap book or
in your pocket and when some stupid
republican tells you his party was
never In favor of free SILVER give him
a shot from this campaign book is
sued by authority of his own national
committee.
Extracts from the republican ma
tlonal League book of 1892, entitled,
Principles rnd policies of the repub-
licsn party:
IF every voter in the United States
were called upon today to declare
whether he desired the use of silver
as well as gold in our monetary sys-
tenn, certainly as many as ninety per
cent would answer in the affirmative
There is grave danger in the I'M
qualified adoption of the gold stand
ard"
"a man who ten years ago con-
tracted debt which then might have
bean paid with a Thousand bushels Of
wheat must today pay many more
than thousand bushels to get him
self Free"
"The capitalist can increase his
wealth by simply converting it into
gold, putting it in vault and hold
ing 1t idle for a series of years. At
the end of ten years 1t will buy more
provisions and more LABOR than it
would when he stored 1t, as the sup
ply of gold contracts everybody must
work harder to get it."
1T is plain that debtor is entitled
to discharge his obligations for a
value precisely similar to that he or
iginally obtained. He cannot do this
if the money in which his loan is
compulsory payable increases be-
tween the date of It's making and the
date of It's payment. Measured in
gold all obligations have thus in
creased IN very short period of
time The creditor class enjoys,
therefore, vast advantage over the
debtor GLASS. The men who work for
their living and who consume their
earnings are placed in a most unfair
position. These facts supply the ar
gument which on public grounds is
to be urge d in favor of greater use
of silver money"
"The republican party is emphati-
cally bimetallic party. It believes
that the evils suffered by the people
as the result of the appreciation of
gold require prompt and substantial
correction"
1.-The repu blican platform in 1888
distinctly called for the use of both
gold and silver as money, and con-
demned Mr.. Cleveland and the policy
he had pursued in his effort to COM
pletely demonetize silver"
president Harrison IN his first
message, warmly urged silver coin
age and declared it foolish to dis
credit metal of which we were such
large users. His views were in a
measure accepted by the republican
majority in the house, and bill was
offered and passed providing for the
purchase of 100000 ounces of silver
month, thus drawing into monetary
use the entire American product of
silver.
The effect of this bill WAS instan-
taneous Within three weeks after
the silver law went into effect the
value of the silver dollar had risen
from IS % cents tits value on Dec. 1,
1899, when the republican congress
assembled) to 924 cents; and the val
ne Of the American cereals increased
in similar rate"
In every state in the Union the
republicans offer to the voter consis-
tent, straightforward silver record"
THE republican party is able to
say to the country. we are bimetal-
lists; we have proved our position by
enactIng a law which has provided
the country with the best aAd safest
currency that has ever been issued
Treasury notes. by the government,
Effording circulation greater than
has ever before been put out, per
capita; we have gwen monetary use
to the entire American product of
silver; have Increased the value OF
silver IN the markets of the world ten
per cent"