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Show should remember that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Coming Events. THE KANSAS FARMER. HE IS JUST NOW SUBJECT OP CONTENTION. a partner of bank presidents vbo have wrecked banks and robbed the people of their money, McKinley is HU Kortap la Appreciated hjlK Off making a record. He ought to turn Gold Title off Cram Pleuai th. his attention to the ( burglars, train Advocates of tbo British Iritom robbers and others who are serving Soma Gold Fallaoio. FanctaiML sentences for other forms of robbery and pardon them. While the method 1b There another little Incongruity of the latter is a little different from that by the bankers, the rein the rhapsodical out- sult ispursued same. The bankers, howthe burst, writes Hon. H. F. Bartlne in the are protected in their thieving in ever, National Bimetallist. , It says that if Kansas could have had every possible way, and when one of her way her farmers would have re- them is convicted he soon secures a ceived no more than $137,500,000 for pardon, and then those in high places this years crop, whereas they received preach the doctrine that all are equal Just twice that much. That is to say, before the law. In China, it is said that when a bank fails the officers ol they would have been paid in the institution are beheaded, and there dollars, but would not have received any more of them. This is a favorite has not been a bank failure in that point in gold standard logic: Under country for a hundred years. Thai free coinage everybody is going to be plan should be adopted in this counSilverton Standard. paid in dollars, but is going try. to get no more of them. By what inThe Republican party advocates twe scrutable process a dollar can measures: A high protective tariff tc be made to buy as much of farm prodkeep products out of the European ucts as a dollar will, they A gold standard, so thal country. never explain? If a dollar will not only we will have money good in Europe Now, will some brainy Republlcar as dolmuch debt as a pay lar, but will also buy as much, what please harmonize these two proposiFor what does the change amount to anyway, tions of Republicanism? and why are they getting black in the purpose do we need a money that if face denouncing it? What functions good in Europe if we Intend to have a policy that will not let the European! does money perform except the payment of debts and the buying of ship their goods into this country? Mound City (Kan.) Standard. things? If, under free coinage, the farmer VERSE FOR THE TIMES. would get no more dollars for his crops than he now gets of MY UNCLE. THE MUGWUMP. dollars," then, by the same line My uncle keeps a money shop, of goldite reasoning, he would have to so low as your three balls), (Not dollars for what He pay no more takes a president in pop he bought, or in settlement of his debts, And senators he "puts and "calls." dolthan he now does of He is as slippery a man. lars. So. where would he be injured, As ever dodged a public slump. and why should he be required to lie Hes neither black, nor white, nor tan, awake nights formulating peans of But simply a MUGWUMP. to the and party thanksgiving praise in power for saving him from the awMy uncle knows his way up to ful consequences of a dollar, The royal presence needing loans. As Times-Her&ld- 'a 50-ce- nt nt 50-ce- nt 100-ce- nt 50-ce- nt 100-ce- nt 50-ce- nt 100-ce- nt 50-ce- nt 100-ce- nt 50-ce- nt which, by their system of logic, will pay as much of his debt or buy as dollar many necessaries as a will at the present time? In this connection there is another explanation required. If the farmers crops would bring him no more dollars under free coinage, how would it have the effect of compelling the wageworker to pay twice as much for his bread and meat? In the cities of the Union during the last campaign the song was constantly troubadours of sung by the well-pathe gold standard that if we had the free coinage of silver the dollar paid would at once to the shrink to 50 cents and only buy half as much of household necessariea As he would get no more dollars, of course, he would be ruined. What an easy thing it is to expose the absurdities (?) of the free coinage of silver! All that is necessary is to show that under such a policy everything that everybody has to buy will go up, while everything that everybody has to sell will either remain where it is or go down. Nothing could be simpler than that. At first glance it would seem that when a man buys an article and has to give twice as many dollars for it because each dollar is only worth 50 cents, the man who sells the article would get twice as many for the same reason. And in any ordinary case this would be true. But the reader must remember that as gold is independent of all laws, human and divine, which usually affect value, so the reasoning (?) by which the gold standard is upheld is in like manner independent of all the rules and principles which are found in the great works on logic. When we once get this unique idea into our heads we have no difficulty In understanding how free coinage would have the effect of compelling the the poor man with the dinner bucket to pay $2 for a given article, while the equally unhappy man who sells it to him would only get $1 '100-ce- nt id wage-work- er With money sweat from me and you He props some guilty d blood-staine- And thrones. then: may Greece or Crete be free? Nay! his crowned debtors that would stump. So peoples, by captivity, Must pay the wise MUGWUMP. Peter EL Burrowes. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? the plute votes with you; Repent and you grieve alone. You voted for Mack Tls a nut you must crack, Mark Hannas gold brick is a rock. James Fitzgerald, In K. of L. Journal. Vote and WILL NOT LAST ALWAYS. Since the slowly moving cycles of the nations first began. Has the world been crushed and saddened by the selfishness of man; And the student of the People can but count his saying true, That the many toll and struggle for the pleasure of the few. Yet, O Freedom! labors birthright not for aye shalt thou be sold For the scanty mess of pottage granted by the power of gold. Lo! a brighter day is dawning; on towrd vast reforms we range. In the worlds deep heart is throbbing presage of a wondrous change. ROCKEFELLERS HYMN OF TRUST. Deep in Earths mother-bosoThe Father gave to Man, Are oily wells of treasure Earth-hel- d since Earth began. Unnumbered homes of darkness Shall of His bounty take. Whereof to brighten leisure And light of darkness make. Unnumbered wheels shall answer The mandate of its flame. To do the work of mankind And lessen Labors claim. POINTS PROM THE PRESS. I seize this hidden treasure. is mine. Earths mother-breaSqueeze the "water out of that dol- If tbere be tithes or taxes lar, and make it come down to a parLet labor pay the fine. ity with labor and products. Brad- The keys of Mankinds storehouse ford (111.) Silver Star. Into my hands are thrust their own God of Justice, By Dollar wheat seems farther away in His name we trust. And than ever. McKinley prosperity came Virginia M. Butterfield. short-lived and too soon and was too spotted to help the Republican party A PRAYER. when it will need help. Star and Protect me, Lord, from these Thy Kansan. saints, the sanctimonious few; Oh! save me from their clutches when Taking the government out of the become due. control and beyond the reach of the Oh! mymemortgages into not the hands of these put friends and advowhat the people is men of woe. the cates of trusts and monopolies call Who call the earth of. tears ayaleit so. taking questions out of politics. and strive to maak Post Columbus Oh! guard me from good who lend at cent per cent. is Inherent The right of ownership a thousand dollar lien for And take in the producer. The creation of anydollars lent. ninety thing certainly entitles the creator to Make me, instead, the debtor of some if this But the use thereof. principle man with human taints; was applied to our social system how At rate, protect me. Lord, from any hungry and homeless and naked onr these Thy modern saints. be. would millionaires Topeka Daily Ellis Parker Butler In Puck. wage-earn- m er st Government by injunction is legalKeep It Before the leoplo. There can be no vested rights stealing the robes of liberty in order that it may destroy against human rights. Abraham the spirit of freedom. Americans ized despotism COIN IT FOR OTHER NATIONS OR OUR OWN? DO WE A 50-ce- WHAT IS MONEY FOIL? Eugland, Conti oiled by the Rothschilds. Wont Cheap Silver She Ceeeot Pro-da-ce It, bat Beye It et Ilelf Price end Trades It for Wheat. Great Britain and the great powers of Europe have been beaougnt for twenty years to agree that the United States might coin silver and make a supply of much needed money for transacting their own business. The object is not to make money for foreign nations to transact business but for the people of the United States. What business Great Britain or any other nation has in the matter is something that has never been explained, or that no fellow can find out All the continent of Europe doesnt mine annually twenty million dollars, of silver, and Great Britain doesnt mine half a million. The American continent produces three-fourtor more of the worlds silver. The three Old World continents dont produce fifty millions all told of silver annually. They send to America for the silver they use in subsidiary coins and for use in the arts. They can buy all the silver they want at half its coin value. Why should they agree that the United States open their mints and at once raise the price of silver to double what they pay now for it? The old world nations are constantly purchasing silver to keep up their supply of subsidiary coin to accommodate their retail trade and wage earning class with money. It Ik to the Interest of the governing class, f&e rich class, to be able to purchase what silver they want at the lowest figure possible. They are the parties who use silver in the arts, and not the great mass of the people. They are not the class that would profit by having silver raised to a legal tender power and value. All the silver they want is that which is consumed in the arts and in subsidiary coins, and the cheaper they can purchase the bullion the better for them. That class owns most of the gold, and controls it all, and they desire no other legal tender money, no other international money. If they at any time need additional currency to conduct their business, their banks can readily supply it or substitute credit leans for money. By this financial policy and practice this money class can control prices, and keep them down and the people poor, humble, powerless and the more easily controlled and enslaved. Then why should that class want silver remonetized? The very reverse is more natural: selfishness, arrogance and lust of power always being their ruling passion. They are producers, and the lower prices are the richer the money class, the greater the amount of property money represents and controls. To remonetize silver and place it by the Bide of gold would double the amount of money this class would be compelled to handle If they succeeded in cornering and controlling It The silver trade is at present a monopoly, and must continue to be as long as this monopoly can prevent the United States opening their mints to its equal coinage with gold. The same Rothschild family, who control the gold as money, monopolize silver as merchandise. London is the silver bullion market of the world. These London silver merchants collect all the silver of the world and supply all the European and Asiatic countries from their vast stores. Having a monopoly of the trade, the price of silver is largely under their control. Silver always finds a ready market in Asiatic countries, where the London silver traders exchange it for all kinds of oriental goods, which their agents in every city in Europe and America place on the market In short, the silver trade Is in the hands of the Jews, as the gold money trade also Is. They are the greatest merchants in the world. Having a monopoly of the silver of the American continent, they are enabled to control the business in Asiatic countries in the lines of merchandise which are the most profitable to deal in. These goods are distributed throughout the continents of America and Europe and handled by their expert merchants. America is selling these people its silver at half price; with this advantage in their favor they can beat the world In handling the choicest goods of the orient and sell them to the people of Europe and America at profits that none but themselves can command. Their "Israelite Universalle," with headquarters in Paris and agents in every Important city in the world, can receive and transmit Information to any city on the civilized globe In a few minutes, and with a combi re with the solidarity of this Rothschild Isarelite Universalle working the gold of the world as money, measuring and value-In- g by grains and money of every country in the world that commerce from the outside touches, and a commercial syndicate using the world's uncoined silver in its mercantile transactions, with every trade and monetary secret coin-valu- e, hs non-weal- th locked in its silent chambers as by the keys of death, is there any wonder that the efforts of a blind, uninformed people are constantly foiled in their efforts to reinstate silver to its ancient place in the worlds money? Japan and other small nations are being worked upon by the same influence that clandestinely secured the demonetizing of silver in the United States, there can be no doubt, and there is circumstantial evidence strong as proofs from holy writ" that that influence was bribery! With these mountains of facts rising In view should it be matter for surprise that the efforts of the last twenty years to restore silver to its ancient place as money, should prove a labor of Sisyphus? Our statesmen (God save the mark!) when not venal, are leaders of the blind, and tumble into the ditch with their deluded or confiding constituents. But suppose our statesmen have sufficient Intelligence and honesty to force the remonetization of silver by the United States, what would it mean to this country? It would mean that $200,000,000 worth of silver would be the yearly product, when the business was gotten fairly under way. It would mean $100,000,000 of additional wealth to the country annually from that one source alone, as compared with present prices of bullion. Whether it stayed in this country in the form of money or went away as metal merchandise. It would not go away unless its value of $1.29 an ounce was left behind to pay for it If converted into money it would be disbursed In the western and mountain country first, creating wants for everything the unappeasable desire of man craves. Manufactured goods would flow from the East to supply the people of the West. From staples to luxuries the demand would Increase and swell like their rivers In spring, and if the aristocratic old world chose to cling to her gold standard, her products would inevitably be shut out from our markets by a silver protection far more potent than any tariff bill that has ever been or ever will be passed. Plenty of money finds plenty of work people want done, from useful to ornamental and luxurious. All the silver nations South would come where their silver would buy the most The Oriental nations would feel the same Impulse and increase their trade with this country in place of patronizing d Europe. But the timid soul whose understanding has been clouded by goldbug sophistry raises his hands in holy horror! We would be overrun with silver! Did you ever hear of a country having too much silver money? Did you ever know of one that had half enough? When would a hundred or two millions of silver added annually catch up to and replace the thousands of millions of paper and bank credit that are made use of to conduct the present skimped business of this long-fasti- ng OUR BUDGET OF FUNL GOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. Soma Good Selections from tha Comic Fapora and Other Exchangee Settling' tha I'ato a Mop, Tareo-Ureel- Boundary Likened aa When MUlla Goes Slamming. HEN Millie goes slumming it seams that all cars Drifts lightly away on a breath of fresh sir. The dark, squalid streets are oa xneedowlande fair. Where wild bees i are humming, Of derkenlng shadow there's never a trees. Each corner that leera as a greweome old place le lighted and cheered by her sunshiny face. When Millie goes slumming. The little street arabe they steal up tha stairs That lead to the portals of povertys lairs. And cry out, as though taken quite unawares: An angel Is coming! Their liaety conclusions I take to be tme. Admitting she's human, between me end you She's doing Juet that which real angels would do When Millie goes slumming. Roy Farrell Green It Had the Earasarks. don't like my book? timidly ventured the young author who had invaded the lair of the literary editor for tbe second time. No, miss, he said In bis gruffest voice. It's trash! I have been compelled to handle it without gloves, You miss. I I see it looks like it, faltered the young author, glancing at the volume that lay on the table In front af the terrible editor. Chicago Tribun Settling the Tarco-Greel- Boundary. aa gold-starve- country? But Europe would send all of our securities home and take away all ol our gold! Ugh! it makes one fairly Bhudder. If they wanted gold more than the people of this country do and were willing to pay more for it, or would sell the securities for whatever they could get, they would perhaps feel more secure for having the gold, and we would be better off for having the securities. The person or nation out of debt is always the best off. In the meantime the Increase of money would act on the now idle labor and stagnated business of this country like rising steam in an engine boiler. Wealth production would begin to move and expand, to knock off the rust that years of idleness had allowed to accumulate, and where the trade statistics now record hundreds of millions, they would record in a few years thousands of millions. It is not money that measures the wealth of a nation, but the products of industry, which industry is put into action by the power of money. It is not the steam in the ships boilers which carries the freight across the ocean, but the ship which Is forced into action by the steam. These and yet more marvelous results await the coming of the remonetization of our silver. How long will the same Influences be able to bribe delay of the free coinage of silver by the United States? If our business people could have their noses lifted from the grindstone where the poverty of a 'money supply and killing competition are holding them relief would speedily E. E. EWING. come. Only Ootsldc Market Kemlad. Informed Englishmen admit that this country excels England in the cheapness of iron and steel manufacturing and that the south has superior advantages over all other sections. The south contains about 40 per cent, of the tota'. coal area of this country, and in less than two decades has Increased its coal output from 14 to 24 per cent of the total production of American mines. The coal and iron Industries of the south need no tariff protection. Demand from outside markets will be worth more to them nan all the tariffs that can be lei .ed. Knoxville (Tenn.) tribune. Dusty Rhodes Have King George and the Sublime Forte settled tbe boundary yet between Greece and Turkey? Tye Walker I dunno, but If I was bo Bein dat sublime port I'd fix til boundary mighty quick. Dusty Rhodes How would you fix it? Tye Walker Id put bout s quart of dat sublime port between de grease an' de turkey. Economised His Words. Two dusky small boys were quarreling; one was pouring forth a tor rent of vituperative epithets, while tha other leaned gainst a fence and calmly of contemplated him. When the flow ' language was exhausted he said: Are you troo? Yes." "You alnt got nuffln more to say? "No. "Well, all dem tings what you called me, you is." Chicago News. Dnngerons Ground. "That man Levolves never ceases to be a perfect gentleman," said an admiring acquaintance. Yes," was the reply; he absolutely refuses to be led into conversation the weather. Washington about Star. Tho Old Man' Objected. Jlmmey Say, Billy, why dontcher let yer hair grow long a look like a football player? Billy Well, I started to, bnt de old man said if I went around de house lookin' like a mop, he'd wipe de floor wld me. Ile'e Away Off. Timkins Isnt old Millyuns a distant relative of yours? Simklna Yes; so distant that he Isnt able to recognize me. Chicago News |