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Show ORICINAL VIEWS OF A STATESMAN Soma Thought, on Fluanc. and Hallway, by tha Socfcle.. Saga of KanH. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 3. Jerry Simpson Simp-son has delivered himself of a few of his Ideas on the subject of money, lie was not stuck, he said, on the precious mctala as circulating mediums. His ideal was a bit of paper and he would prefer to see all gold and silver left in the mountains where it belonged. Ho would have an estimate made of the amount under the ground and would issue silver certificates equivalent in value to such estimate. Coin in the treasury was liable to be stolen by a foreign treasury, but no amount of faith even could remove the mountains and their precicus freight. As to railroads, rail-roads, he thought the people only wanted one. the Union Pacific, on which the nation had a mortgage. When he reached Washington he proposod to interview in-terview the Union i'acifio people, and if they failed to pay up the interest due the road should become the property of the people. The other fellows always took this course in regard to farms. Jerry said ho was opposed to all usury laws and in favor of nationalization of land and free trade. |