The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 22, 1896, Page 2

nae a | | if SORE AF ESN AE OLLI ANTALIS ae ion Soldier to His Comrades Washington, D. C, Aug. 25, 1896. Dear Old Comrade:—You ask how it ia possible that I, a Union soldier. a Republican, who have received | from the soldier State the bigbest honor in their gift, |) can think of voting for any candidate for President except the Republican candidate, our respected friend and comrade, William McKinley I will tell you, comrade, Low it is. re than I. by You cannot realize m the ties of o'4 beliefs, association, | affection and fraternal feeling. Give me credit comrade, for the) same de on to couctry which you teel, that fested by acts, not word, a third of same devotion we mani a century ago, and hear my reasons for the faith that is in me Take no man's statement on trust Hear and read both sides. Consid er; weigh; balance; find ths truth; prove it, if you can, and know your duty, do it a3 fearlessly i when you as you did in “the days that tri men’s souls.” Why is our country in distress? We have had rich soil, fair skies, good crops, stout hearts avd willing | hande, and peace for thirty years, and yet our country is almost a4 sad as in the bloody days of war. What is the cause? Our comrade the Major ascribes it mainly to bad legislation on the tariff. I think we have had bad tar- iff legislation, but that cause is not adequate to this effect. The present tariff is higher than the Morrill tar iff, under which we prospered many yeare; it is a little lower than the McKinley tariff, which I think de- served n longer trial. But sixty cents more per head would help the Treasury all it needs. I do not be- lieve we are suffering all these ills because of sixty cents per head. It is the suffering of the people, not the Treasury, we must provide for. The common people suffer in other lands also, and it is not tariff that troubles them. Where is the cause great enough to throw the people and other peo ples from prosperity to the depths of Gesolation? There ia one cause great enough. The destruction of half the world’s money, which changes the ownership of half the world’s property. That cause, which has | debt. It has been dis comrades of my) | so called ‘crime of was smuge |gled through Congress. Whether lit was or not it was ‘crime by usurpation. No great party \had asked for such a law. platform: bad suggested it. No ce prints and No | great 2 - : ‘Yet \this most important piece of legisla Ition from the foundation of the Gov | ernment was enacted, somehow, | without the knowledge of the people. | litical discussion iu the pub hustiags preeeded it. ney demanded it. at the |Is itu government “of vbe people, |by the people and for the people,” | when such things can be done with- jout submission to the people? | By this usurpation of the people’s ipower onehalf the people's full power mouey was destroyed. Have jihe people grown wealthy because |of such destruction” It isa strange belief that to de- \stroy one balf of anything will make | the other haif no dearer. We know jthat for each dollar pow must reas much of the products we rive twi give ty vi our toil us when dollars were ful. And one of these dollars goes uo farther ia paying our vast debt abroad than one of the old deilar of staudard enrich those with many Does not the change dollars who are lenders, at the ex penge of those debtors who by their toil produce the things they must exchange for dollars? The destruction gold more valuable. demaud for anything crease its price. We all siken raiment. Shail we, “silk is not too good for the Iuborer’s wife,” close allthe cotton mille? What would be the price of silk thereafter? Who of silver made Increase the and you in- adiuire because would be apt to get the suk drese, the laborer's wife or the millicnaire’s wife? Wheaten loaves are better than corn bread. But destroy all the corn and would we have as cheap wheat- en loaves? Brick houses are geuerally better than wood, If we build no more houses of wood, or if we destroy the old ones, think you the poor man can get a brick house more easily? When Lee gobbled our cattle, did we get more pork, or less meat? When we refuse to coin silver, do driven the comfortable to poverty, the well-to do to anxiety, and the rich to arrogance, is great enough to answer for all our ills. Thousands of years both gold and silver had been freely used for mon- ey. For eighty years our country used both metals. No one ever heard of the citizen who had too much of either gold or silver. Eyery nation looked upon its store of gold and silver as a blessing. How then can one of them bea curse? How has it become ‘“debased?” Why “dis hcnest?” Our Government is like a great machine shop. Money is the cteam power. It was planned for two connected boilers, one of gold and one of silver. No matter which boil er we drew from, we had the power of both, and the shop ran well until ‘61. Then we need more power,and | Father Abraham contrived a green back boiler which, when the others partly failed us, gave us steam to drive the wheels and save the nation. But until 1873 no one thought we had too much power, or thought it would be wise to take from the peo ple the money power they had en- joyed from the beginning. With gold and silver we are like a} family with two wells. It matters but little from which well they use water from day to day. But destroy one well and let a neighbor control the other and our family is in a bad fix if the neighbor is disobliging or} the house catches fire. i silver was little used prior to 1873. | This is partly false and partly true. | bushel of wheat would about buy a eq men had that convention in their | Always both metals were free to} come to the mint. Always the cheap: er metal came. | The shght tluctuaiion of two or) three por cent caused sometimes sil- | ver and sometimes gold to be a little | above the otker, but we always used the cheaper, and had the higher priced metal to fall back on. Now we are using the dearer metal only) as full money., Silver is not “sound” ) unless backed by gold. | | The act of 1873 made full legal} tender silver impossible. It struck we have more gold, or less money? When horses, or bouses,or clothes become scarce, we must pay more for them. Why is not the same rule good as to dollars? And is it not wrong to make us pay more for dole lars than we ageed or expected to pay? There is another reason why gold dollars are growing in price. New nations are constantly adopting the gold standard. Japan comes next. China and India are being foreed that way. This new demand is go- ing to make the gold dollar more and | more valuable and harder to get,un- less this nation averts the danger by changing our system to bimetallism. | You ask if I would debase our coinage. Isayno Let ua go back to the system we had. It was sound then and is sound now. By juggling laws they haye made the dollar worth too much. The eacle on the gold dollar is a shy bird. Wall street traps have made such birds scary. You and1 are not as agile as we were thirty years ago. We can’t fill our game bag as we could, when half the birds are driven away, and {the other half fly twice as high You have been shown lately that American doilars are worth twice as much as Mexican dollars, and are asked if you would reduce our dol lars to the Mexican standard. I was in Mexico thirty years ago, and look ing over late Mexican papers I find prices there pow muoh the same as lthey were in 1866 The Mexican It has been preached to us that! dollar has neither gained or lost in | hope abead under Republican rule. purchasing power. The farmer's Mexican dollar thirty years ago, and t will do it now. But the American farmer must give two bushels of wheat to buy an American dollar to pay the bond holder who loaned our | Government ’ paper dollars worth only about halfa bushel of wheat. The American de to me like a watered stock. be, but you must pay twice as much as it is worth to get it. I would like to see the American dollar made as steady and as honest as the Mexican dollar. down one-half our ability to pay our} You have been told that free coin- | surprised by pirates. They c- ted that this nore the less a No po- Heavy and shelf Hardware, Steel, Nails, Salt, I ‘restoring old conditions we put the | DEACON BROS. && CoO. debt where it wis. We shou'd do} Cutlery and Guns Tiuware and Stoves, Field and Garden seeds, Buggies, Wagons and Farm machinery, Wagon wood work, Iron, Barbwire, Machine oil, Glass <c. GROCERIES. Buggy paints, ORIGINAL ROUND OAK Best heater in the world. KEEPS FIRE -:- -:- with wood or TRIUMPANT over all others. coal, Give you references from 1000 Bates County People. The Starliog w.th cast top and bottom. The best air tight wood heater in America. Call and see our line of wood and coal heaters. age of silyer will help tke American | mine owner. Thank God for some- ! thing which will help some Ameri- producer. This country pro- duces one fourth ef the All gold owners This country ean produce half the etlver | of the worl]. Give American silver | mine owaers af least as faira chance | as the foreign gold miner. can lesa than gold «f the world have ‘cee xecess to our mints. | We have been told again that the cause of distress is overproduction. Let farmers raise less wheat and they will get higher prices. Let} plavters be thankful for the drought in Mississippi and Louisiana, for | those who are vot ruined will get | better prices for their cotton. This is devilish doctrine! But how are! we to stop the overproduction of | men which drives down wages? And | where has been the overproduction of land, which has reduced the value | of your farm? | If overproduction brings down | values, Jet us try an overproduction of money, to bring that down within | the reach of the common people. | Let us try such « production of dol-| lars as wil! bring their worth to the | par of coin at the time we incurred | our debt. We can then pay our debt in dollars batter than those re- ; ceived, and as good as agreed. You have been told that no dollar is too good to pay our pensions. I say any dollar is too bad to pay our pensions which is wrung from the; i ) { | was in 1873. the engine and the rudder. They can drive her where they please. While they may deceive some of the old crew as to their character for a while, they will make you walk the plank when they get ready. Three months ago these same pi- rates were abusing Major McKinley like a pickpocket. Now how they love him. If i didn’t think they had captured the Major as well as the ship I might still vote for the Major, for I esteem him as a man. But these Shylocks always get their pound of tlesh. If they haven’t got the Major io irons he is in bonds to their platform. They always control the outtit when once they get a foot j hold The St. Louis platform betrays your trust and miue in that it would make the nation no longer a free and independent nation. We are Americans Some of us believe it right to retrace our steps, and make our coinage law just as it Oar fathers made the law a hundred years ago without foreign consent ‘ust we ask a for eign permit to do again what our fathers did alone? Then we are no longer free men,but degenerate sons | of such noble sires. We are told it would be dishonest to adopt free coinage alone,but hon est if some other nations join with us Since when was it wrong for one to do what is right for many to do? sullering of our fellow citizens.) To my mind it is dishonoring the Make our common people prosper-| American people to suggest that ous, comrade, and you and I may | they require the consent of foreign | é jtrust them not to forget us in our} ers to regulate their own affairs just | exact justice. But we should not | submit to injustice end extortion if) we are deserving the name of Amer | icans. | Comrade, this is not ld been set up to lead a the first time ndard bas » wrong in history thata g gj When the chosen people were left] alone, Aaro sed a golden calf to} be graven ithe people said of it \“These be thy gods, O Israel, which | have brought ibee up out of the land} jot Egypt.” But the golden if | | then as res a se god. he} | golden calf did not save Israel. Gold, jis not divine. Tt 1 save us | | Noth iil sav from untold} nilse et old path | from w w astray. | Our go! cal ie a bull, | and seeks to pcre und trample us | Now comes ths Important ques: | | jtion: Isit safe to join hauds with Jour late opponents at the South, and | accept their plea that they are as | mentas we are?) the South jloyal to this Gove Well, we never nd ern soldiers cowa You and I will certify to their courage. Brave | men are seldom treacherous, seldom untruthful. If I tween wen who once fought against must choose be jus, but now avow their loyalty, and men who admit they foisted a mone tary system On the people without the people’s coisent; who doubled the national debt by jugglery, and insist on foreign aid to make Ameri ean laws: if T must choose between repentant rebeis and unrepeptant robbers, I will turn to the man in gray, aud say, “Johnny, count me | with you.” | But are the mea who would return ‘to bimetallismm anarchists and mihi Hlists? You and I stood shoulder to shoulder with more than a million farmer boys, who thought nu sacri- fice too great to make for the flag they ioved. As they loved their country then they love itnow. The farmers have always been the bone and sinew of our land. The farmers koow that in our present gold basis system is suffering and want. They beiieve that under the old bimetallic system there is honesty and plenty} They ask to return to that system, nothing more. They are honest; they are earnest; they are loya); we can trustthem Comrade I am with the common people, for our land and our liberty, und against the thoneyed aristocrats who would bind us in the train of European mon- archs. Fraternally, Watiace A. Barriett, Past Commander, Dept. of Maryland G, A R. Private Onlice. 650 F St , Washington. Late Private, 8th Co. New York Sharpshooters. Late Lieutenant, 19h U.S Colored troops. In many cases, the work of Ayer's Sarsaparilla is to expel the effects of the other medicines that have been tried in vain. It would be a saving of time and money if experimenters took Ayer’s Sarsaparilla at first in- stead of at last Sea otter skins are precious things. Eighty nine of these skins taken on the Pacifie coast are valued at $29,- 006. At such prices a sea otter breeding farm would be a profitable establishment. { jold age. Let them be ground down | as they formerly regulated them. -—Near Ral- much more by poverty, and they | | Will not buve the ability to pay pen- | ‘sions, however willing they may be. | But suppose we humb!e ourselves and ask foreign consent to pass laws for the American people. Wilt we} then! © seems; It is, really worth no more than it used to! | And if you depend on the million-| get it? From whom shall we ask?! jaires for your pensions, you will) Who are the leading commercial | ‘fare as you did in the war. You got’ nations? | . | paper promises | Youaskif we did not have pros-) racies? |perous times under Harrison. for) common | | |whom youeand I voted I say yes. | | | ticn stronger. Have we notalready jwe did. Duriog most of Harrison’ set Europe the example that the ‘administration this nation coined | eomr sle there b or | more than five millions of new silver ae naan e ail ah | dollars every month; and the paper | | representations of those dollars have | been about all the money you and I |have seen since. If our delegates at |St. Louis had bad sense enough to | tional bimetallism jinsist on something as good as the! fixed to cheat us | Sherman law, we might see some | mon people. | knows this. Kings and em- perors rejoice at the downfall of the }common people Will kings consent | to build up repubi Never, and they will never consent to interna- at a ratio their own com- All our moneyed class tis heads I win and j tails you lose witt them all the time | | If we want international agreement | breeches pocket. They made a plat | jet us agree with our sister repub- |form fer millionaires, and left the! jjes. |eommon people out. The few mil Powe owe these foreign nations lionaires not already on the Repub ‘mary dollars. By the help ¢ ‘liean platior new. We ha the tendernes | But it seemed as if the big money of our mn are clmbing on it) money classes they have made every seen something of | gold dollar harder for us to get, and of the millionaires worth more to them when they for the common pecple, and espec | it, ially for the old soldier They will not consent to I remem-/ down the debt they bave thus in ber that paper wes good enough for eraased. 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