Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — THE PEOPLE'S MONEY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

Not Settled Until Settled BlffEßj A Republican paper says that should be passed making all our • gations and all our money redeemat In gold, thereby making gold the standard of value. It says this be done by the Republican partyjMw winter, and then the currency will forever be taken out of Congresgsa Oh, dear, but this is the essence of wisdom. Of course the’l«| lowing Congress can’t repeal this and re-establish course the people can never issue? azS more greenbacks, not even In war, for the money question Is iorew l □ settled by the Republican party! writer saw the slavery question twice. Once it was settled wronffjHH the next time it was settled right, i 11 1850 the Congress of the United StatjE| passed the compromise measures, eluding the fugitive slave law..|.M! 1852 both great parties endorsed settlement and declared that the Slfl very question was taken out of CmH gress forever, but alas! they forgot kill Joshua R. Giddings, Salmonl Efl Chase, John P. Hale, Horace Greel«|| Owen Lovejoy, Wendell Phillips anufl John Brown. In thd spring of IBrl Senator Douglas introduced the Ka*|J sas-Nebraska bill, which was foriafll lated in exact accordance with the tlfll national platforms. Immediately tlifl slavery question was reopened anfl every Northern village, farm and haflM let was just teeming with antl-slavrafl men. The excitement raised hlgwß than ever before, and from that tinug forward the anti-slavery sentimeafl rose constantly higher and higher untiM two million freemen under Abrahaflfl Lincoln as commander-ln-chief inarctJ ed down South and settled the slavery® question right, by stamping out the stitution forever. I The money question is not settled; it] will not be settled by the establishment! of the single gold standard next witiM ter; it will never be settled until it Rg settled according to the principle* ©fl eternal justice and to the true interetjjfl of all the people. As long as a single! Populist or his son or grandson lives I in these United States the money ques«i tlon wall never be settled until It Is set-1 tied right. The Republican party In worshiping the golden calf. Many ofl the Democratic leaders are trying t<g force their party in the same direcM tlon. but no Populist has ever the knee to Baal, and he never wild Let the two old parties settle thd money question on a gold basis If then want to, but they will settle nothind except their own baseness and cow-1 ardice, for the Populists of 1900, like! the Free-sollers of 1854, will unsettle! all the settlement, and will continue tel fire the public heart and appeal to the| public conscience until the common! people of this country are redeemesa regenerated and disenthralled.—Non-3 conformist.

Carlisle in 1878. I I shall not enter Into an tlon of the causes which have comSSI bined to depreciate the relative valimß of silver, and to appreciate the of gold since 1873, but I am one of ‘|| those who believe that they are trau-il sient and temporary in their nntiiwjjM and that when they have passed nwaS||| or have been removed by the separ-3| ate or united action of the national most deeply interested in the subjecv|| the old ratio of actual and relative J| value will be re-established on a firmer 1 foundation than ever. I know that the -ji world’s stock of precious metals 1B ?1 none too large, and I see no reason to Ji apprehend that it will ever become so. || Mankind will be fortunate, Indeed, iff j| the annual production of gold and siL ver coin shall keep pace with the an- | nual increase of population, and industry. According to my view of the subject, 1 the conspiracy which seems to have ' been formed here and in Europe to de- S destroy by legislation and from three-sevenths to one-half the-l metallic money of the world is the /I most gigantic crime of this or any other| age. The consummation of such a 1 scheme would ultimately entail more; misery upon the human race than nil 3 the wars, pestilence and famine that 1 ever occurred in the history of the J world. The absolute and instantaneous destruction of half the movable • property of the world, Including | horses, ships, railroads and all other affiM pliances for carrying on commerce, a while it would be felt more sensibly' at the moment, would not produce any- S thing like the prolonged distress and ’ disorganization of society that must Inevitably result from the permanent annihilation of one-half of the metal- ’ tic money of the world.—John G. Car-4 lisle. ,