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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1896
Page
3
The piece voices strong partisan views on money, gold standard, free silver, and banking power. It rails at Wall Street influence, condemns big government, and criticizes Bryanites while invoking figures like Foraker and Breckinridge. The language underscores a heated 19th century economic battle.
The text questions whether free coinage of silver would set a fixed value for silver products and whether it would raise dollars to 50-cent equivalents. It also asks where proof would come that free silver coinage would enrich silver barons, noting many points are troll or misguided.
The piece argues that both the sliver dollar and the gold dollar hold value beyond their metal content because law declares them legal tender and people redeem them with labor, a principle that would apply to government paper money as well.
A compact discussion argues that prices rise with increasing money in circulation and fall when circulation contracts. It contends that wartime spending boosted prices while postwar contraction since 1868 has driven ongoing price declines. The piece links price levels to currency volume and speculative stimulus to labor and production.
An Indiana Fitch district candidate, Fasxion, is profiled as a scholar not a politician. He criticizes government drift toward special interests, calls for currency restoration to a bi metallic system, and warns that the silver dollar should remain the standard while opposing gold dominance. He argues for debt payment in a stable 100 cent dollar as a core reform.
The Joliet News notes a cool reception for Mr. Bryan at Madison Square as many questions went unanswered and opponents walked out, while Bryan’s supporters filled the room. The speech itself was described as a masterly production read by millions.
Fragmentary Milwaukee News item notes Benedict Arnold accused of defecting to save the country from war failures amid political maneuvering. Names and context are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Fragmentary wording notes that the threat of fear, money power to precipitate a panic signals a moment when something should be seized or guarded, though text is unclear and incomplete.
The piece argues cheap money harms labor by driving down wages and causing unemployment. It warns three million idle workers exist while farmers suffer as prices fall and mortgages rise. It claims reform against gold and favoring free coinage would prevent serfdom and mass poverty.
A long denunciation condemns the so called natural law of supply and demand as failing the hungry and distressed. It argues farmers dump produce to starve out poverty and mocks elites who praise market theory while neglecting real human need across towns and farms.
The piece argues bankers hoard gold in anticipation of premium, citing Kansas City banks suspending gold payments to profit. It claims eastern banks replenish the Treasury with gold and notes their gold certificates are effectively gold. It warns against new bonds before November and predicts Carlisle will seek gold loans to bolster monometallism, with foreign banks poised to supply sterling to curb gold exports ahead of December.
The writer attacks proponents of gold backed pensions, recalling Civil War-era payments in greenbacks worth face value yet depreciated by gold owners. It condemns those seeking “honest dollars” for veterans, arguing they forget soldiers’ sacrifices when gold advocates monetized and later demonetized greenbacks.
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