Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
LET ALL AWAKE.
The Importance OF the Comprehensive
Issue JOined-Rcduce the Public Bur
den. the War Thrift


The Importance OF the Campaign-Ths
Issue JOined-Rcduce the Public Bur-
den, the War Tariff.
II it were the mature belief of the people
that rogues were henceforth to have q
harder time, and that bad record were to
be IN future milestone about an ambitious
mans neck, there would now follow such
an awakening in real business centers like
Chicago as has not been seen since the war
The mere leaking Of a little money out of
the Federal Treasury during April has.
says the Chicago Herald, inspired more en-
terprise IN the American people than even
political economist, If such there be, could
have foreJold.
What would be the result were if abso-
lutely known that the Fifty-frst Congress
would havo great majority of members
who should go there TO reduce taxation and
ABOLISH privileges that have become feudal
and immortal. What would be the senti-
ment of the average citizen were il morally
certain that stock iobbers, high-taxers. law
twlsters and subsidy grabbers were all to
fall from their high estate.
Let that state of the public mind be pic
tured where every servant in Office should
stand as well with his neighbors for hon.
esty OF purpose and conduct as does the
President and the Chief Justice who has
recently been chosen. Could not houses
be built without from one to ten strikes
midwayl
A Government based on taxing all the
taxer viii endure ere he risk hanging must
poison even its own source The taynaver
must learn to cheat of Fagin, his Govern
ment. The biggest thief being the people
In their collective capacity, then the great
est private robber must evoke the next
highest degree of public admiration. Thus
notorious wrong-doers, whose success must
be based on the ills they have done to their
feAows, strut around a lifetime filing
newspapers with their savings. wieldino
power in church and State, and closing the
mouth OF probity that elsewise might cues
ton if God live
Inns rotten era is now under the gaze of
enough thinkers to give it pause. An i'm
potent majority of well-meaning legislators
In the Federal lower House now nauses m
hear from the country. The election of next
November will decide for or against the Re-
public. Such Republic as ingalls, and his
foul feather have given US can not stand.
For four years the American Treasury
has groaned with every groan of the tax
payer, who might be impoverished in filing
1t Not cent of tax has been released. A
new and dishonest tax has been added. AS
one by one, each State makes the platform
- VIZ N-N ~ 10 W D0 seen Jlat the
taxes will be reduced only after fraud and
corruption shall have gone down in their
Waterloo.
Not Republican statesman has declared
that the public burden can be a cent lighter.
Not a stump orator of that party but has
blamed the President and Congress that
they have not spent all the money. rather
than only twice as much as would have suf-
feed
This is the issue that is Joined. In No
vemoer the people will announce their in
telhgence or their ignorance In November
not only the President must be reelected.
but If there be any real reform in the popu
lar heart the Congress must be purged of
the bad men who have betrayed it.
The Legislatures, too, on every hand. nust
begin to inquire if the widow be robbed and
II the toiler's wages be levied upon by per-
sons not having authority The State of Hi
nois should make an effort to prevent the
continued success of many despicable
conspiracies. All these things go to-
gether. Public honesty and private pros
perity are indissolubly connected. The peo
pie can not expect an honest President and
an upright Chief Justice alone to purify a
Government as complex as is the American
system.
Let every robber, public and private, come
under the ban Of popular punishment With
that beginning would come another blessed
epoch OF true Jefersonian self-government.