Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-22
MED-C NE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY AUGUST p. 1888
FARMERS AND THE TRUSTS.
Their Products Sold at Frce Trade Prices
While Every Thing the Farmer BUYS
From Abroad Is Taxed

Their Products Sold at Froe Trade Prices
While Every Thing the Farmer Buys
From Abroad Is Taxed.
Last year over eighty per cent of the
total exports from the United States were
farm products. They were all sold at abso-
lutte free trade prices, while on all the farm
supplies, provisions and clothing used by
the farmer in producing them. a tax of from
y to l15 Per cent average 45 per cent? was
paid into en- overlooking treasury.
Mr.. Harrlson's organs quote from a speech
IN the Senate in 1886, in which he declared
tnat "our policy should be small farms
worked by the men who own themn In
spite Of this emphatic condemnation of the
policy OF class government, Mr.. Harrison
has accepted a nomination on a platform ad-
vocating an increase of taxes to the point of
prohibitive embargo. He declared in 1885
what our policy ought to be- small farms
worked by the men who own them.n In
1855 the bribe of a Presidential nomination
has led him TO repudiate this policy, and to
appear before the people as the representa-
tive Of the Depews, Thurstons and Hay
monds-of the robber trusts of the East aud
the robber rings of the West
Ii the trust agents and syndicate attor-
neys who assembled at Chicago and called
themselves a Republican convention could
carry out their plans for free whisky and
higher taxes on the necessaries of life, the
ruin of the great agricultural West would
be complete. What escaped war taxes
would. be taken by embargo What the
canker worm left, the locust would DESTROY.
Already, says the St. Louis Republic, the
condition of the agricultural West is griev-
Gus. Its vitality is sapped by the villainous
system OF class robbery, which drains it of
It's resources to fatten favored class in a
favored locality-a class composed of men
whose vast fortunes already excite the as
tonlshment Of the world; who rival the
spendthrifts of the Roman Empire in dis
play and extravaganza; who spend half the
year in Europe, scattering with lavish
hands what this Government has enabled
them 70 rob from the American people dur
ing the other half; who drive ''four-in-hand
over vast tracts of land from which the cot
ter, the crofter and the shepherd have been
expelled, bearing in their arms their house
hold goods and their sQualid children"-to
make room-think of ito make room for
deer parks for American millionaires-for
deer parks for Americans enriched by rob-
berry al home that they may become oppres-
sors abroad.
There is no limit to the insolence. the
cupiditv, the arrogance, the cruelty of this
mammcn aristocracy of ours, but we can not
follow the Carnegie coach from which Mr..
Blaine looks down upon the American ducal
deer park that was once the home of a
sturdy peasantry-a peasantry evicted from
the ancestral holdings of thousand years
TO gratiIy the pride and vanity of an Amer
lean money-king. We have to do with evic-
tions at home which made these eyictions
abroad possible. The ruin of our own farm
er cries out against the Carnegies, the
Blaines. the ThurstOns, Depews, Harrisons
and Haymonds, and the figures which tell its
progres are eloquent in denunciatlon of the
robber policy of the Chicago platform.
Read this table, compiled for one of the
leading banks of Chicago, published in the
Ndttonot Rertelc and republished in the Con-
0resSionaL Record of May 8, 1883: