Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
RosEBUD's REFLECTIONS.
To the Farming Community and Those
Who Depend Upon it:

From State Center.
For scores of years you have been
paid-up and done-up subscriber to the
Globe Democrat and other papers with
misleading names. You have grown
gray as the frosts of early winter in
their service. So long have you pur-
sued their prints that they have grown
and become sacred part of yourselves,
and you regard with superstitious con-
tempt all else in the way of literature.
| You have become interested in the con-
tinued story and puzzle department.
| Politics are ''old'' and Indifferent, be-
sides you know you are life-attend-
ant of the G. o. p, because your father
was. But you have gradually come to
ruin. Your subsidies all collect in
that vast fund of the plutocracy (spell
it g. O.. p.) They have bound you and
your heirs for all time to come; you
cannot escape your mortgage; you are
cornered erywhere-interest, COM
mission. bonds, debts innumerable, in
short, &. o. p. You work day and
night, your only comfort in this life
that puzzle department. Sowing. reap
ing, but, o fate! your granary is the
First National. (g. o. p.) You are
about to fail. "Who can explain?
What is it all? What conspires for my
ruin? If any one person were to blame
1 would revenge myself in blood-in
bloodl'
A voice-"O fool! Tax, you are
taxed to death, or, as the tyrant says,
protected? Ito death.) All! weak,
vile creature, worm of the earth, let me
but ask: lis it right that that fine
dude mounted in silks should be pro-
tected at your expense?" Reason, re-
fleet; should he be protected in his tyr
amy over you? You raise more than
you need-yea, more than your country
needs. What shall you do with it?
Throw it to earth? Send the surplus
to needy countries, if you darel If you
do, you will pay a fine of some At per
cent. before you land in your country
those parcels you have chosen and Sc
lected. ''But I'll exchange at home;
I'll pay no fine" cay, but you will"
''To whom?' "To that same man in
Silks
From now on that man is a seeker
after truths; he abandons the puzzle
department and hears great arguments.
He compares ideas, combines asser-
lions, arrives at conclusions. He dis
covers a great interest in his country
at war with his own, and about to over
come all oppositions. He sees paupers
perpetually increasing, and million
aires, protected plutocratS also increas-
ing. Evident that between these two
the middle class-his owns crushed.
But bark! what sound; what voice,
reverberating back and forth, echoed
and re-echoed, in continuous motion?
The chief magistrate of a great coun-
try-his own-proclaiming for the first
time in yeas, nay, decades,
1.-THE TRUTH"
What person more daring, more no
BILE, more patriotic than he to make
such war upon millions of unjust
wealth which shows that money is not
liking" with him, our patriot. Hence
the stir, the effect; he has touched
mems hearts to the quick. He would
rather be right than be president. But
what opposition! Wonder not. 1t is
hard for human nature to surrender an
: income, unjust and unreasonable
though it be.
And now comes the news that one OF
these same monopolists has received
the nomination on his ticket, or rather
, on his fathers ticket. o cruel news
, o news of deathl g. o. p, which means
"grown OH protection"
THY race is run,
Thy day is done,
Thy doom has come"
r Revenge! Combine and sweep thi:
system from the earth. Your chief
magistrate will be with you, you shall
pay no fine for trading. you shall not bt
taxed for the support of monopolis
3 tic-do-nothiDgs, you shall not build pal
!, laces which you never occupy. The
, people are not a sponge to squeeze
l. This government shall not be an arts
9 tocracy nor plutocracy.
SIR ANTON ROSEBUD.