Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-22
IGNORANCE WINS.
Erusty Jim and His Tools Garry
the Election.

9foSCy Jim and HIS Tools Garry
the Election.
The New Struggle for Liberty Receives .
Set-Esack-Boolle. Booze and hum
combe Triumph Over Intent-
gence and Honesty.
The WAR But Just Begun.
[Chicago Globe.1
Bun Run did not end the civil war. Last
Tuesday did not end the new struggle for
liberty. This peaceable struggle has only
just begun. The result Of Tuesdays ballot
ing demonstrates that millions Of the
American people, probably maj ority OF
those who voted. knew that the system Of
National taxation which was imposed upon
them in the midst Of q desperate conflict
OF arms is system OF gross injustice and
oppression. These millions know that
under that system they, in common with
their less enlightened countrymen, are
not only taxed third more than is nee
essary for the support OF their Government.
but mercilessly robbed to the extent Of
hundreds of millions OF dollars every
year for the support Of foolish enterprises,
and for the further enrichment of COM
paratively small number Of men who are
already rolling in wealth.
These millions are not going to surrender
at d secretion because they have once been
repulsed by constitutional but not by an
actual majority. With them this is not
matter Of opinion to be lightly abandoned,
or with respect to which they can afford
to be Indifferent. It is matter Of knowl-
edge as opposed to the combined forces of
prejudice, ignorance and greed. It is q
matter Of right apd justics IS opposed to
fragrant wrongeand Injustice. 1t is, in
short, matter OF light and right as OPP
posed to darkness and barbarous ra-
pacity.
There can be only one permanent settle
ment of such controversy, and that is the
right settlement The temporary triumph
of falsehood and deception does not deter
mine any thing. The temporary triumph
OF wrong does not make the wrong right.
Men who feel their chains and know they
are robbed are not going to relax their eff
forts to OPEN the eyes of the deluded.
They propose to fight it out: not on ''this
line" but on an advanced line, no matter
how long it takes. And they are as fully
assured of ultimate triumph as they are Of
Dhe progress Of human knowledge, and Of
the ultimate triumph of truth over error,
and of justice over licensed rapacity.
Meantime, they will not forget that Gen-
eral Harrison swas elected by nearly three.
fourths of theelectoral college in 1910, and
Polk in E844, and the establishment Of q
tariff fo1 revenue. in 1916. They will not
forget that this just tariff policy was never
changed EXCEPT by advancing it in 1857
until the civil war gave the cormorants
their .coeetsH opportunity. History
teaches that the repulse of to-day may be
changed into a glorious and final triumph
to-morroR They will not fail to note that
the populer vote Tuesday plainly signifies
that9he hour Of final triumph and the COM
pletG ond firm. establishment OF CONNER
cial liberty is not far off,
The WORD iss Close up the ranksi For
@or6s
3h3 Victim of MOn0polieA
Dubuque (Ia.) Telegraph
Mevoland was not beaten because It is
Che convjction of a majority of the Amer
lean people that a surplus for which the
Government has no use, and whose accu-
mutation is a menace of industrial and
commercial disaster. Is good thing; he
was not defeated because he had not patri-
DQcally, conscientiously anc ably per-
formed she duties Of his exalted Office, for
8e hasa nor was he ovcrthrown because
eay considerable number of electors were
ignorantly credulous enough to sin.
oerely heieve that his reelection
would result in the inauguration Of
free trade He was beaten chiefly be-
cause the corporations and those upon
whom our laws confer special privileges
at the general expense were unable to use
0is Admin tration; because he favored
fhe masse6 rather than the classes, and
because he was the exponent and cham
pion q a policy which, once in practical
operation would diminish the profits Of
the subsidized millionaire barons by di-
min ishing tariff taxation and the prices
Of the necessaries consumed by the poor.
Ehe Republican victory has been achieved
by the debauching use of money, and Is q
triumph TOR those who are seeking legisla-
for the people. Owing his election.
as he does, % the friendship and sup
port oR combined capital, General Har-
rison will be careful not to give offense
to that mighty power. On the contrary,
he w1lP conserve and promote its interests.
The Maine ST tesman who openly defended
the trusts will doubtless be given his
choice of Cabinet positions, and every
thing Will be done to carry out the pro-
gramme OF the dangerous, anti Republic
an element that has reacquired ascendancy
in the National Government The land
grant corporations will lose no more I'M
earned acres through acts of Congress
nor be subjected to stricter regulations
than those already imposed by the Inter-
State law, and the supercoddled manu-
facturers will not only be allowed to keep
all the advantages they now enjoy, but, if
Congress shall be: Republican, will be &C
corded new ones.
Disappointed, But H pc -ul
(St. Lou's Republic.1
That we are disappointed at the election
of Mr.. Harrison it would be useless to
deny. Aside from the disaster to the par
ty, we believe it to be a. misfortune to the
country; and yet it might have been worse
1t might have been Blaine 1t is probable
that a more essentially common. place and
mediocre man has not entered the White
House as Chief Executive since the organ.
ization of the Governments; but there i.
nothing in what is known of his char.
acter and career to mantle with shame
the cheek CT an American citizen. Con
s2dering what might have been, and what
came very near being, the result of the
Chicago convention, this is a source OF