Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-25
SOME MORE REBELLION.

Wichita Eagle, Dec. 20, 1889: 1.-The
editorial we of the Eagle is all out of
sorts this morning. We are disgruntled,
mad. Something has gone wrong. Ev-
erything seems wrong. Money is scarce.
Times are hard. The labOrer does not
receive his hire value. The farmer is
getting nothing for his work, and moth
ing for the money invested in his farm
appurtenances, and nothing for all he
raises or does. In short, none of the
wealth-producers of the country, the
Drawn and muscle, have anything to
show for all their eXertions. There are
too many trusts and too many COM
bines, too many politicians and too
many officers. There is a total want of
interest or of sympathy by the classes
for the masses, There is too much
boodling. There is no adequate COM
prehenslon, upon the part of our law
makers, of the needs of the people, nor
of the abuses of the seemingly privi-
legged. The congress of the Uuited
States gets farther away from the peo-
pie, and higher and higher in their own
estimation. They talk only to be heard
and legislate only in their own interest
and that Of their natural allies and
friends. Instead of stopping the flow
of untold millions of surplus, all drawn
from the people, they only study ways
and means to get rid of it, to squander
it, so that the treasury may not abso-
lutely absorb the last solitary dollar of
the country. They create innumerable
and worthless Offices, special agents for
this, and superintendent for that, by
the hundreds and thousands, enlarging
duties here, and spreading expenses
there. Chicago CANDLES on the sweat
of the west, and grows fat on the life
blood of our people, while New York,
in turn, CANDLES on all of the realty
values of the country, as represented
by bonds and stocks, and rules the peO-
pies rulers through the power of their
gold. Combines and trusts, and steals
by foreclosure, and robbery by option
dealing, are Dauperizing the nation
yet congress for the next nine months
will discuss ballot-box stuffing and race
inequality in rounded periods, and wind
up by shoveling MILLIONS upon millions
of the peoples money into the pockets
of useless officials, into the bags of con-
tractors, into the bottoms Of shallow
creeks and mud bays and bitches. A
thousand unseen and unknown agencies
are, with the insidious suck of yam.
pires, fattening off of treasury which
is kept ever full and over full by legal
lied extortion. Fhey even talk of build
ing more ships to rot, only that fright
full surplus may be kept down. What
does America, with not single foreign
dependency, or single detached do.
minion to protect or care for, want with
! ! nayy2 Is it to protect her commerce
IN the s'0h seas Where are the seas,
and what the commerce
Then, let alliances organize, let labor
unions organize. let trades societies or
ganiZe, let oranges and wheels and
farmers protective associations organ
ize, and let all these organizations COM
bine, and, when combined, call for a
hearing and settlement with the cogni-
zant and as well as with hidden pow
ers and springs, and mainsprings, which
all stand combined on the other side,
and which have held the innings long
enough