Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-21

sources, Our producing abilities and
the safeness of investments in Kansas
lands, and we need a rousing crop to
prove to the dOubters that our state
will take care of herself.
THE Garden City Democrat offers its
readers the following advice, which
appears to be good, especially to Gar
den City people:
"Starve out the rustlers and real
estate boomers, hang all the quack
doctors and book agents that come
around and carry off our circulating
medium, shoot all the dudes and other
men of their persuasion, plant out a
big crop, plow deep and often, tell the
truth invariably, quit talking politics,
chewing tobacco, and finding fault
with the county officials. If the above
is complied with we will insure better
times"
1.-THE Oklahoma boomers are laying
plans for a vigorous summer cam
paign" says the Chicago Times, ''and
declare that Indians or no Indians,
president or no president, right or
wrong, they will invade, overrun, ac-
quire, and possess the much coveted
Indian territory. What with Samoa
and Oklahoma this country is kept in
turmoil and is likely to be distracted
by wars or rumors of wars for some
time to come. The army (what there
is of it, and the navy $50 far as it goes)
forever!"
The coal combination in Pennsyl-
vania has restricted the output of the
miners by shutting them down two
days in each week. 1t goes without
saying that the wages of the miners
are shut down also. But the prices of
coal will be'kept up. It is the old story.
And yet Mr.. Carnegie would have peo-
pie believe that trusts are a mere
'bugaboo," that combinations to con-
troll prices of universal necessities are
impossible, and that keeping out COM
peting soft coal by taxing it has no
effect in bulwarking the anthracite
ring. The people are learning better.
Abilene Gazette.
SURELY the workingmen of this
country do not fully realize that they
are now living under an administration
whose keynote is protection to the
manufacturers and incidentally protec
tion to working men. No sooner had
General Harrison been proclaimed
president and announced his belief in
protection than the largest iron mill in
Pennsylvania, the home of protected
industries, failed, throwing hum
dreds of laboring men out of en-
ployment, and right OH the heels of
this far-reaching failure comes the
news that 5000 weavers are ON strike.
The times are out of Joint, or protec-
ton does not protect.ascit did before
the November election.-Wichita Bea-
con-.
AN exchange very truly observes
that it is strange, but nevertheless true,
that the average farmer regards the
city storekeeper as much better situated
in life than himself. The farmer i'm.
AGNES that the. merchant not only
makes more money but that he lives an
easier and more luxurious life. He
does not seem to consider that average
murchants upon larger investment of
capital than the average farmer makes
smaller net profit, pays more taxes,
works harder has more to annoy, fret
and worry him, is subject to greater
losses, runs more risks of bankruptcy,
and puts in both directly and indirectly
more hours of toll, care and anxiety
than the average farmer. An impartial
and honest comparison of the condi-
tions of the average farmer and the
average merchant will show that in
every desirable respect the farmer-if
he only knew it-has the bulge on the
merchant. Those who have been be-
trayed into abandoning their farms tu
go to merchandising have discovered
this fact-many of them to their sor-
row.
| The "Grabbers."