Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-03-26
ACCUSED CORN-BURNE,RI,s I

AROUSED CORN-BURNERS.
st. Louis Republic 1.-THE working
policy Of the republican party may be
summarized as Bloody Shirt, Negro and
Unlimited Pensions. IL is somewhat
surprising that this policy, on whlch
the republican party depends for ex-
istence should be attacked from repub-
lIcan Kansas, but it has been attacked
vigorously at every point, in the address
issued to Kansas congressman by the
State Farmers Alliance, through its
president. The distress of the people
is crying aloud for relief" he writes.
They believe that very many of the
questions that are receiving the atten-
ton OF congress are far less urgent than
those upon which the safety of their
homes and the welfare of their families
depend. They believe that the white
citizens of Kansas have some rights as
well as the colored citizens of the south.
They believe that fallen heroes, both
white and black, in past struggles fol-
liberty and the perpetuity of our insti-
buttons, can afford to wait for one mo.
ment until the rights of living heroes
In the present struggle for American
homes receive some recognition by the
men who have been chosen to represent
them IN congress. Behind these de-
mands are more than 100000 ballots in
the state of Kansas, and the time is
coming, and is not far distant, when
Legislators will heed the voice of their
constituents.
IF there were really 100000 free and
independent Americans behind such a
demand, il would be honOred on pre-
sentation; but that is not the case. No
doubt there are hundred thousand
voting farmers In Kansas who think
they mean every word of it., but every
body else knows better.
They spend four years in meeting,
organizing, and telling what they are
going to do if they are not relieved from
the oppression of twenty years of legis-
lation under the republican policy of
negro, bloody-shirt and pretorian pen
sions. But all the while there is more
negro, more bloody shirt and more PEN
sions-more pensions especially; more
pensions until they are increased from
SS0,OOO,0O0 to $100,0OO,0OO in very few
months more until they will increase
i'll twelyemonth or so to $l5O, 200, 900
more pensions until they Will double the
entire railroad dividends of the country
which they now exceed by more than
$l0,OOO,0O0 year.
but when the campaign comes the
bloody shirt will be tapped, and they
Will be called to rally against the South
ern COnfederacy. And they will rally,
John Browns soul will go marching on
and Jeff. Davis Will be hanged to sour
apple trees all over Kansas. The war
rlors of the civil war home guard Will
open their wounds anew and bleed and
die for their country; on every stump
in the state Mr.. Ingalls, will tell what
he suffered in saving the country as
judge-advocate general of the gallant
Kansas LGndSturm. Mr.. Plumb will
weep tears of indignation when he re.
calls to mind the sacrifices he made fol-
the union while serving as provost mar.
shall in the neighborhood of Missouri
| cattle markets. And all the Kansas
cOrn-burners, big and little, old anC
young, will crowd each other in theil
zeal TO get to the polls and 'Suppres,
the Rebellion" After it is all over TO
the twentieth time, the farmers ALI
ance will tell, for the twentieth time
how many mortgages are being fore
closed in the state as the result of wa
| taxes.
ut is a curious spectacle, and nothing
about it is more curious than the ide
that it is possible to fight the war owe
in every election, and keep the countr
on a peace basis of equal justice an,
low taxes. 1t costs about as much
year to Suppress the Rebellion by votin
the republican ticket as II did whel
there was actual fighting to be done
and actual armies to be maintained
But the Kansas cornburners neve
think of this until about six month
after the election
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