Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16

French republic because it was deemed
American policy to help the new re-
publican form of government get a
| footing. 1t was known that the
European mOnarchies would be cold or
even hostile to the popular movement,
and the action of our government was
intended to warn these unfriendly
observers that the United States of
America were interested in the estab-
lishment of the republic in France and
might deem any obstacle thrown in Its
way as an unfriendly act to us. The
republican senators have got beyond
that point now. They wait to see
what England and Germany and Italy
will do about recognizing new popular
government on our own continent
where the Brazilian empire has always
been foreign growth, tolerated only
because of it's harmlessness.
THE REPUBLICANS CRY OF "POwER
AND PLUMBER"
In the way Of legislation the repub-
licans are thinking Of nothing but
schemes that will aggrandize the
national, at the expense of local
governments; that will benefit indi-
viduals and classes. at the expense of
| the whole people, and that will bring a
horde of lobbyists, blackmailers and
corruptionists into the corridors of the
capitol. These eggs of corruption will
batch oHt before the fall elections, and
we haze ns 4Qpbt what the great
masses of the people will thing of the
pernicious brood. 4f the republican
members Of congress attempt to pass a
national election law, they will find a
lively nga in the Fear from northern
republicans, who will not stand any
such interference with local instl=
tHtioHs. The Blair bill is fast loosipg
those who once supported it for philan=
thrOpie reasons and thOse who once
supported it for reasons of local interest.
The tariff will come near to breaking
the back of the republican party. New
England, which was for so many years
the head centre of republicanism and
protection, is no longer solidly republi-
ean, and the petitions of her manu-
factnrers fer ftss wsol, paal and iron
ore, and REDUCED dHties on pig iron,
show that she is on the point of per-
manently breaking away from the
party of the ultra protectionists.
The committee, on ways and means
has already shown the entire republican
method of preparing a bill for the levy
ing af ttsaxxsss; ttsaxxsss; This has never been any
thing Of secret, but the FsoFrs sgiftsHs RI 4 Il
the objection lesson can be taught to
the public, the Aess sure the democratic
party to receive the general support of
the people. The committee is now
preparing bill to levy taxes on the
citizens of the United States for the
support of the government, and in
stead OF aassss=. aassssss=.f!tss!!!niing first how much
money the Sayerpment nesas fh{d tth.siH t.i!
how that required SUM can be raised
with the least amount of taxation, the
committee is summoning before it all
the individual benefciaries of taxation
and asking them to say how heavy the
taxes ought to bsr
THE PEOPLE PUNISH MEN WHO BE
TRAY THEIR TRUSTS.
The Credit Mobilier and Pacific Mail
scandals and the salary grab occurred
in the forty-third congress. There
after, fer six years, the house of repre-
sentatives, and fer twe af the years
the senate, were in the hands 9t the
democrats. The people watch the
doings OF their agents here more closely
than some imaGins. Popular AS the
river and lIarbor legislation is, and just
as much of it is, the very large appro-
priation made by the first session of the
forty seventh congress cost many a
member his seat and had considerable
to do with the change i'll the political
sssmplsgion Of the house. If the fifty
first congress snail vote the subsidies
which the administration bias asked il
to the odor of corruptiea that will
emanste from the capitol will reach
every congressional district in the
country, and it will be surprising to
see how many men new to public life
will appear on the rolls of the fifty
second congress. Let the fifty-6rst
congress appropriate large sums of
money for the irrigation of lands which
can be irrigated by private enterprise
and WHICH are III fact rapidly being
irrigated by cooperation and private
enterprise, and the members of eon-
gress will find out that there is a pop
ular judgment adverse to the i'm
proper and wasteful expenditure Of
public money that will make itself felt
even in the localities Immediately ben
fted by the appropriation.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE GETTING
FOUND OUT.
In the next six months of con-
gresslonal sStiyity, the verdict upon
which will be PRONOUNCED in aQyeMnef
next and will be forecast of more