Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-06-11
NOT RESUBMISSIoN ALONE.

NOT RESUBMISSION ALONE.
"Resubmission is not the democratic
fight this year." The Wichita News
Beacon takes exception to this state
ment in the INDEX of two weeks ago and
says that the issue this fall is resubmis-
sion. With the News Beacon and with
quite respectable number of quiet re-
spectacle republican citizens of WichI
ia resubmission does appear to be the
only issue talked of. We are democrats
and believe that tariff reform, reform
ballot, decrease in state, county and
municipal taxation, a more equitable
system of valuations for taxation, limi-
tatiOn of the number of senseless and
useless corporations that may be or
gained in Kansas, check on voting
bonds and granting subsidies, the abOl
itiOn of about nine-tenths of the USE
less boards and commissions" and
"figureheads'' in the pay and employ OF
the state, the substitution of old-fash-
Toned hanging for murder for the pres
ent plan of lite REPRESENTATIVES,
and dozen other reforms are as neces-
sary to-day in Kansas as Is the repeal
of the prohibitory amendment
We are in favor of the people being
given an opportunity to again vote on
the question of prohibition; but we do
not favor making this the issue during
the campaign of 1890.
No reasonable or well-posted man
claims that prohibition has been sue
cess. We have contended for eight
years that it was dismal failure and
in no county is this statement truer
than in Barber county. So the News
Beacon gains no point by asserting that
"even in Medicine Lodge" the law IS
not enforced. No one claims that it is.
We can as heartily support George w.
Click as any man in Kan sas. We were
for him i'll 1882 and again in 1884-long
before the News-BeacOn editors knew
there was such man; long before they
assumed control of the democratic par
ty of Kansas. With thousands of 9th
er good democrats IN Kansas, we be-
lieve that there is something more in
democracy than the offices; that there
is something more in democracy than
the everlasting cry of resubmiSsion,
whisky and beer.
The people are now ready to listen to
the democratic 1doctrine of tariff reform,
! In this year OF our Lord 1890. In 1888
they were not ready, and they would
not read nor would they listen. They
have discovered that the something
wrong" is not the whisky question; but
the tariff robbery.
Why not now pave the way TO sue
cess In 1892, by making campaign on a
living issue? The great uprising OF
farmers-the alliances not clamoring
for resubmission, and no where have
we seen that even one alliance has yet
discussed the subject. They are dis
cussing other important questions, how
ever, that are live issues.
We have great respect and admlra-
ton for the sturdy democrats of Leav-
enworth; we recognize the energy OF
| G00 I0puDlICdu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "hO
have made Wichita what it is; we ad-
nit the loyalty of the resubmissionists
of other cities; but we do not believe
that there is that rural clamor for re-
submission that the towns and cities
imagine. The country is Kansas-the
towns merely exist for the convenience
of the country. The country casts the
votes and pays the taxes. The country
must first become interested in meas
ure before it Will win in Kansas. just
now the country people are not losing
any sleep studying up the question OF
resubmissiOn.
The News Beacon can learn the truth
Of this assertion if will step outside OF
the din of its fast presses and folders
and the racket made by the wheels OF
commerce in that bustIing, busy mart
of trade, the wide-awake and stirring
Wichita.
And, finally, do not misunderstanc
us, our new and enthusiastic bretherr
of the NIB, the INDEX is forGlick, re-
submission, tariff reform and the Aus
tralian ballot system, and just as heart
lily so as you are.