Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-17
BEFORE AND AFTER.

Promises Before the Election and Tall
After-POlIticians ust Beware
Representative Mills, of Texas. hal
been interviewed by a reporter of the
Washington Post We give one of the
questions of the report ter and the answe,
of Mr.. Mills:
will the Democrats in the mex
Congress attempt to leg;slate in accord
ance with the principals of the Farmers
A liance?"
THE Democratic House in the Fifty.
second Congress Will meet the demand
for more money by passing a silver free
coinage bill which the Senate NAV O,
may not agree to, and which, if it ever
reaches the White House, will probably
be vetoed by President Harrison. That
Is all the leg station we shall attempt
In that line. 1t is idle to talk of the
sub-treasury bill The Democratic
party can never, as long as it exists,
which will be as long as it is true to
strict construction ideas indorse
such an unconstitutional scheme. Mr..
Tilden, in his letter to the Iriouois
Club. stated the principle of the Demo.
cratic party in one sentence: The
General Government should do nothing
for the State which the State can do for
itself, and no Government should do
any thing for the individual which he
can do for himself We ought never to
get away from that doctrine. The Dem.
ocratic party believes that the citizen il
able to take care of himself and run his
own finances. We propose to let him do
it and keep as far away from paternal-
ism as possible.
According to Mr.. Mills, who, by vir-
tue Of his long service in Congress and
his prominence in politics for quarter
OF a century, is entitled to respect as
an exponent of the Democratic party
makes some remarkable and strong ut
terances in the above interview He
says, in effect that the House will pass
the silver free coinage bill, although it
may not pass the Senate, and in the
event it does it IS probable the Presi-
dent will veto it And with this adj
mission on his lips, showing that there
is little or no hope for the bill to be-
come law, he says; That is all the
legislation which we shall attempt in
that line" That is to say the Demo
cratic party will offer only one bill for
the financial relief of the people and
they do that with the belief that it will
most probably not become law. How
many Congressional candidates in the
recent campaign were elected on suoh
an idea? How many of them dared to
say as much to the people when beg
ging for their Yotesa Not one. He saws
vt is idle to talk of the sub-treasury
billi" that the Democratic party can
never indorse such an uncons titutional
scheme" How many Congressional
candidates in the South and West
talked this way in the recent
campaign before the peoplep He
then lays down this monstrous pro-
position: tine Democratic party
believes that the citizen is able to take
care of himself and run his own
finances" I'VE propose to let him do
it" 1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Mills ia
as ignorant of Democratic principles
and purposes as he has shown himself
to be of the needs of the people and of
the sab-treasury plan. For if his asser-
tons be true. all the fulsome promises
OF that party to the people were de-
ceitful above all things" But we will
wait and see, and if he be correct az to
the course of the party in Congress-
there are yely times in store for the
people and the politicians in 1922
Progressive Farmer.