The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-06

Club, Base Ball Club, and are organlZ-
ing brass band and trying to get up
company of the X. N. G's., they
have about twenty-five that will join
the company. they also have a singing
school and are trying to get up a gym
nasium and build a bath house. We
are very enterprising and ambitious
folks. Selah!
There is a young man in our neigh
borhood that We could get along with
out if he only knew it. He is long,
lean. lank, cadaverous individual who
wants to be at the head of everything
but generally gets left. Yov would
know him if you should meet him, his
principal features are his long ears,
big mouth and feet, he imagines all
the girls ale mashed on him because
they all smile when they meet him.
Poor boy! Perhaps he will take u
tumble to himself some time.
In reply to the article from the
fluent pen of Mr.. Abbot in last weeks
Mercury, first let me say that the
gentleman evaded all the most i'm
port ant points in my article of the 18th.
VIII he just take Il retrospective view
of the case and then tell us what the
High Protective Tariff has ever done
for the American farmerfe Has it
ever benefited him in the Ieast2 He
says the Mckinley bill intends to
make the raising of agricultural pro-
ducts profitable but he does not say
just in what way, will he please be
little more explicit.
He says 81 do not belong to the
Alliance because do not endorse free
trade and deprecated currency and
/ understand that these are the cardin-
al principles of the Alliance" Well
just let me tell the gentleman that he
has been missinformed. The Ali
ance does not take any stand what
ever on the tariff question as yet, and
if it did it would not advocate free
trade. Any body having sense enough
TO follow Il corn plow knows that we
can't have free trade under the pres
ent constitution and any one wanting
free trade would be fit subject for
the institution at Osawatomie. Tariff
reform is what We want and what we
must have. The Mckinley bill raises
the tariff from Al to so per cent. Then
is it what we want? No! A thous-
and times mol DO we want to pay
Si.5O for $l.00 worth of GOODS? Well
maybe Mr.. Abbot does but l don't.
He refers to me as the ''feeble minded
anarchist" True! quite true, he is
the ''know it ALL" the prOgnosticator,
the dictator of the Alliance, the great
''gias-ti-ca-tus' of the Republican
party and of high protection. The
man who has been twice half across
the continent, and seen it all. There
has been people who Fave circum-
navigated the globe yet they do not
claim to have seen everything. think
this gentleman had better subrcribe
for the GRAPHIC and the National
Democrat and get enlightened little
and find out what wise people think
and know about the Mckinley bill.
We would like for him to come
down to our Alliance and instruct us
a little as to how we should vote next
fall. If he wishes me to discuss this
thing farther he will please Write to
the GRAPHIC, as I don't read that
.'clean and fearless" sheet called the
Mucky Muck, Mercury or some other
name, mean the paper that advocates
ring rule and ''to the yictOrs belong
the spoils." We hope no one will take
offense at this.for it is as the gentle
man has said, 1 am not responsible for
what I say.