Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-03
THE DEMOCRATIC MOSES.

The Woods Are Full of Him. and He Dan
Be Found Behind Every Stump-BewaRe
of Him.
The woods are liable to be full of the
Democratic Moses just about now. Job
lots of them will stand ready to lead the
farmer out of the wilderness for the
trifling consideration of being kept in
Office.
They will claim every thing, promise
every thing and do nothing.
1t will come to pass about the present
time that the Democratic Moses will be
found behind every large sized stump
A farmer won't be able to throw rock
into the bush without soaring up flock
of them.
The gentle stuboy Of the hogs, and
persuasive sookey to the cows, will call
forth swarm of him willing to suffer
in the cause of farmers rights, if po-
sition and cash emulations are guaran-
teed.
The Democratic Moses will claim all
the honor and glory for the recent polit-
ical landslide which has been so disas-
trous to the Republican party.
He will say to the farmer: ''Come
back to the safe Democratic fold Our
party is the peoples party, we will give
you every thing. Please don't go to the
new Independent shop over the way
II you don'tsee whatyou want ask for it,
and we will give it to you, always pro-
vided, however, that you don't ask for
'three-year stay laws Government
ownership of railroads and Govern
ment money at two per cent on land
These you can by no means have, be-
cause Mr.. Shylocx Plutocrat, who is the
real owner of the Democratic store, de-
clines to keep those articles in stock
In fact the farmers only imagine they
want those new tangled arrangements
What they really need is nice five or
even ten per cent. reduction in the
tariff
Then 10, a financial millennium will
be right at hand.
''The land Of Cockaigne will be
reached at last, where streams will flow
with champagne between banks of
sponge cakes while little pigs, already
roasted and stuffed, will run around
squealing to be eaten.
Debt will vanish. mortgages fade out
Of sight wheat be two dollars bushel
and corn seventy-f1ve cents-if the farm
ers will only follow the Democratic
Moses and partake plentfully OF tariff
pop"
The Democrats claim that the popular
avalanche that buried the Republican
party is sure sign that tide of emil
grafton is setting in towards the
Democratic camp, and prophesies .
Democratic victory in 1892.
All Of which we do most positively
deny. The Vanderbilts. the Goulds,
the Carneg es, the Corbins, the Brices,
the Huntingtons, the Rockefellers, to-
gether with other chartered pillagers,
own the Republican party-body and
gizzard-and they likewise own the
Democratic party-body and gall
They own and run the entire machines
OF these two organizations from the
courtly and high-salaried Chauncey De-
pew and Grover Cleveland figure heads
clear down through the whole gamut of
male prostitutes and bought lackeys,
until you come to their thief-thuQs.
who in the slums of our great cities
knock down and drag out, poison with
drugged liquor and stuff ballot boxes.
in order that their aristocratc pluto
cratic masters may continue to rob the
great plain people under forms of law.
The plutocratic usurpers, who have
in point of fact unparalleled the Repub-
lie, are crafty, they are deep, they are
cunning. In order that their robber
franchises shall go on undisturbed in
their wicked and devastating course.
the great big fool people of this coun-
try must be juggled, wheedled and
amused yet little while longer.
We years from now when the plutoc-
racy has an army of half million uni
formed jail birds. detective hirelings,
and toadying, obsequious militia, they
can throw of the mask and force the
s'fool people" to do just what the pluto
Gratis want them to do and give no back
talk. But the conspiracy to practically
overthrow Washington's Republic is
not yet far enough along for them to
boldly show their hands. So the game
now is to humbug the wealth creators
and pull the wool over the eyes Of the
masses by making sham tariff reform
political issue with which the fool
peopler can ampse themselves while
the plutoarats are getting chains ready
for their limbs.
Here is where the Democratic Moses
will try to get in his work. He will
strive to keep all eyes fastened on the
tariff. while the railways will continue
to tax the traffic more than it will bear,
while foreign and domestic loan and in-
vestment sharks keep on desolating the
fairest portion Of the NJ ssippi valley,
making vast estates for English and
American lords out Of thousands 81
farms. rhnna heroic nzInarn go 49,.