Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-23
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It II Not the ALI ince, But the Solid Demo-
cratic South That IL Split Wide Open BY
the Sub-Treasury Plan.
The following document, signed by
200 prominent Texas democrats, ap-
peared in the Dallas Morning News of
November IS, and we print it for the
general information of our thousands
of readers:
To the Democracy Of Texas:
The recent pronunciamento of Chair
man Finley, announcing that those
democrats who believed in, and advo-
Gated the reform generally known as
the ''sub-treasury plan," should not
hereafter be admitted to q participa-
ton in the councils Of the democratic
party in Texas, following almost i'm
mediately upon the practical expulsion
OF member of a county executive
committee who was q believer in said
reform, admonishes us that the time
has arrived when 1t is proper and nee
essary for those who believe in the lib
erty Of conscience and of opinion, to
speak out plainly as to their intentions
and purposes.
We hold this truth to be self-evident,
that the appointment of Chairman Fin
ley as chief of the state executive COM
mittee did not invest him with the at
tribute of democratic infallibility, nor
place in his pious keeping the souls
and consciences of individual demo-
Gratis
Reared as we have been in the folds
of the democratic party and many of
US having Gfought its battles and fol-
lowed its dag for lifetime, we have
been taught ever to believe that democ-
racy was not, and in it's essential ma
ture could not be, incompatible with
perfect liberty of thought and speech.
Previous to this most remarkab BILE full
mination of Chairman Finley, we had
supposed that each individual democrat
was freeman, having full possession
of, and control over his own conscience
Holding these views, the undersigned.
in common with many others, true and
loyal democrats, have seen fit to exam
inc and approve the principles of what
is called the sub-treasury plan. We
! believe in common win the great mass
of laboreFs and producers that during
the past thirty years, if not ever since
its foundation, our federal government
has been administered in the interest
OF capital, to the prejudice of labor.
The tillers Of the SOIL the producers
and property owners generally, and all
other values. have submitted for MANY
years to systematic robbery by the
government for the enrichment of the
capitalistic classes.
Agriculture, the basis of all wealth,
and of civilization itself, has borne the
burdens of government, and those who
/ follow its pursuits thus discriminating
against, have gradually become ''hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water for
the more favored classes; oppressed al
ways and successfully by the exactions
Of money, and incapable, through un-
Just laws and systems propagated by
syndicated wealth, of exercising even
the poor privilege of naming q price
for what they produce or may have to
I sell.
| Anent these environments, which
threaten even the existence of them
and their loved ones, they are looking
for some remedy, Freeborn, thev are
not disposed forever to wear chains
which present economic conditions
have imposed upon them and which, in
some respects, are more CALLING than
the actual slavery once existing in our
midst They feel that they are en-
titled 70 equal privileges with all other
glasses in this country. and that thaT