Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17

without labor-the other to barely ex.
ist by honest toll. One. rich and un-
scrupulous, unprincipled and aristo.
cratic wanting the earth, and willing
to do anything desperate to obtain and
keep it, and the dwellers thereon. The
other patient, hard working and sub
missive. until goaded beyond endur-
ance, as in the elections of 1890, when
with one mind and their mighty ballot,
they struck down their opposers all over
the Union. Will yon CONTINUE the good
work, freemen of the UI ted States, so
nobly begun? Imagine That your con-
dition would now be, if S were not for
an accidental European demand for
your produce this year! IF that were
lacking, how would your wicked
oppressors help you now?
What is the remedy for these evils?
Is it to be found in the humbug schemes
of the alliance? To make a big fuss
about paying little interest on bor-
rowed money, and say nothing about
the Mckinley war tax infamy passed
by a republican congress last year,
which confscates sixty cents of every
dollar earned by the farmer and
laborer, leaving him but forty cents of
his dollar-the rest going into the
pockets of miIlionaiIes?
Three thousand staple articles of
prime necessity that you cannot do
without-are taxed from 20 to 800 per
cent, full average of 80 per cent.
The useless, extra cost Of operating the
railroads of the country alone, in 1890,
is stated by the New York Bulletin to
be the inconceivably enormous sum of
three hundred and twenty-five millions
of dollars-al of which has to be paid
by the public who use them. Down
with such an inexcusably wicked tax,
all for the benefit of about dozen men
in the East!
Borrowing money is voluntary. You
don't have to do it. But being robbed
by the Mckinley tax is Unavoidable
none can possibly escape. Silks, satins,
diamonds, jewelry, colognes and per-
fumes champagne and brandies-the
luxuries of the rich-pay little or no
tax. But the poor man! Ah! the
larger his family, and sthe greater his
poverty and needs, the more he has to
pay. That is what this tax is levied
for.
Another thirty years of this mis-rule,
and but two classes of people will exist
-paupers and millionaires. 1t is
nearly that, now.
What IS the use, anyhow, of such a
temporary expedient -. more borrow
ing and more debt? Yet this is the
only one proposed by the alliance It
is Mother Partington over again, trying
to mop the ocean out of her house with
a broom.
Roger @. Mills, of Texas, the best
informed man in congress and in the
Union on this question, estimates the
yearly loss to the sixty-two and a half
millions of people to be the inconceiv-
ably enormous sum of $4,000, 900 900,
being taxes levied on every Imaginable
necessary of life.
If farmers are working at loss all
the time, and constantly losing money
what is the use of more borrowing and
more debt, when it only makes the final
inevitable crash more ruinous and
hopeless? No my friends, get down to
bed rock at once-buy as you must sell
and turn your backs on this shin
plaster government pawn shop nom
sense, for good and for all.
If the past proves anything it is that
farmers cannot pay go per cent. tax
on every necessary consumed, and live.
Stop paying these useless war taxes,
and if you do not get more for what
you sell, you can buy that much cheap
er and purchase that much more, which
is the same thing, in more honest
way.
Shocking as you have been taught to
believe it, there is but one remedy for
these evils. 1t is, to vote to pay no
more of these wicked taxes and to send
no man to congress who favors them in
any way, shape or form-or who will
vote to put more burdens ON you. Try
this, and persist in it thirty years, and
see how it goes. Is this so dreadful, in
your opinion? Then you are indeed
past hope and help.
The most disgusting results of this
vast accumulation of wealth in the
hands of a few, is the undisguised con-
tempt for their native land shown by
the female members of rich families,
and the eagerness with which their
wealth is used to live in
Europe, and to buy titled foreign hus-
bands with their unsavory millions
men destitute of every manly requisite
and with nothing to recommend them
to lady's favor except real or forged
pedigree and title. Like a
potato plant, the only good part is under
ground. The most recent instance of
this kind occurred only a few months