Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-02-18
From Henry Dnrsf.

foot, and so severely, that l am unable
to work for several weeks. L am at
leisure now, and will try to entertain
our good people through your columns
1t may seem strange to some, that ]
write for the INDEX, but the reason j:
that cannot agree on several points
with the Cresset. do not write fol
the INDEX because it WAS a democrat.
lc paper, or because 1t is the alliance
organ now; but it publishes my articles
unabridged, even if it does not agree
with all my views. Besides l always
was on good terms with Ed. Caruthers
aud VIC .Musgrove. Let me also tell you
that While l wish all luck and prosper,
Ity To the manager of the INDEX, | am
not sorry, that he failed to become state
printer. We cannot spare many more
such men. We lost Ed. Caruthers, q
man who was always In front for the
upbuildIng of country and town; always
IN favor OF progress and improvements;
always with open heart and purse, fol
any kind of contributions. AS to my
republican creed, let me say, that l am
a plain Abraham Lincoln republican;
favoring always sound, and tried flu
ancIal systems; favoring real repub
ilcanS laws, which will do the most
good 10 the greatest number. l favor lust
pensions TO the defenders of our UNION
not mere Scanty aims. 1t seems to me
that the old soldiers labor under the
same tate. as many great men have be-
fore. Their services were not sufficient
ly appreciated during their lifetime.
and the most glory Was awarded them
when toothache and cornS did not hurt
them any more. For my part | would
prefer pension of 500 S20per month
to having my grave loaded down with a
S5O,0OO monument. Ii we favor peu-
slons we also must favor a policy which
viii enable us to pay them That
means protection. But we must have
protection also for projections sake,
but not to open field for monopoly,
high tariff and low wages. Flee trade
and protection form to-day the parting
lines. | do not claim to know much
about 1t. but do know, that it is an ex-
ceedlngly difficult problem for such a
large country, with such different in
terests and industries. What proved a
good thing fifty years ago, may be ruin
Gus to-day.
Tariff for revenue only seems to me a
humhug. If protection is good and
profitable for us, we want to protect as
much as possible; if the free trade sys-
TEN is beneficial and saving for our
country, we want as much as we can
get. regardless how much it requires to
run our government. Anything we
can produce should be protected suffi-
GENTLY to keep out foreign goods, I'M
less in exchange some foreign ports
will be opened free for our surplus.
then we may in return put some arti-
cIeS on the free list. which otherwise
should be protected by a reasonable
duty. That's what l call reciprocity
To claim that wages are better in Eu-
rope tt IL III free trade countries is pur-
pUsely misleading. If there are a few
cases, they are only local and in very
few branches. AS long as the stream
OF immigration comes this way, it indl-
Gates that we do better here. The best
illustration for protection and tree
trade Is furnished by the state OF Kan
sas. We had free trade for liquor oniy
since ten years; nay, prohibition, worse
than free trade, Tor Kansas need not
fear any competition With It's cheap
land and grain. We could not manu-
tacture any liquor, neither tor home
consumption nor for export, and yet
millions OF dollars worth was shipped
20 Kansas. The cause why we could
not manufacture any liquor is inmate
rial, whether 1t was prohibited by law
OF driven out by free trade competition.
The result remains the same, and what
Is the result? Abandoned homes, no
money III circulation, poor credit, no
Work Tor mechanics, no immigration,
no sale for real estate, and real estate
declined over so per cent. in value
And last, but not least, in consequence
of all these facts and shattered hopes.
| know number of young men who
have hardly reached their best years,
who are adorned with strong Sprink-
ling of silver threads amongst the gold.
In spite of such condition, these low
III. genuine republicans of Kansas 90
on the stump for protection, but do not
protect their own poor homes. Resub-
mission republicans are considered not
good republicans. | can safely trust
The readers TO decide the question. /
favored highly ingalls, reelection, and
after the alliance and democrats made
1t an issue to defeat him, it was clear
that The republicans must combine to
retain Ingalls,. The prohibitory ele-
ment supported Ingalls, with candidates
pledged for prohibition. A resubmis-
sion ingalls, man they would not sup
port and yet he needed only Is votes
Tor his re election. BY give and take
tue two republican factions would have
mad no ditfiulty to gain enough votes in
The whole state to elect him. But the
paramount qualification for candidates
for representative was prohibition; In
gals support secondary. And such an
outfit charges the resubmissionists with
dislOyalty. blame the prohibition re-
publicanS for the loss of our ingalls,, as
well as the third party for the defeat of
Blaine against Cleveland. A dead let.
ter law was dearer child to them than
party, or than Blaine and Ingalls, The
CresSet may claim. that the resubmis-
siOnists did not make very big show
last November. 1t is true, but take
the votes cast for Robinson, at least
half of the alliance vote. and one third
Of the votes cast for Humphrey and
YOU will get near the strength of the
reSubmisSiOnIStS IN Kansas, whenever
we will have an opportunity to submit
the question at special election
Some time last spring a preacher ir
Medicine Lodge deposited his eggs in
the Cresset. treating on resubmissior
and the wicked city of Wichita. He
gave the strength of the resubmissior
element in the whole state at Is ON
votes. This requires no comment. but
as to Wichita. who was so unfortunate
as to not heed his advice in time. still
hope to see the day. when it will Dc
Medicine Lodge more good than all The
preachers of Kansas combined. I an
in favor of doing justice to all parties
even giving credit TO our enemies wher
ever they deserve it. Lately the Ores
set charged the alliance for the hare
times in Kansas. That is unjust. The
| sores of Kansas are older than the ALI
ance. DO wonder what the alliance
| Will do in regard TO resubmission.
| hope that it will prove itself as wise as
| it was strong. The alliance made
| neither prohibition nor resubmissioI
| an issue. But ! wish it would remem
her the experience of his twin brother
the union labor party and put the fol
| lowing lines i'm its album:
-Four or FIVE years ago the union labol
marty met in Cincinnati in nafiono