Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-08-19
POLITICS AND PARTY.

The One is the Science of Government,
While the Other is Body of Men Who
Wish to Keep the Other Fellows Out.
We often hear persons confound poll
tics with partyism, when there should
be a wide difference. Politics is the
science of government and should be
discussed and investigated by every
man who would cast an intelligent bal
lot Formerly a party was body of
men who adhered to certain fundament-
al principles of government, because
they thought them best for the people,
but of later days it has become a body
of men who adhere to certain political
leaders, for the purpose of keeping the
other fellows out. Prejudice, instead of
patriotism, is the latent force that holds
both the old parties together. Party
is but the whip and spur that drives the
voter to the poles to vote a certain
ticket, regardless of the men or meas
ures they are supporting. The only
true solution of our republican institu-
tions is the education of the masses of
the people on all political questions as
they arise. When a man says that the
farmers, or any other class of citizens,
have not sense enough to discuss the
politics of our government, they simply
mean that they have not he
sense to vote. Such person
to vote party ticket, without
knowing why they vote it or for what
they are voting. For the last few years
the laboring classes have been studying
the political questions of our govern
ment, and are finding out the causes
for the hard times which are expressing
them, and the politicians are calling
them calamity shriekers," .tcranl1s"
and ''hayseed statesmen" but still the
work is going on and it must continue
until the people are educated on all
political questions that affect their well
fare and will cast an intelligent ballot
free from fear or prejudice. (Mo }
Farm Record.
Money That Will Stay With Us.
This has been the cry all the way
through the old partisan lines. "A
money that will stay with u.s. The
party press has said gold is the only
noney that will stay at ho4e. 1t is
not 1t leaves us whenever we are in
pinch. When we have war it is the
first to go. When we have a panic or
hard times it goes. Just now there are
wonderful shipments of gold The to-
tai shipment of gold from this country
since January 1 apounts to SAL, T50. 600
and for the last three years this '.ab-
normal movement" as the bankers call
it, has continued until we have sent
abroad s12o,0Oo 600 In gold bars and
coin. Yes! yes! gold always stays at
home! Our demand is, give US a money
that will stay at home, If it is paper.
Kokomo (Ind.) Industrial Union.
Inc act providing for the contracr1on
of the currency was passed and ap-
proved April IL, 1856 The vote in the
house, as shown by the public records,
stood as follows;
For the hili--republicans, So; demo
Gratis, IS; total, SO. Against the bill
republicans, 50; democrats, 1; total. SO.
In the senate but seven republicans
and one democrat voted against it
Thus It viii be seen that a majority of
both old parties voted In favor of this
infamous system that has wrought
ruin to millions, and both old parties
will keep up the contraction as long as
they are kept in control of the national
leaislatsoR. tKan.l Gazette.
-4he cFoakefs who wonder now
'sWe'n get the money out" can extract
an inference. If they will, from the
Washington dispatch that says: The
government presses are busy getting out
new issues OF bills to send west with
which to handle the new crop" Going
to initiate some. eh3 Nonconformist