Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-09
MohLER's MoUTHlNGs.

11C OOAoAucIB OHO k1uu0E00 OOA1brB . 1O8E
Sufficient to Keep q Family OF Six In
+ Groceries and Clothing.
The gold-bug newsmongers are just
now making an effort to impress the
public mind with the idea that ga good
crop in Kansas will kill off the peoples
party" A singularly striking feature
of the matter is that in publishing
these things the welfare of the Kansas
people is not the one great thing to be
considered 1t is the resultant effect
upon the alliance and the peoples
party.
What we propose to do. however, is
to take the figures which the gold-bugs
themselves present-but apply them,
however, in another sense.
We simply propose to show them
what proportion of Kansas magnificent
crop is going to Shylock.
From New York dispatch (hatched
out under the influence of Wall street)
telegraphed over Jay Gould's wires to
all the great western dailies, we select
the following extracts-being the gist
Of the entire article:
''On the farms of bleeding Kansas
as some of the eastern people used to
call the state, are products now grow
ing worth 800, 600, 900 over and above
the amount the farmers require for
their own use" Mr.. Mohler added:
eff the owners of those farms pay S25,-
| 600. 900 for groceries and clothing they
will have S65, 900, 900 with which to pay
their debts. And the largest estimate
ever made of the farm indebtedness
was $3.50, 600, 900, which is Senator
PETERS figure. This makes the prob
lem in arithmetic easy, and with two
more crops Kansas farmers will be
ahead of the game"
The story of the old tramp rat
catcher is familiar. "If catch the one
1 am now watching for and two more 1
shall have three"
eff Kansas lands this years crop and
two more she will be ahead of the
game"-that is, Shylock's game OF
'freeze out"
street esentative-Mohler by name
to allow one and a half million peo-
pie S25, 900, 600 out of the $50, 900, 600
surplus for groceries and clothing?'
This is 800 to every family of six.
For groceries and clothing for whole
family one year 500. This is just
about the cost Of bathing suit for each
Of the dudene daughters of an ordinary
gold-bug-in which to display her
charms at the sea shorei Just about
the price of an ordinary supper at Del.
monico's for the gold-bug himself and
''his friend!' just about what an every
day go-as-you-please Shylock would
want for suit of summer clothesi
just about what the prohibitionists
claim is spent per capita by the people
OF the United States for drink"
just about what an ordinary news
paper gold-bug editor spends every
year for cigars
! Generous man-this man Mohler. He
ought to be yoked up with the famous
Edward Ass Atkinson, of Massachu-
setts, and taken out to live with the
Kansas grasshoppers few years.
| just think of it! One hundred dol
lars for groceries and clothing for a
family of six!
AS a matter of fact even this mig
| gardly amount is more than the ordi-
nary Kansas family has been in the
habit of using annually. But what we
look at is the cool, unblushing impu-
dence of the whelp who suggests this
method as the "way out" of debt.
| And it must be done in order that
Shylock can have the other S65, 900, 900
| for his share! And this must be kept
up for three years-with the chances
OF big crop every year.-Chicago SEN