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

ter, in fact, than charnel houses where
statesmen of mediocre ability NAV
thrive and fatten upon the loins of the
Nation. For fear we may be accused of
overdrawing this picture of venal cor
ruption, let us quote from some of the
sayings of one of the leading statesmen
of to-day. No less person than the
President pro tenn. of the United States
Senate, Hon. j. j. Ingalls,:
The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have
no place in a political campaign. 1t is law.
ful to deceive the adversary; to hire Hes
slams; to procure mercenaries; to kill; to
mutilate; to destroy. Money does not stink,
no matter how acquired Votes do not smell
badly no matter what may have been the
method by which they were procured The
ambitious politician, therefore, endeavors
to ascertain what is popular, rather than
what is right. We have been unable to make
any history in twelve years.
The latter statement of Mr. Ingalls,,
that ''we have been unable to make
any history in twelve years, is fraught
with great danger. Whenever parties
In any nation reach that inetficiency
that they are unable to enact any pro-
gressive legislation, it has reached that
point when it takes a retrograding po-
sition. The Tory Government of En-
gland reached that stage in its method
of legislation in relation to the colonies
1t was at this point when the fathers of
this Republic put forth a document
containing these words: 1--WE hold
these truths to be self-evident that
all men are created equal; that
they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights;
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the pursuit of happiness; that to secure
these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers
from the concent of the governed; that
whenever any form of government is
destructive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to abolish 1t, and to insti-
tute new government. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same objects,
evinces design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards
for their future security" Just how
our fathers abolished their oppressive
government is matter of history. But
after they had overthrown that base
government they, in their wisdom, pro-
vided that their posterity should have
other and more easy methods of over
throw. They provide the ballot as a
weapon by which it should be accom-
plished
The agricultural laborers of the land
who have been despoiled of their homes
have, by a system of combined effort,
set to work to accomplish that result
by the method as given to them by the
fathers, and during the last campaign
cast upwards of $50, 900 votes in that di-
rection, which has resulted in the elect
ing to the National halls of legislation
of some fifteen members, who are
pledged to vote and to work in season
and out of season, to establish better
system of government, by the repeal of
special and oppressive laws and the en-
actment of new ones that shall be in
the interest of the whole people and
good government.
The National Citizens Alliance has
been formed for the purpose of accom-
plishment of that education and organi-
zation among business men and others
who reside in our large cities and towns,
to the end that they may cooperate
and act with the great body of agricult-
ural classes in our land in their effort
to relieve the people from bondage and
the restoring of good government among
men, as the fathers intended that it
should be, as expressed in the words of
the martyred Lincoln: ga government
of the people, by the people and for the
people"
And to this end we solicit the aid and
assistance of all citizens without regard
to calling and profession. And all those
who are so inclined can receive the nec-
essary inform alton required for the
formation of local branches, and the
necessary literature to become informed
upon the principles as advocated by the
organization, by addressing Ralph
Beaumont, secretary of the National
Citizens Alliance, 239 North Capitol
street, Washington, D. c.