Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-03
AN EARLY CAMPAIGN.

Seeming Danger in the Air, the Old Parties
Are Flooding the Country With Tons of
Partisan Literature.
''Straws show which way the wind
blows" Never in the history of Amer
lean politics have the two political
parties commenced so early in an "off
year" to vigorously push campaign
work. Tons of literature, strictly par
tisan, both democratic and republican,
is being daily printed and distributed
gratuitously to the sovereign voters"
of this great nation. Each party claims
to be conducting a campaign of educa-
ton. In this connection it is interest
ing to note the object of the proposed
education. 1t is not necessary to con-
duct campaign of education to apprise
the people of the necessity for reform,
because thet' are more thoroughly
aroused to full conception of that
fact than il necessary for peace
and quiet IL either party. Neither
is it necessary to conduct a cam
paign of ea1cation to teach the
masses to advocate laws that will Sc
cure equal lights for all and special
privileges for none," because they are
already too lo nd in their clamors for
that system o. laws to suit those who
are paid to dc inmate political conven-
lions. What then is the object of
either the democratic or republican
party beginning now, in a year which
there are practically no elections, to
spend immense sums of money on cam
paign work? The people on which this
literature is forced have not asked for
it or contributed toward its production.
The best way to understand the object
of the educational work desired is to
note who don ates this campaign money
and discover why they are so liberal
The Wall street monopolists and specu-
lators who donate to partisan cam
paign funds would feel insulted to be
classed as p..ilanthropists; they claim
to be business men, and make the dona-
ton as an investment What do they
want. Simply a condition of affairs in
which they can make money. For
twenty-five years each national cleo
ton has called for greater investments
from them, and they have responded to
the call for one reason only, and that
was because they could see that it
| would pay. The present financial sys.
tenn has been growing more and more
| burdensome to the people for twenty
| years, and in proportion as this burden
has increased profits and gains have
rolled into the lap of the class benefited
by the system. That class stands ready
to-day to spend large sums to perpetu-
ate this system. The managers and
| bosses of neither the republican nor the
democratic party have the courage to
advocate reform in the financial
system of the country, because
the men who contribute the cam
| paign funds of both parties are
men who are amassing colossal for
tuneA. by the special privileges they
enjoy under the present financial sys-
| TEN, and they pay their money TO the
party bosses with the distinct under
standing that the people must be rallied
to other issues and the financial system
left undisturbed as it now is. The peo-
pie have been learning to understand
this SO rapidly during the last three
years of Farmers Alliance education
that it seems to be the plan to COM
mence much earlier than usual and
| spend more money than heretofore,
and in fact to spare neither effort nor
money in the attempt to agitate and
divide the people on the tariff question
so as to make them lose sight of the
money question If the bosses of the
two parties and their Wall street en-
| ployers had taken the trouble to have
sought counsel from the Economist
they could have saved vast SUM Of
money, because it would have been a
pleasure to have disclosed secret not
generally known in political circles,
and that is that the farmers of America
are too intelligent to be fooled by the
old trick any unconstitutional Econo-
mist