Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-25
BUSINESS MEN SLAVES.
The Government should Furnish the Peo
pie a Medium of Exchange.

pie n Medium of Exchange.
A prominent manufacturer of Gin
cinnati said to us: 'I know more than
half of the men in my factory will vote
for the peoples ticket. But don't men,
ton my name. am at the mercy Of
the banks. The mere mention of my
name as thinking along these lines
would cut off my discounts consider
ably. If were in position where I
didn't have to go to the banks for dis
count could speak out, but that binds
me-" About nine out of ten business
men in Cincinnati wear the collar of
the money power. 1t is placed around
their necks by the agents of Wall street
and of Lombard and Threadneedle
streets, London. They are beginning
to see the folly of voting for the old
parties whose legislation makes slaves
of them and the people. Is America
ever going to be independent again?
Vote for the peoples party straight -
Golden Rule.
There is more truth in the above than
many of our business men will care to
admit An instance known to the
writer, in city in Missouri, is in line
with the case mentioned above. A
grocery merchant who had been In
business for number of years, and
had prospered fairly we'll, found his
sales gradually falling off and his
collections more difficult to make.
He had among his customers some of
the best farmers-men who could
get credit anywhere in the county, and
men of unquestionable integrity
When a number Of these customers
frankly informed him that they were
unabled to pay their bills of S25, $40
and $50 because they could not get
what was due them, it set this grocery
man to thinking. He knew the men
were honest; that they had always
paid their bills before, and he would
no more have doubted their integrity
than he would his own existence. This
merchant commenced reading and
thinking and it took a short time to
solve the question and read himself out
of the republican party. So thoroughly
was he convinced that all of our f1nan.
cial woes came from a wrong monetary
system that he commenced to preach
the doctrine to his neighbors and he
soon became an earnest advocate for
financial reform.
By and by the news of his conversion
and development as a "crank" reached
the ears of his wholesale merchant, with
whom he had good credit and with
whom he had dealt a number of years
and paid many thousands of dollars
The wholesale merchant at once called
upon our grocery merchant, and at first
mildly protested against what he called
his crankiness, but finding his retail
customer really in dead earnest finally
informed him that unless he gave up
his 'fanatical ideas" their business re-
lations must cease, and that he would
then and there insist upon an imme-
diate settlement of the account due the
wholesale house, which was not then
even due, according to terms of pur-
chase. The grocery merchant was on
his metal in moment resented the
indignity by telling the wholesale mer-
chant he could go to-well, a climate
warmer than Missouri, and defied him
to do his worst. We have this from the
grocery merchant, and know the whole
sale man, and do not doubt it. The
groceryman is still in business, and is
doing well in spite of the effort to gag
or crush him. Alliance Tribune.