Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE
For Farmers and Working Men-The
Result,

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they surely cannot be at loss to un.
derstand thoroughly the true nature OF
the evils produced by the pretended
republican party they have 50 blindly
supported for so many years, and the
remedy for them.
The truth of the statements herein
made cannot be successfully chal-
| lenged.
For more than thirty years, since the
inauguration of President Lincoln in
| 1861, the republican party has either
been constantly in power to do its evil
work of making millionaires by stealing
the slender wages of workingmen, or
has been so entrenched in that body of
millionaire nabobs, the U. S. Senate, as
effectually to prevent any relief what
ever from the cruel wrongs continually
inflicted on the people by it's deliberate
mis- ismanagement.
The condition now is precisely that
predicted by President VanBuren in
his inaugural message made March 4,
1887, certain to produce splendid
government, an arrogant aristocracy,
and all impoverished people," Never
has prophecy come more true! Wit
ness the following testimony from Ex-
Senator Ingalls,:
Notwithstanding the fact that we
are The wealthiest nation on the earth,
there are 100000 people who never
have their appetites satisfied in any
single day in all the year, and I, 600, 600
able-bodied tramps willing but unable
to obtain work. This is one of the
problems for the second century to
solve. 1.-The orator states that it was
not production. He deprecated
the fact that oDe-half of the wealth of
the nation was owned by 10000 men,
and that so many had neither occupa-
tions nor responsible toll" When 80, 600
people have corner on the price of
wages, the control of the marts of trade,
etc., the other 80, 600, 600 will be slaves ~
Has any creature done more to bring
about this terrible but true state of
affairs than this same wretched betray-
I'er os the liberties of Tire people of Kan
sas, for the past twelve years?
If such party as that now misnamed
republican, existing for the last twenty
years for the sole purpose Of enabling
one-tenth of the people to plunder the
other nine-tenths, and for few to revel
in enormous wealth, while many mill
lions labor for them for a bare existence,
could have ever settled anything, mat
ters would have been effectually settled
long ago. Instead of this, the people
are now more restless and dissatisfied
than ever. Strikes. mobs, and des-
perate conflicts, involving the right of
workingmen to barely exist by the
favor of millionaire employers, prevail
all over the Union, while farmers, more
law abiding, suffer poverty in sullen
silence, or resort to the doubtful
schemes of the alliance for expected
relief from the injustice continually
practiced upon them.
fare OF the people, will never be settled
while so mischievous an organization
as the republican party exists by public
favor and prejudice. and persists in it's
constant plunder of the people, or in
| any other way than on the eternal prin-
ciples of Truth, Justice and the Golden
Rule-all Of which this party knows
nothing about, and Of which it has not
the slightest conception.
After an uninterrupted control for
thirty-one years, the bOasted ''home
Market" which has been petted and
coddled by congress at cost of count
less thousands of millions of dollars to
the people, and to the vast profit of a
few cunning schemers, proves to be an
unmitigated humbug and fraud.
In 1889, with one of the greatest
crops ever produced, immense losses
were incurred everywhere by the farm
ers of the country, solely because of
the total absence of market anywhere
for their produce at a living price.
In Kansas, corn raised at cost of
IA cents bushel, was dull sale at IL
cents, and all other produce in proper
tion-nearly all was sold at loss.
In Illinois the corn crop that year
cost sixty-eight million dollars to raise,
and the Agricultural Board of that
state all republicans-reporte that it
sold for fifty-eight millions-a dead
loss of ten millions, and whole year,
severe labor on assingle crop. creating
debts, mortgages and general distress
beyond description, hundreds of farm
ers losing their land altogether and be-
coming renters.
Is it any wonder the state went DEM
ocratic last year, and elected that noble
patriot Gen. Jno. NJ. Palmer to plead
the cause of the people and plundered
nation in that club of republican mil
lionaire aristocrats, the q. S. Senate?
The state of Michigan was in the
same condition. In 1889 the wheat