Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-05
FREEDOM AND FORCE.
The Infamous Attempt to Thwart the
VIII of the People.

The Infamous Attempt to Thwart the
VIII of the People.
Last spring when the Mckinley bill
was before the House it was the con-
slant cry of the high-tax organs that
the duty of the Republicans in Congress
was to pass it at once, and thus redeem
the promises made to the people by the
convention of monopolists who placed
Mr.. Harrison in nomination. Said the
Chicago Journal: s'The duty of the Re-
publicans in Congress is plain. They
should pass the bill, and hasten its pas
sage by fair and uncompromising use
of their power in both houses. When
this advice had been followed there
were citizens appalled, at the assurance
that for many years the country must
be cursed by protection run mad be-
cause monopoly controlled the upper
House. 1t was not thought possible to
destroy the power gained by the manu-
facture of rotten boroughs in the inter
est of the men who were to profit by
the levying of taxes upon the people
In the passage of the bill there was ex-
ercised what was deemed by the organs
for whom the Journal spoke "a fair and
uncompromising use of power in both
houses"
ocratic party went to the people without
means to offset the funds poured into
the Golfers of the Republican committee.
Relying solely upon the intelligence of
the people, such a victory was gained as
caused the ultra evening organ to regret
the passage of bill which had ruined
its party and endangered the very exist
ence of system to which it believed
the prosperity of the country was due.
Again the mill bosses are in the saddle.
Once more the people are menaced by a
combination which seems possessed Of
power sufficient to throttle any future
expression of the popular will. Quay,
the silent, vies with Hoar, the bloviant,
in preparing for the people a cause for
rebellion compared with which the Nc
Kinley bill was a benson. 1t has been
announced that the force bill contains
| within itself hundred tariff bills If
tribute-takers can count for themselves
| as demanded by the ruling Car, then
need there be no compromise of any in
dustry when pap-fed monopoly seeks
| further 1argeSS at the hands of its
| tools. Delano and his trumvirate
may take tribute for their sheep;
| manufacturers of wooden goods may
be assured the entire home market,
closed by tariff wall over which not a
garment shall be brought, and JOY shall
be in the homes of protected infants.
The patriotic laboring man shall be
forced to buy the dearer garment made
by home talent, and Congressman Dun
ham shall enjoy the cheaper raiment
only by crossing the Atlantic for hi
summer jaunt.
But there is a reverse to this picture.
1t is something more than a Fourth
of July boast that the people are SUI
preme in this land. OEgarchies have
! fallen before that power: tax despots
may yet feel it and tremble. Wise pa
| triots engrafted on our fundamental law
the provision that the popular branch
of Congress should originate financial
measures. For few more days repu-
dated statesmen may enact laws. For
so long the people may be defied by
men who have been tried in the bal
ance and found wanting. But the day
of reckoning nears, and with it will
come the opportunity for triumphant
Democracy to prove its right to popular
support The peoples representatives
will hold the purse-strings- They
should not be loosed till every vestige
of the force bill be wiped from the
statute-book Lords of high estate
have been made to feel even under a
monarchy the power of popular disap
prevail Shall citizens of free Repub-
lie be less powerful?-Chicago Times