Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-05
pERsEvER,Ne FAT-FRYERs.

PERSEvERiNo FAT-FRYERS.
The Systematic Robbery by the Monop-
olistic Force and Fraud Party.
The High Tariff Association of pro-
tected monopolists held one of its peri
odical love-feasts in an Eastern city the
other day, and resolved to push the
crusade to make monopoly tariff taxes
perpetual in this country. Conspicuous
among the brethren was Hon. Robert
Protection Porter, who has devoted all
the resources of misspent life and of a
perverted arithmetic to the task of
proving that a people can remain great.
rich and prosperous only by submitting
cheerfully to systematic and gigantic
robbery. -
In view Of the stunning blow which
the producers, toilers and taxpayers of
the United States dealt this High Tariff
Association of highly protected monop-
Olists in November last, it would be in
structive to have an exact diagram Of
the rrotectionists' plan of campaign
from now until the Presidential election
in 1892. Their notions of what they
want were fully set forth in the Nc
Kinley tariff law, which, after being
thoroughly discussed all summer and
most Of the autumn, was rejected by
the voters with a vehemence and en-
phasis that leaves no doubt of their pur-
pose not to submit voluntarily to such
conscienceless robbery. Do the tariff
barons expect to convince these millions
of voters in the short space Of less than
twenty-five months that they made
arrant fools of themselves on the 4th
of November?
Popular enthusiasm is tickle, but the
will Of the American people isl not so
lightly formed nor so lightly set aside.
There is not a precedent in the whole
of American history to encourage the
monopoly protection propagandists in
the hope that this American people,
when it assemblies at the polls in
1892 will reverse the decision
it rendered at the polls in 1890.
The almost unbrolzen precedent is that
the principles and the policies which
carry, by decisive sweep, in the mid
term Congressional elections prevail
also in the Presidential elections two
years later. Nobody knows this better
than the wealthy and successful manu-
facturers who have resolved to put
forth their best efforts for the per
petuity of the Mckinley ideas of taxa
ton.
AS there is no hope of obtaining re-
versal of the popular verdict by the or
binary engines of political discussion,
their principal trust must be in the
favorite Republican arguments Oh
bribery, force and fraud. They will
submit to fat-frying as cheerfully in
1892 as they did in 1885, If the condi.
tions seem at all favorable to success
they will ladle out their dollars to cor
rupt the election of 1892 even more
literally than they did to elect Harri-
son in 1888. All the power that the
control of the purse string gives them
over their employees and others with
whom they have business dealings will
be exerted to the fullest.
But all this will not suffice, and the
factory lords are not depending on it
A part of their work has been done te
their hand by Hon. Robert Protection
Porter, whom they thrust into contro
of the eleventh census for the purpose
of robbing of representation constitu
encies who object to being plunderet
for the enrichment of a favored class
in favored section. A good many
electoral votes and a good many
Congressman opposed to monopo
ly protection have thus been gotter
rid of. Still, with the growing politica
revolution in the West, the protection
|. lists are far from seeing their way clear
The force bill is therefore pressed with
all the money and all the power O.
the High-Tariff League. The hostil,
votes that Porter has spared, and tha
can not be bought or bulldozed in thu
usual way, are to be suppressed in 1S9:
by this revolutionary device which
conspicuous organ of the protectionist.
has declared 'shas dozen tariff Bills il
it. If the West objects to paying trib
ute to New England the West must be
muzzled in Congress by negro and scala
wag Representatives elected in the Soutl
by BENJAMIN Harrison and force bill
returning boards. In order to appeaSt
! the hunger of some few hundreds o
blood-sucking monopolists the aim i
| to revolutionize the whole fabric o
free representative government il
! America.
The census, which the constitution
| makes the basis of our Representative sys
tenn, has already been de bauched througl
the ready conni9ance of an alien mer
|
since he came to this country by max
ing figures lie for the Republican party
Hoar, Edmunds, Frye and the rest O
the New England desperadoes are nov
striking at the root of free elections.
is the greediest and most disgracefu
conspiracy that ever came to the SUI
face in Washington.
The conspirators may be sure Of on
thing. This is big country and it
very strong. The American people ar
hard-headed lot: they can take car
of themselves and they will do it. Whe
they are thoroughly tired of this foo
ishness they will stop it, and they ar
very weary already.-St. Louis Reput
lie.
DETESTABLE PROVISIONS.
| The Tendency of Republican Methods
| Overthrow Free Vote.
In the contest over the fraud an
force election bill there is evidence of
tendency on the part of the more COZ
corvafivo Ronuh1icaDS fo T,raSS ameuf