Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05

Communicated.

CLArL1x, OCT. 81. 1891.
EDITOR DKNoCRAT:
We had tonight, joint discussion
of the political issues of the day. be-
tween d. A. Banta, of Great Bend,
and Capt. Evans, alliance lecturer of
Mcpherson. The discussion was con-
Quoted in a gentlemanly manner. ON
both sides. The premises assumed by
Mr.. Banta, were premises usually taken
by republican speakers; he elegantly
fought the civil war over; hanging the
bloody shirt on the color line, beside
the one hung by Southern Bourbon
Democrats
The premises assumed by Capt. Evans
was scathing arraignment of the re-
publican party, and their history of
financial legislation for over twenty-five
years. The Capt. went on to show that
the history of the republican party, ON
subjects of taxation, is the history of
premeditated crime against the industry
Of the whole country; that every move
ment in the machinery OF our govern
ment, set in motion by republican lead
ers, has been to swell the gains of the
rich, and to increase the burdens of the
labOrers on the farm, in the workshop, ,
and in the mines, to the estate and con-
dltion of serfs paying tribute to their
rapacious masters, to en- able gigantic
usury ard legalized robbery, and sucked
the blood of every American industry,
to fasten the fangs of the money power
in the struggling body of American
labor; took its first great step in the
exception clause in 1862, in the great
and immortal greenback, in degrad ing
it in the money markets of the world
by making it non-receivable for duties
on imports, and for interest on the
bonded debt of the United States.
He further stated that in the history
of nations no financial measurewas eyer
more wilfully wicked, in conception
and design, than this, nor more far
reaching, oppressive and destruct-
i've to the rights Of laborers, in its
results, than this.
He further showed, in a logical and
conclusive manner, that the people was
In the grasp of gigantic, cold blooded
money trust that usurps the sovereign.
ty of the nation, mocks at the suffering
of its victims, sets at defiance law:
it does not approve, limits the money
output, determines the channel,
through which it shall pass, and tn,
tterms on which it shall be doled out; i
is the architect of our financial struct
ure, built to suit the cupidity of TIT
usurers; they made it snare, a delu
sion, rack of torture to those VIII,
were content to accumulate wealth b,
production; bed of quick-sand Il
business energies and honest thrift.
The Capt's. quotation from Thoma
Jefferson, which showed how Jefferson
viewed the humblest home, the famil,
altar, may be seen from the following
extract from his writings:
"When the war is over and our free
dom won, the people must make new
declaration; they must declare the right
of man, the individual, sacred abov,
all crafty government; they must at on,
: blow, put an end to all trickeries o
English laws, which garnered up in tn,
channels of ages, to bind the heart ant
will with lies; they must perpetual,
republican truth by making the home
stead of every man a holy thing, which
no Law can touch, no jugglery Cal
wrest from wife and children; unit
> this is done, the revolution will hav
, been fought in vain"
; The aboye paragraph was written b,
? Jefferson in the fierce blaze of the rev
, olutionary war, before we had seyeret
our connection with the British crown
Observe what he thought the home
D stead should be, holy thing, which n
e law can touch, no jugglery can wres
y from wife and children.
A DEMOCRAT.