Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14
scrupulous cupidity the only mediator.
industrial Advocate

much vaunted (by republicansl tin-plate
clause of the Mckinley tariff act, which
goes into effect July l, next, was given
by Hon. David A. Wells, who says that
the Standard Oil monopoly will thereby
be benefited to the extent of 81 SOC, 900
a year in drawbacks. on the tin used in
its export packages. Mr.. Wells says
that notice was served on Mr.. KcKin-
ley and his associates by the Standard
Oil people that unless their interests
were taken care of by the insertion of
provision allowing a drawback on
n-plate used in the expectation of do
mestic products they would defeat the
bill. The provision was inserted, and
get its tin-plate for about 1882 box,
while all ordinary consumers will have
to pay about Sc box.
REPUBLICAN papers are wont to
! quote from the New York Sun as a
leading democratic paper. Dana, the
editor of the Sun IS but a tool of the
republican party. The following is
true pen picture of the man and his
methods: "Dana is, without doubt,
editor of the most diSreputable daily
paper in New York or the whole coun-
try. He depends for his patronage
upon hoodlums and toughs of that city,
and it is bis business to pander to their
venal and depraved literary taste. He
is as treacherOus as an Indian, and will
knife alike party or friend if his per-
sonal pique or interest dictates. The
paper that Mr.. Dana edits is fit rep
resentative of that great city. He is
devoid of either soul or principle, and
reeks with corruption of the sewerage
on which he feeds and fattens."
THE republican party of Kansas is
indeed ''in the SOUP" and finds it
necessary to establish permanent head
quarters; pay its officers salary, and is
constrained to beg for contributions
from the faithful to bear such expenses.
Bill Buchan has sent out circulars to
the brethren wOrded something like
this:
1.-The committee does not ask for or
expect large individual contribution
from you, nor from any save those en-
jOying remunerative positions given
them by the republican party. What
we do desire is that you consult with
your republican friends, regardless of
former differences, and collect such
sum as each feels able to contribute,
even though the amount be only fifty
cents. Republican county officials
serving their first term should be glad
to lend us substantial aid.'
Wonder how much of Bro. Caraway's
salary as postmaster goes in to head
quarters to help the boys along?
CLASS legislation has undermined the
republican party to such an extent that
to day it stands tOttering on the brink
| of final destruction, and we doubt if it
| will ever be able to rebuild founda-
| tiOn upon which to maintain an up
right position. Class legislation will
| never win in this land of freedom and
equal rights. 1t will be well for all
men who contemplate a movement to
the end OF obtaining special legislation
for any class of people to consider we'll
the risk they are taking. The injustice
that is done the agricultural states by
the present laws Of our land can be
| remedied by other ways than the max
ing OF laws that will be beneficial only
to a certain class or calling, and we be-
lieve that the education that the people
are now getting will compel our
national congress to adopt such reme-
dial measures at its next session. The
fact that the democrats will have the
lower house, the one nearest to the
| people, is full of promise for the in
dustrial classes.
We notice that the plan adopted by
the meeting held at Topeka recently to
raise money for a Kansas exhibit at
Chicago does not take we'll with the
majority of the papers of the state. If
| Kansas is represented at the World S
Fair, it will be through the efforts of
the republican party and the cOntribu-
tions must be solicited and received
from a republican standpoint. All
OLuC1 Pinuo VIII PiOtC IouuI O.-4AOio-
lngton Dispatch.
WE NOTICE that the only papers that
are kicking about the arrangements
made by the meeting called by the
state board of agriculture, a non-parti-
Fan board composed of democrats and
republicans alike, are the little whip
per-snapper sheets of the republican
persuasion; the papers which we're
willing to let Kansas be kept out of
the Columbian exhibition rather than
that any but republicans should receive
any credit for display of our re-
sources. Such comments as the one
above quoted from the Dispatch will
| be designated by all public spirited men
and men of advanced thought as the
variest stuff and nonsense. The idea
that the republican party of Kansas,
rebuked and humbled as it has been by
the voters of the outraged populace.
should pose as the guardian or mentor