Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-21

miners send and receive in year? 1
have sent only six messages and re-
ceived eight in ten years. The majority
of working people never send or get a
message by telegraph. Government
ownership of telegraphs means cheap
messages for the rich, and additional
taxation on you to make up the
deficiency in the telegraph revenue.
The Belgian government owns the
railroads in that country. Conductors
on those state socialistic roads get so
cents a day for fourteen hours work.
Brakemen and loborers get 80 to 65
cents day and engineers $1.00 day,
and all had to work fourteen hours for a
days work, when visited Belgium in
1890. The rich loafers, the politicians.
the bureaucrats, the priests, all who do
little else except live on the labors of
others, can ride cheap on the railroads,
while the working people who do not
have time to ride must foot the bills
for each deficit in the cost of running
the railroads over the revenue. Do
you want to be taxed hundreds of
millions of dollars for the benefit OF
those who now rob you? The politicians,
the lawyers, the preachers, the leg
islators, the capitalists, the drummers
would be the principle gamers by
government ownership of the railroads.
for the above classes travel great
deal, while you have not time to travel.
know of no ''safeguards" that the
government has thrown around the
banking business except to prevent
you and me from using our credit ex-
cept at the terms determined on by the
banker, which is very often two and
three per cent month. Why shouldn'.
your land and houses (if 1nsured) be as
good banking capital as the bondhold-
er's gold, oras the miners silver? The
government has no right to prevent you
and me from issuing paper notes on
approved security, or from offering
those notes in the market in competi-
tion with any other money to be found
there. The business of the law is to
see that we do not cheat our customers
and see to it that our security is good
1 have no quack remedies. 1 propose
the one that has, when tried, always
been successful-liberty. THAT is the
best law which repeals some other
laws" ."-Lyons Democrat.
THE Beacon, as usual a week behind
the DEMOCRAT, has at last come to the
front with the official news. Bro. Arm
strong should be excused, however, fol
his slcwness, for he has the appearance
Of having been born tired. Like al
men effected that way. he is alst
rather Grabbed and takes to heart oul
mild criticism of his slowness. HI
puts on his short range specks, brushes
the leonine locks from his bulging brow
and leaps onto a few typographical er
rors he run to earth in the columns O.
the DEMOCRAT, and calls the world t,
gather around while he discloses oul
"brazen impudence." Poor fellow; b,
is so anxious to pick quarrel will
somebody. that he jumps onto a mis-
spelled word with the avidity of hun
CRY tramp with 'shand out" He ais,
appears to be worried because we sg,
to such expense" to furnish the new
to our readers. Don't worry about tht
expense, Bro. Armstrong, we can stant
it; and we pay our printers, too; ant
have never had a man work for US
month or so and then sell his account
at almost so per cent. discount, as ha
been the case with yourself. Ant
further, Bro. Armstrong, please do no
borrow unnecessary trouble about oul
publishing the county news ''to kee]
people from subscribing for the Bea
con-" as you say. Your policy may b
to try and build up your own Interest,"
by tearing down the interests of others
| but the DEMOCRAT has not reached
such low plane of journalism, ant
never will. If you expect to win a plac
| in the newspaper field just wake up
have some enterprise; don't tag aloni
week behind your competitors AM
then get mad because they succeed ant
you do not. Be a man instead of ar
old granny, and fer goodness sake tr,
and learn to tell the truth.
Lieut.. Gov. Felt expressed the prope
sentiment when he made the following
remarks in declining to be candidat
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