Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-21
NO. 18.

in our government, OF PURIFYING our
politics, of infusing into our industrial
system the qualities of God-given
justice, of restoring the coinage to the
status given it by the founders of the
republic, and of preserving the herit-
age of freedom and the rights of free
men bequeathed by the fathers, depends
upon availing ourselves of new and
uncorrupted medium through which
the people can express and enforce
their political convictions
To serve this purpose is the mission
of the peoples party, and 1t has right
full claims upon the support of all citi-
zens who realize the impressive fulfill
ment of Lincoln's forebodings, and the
surprising Importance of checking the
aggressive and dangerous advance of
corporate rapacity and the schemes and
corruptions of abnormal wealth.
No one should be swerved in this cri-
sis from course of political independ-
ence that Is inspired by the highest de-
mands of duty and interest, by the dis
couraging assurance of the enemy that
the new party, without organization
and without wealth, can have no chance
of success this year against the old par
ties, powerfully organized and with
limitless pecuniary resources. We are
told ths one or the other of the old
party presidential nominees is sure to
be elected and if we would not throw
away. our votes for president we must
choose between them, according to our
preferences or prejudices-
The answer to this kind of partisan
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tween the presidential candidates of
the old parties, that both of them are
inexorably committed to the dangerous
elements foretold by President Lincoln,
| and thu to support either would be to
strengthen with our countenance and
votes t., very power that we recognize
as peril oIs to the country and its pros
perity. T 1T this is not the only
answer Believing in the necessity for
the new political organization, if popu-
lar convictions are ever to be given ex-
pressio. and force, we recognize that
it must have a beginning, and that
duty requires its present support with
out reg ard to the degree of success or
failure that may attend the popular ef-
fort this year. If partial failure shall
be the result the people will none the
less have laid the foundation for the
fullest fI'uition of their hopes at fu
ture day.
But The failure can only be partial
for though money and privilege secure
the presidency for the next four years
the popular impulse that is now taking
independent shape cannot be prevented
from scoring victory this year of stu
pendous import to the rights of tn,
American masses. The Importance a.
this juncture Of great popular protes
against the consuming and unrighteoul
greed of corporate wealth and it's defil
ing influence on the legislative func
tions of the nation cannot be overesti
mated. The warning would be followed
by the most salutary and practical effect
and the results would alone justify
all the efforts that can be made thil
year to give the peoples national party
organic form. Still, incalculable as viii
be the advantage of such protest from
the farmers and wage-earners of tht
nation, it is not the only gain that will
be secured to the people in the ap
preaching elections There is a mora
certainly that the peoples party viii
have ample force in the next congress,
to stop iniquitous legislation and t.
stop the aggressions of monopoly, thu
securing for the people substantia
present victory as the forerunner o.
future triumph.-Denver (Col) RookJ
Mountain News.