Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-06

attend a tariff fight, and it is the effect
Of those very special privileges that is
goading the people to throw off the
yoke of financial oppression. The
bosses of each party are afraid of the
other on the money question. The pso-
pie have pre- sented and demanded the
The bosses are afraid of that because it
will offend concentrated wealth, and
thereby destroy the possibility Of mill
lions for the campaign fund.
Neither TIE democratic nor the re-
publican party has financial policy or
history that can stand before the in
telligent demand of the people to-day
1t Is complete rout of the bosses for
1t now to be recognized as the issue by
the defeat of Mills"
Inasmuch as it is an indisputable fact
that the combined Corporate power of
the continent supported Mr.. Crisp, we
confess our inability to share the
opinion of the Economist. We confess
lack of that far-seeing penetration
necessary to enable one to see, in the
result, the tariff and all other tenets of
the democratic G spell relegated to the
rear and the m oney question so promi-
nently brought to the front. Has Mr..
Crisp been SO conspicuous an advocate
of monetary reforms as to justify all
this gush over his election? If so, then
has the fact escaped our observation.
Perhaps our esteemed contemporary
can point few instances of his patri-
otic and disinterested devotion to the
reforms demanded in the Ocala plat
form.
There is one central thought in this
connection to which we invite a mo-
ment's attention. Free coinage of sill
yer, while it is one of our demands. is
of minor Importance. The increase of
the currency to $50 per capita or up
wards is not the essential feature in
our demands. These measures would
fail to bring relief to the country If one
other would be neglected. The power
to issue money and control its volume
must be taken from corporations and
restored to the people, where it consti-
tutionally and rightfully belongs, or all
ostensible monetary reforms are fall
ure and farce. Is Mr.. Crisp commit
ted to this fundamental change in our
monetary policy? Perhaps the Econo-
subject not accessible to the general
public. If the triumph of a candidate
of the combined corporations of the en-
tire country affords any encouragement
to hope for contraction OF their pow
ers. we fail to perceive the indications
of it.
What then does the election of Mr..
Crisp really mean? In our Judgment
it means the temporary triumph of one
faction of the democratic party over
another. 1t has no significance what
ever in relation to any of the alliance
demands The participation of alliance
(?) democrats in the caucus simply
demonstrates what we have always
maintained to be true, that a man
elected either upon the democratic or
republican ticket, no matter though he
owes his election to alliance votes, will
invariably be true to his party and not
to the alliance. It demonstrates that
the only hope of the people of securing
recognition of their demands is ia
separate themselves from the two old
parties and unite in independent poll
tical action. Not until they do this
will they secure representatives. who will
maintain their independence, keep out
OF old party caucuses, and prove true
to the interests of their constituents.
When the south shall recognize this
fact, and act in accord with the great
northwest in the support of a party
pledged to the common interest, then
will dawn the beginning of hope OF
the masses. Will our brethren of the
south be ready for this on February 90
1s92?-Topeka (Kan.) Advocate.