Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-18
Ringing Words.

ED. INDEX. 1t is wonder to me
why the people must pass through the
Red Sea of bankruptcy before they will
take time to look about them and think.
Why do you wait to be squeezed dry be-
fore you will seek out the cause of the
pressureP
suppose it is with many because of
our confidence and trust. Mistaken
trust. You think God is ruling the
government. You think God is bring
ing distress upon you. You think He
is doing it for some wise purpose; per-
haps because Of sin, of or some inscru-
table good that he has ultimately IN
view for us all. You think you must
not murmur. Hard times, adversely,
distress, you attribute to Him, to His
agency. Do you do Him justice? No,
my friends, you do not. But you do
greatly dishOnor Him in attributIng
evils of our own making to His benefi-
cent hand.
He once directly ruled his people, but
they desired a king, and He warned
them of the consequences and reluc-
family granted their request. Then the
trouble began, and oh, what a long
night of trouble the world had to pass
through before they began to realize
that king was not what they wanted.
A new world was at last discovered
and the king discarded. The people of
America said, we will be independent :;
we will be free; we will rule ourselves.
Every man shall be a freeman; every
man shall have voice in the govern
ment. "All decisions shall be made by
ballot, each having one vote" "From
time to time, when questions of differ
ence arise, an appeal shall be made to
the whole people," and the voice of the
whole people was to be the sovereign
voice of government.
| There is undoubtedly cause for the
present evils and distress, but is 1t God
that is responsible, or the devil? 1 ask
| it of all serious, sincere, right-minded
men everywhere, Is it God Almighty
that is sweeping away our homes and
expressing the poor of our land, or is it
agencies that spring from the bottom
less pit ? Which is itP Is it God Al
mighty that is making miIlionaires by
the hundred, and paupers by the mil
lion? Is it He that IS multiplying
crime and distress ? All, no. The
thought is blasphemous. Yet there is
certainly cause for 1t all. Where is At!
What is-the reTledyY
Now listen 1.-THE love of money is the root
of all evil."-Bfble.
That is exactly the where is it?
| Now for the remedy: Dethrone the
sovereign power of money-lay the axe
at the root of the tree-and make it a
plish this, uphold the hands of the
great Industrial uprising that is taking
place, and give your vote conscientious
~ to that good cause. Vote right Vott
right!
Do you know that the vice president
of the United States is banker? DC
you know that he is not only a banker
but British banker, doing business il
London, under the firm name of Nor
ton, Ross s. Co.? Now, in case of tn,
death of Harrison, we would have {
London banker as president of III,
United States. What do you think O.
r this ? Did you ever think of it at all
How many senators have wei Eighty
four. How many of them are lawyers
bankers and capitalists Sixty-nine.
How many representatives have we
: Three hundred and thirty seven. How
many of these are lawyers, bankers anC
capitalists ? About two hundred ant
: forty; and number. not included il
: this enumeration, in both houses, arr
manifestlY the fuglemen ard tools O
| the joint stock companies of this natioi
and the English nation.
, Do you not also know that both Har
rison and his whole cabinet are persist
emily working, and are pledged TO work
for the cumulative interests of Wal
street, Lombard street and the Who'll,
I banking fraternity of this and the Eng