Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-06
Crime and Treason.

Our exports of goods and products
for the year ending March 31st, 1891,
exceeded our imports by 500, BAT ,922.
Our exports of money exceeded our
imports by $13. 45l ,06S. Total loss to
this nation $40, 790, 900. On March 81,
1892, our exports of goods and produce
exceeded our imports by $l69, 90, 921;
our exports of coin exceeded our i'm
ports by $44.975 ,557, making total loss
of 1914, l8l ,478. This is the showing for
two years. Because we have not the
proper amount Of money In circulation
issued directly to the people, we have
become a nation Of borrowers. Inter
est rates are therefore high. English
capital takes advantage Of the situS-
ton and invests in American securi-
ties, and to pay the interest on these
securities we had to ship to other coun-
tries last year PA million dollars worth
of the products of our mines and our
farms over three dollars for every man
woman and child in our land; and yet
the Wall street ring and the Office hold
ers at Minneapolis and the 6xers and
shyloeks at Chicago have perpetrated
again the objectionable crime of trying
to ignore the financial problems of the
day and engage our people again IN a
shambattle over the tariff. Enormously
great as our domestic commerce is COM
pared with our foreign commerce, so
any question of finance affecting our
domestic commerce, is of infinitely
greater Importance than one affecting
chiefly our foreign commerce. And
yet the strikers of the plutocratic pow
er are so lost to every instinct of patri-
otism, so traitorous to all sense of man
hood and independence, so blind to
Americas real glory and greatness, so
confident of the partisan bIgotry, pre-
judice, and ignorance of the masses of
the American people that they are try
ing now to persuade the American peO-
pie, like servile slaves and beggers, to
await the actien OF a monetary confer
ence which England has already init
mated she will not abide by, and there
on Bonded knee before our foreign land
lords and coupon clippers and foreclos-
ure friends to beg of our masters the
privilege of coming a little silver, OF
managing our finances as we would
like to, In fact, to speak the truth II
the matter, to beg Of England the priv
ilege of voice in our own government
1t is shocking to every sense of patri
otism and independence. If the heroes
Of rs could rise from their graves, they
would certainly be Mortified to see theil
children and descendants bowling il
meek submission beneath the financia
tyranny of their ancient enemy. 1t il
time to sound the tOcsin of alarm. l
is time to lay aside partisan prejudice
and the squabble for Office, and rise VI
in defense Of American liberty.
1t is folly, standing az We are in tn
very crater Of social and industrial
revolution, which must come peacea
bly, or by force, to permit again the fix
ers Of the corporations, largely CONTROL
ed by foreign capital, OF the whlsk
trust, a foreign syndicate, of the Ian
mOnopolists, largely foreign, of tn
loan Snd mortgage companies, Target
English, of the bankers and broker
whose headquarters are on Lombar
street, London, and whose representa-
tive in America presides over GU
House Of Lords, the senate, to precipi
tate us blindly into another sham bal
bic over the tariff, while they enginee
the forces, clip their coupons, promot
their favorites, sheer at the commo
people and thus accomplish their pul
poses of hiQh crime and treason.