Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-08
Straw.
HAzELroN, KAs.. May Both, 1892.


Straw.
HAZELToN, KAs., May Both, 1892.
EDITOR INDEX: The following is a
letter of mine that was published sew
enteen years ago to-day, in the Kansan,
newspaper published at Independ-
ence, Montgomery county. This shows
how we old greenbackers viewed the
situation then:
May 30th, 1876.
EDITOR KANsAN: The Bible informs
that certain Pharaoh of Egypt COM
manded his taSkmasters and officers not
to give the Lords people any straw to
make brick; that they should furnish
their own straw and make as much
brick as when straw was furnished by
the government This they could not
do for it made their burden harder than
they could bear, and they cried unto
the Lord, and the Lord heard them and
sent plague after plague upon Egypt
till his people were delivered and the
party in power was completely over
thrown.
Now our Pharaoh and his taskmas-
tiers Grant and his party have taken
the straw currency from the people.
compelling them to furnish. their own
straw currency and make as much
brick payment of all debts) as when
the government furnished the straw
currency, which they are not able to
do for IL increases their burdens more
than they can perform, so they fall
short of their task payment of the
debit. The PharaohIc party have con-
tracted and contracted the straw four
rency) until it IS not used any more in
making brick Improving the country.
but the straw Is stacked up In the hands
Of the taskmasters. without interest.
national banks), and tasked out at two
and three per cent. a month to people
grabbing at straws which they can not
pay. So there is only two things left
the people, to either overthrow the par
ty in power, or surrender their homes
to the taskmasters (money loaners) and
leave. We must have a change for the
better-it can't be for the worse.
Yours, B.
Since then the condition of the coun-
try has rapidly grown worse and worse
from the comparatively fine times what
we were having then. We have been
giving the alarm ever since 1868. nearly
aquarter of a century, and as faith
ful Waterman upon :" the tower of
Time, to warn the people of 1.-The i'm
pending crisis" Now, the Bible fur
ther informs US that Moses led the Chill
dren of Israel out of Egyptian slavery
into the wilderness Of sin and to Mount
Sinai, and while he was absent. with
God in the Mount, the people. with the
aid OF the high priests, made them a
god of gold, single gold basis, in the
shape of calf, by reason of which the
people were made naked to their
shame" and while they were rejoicing
over their success, Moses came upon
them unawares and destroyed their first
gold basis, and while there was only one
tribe in twelve that came out on the
Lords side, yet he severely punished
them with the sword.
Now take a look at the principal ma
lions of the Christian world: We see
the oppressive money power bending
all its energies to establish the single
standard OF gold, and that too by the
sanction of pope, priest and preachers.
with but few exceptions, and III all the
nations where gold is exalted, the peo-
pie have, fgureatiyely and literally,
been made naked to their shame. "and
when this combined money power of
the world is beginning to rejoice over
their success, the anti-type of Moses,
the Christ, will steal upon the world
and utterly destroy gold basis, for
ever and punish the guilty with the
sword. There then may not be more
than one nation out of twelve on the
Lords side. The beginning of the end
has now commenced. God is waking
up 1.-THE mighty men of the world The
laboring and producing classes are the
mighty men. They fight the battles
of their countries, and feed the millions;
they are the means, in Gods hands, for
destroying the oppression" and those
that have ''the mark OF the beast,'' all
honest-hearted people, should rejoice
that we are SO near the end of this age
of oppression, when the glorious age to
come will set in.
Yours truly. Y. b. BLANToN.