Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-12-21
Bro. Switzers Letter.

The following letter from Bro. j. l..
SwitZer explains itself:
No, Bro. Beals, can't agree with
you.
That was an eclipse four years ago, but
this is not in the nature Of all eclipse
1t is darkness dispelled by light, the
very reverse of an eclipse, SO far at least
as Kansas Is concerned. Darkness had
covered the land; and gross darkness,
the people.
Kansas, thank GOD, has come to the
sensible political conclusion to cast off
the works OF darkness and walk as chill
dren of the light. l was going To say |
am almost proud OF Kansas, but know.
ing that it is not right TO be proud say
| thank God for Kansas, for the farmers
of Kansas, for the miners OF Kansas.
for the mechanics and artisans and ali
the laboring people OF Kansas
Oh how nObly! Oh how grandly YOU
marched up to the polls this year and
voted sense, and principle and justice
and virtue and right, voted for your
fellow men. voted for your alters and
Your fires, for your wives and children
for God and humanity and the bible.
President Harrison did mt just include
it, in summing up the reasons for
| thanksgiving in his proclamation, but
my heart was fuller of gratitude and
| thanksgiving on Thanksgiving day.
| yes, the emotion that filled my heart
with fullest, grandest rapture on
Thanksgiving day was thanksgiving
| for Kansas and her glorious work Pity
Harrison didn't think of it.
have often pointed to the fact that
| Kansas is in the center of the United
| States How fitting tits that light from
| Kansas should dlspel the darkness
| around her. How like the sun in the
| center of the universe she stands. Yet
| she has her spots, sun spots. dark spots
| Humphrey, Hudson, Funston, Smith
| and j. j. |. whose eye. is not ''single, y
but whose career is partly light and
mostly dark. How those eastern pIu-
| tocrats with their polished opera glasses
| are searching for the sun spots in Kan
| sas. How gladly would they blot out
all her light if they could. How they
| dread the glorious radiance of her
cause their deeds are evil.
In letter to J. J. ingalls, before the
election, l pleaded with him to let the
| better nature of his heart lead him and
come out concientiously and consis-
| tently for the reforms which he &C
| knowledged in his sDee ehCs were right
| (see his Image and superScripuon OF
Caesar" and other spa eel es lie re
piled that he thought the reforms could
be better accomplished by supporting
the republican party. Wonder what
| he thinks since the election.
| AMI mrS5 acknowledge
that there IS something iuthe nature
of an eclipse in this national election
after all. AIetaphoricallY speaking
The exception clause, the National
Bank act. contraction of the currency
decentralization of silver. credit
strengthening act. refunding act. re-
| sumption act, Mckinley and his tariff
act. John Sherman and his co cnnspira-
tors. all these are hadlv ecllpsed. Meta
| phoricaiiy eelIpsed For il there ever
was any real light IN ANY of these it
was nothing but smoky sulphurous
he'll glare at least. And this has been
dispelled. The whole country IS
| arousing. uneasv. restless. disputed
turbulent. reading. writing. studying
praying. hoping. trusting. kicking, and
they made the chips flT this fall.
Yours truly, j. L. SwrrzER.