Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-20
A DUTY TO PERFORM.

A DUTY TO PERFORM.
All Honest Men Should Earnestly ExAR
Inc the Republican Piatform-The Ticket
Has q silver Enemy at the Head and
Labor Enemy ut the Tall
The glittering generalities set forth
by the Minneapolis convention, as
platform of principles, would be most
ludicrous IL It were not for the many
bright anticipations which must be
wrecked if those who promulgated it
succeed
The third party and all wavering men
have a duty before them in its earnest
examination
sauce for a proclaimed prosperity in
our fields and workshops
Which is the most patent to labor,
such assumptions, or the facts which
drive them into organizations in self
defense?
Labor will recognize the sincerity.
Labor's condition is and has been .
reality, and not a pretense.
The republicans gloat that this con-
dition is largely due to their wise legiS-
lation.
Labor will here see that the republic
ans recognize the fact that legislation
makes the conditions which surrounds
labor.
This is their first open admission of
such fact.
This gives US fair starting point.
Conditions are result Of law enact-
ments-
This shows marvellous advance, as
it was opposed to all extent during the
old period of greenbaok education.
Yet with this advanced creed they
hasten to reaffim their ancient allegi-
ance.
They close their ports by protection
and open them by reciprocity as q
means of benefting American labor.
Reciprocity can be nothing less than
concession to free trade.
Free trade opens all markets
Reciprocity opens agreed markets.
England's free trade principles, put
In practice, has made her the CONNER
cial mistress Of the world.
The next bird Of beautiful plumaRe IL
the proclamation favoring bimetallism,
when they alone are responsible for de-
stroying bimetallism, even at time
when silver was made the most valuable,
rs pretsnse to its destruction.
| Aye, 1t was made too valuable rs per
the present principles.
If they favor silver as a standard
money at parity, why did they create
the. disparity, and when they saw its
operation refuse to retract?
Their action shows no desire for a
parity.
They show that they well know that
congress destroyed that parity which
they now demand; but do they propose
to undo the work which destroyed the
parity?
The purchasing and debt-paying
power of money is not controlled or in
fuenced by its material
If 1t was, the law could not destroy
that power.
Every fair productive interest dc.
mands that all money shall be alike in
money functions, which are impaired
only by the law and should bear upon
all forms alike.
In their denunciation of southern OUT
ragea, so-called, do the republicans re-
member that they alone are the archi-
tects of the system under which they
are perpetrated, If at all?
II they have failed, after their thirty
years Of endeavor, are they competent
servants?
Is it not best to force a change with q
view to q more efficient course?
1t would seem as II the republicans
were self-convicted inefflcients
When were the. mentioned political
reasons moro forcibly illustrated than
In the memorable seven to eight con.
test?
II the republicans are the especial
champions Of the oppressed, why, after
so long a period of supremacy, should
they claim q continuance?
1t may be patriotic to sympathize
with the Irish and the Jews, even while
importing Polachs al means of plac-
ing American labor upon the same level
1t may be the height of political patri-
otism to reaffirm opposition to trusts,
ETC.. even while building them up under
various phases of law.
These same republicans created the
great monetary trust corporations
which are to-day absorbing the very
life of all industries.
Such creed, following such a prac
ttce, hardly gives the intelligent Amer
lean the most exalted ideas Of that ma.
tional honor which the politicians and
the political preas 50 earnestly endeavo,
to instill into the minds of all people.
Ewon the great war failure platform
which the democrats offered in 1864
was no more humiliating for its false
positions than this last great work OF
the money scabs in convention Assem-.
bled at Minneapolis
/ It seems impossible to get an express
sion in political declaration which
dares antagonizes Americas worst enc.
: mics.
| Phe late convention was as servile to
the banking oligarchy as the old democ
racy was TO the slave power.
There is not manly expression in
the whole thing which reaches out to,
: or beats in unison with the loya, Amer.
lean heart
1t is simply magnificent disappoint
ment, with a silver enemy as head
and labor enemy as q tail, using scat
employees as court 10 labor votes
This is the first sop thrown to the
labor whole.-G. r. Williams, in Ma
. tional View.