Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-21
best interest at heart, would probably
have to take me by the hand and bring
me in--Bin Nye.
Caraway Slops Over.

Oanway Stops Over.
The millers of the northwest made
up a boat load of -four, and provisions
Tor the starving Russians to send it
across the waters. This was done bv
private citizens and was an exemplif-
cation OF the spirit of true American
philanthropy. Yet this week in the
lower house of congress. that end that
Is loo democratic majority. was an
of the pusilansmity of
the brigadiers. The senate had passed
. bill appropriating 500. GOO to the re-
Fef or these unfortunate people in de-
Traying the expense of sending the sup
plies to them. It went to the house
under an emergency. The brigadiers
bristled up. spat upon il, and spurued
IL with contempt because forSooth the
Russian government sympathized with
the Union cause during the civil war.
The bill was defeated. the Russians
might "starve and be d-d'' so far as
the brigadiers1were concerned They
neither forget, nor forgive, a conceived
offense, or give credit for patriotism.
Register.
What craven. eontemptible. menial,
office-hungry mind it must be that can
so distort the truth as is done in the
above paragraph
A man who, possessing fair amount
of education and being in a position 10
know the existing state OF our nations
finances: who processes a belief in God
and the sure punishment of sin. and
yet VIII so pervert the truth, SO twist
and turn the actions in the lower house
of congress in the Sl00, 600 appropria-
ton matter, as the Register man has
done in the above quotation, would do
anything almost that was false. mean.
cowardly and contemplate in order to
gain his OWN political desires.
Of such stuff is made the various
political lights" of republican Kansas
who have recently come into public
prominence" in peculiar way; Bot
kin, Fletcher Meredith, Campbell of the
Kansas City house-top, etc, and various
others whose moral corruptness is as
well known as their republicanism is
unquestioned, and whose sins viii one
day lind them out.
a republican senate, groomed and
trained by the billion dollar con gress.
concocted a scheme to appropriate the
sum of 800. 900 of tine peoples money
and put 1t in the hands OF some favored
steamship line, under the euise of aid
ing the starving Russians, and a demo-
cratic house which was elected by over
whelming majorities as 4 rebuke to the
billion dollar congress sat down upon
the extravivance. That Is the gist of
tie matter. and the people viii say the
house did right.
If the American Inillers have sufi-
cient liberality to donate a cargo of
breadstuff to the needy Russians-and
we are proud to say they haye-it would
seemly be Sut a small concession to the
cause of humanity for the wealthy ship
owners, who have grown fat upon the
favor of both this country and Russia,
to transport the donations of our mill
ers free OF charge. But wealthy corpo-
rations are sOulless, and republican
editors of the Careway stripe are as
lacking in soul, and must, forsooth,
work steal upon the people. and when
detected In the act the only howl they
can make is to pull out the ragged and
bloody Shirt of thirty years ago and
flop it about their dizzy heads, crying
''Brigadiers,'
Caraway, you poor, benighted, blow
hard and demagogue. You are thirty
years behind the times.
These are the days of advancement
and enlighienment; days of inves tiga-
ton and reform; of more independent
thought and action on the part of the
common people whose votes are more
numerous than those Of the corrupt
politicians and their willing tools, and
the truth and right are bound to pre-
vail The beginning Of the end Of ex-
trayagant republicanism is here.