Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-02-17
The Other Side.

ED. INDEX: This is great time of
reform. The w. G. T. q. commences
! its Christian methods of reform by a
silly, made-up conversation, wherein
they blame the ministers, officers. mer-
chants, almost everybody except them
selves, and in such style that it is hard
to decide who is more disgraced, the
town of Medicine Lodge or the friends
of the w. G. 7. U. In vain have wait
ed to see whether some american would
defend the honor of oul town and our
good people, and hence l wish to pub
lish some facts in answer to above COM
plants, in the same organ which car
ried our sins and the purity of the re-
formers to hundreds of men, who prob
ably contemplate right now to come
and see Medicine Lodge, its industries
and surrounding country. How could
anybody resist, when we have such re-
formers in our midst? In their eyes
even our women do not their full duty,
or else the consumption OF whisky and
tobacco would cease. l want to state
| hibition and woman suffrage we have
probably more than our share of he
women and henpecked husbands, but
the remainder of the people are as 10y
al, honest and good-hearted as can be
| found anywhere.
Our women are ladies in the fullest
sense of the word. In doing good to
society and church they are ever will
ing, never firing. have never been IN
love with preachers, but since l learn
ed with whom some of them have to
deal, they can depend on my sympathy.
Common sense can see how these re-
formers contradict themselves. They
claim prohibition a success and a bless
ing and at the same time call our good
town place of dire pestllence. Even
the ''headess'' of Kiowa appeals in vain
to all political parties for aid. 1t is
| this kind of patriots who caused and
still maintain our poor reputation
| abroad. The fact is, that there is no
town of our size, and county-seat.
which has better and more peaceable
citizens than we have. A more favor
able police docket can hardly be found
as the place Of dire pestilence can show.
| would rather have our pestilence than
your reform. If more whisky and to-
| hacco is used here than elsewhere 1 am
| in favor of radical measures to prevent
| that, like the man who burned his house
to get rid of the bed-bugs. Since the
prayers of the w. G. 7. U. have not
been very effectiye for the past ten
years, suggest to their friends to gain
sufficient influence IN this land of free
ballot and woman suffrage to bear upon
law and order and the pestilence will
cease; because then we would not be
able to buy tobacco, much less whisky.
| 1t is also fact, chat whole assemblage
of these reform friends, meeting for the
purpose of enforcing law and order, do
| not contribute as much in taxes as fire.
| quently one common, plain citizen does.
| The fact also forces itself upon any dis
/ interested observer, that these reform
| friends by themselves could not keep
up and maintain as good town as
| Medicine Lodge. The business world,
as a rule, is very good judge of men,
and the reputation of these Christian
reformers, with some exceptions, is such
that iron clad contracts are deemed ad-
visable in dealing with them. So in
| vite everybody, who intenus to move
here, not to fear our pestilence. Come
and look for yourself and you will find
1t also fact. that 1 express the sen
timent OF our business men and of three
fourths of our people. If that style OF
advertising is not stopped, a. more Sc
we're criticism will follow.
HENRY burst