Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-28
TARIFF THEORIES.

our Larlu Lu6OI16S +IS ouTIdCo
questions aud very incomplete, because
you do not take into account the So
cial questions and inequalities of adj
justment that lie back of the theory Of
protection. Hence you need not be
surprised to hear OF strikes and lock-
outs. They are but the volcanic ont
bursts of the convulsive fires within,
which, if properly adjusted, are harm
less, otherwise, destructive.
It is the duty of government to SO
adjust these relations that peace and
prosperity may belong to all classes
and become the common birth-right
of every citizen. Your silver plank
was framed in the interest of the
money power. hence it is not entitled
to any respect from the laboring and
producing classes or, in fact, from any
class of citizens who have a patriotic
regard for their country. Your force
bill was intended to be the safeguard
of the same dominant power and COM
pei enslaYed labor to vote under the
touch of federal bayonets. Your idea
of government Is force which Is NOR
archial and is per Sc destructive of tho
| liberties of a citizen in free republic.
Your idea of money belongs to the
paganism of the past-imperialism
C@sarism, absolutism. Your idea of
wealth distribution is conferred in cor
porations, trusts, combines and trans
portation lines. Your idea of land is
not use, which is the primary test, but
ownership in large bodies by land
| lord class.
| Your idea of transportation is private
| ownership, when the very results dem
Onstrate the danger of such system.
Finally yonr ideas of individual liberty
are so strongly repressive that men
tremble when they face the future,
knowing that long course of repress-
i've legislation creating unequal cOndi-
tons must wipe out the now powerful
middle class, which is the balance wheel
of our civilization, and drive the two ex-
tremes OF soclety-the milliOnalres and
anarchists-intO hostile camps between
which no white flag can pass, and nc
heralds can proclaim peace. To pre-
vent such q condition of things, it Is the
duty of every citizen to labor unceasing
ly and untiringly to bring about an @
quality of conditions and wist
and humane administration O
tho law. A law which extends ''equa
rlgh to all and special privileges tt
DOne.''
It must follow from what l have stat
ed, and believing in the principles
: whice nave mentioned, that my place
: is in the ranks of the new politica
j movement.
1t embraces within it not only the hu
manities, but the true essence of Amer
l can citizenship. Its foundation corne
is not sectional hatred, but American
equality. 1t is distinctlvely American
In every fibre, and gives to the man ma
u tive or fOreign-born, the proud assur
ance of citizenship, and all the right
that flow from the same. 1t is a part
of law and order, and carries with it tn
very soul life of patriotism. Its prl;lci
g Piles as they evolve from year to veal
J, under the old names or new ones tina
n may follow, will give no quarter, Pm
f ask none, .of Plutocracy that has raise
l. the pirate flag of the skull and eros
8 bones. These principles will fight tn
l. battles of American equality until tn
= toiling millions of our country Wi
Il back the heritage of our fathers. TIE
e will carry the American flag to tn
II highest mountain of advanced politica
e and industrial liberty, and no power o.
s. earth can stay the trend of this might
n y movement OF thought.
l. The men who advocate these princi
pies are the men to ''Stand up for Kan
ID sas,' and every other state of this IN
le ion. They know what it takes TO max
n state and what citizenship is wortl
J. They will fling down to you from eS
l. cry rostrum and every forum the gag
g. of battle. They are fighting for thei
% homes, their children, their country
a, and the sooner you learn what an emp
he ty absurdity is your motto, the better
r For:
he What constitutes state? Mer
+ highminded men,
le Men who their duties know,
he But know their rights, ana KNOWN.
S, dare maintain;
II Prevent the long aimed blow
~ And crush the tyrant, while they rem
the chain.
)f These constitute state
D Yours Truly, john Madden