Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-25
LODGE KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 1892 L..

nave proven them the plant tool of
Wall street gamblers and foreign land
barons. Their rule has brought forth
a swarm of pestiferous parasites that
have fed so long, and grown so large
from the earnings of the people, that
little less than determination by force
will avail
By their cruel oppression they have
produced thousand millionaires and
millions of paupers. Under the plea of
banishing black slavery, they have en-
grated upon us slavery of both white
and black that is appalling to consider.
Though claiming to be legislators for
the welfare of the whole people, they
have legislated millions of the common
treasure into the Golfers of a chosen
few. They have created an army of
tramps, and brought poverty and ignor-
ance, insanity and crime into the land,
where once every hilltop was ornament
ed with the home of a self-supporting,
independent freeman, and every valley
echoed with the cheering songs of a.
satisfied people. BY their oppression,
the noisome seeds of anarchy and COM
munism have been planted, where once
the cherished hope of perpetual free
dom, law and order was fourishing.
! Thirty years of republican rule has we'll
nigh brought the republic to the verge
of dissolution.
In their extremity the people be-
thought themselves that a change
would be beneficial. Rising in their
might, they swept republican rule from
our national halls and placed the so
! called democracy in charge of affairs
| With great flourish of trumpets and
solemn professions of love for the
people-the middle and lower classes of
| society-they entered upon the work
! of restoration, SO loudly promised and
so greatly desired. Four years elapsed
without any material changes in the
conditions of the people The public
debt continued to pile up. The treasury
was looted aud squandered as by the
predecessor. Wall street and the Brit
ish lion held fast the financial power
Of the people. The change that had
taken place was only in name-from re-
publican to democrat. The principles
and policy remained the same without
any material variation. Having tested
both the old parties satisfactorily, see
ing that no relief can be hoped for from
either of them, and learning by expert
ence that promises are empty sounds,
the people have determined to make the
fight for freedom and right outside OF
these corrupt organizations, and de-
clare for independent political action.
The small cloud, which two years ago
was no larger than mans hand, has
grown ominous and threatening, and is
obscuring the whole political sky.
From the logging camps in Maine to
the cattle ranches of Texas, from the
mining fields of Nevada to the orange
groves of Florida, the people are organ
izing with rapidity hitherto unknown.
Though no plethoric purses are loosen
Ding their strings to further the move
ment; though ''silver-tongued" orators
are conspicuously wanting in theil
gatherings; though the great metropol
itan- dailies and learned moEthlies, arr
relentless in their denunciations of the
men and methods, the work goes brave
ly on. Like the coral workers in tht
ocean, noiseless, yet persistent, they
are making themselves felt, wherever
the silken folds of the stars and stripe:
kiss the breezes. Ere long-they will
as terrible as an army with banners,
, descend upon their oppressors, anC
wrest from them the heritage so lone
withheld. THE mills of the god
grind slowly, but they grind exceeding
ly fine."-Dallas (Tex.) Southern Mer