Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
THE GOLDEN CALF
SET UP IN AMERICA AND ALL
CLASSES MUST BENDER
HOMAGE.
Pharaoh Cleveland Booming the Peo-
Eject the Next President.

Eject the Next President.
by Rev. D. Oglesby in Chicago Express
In the last campaign the republicans
took the ground that everything was
a ] right politically, and that the tar
if b ad made it SO; and that if the re-
publican party continued in power
things would not be changed.
This blind action of the republican
party brought about it's own defeat;
because the people knew that every
thing was not right, that something
was fearfully wrong. They didn't
know what the cause was, but they
thought they would make a change,
hoping to better the state of things
They were like the old doctor who
was called to see a patient. He ex-
amined the patient, said he did not
know what caused the disease, but
that if he could only throw him into
fits he could cure him, for he was hi
on fits
So our country is thrown into fits by
the political change, and it is having
one spasm after another. kicking the
national banks into kingdom come.
Now what will our democratic doc
tors do? They proclaimed loud and
long before election that the country
was on the brink of ruin, that the re-
publican rarty had made it so, ard
that they would change all this state
of things; but now after the election,
when they have the power to do any
and all things necessary for the high
est good of the people, they do moth
ing.
Before the election the tariff was
the battle cry. 1t was the cause of all
our troubles. 1t was the sum of all
evil. 1t had destroyed our American
marine, had ruined the agricultural
interests of the country, had built up
great manufactures, founded trusts,
created monopolies, made millionaires
by the hundred or thousand, had con-
states, impoverishing the west and
south; it had done all these things and
vastly more, before the election, but
now we don't hear a word out of their
mouths about tariff.
Were they lying about the tariff?
Did they believe what they were say
ing, or was it systematic, premeditated
deception?
The great mass of the people who
were crying out for help were told by
the democrats that the cause of their
hard conditions was the high tariff,
and if they came into power they
would smash the bad thing forth
with. Why don't they do it?
Before the election the money ques-
ton was not ''in it." Now after cleo
ton it is the question and the tariff is
out.
To my mind it is clear that the civil
lied world has now about reached the
position where metal money must go.
Of all the silly things that ever filed
the brain-pan of any man, the idea
that nothing but gold can be money is
the most puerile.
can only account for the domi-
mating influence of this childish posi-
ton of our great statesmen on the
ground that they are deluded. 1 fully
believe that Mr.. Cleveland. like old
Pharaoh was, is judiciously blinded;
of course, it is his choice so to be. For
this purpose he was raised up to the
Presidency.
He evidently believes that gold alone
can be money. He believes that he
can make congress and the country
believe the same thing. He believes
that panics, hard times, scarcity of
money among the masses, will teach
this absurd lesson-that gold alone
can be money. Hence he believes that
the true policy is to make money
scarce-as the people suffer and cry
out for more money, give them less.
Mr.. Cleveland is pre-eminently the
tool of the money power. He is now
their instrument to knock silver en-
tirely out. The money power mean to
crown gold lord of ALL The call
session of congress will do that very
thing;and the contraction policy begun
in resuming specie payments will Ego
to seed" when gold is crowned king.
In reaching this point by contraction
we have produced crop of debt that
is simply incomprehensible. From
thirty to thirty-six thousand million
dollars is the milestone hanging
about the neck of this republic
The man never lived nor never will
that can comprehend the magnitude of
this vast sum. Yet it is the fruit of
this robber system of specie MONEY.
When the howl for resuming specie
payments filed the land, gold and
silver both meant specie; but now
gold alone means specie.
Specie, or coin, or metal money q
mean the SYSTEM, is the great debt
breeder or producer of our world; and
as debt is slavery, 1t is the curse of the
human race.
The debts produced under this sys-
tenn, and by it, have already reached
such vast magnitude al over our
world that they can never be paid. In
fact, most of these debts were made
to stay. The intention of the money
power was, from the beginning that
they were never to be paid. Growing
gold king makes it utterly impossible
to pay these debts.
The intention is, and was from the
beginning of the specie system, to en-