Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-22

and all the agricultural states. has in
creased out of all proportion since the
census of 1880 was takenss And every
where Throughout the agricultural re-
gions, we are met with the deprecla-
ton in the prices; and in the New Eng
land states with the absolute abandon
ment of farmpropertv, and that too, Mr..
President, almost within the shadow of
the workshops, IN defense of which the
Senator from Leayenworth grows so
eloquent.
The staticians of this country have
given the figures proving the conclu-
sion that has been arrived at by the
best and most patriotic minds, without
regard to politics or sectarianism, that
we are rapidly trending. in the aecum-
ulation our of vast numbers of gigantic
fortunes, toward the rock on which has
gone to pieces in the past. all the Re-
publlcs and the Empires and the King
doms whose ruins fill the abyss of time.
1t is the concensus of opinion, that if
the accumulation of these fortunes goes
on, that this fair structure Of govern
ment, that has been reared during the
past one hundred and sixteen years be-
meath these freezer, bluer western skies
will soon become an incident of the
past, and its monument will mark the
pathway of the nations as the grave of
a people who committed the folly that
has marked all time by allowing a few
to amass the fortunes ar destroy the
happiness of the many; in no country,
Mr.. President. young as is ours, and
old and effete as are the countries of
Europe, are there so many and such
vast fortunes in private hands as here.
Sir, in England and in France and in
every European power, under the laws
of entail and primogeniture those for
tunes have been accumulated during
the centuries, but here, without any of
these particular privileges, with no adj
vantage other than the privilege of the
law. thirty thousand men now own this
great nation.
We believe, Mr.. President, that these
conditions can not exist among a free
people. And We believe, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that history is repeating itself,
and that here as elsewhere, and that
now, as in all times past, when that
which is the sub-stratum of humanity,
the mud sill, as the gentlemen of the
opposition were pleased to term us,
that when this that is below, proceeds
to stand up, what's above must bend
or break, and serve notice, now, on
these gentlemen, that the sub-stratum
of American citizenship is now stand
ing up, and that they who are above
must adapt themselves to the changed
conditions and must bend, or they
must do that other thing-they must
break. Sir, we propose to put under
the fortress of Selfshness, in which is
entrenched all the force and fraud and
false pretense that has survived the
Centuries, the dynamite Of Truth and
Justice, of equity, of equality and of
common humanity, and do as was done
in New York Harnor, with the obstruc-
ton that nature had in the path of the
worlds commerce, blow another He'll
Gate to the skies.
Mr.. President, [ want to remind the
Senator from Leavenworth that no
where on earth does it cost so much to
make citizen as it does among us; Sir
with the advantages that are given him,
with the environments we have thrown
about him in our effort to make the
grandest man the earth has ever known,
the sun crowned Amelcan, there has
been expended by his family and by the
state far more than is needed to con-
strnct the citizen and the man of any
other nation on the face of the earth.
And yet, Sir, we protect the Ameri-
can citizen? No, Mr.. President, we
protect American dollars and .Amerl-
can dead machinery, and make this
grand, unlqe character, this new man,
this one in whose veins flows the best
blood OF the nations, stand the compe-
tition of the poorly born, of the poorly
fed, of the poorly reared man from
Hungary or the Lazaroni of Italy or
Bohemia
1t is a provision of House Resolution
number $685., which | hold in my hand,
which was written by an honored oiti-
zen OF this state, introduced into the
Lower House by Representative Clov-
er, and into the Senate by Senator PEI
fer, that hereafter there shall be I'M
posed upon the emigrant who seeks
these shores for the purpose of COM
peting with American labor, per CAPT.
ia tax that shall tend to place these
two men on an equality In industrial
pursuit. Sir, if 1t costs eight hundred
dollars to make an American, and but
three hundred dollars to make a bohe-
milan, by what right do these advocates
of tile protective tariff idea, led by my
friend, the Senator from Leaven worth,
to makewar upon this resolutions since
when, Mr.. President, is it in conformi-
ty with the republican dogma of protec-
tlon, to make an eight hundred dollar
man stand in the labor markets of this
country, unprotected, by the side of
three hundred dollar man, and compete
with him for the bare privilege of liv-
ing? This resolution, Sir, is the first
attempt by any political party to place
protection where it rightfully belongs,
and IS the first attempt on the part of
an organized body of men to protect
flesh and blood, rather than dollars and
dead machinery. ! want to refer ia
their platform of 1870, and ask the Sem
ator from Leavenworth whether in that
platform, his party was not pledged to
the enactment into law every single de-
mand contained in the peoples party
platform of the same year. Pledged to
the enactment of the Australian ballot
law, they killed the measure when it
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