Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-07-05
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
The debts of this country are il

creaSing largely and rapidly.
Tariff is no longer even mentioned
in the old party papers. Oh, the
wretches.
Six cotton will educate the
south; forty -fve-cent wheat will bring
the scales from the eyes of the west
Industrial Union.
Speaking of the present financial
conditions Cleveland says: Goodness
is required" We think cold cash
would bring relief more readily.
AS DIR. Briggs has been convicted of
heresy, the. next step will be to burn
him at the stake. That's what was
once the custom.-Coming Nation.
in discussing the money question
most people fail to distinguish the diff
material upon which the dollar is
stamped.
The business of the country must
either be contracted or the currency
expanded. The former remedy appears
to lie the one most adopted at present.
-Oberlin Herald.
Up guards and at 'em!" are words
attributed to the duke of Wellington
on memorable occasion. Awake pop
ulists. We've got 'em!" should be the
refrain in Missouri. - Independent
Waterman.
tive us the dollar that will circu-
late at home and come back quickly if
it is sent away, and not the dollar that
is worth more somewhere else than in
our own country; not the dollar that
will sneak off when we need it most
Clay Center Dispatch.
From every quarter comes intelli-
gence of wonderful activity by the pop
ulists and socialists. All seem to real
ize that the time for active propaganda
work is here This is the most impor-
tant epoch in the worlds history. Now
or never.-Coming Nation.
1t is great financiering to base all
our money on one of the scarcest metals
known and then quietly sit down and
watch the money mongers ship all that
metal out of the country. If you OBJ
ject to that kind of idiocy you are a
''crank"-Clay Center Dispatch.
Nothing short of the free coinage
of silver, an issue of greenbacks based
on the produce of labor, an income tax,
and death-dealing blows to combines,
trusts and national banks will pull this
country out of its awful fix, Mr.. Cleve-
land, and we told you so six months
ago."-Independent Watchman.
Six and a-half millions of dollars
in gold went to Europe Saturday, and
when money is so badly needed at
home. VIII the people learn from this
panic that gold is not fit to print money
on? No country should have a money
that is current in any other country.
Paper money is the money of intelli-
gence-gold of barbarians-C Coming
Nation.
Our sound financial system for
which the old parties beg our continued
support has produced nothing lately
but the sound of crashing banks, and
the cries of despair going up from de-
frauded creditors and depositors If
the people continue to support this
rotten system, their mental soupdness
may well be questioned.-Na National
Spectator.
The finance question has been set
tied" every two years for the past twen-
ty and yet it is the leading question be-
fore the American people to-day. Pres
ident Cleveland is going to call an ex-
ira session of congress to meet in Sep
tember, to settle" it again. Like the
slavery question, it will never be set
tied until it is settled riGht-Clay Cen
ter Dispatch.
Values are contracting as never
known before. The most valuable thing
in the world to-day is dollar-eXcept
two dollars. What of it? Why the
debts you owe don't contract worth q
cent. Your labor may still be con.
tracted one-half, but your debts will be
the same-requiring double the work
to pay them. Every man who owes a
dollar is being robbed ed-Coming Nation.
The goldolators declare that the
gold reserve boarded in the treasury is
there for the purpose of redeemlng the
greenbacks. Why, then, should they
go into spasms when it is used for that
purpose? Thus far nobody has under
taken to- explain this special streak OF
insanity. The treasury cannot have its
cake and eat it. 1t cannot redeeP
greenbacks and keep its Educational
Watchman.
For thirty years the democrats
have been crying: Just give us q
chance and see what we will do Now
they have the chance and are doing
| nothing but scramble for the offices.
That is all the chance they ever wanted.
In the meantime wreck and ruin is pill
ing up on every hand, but they seem to
have no care for the people, the offices
are the goal of their ambition-Indus-
trial Union.
notwithstanding the silver dollaf
only contains 63 cents worth of bullion,
the man does not live who is desirous
! of rising in his imaginary might and
exhibiting his long ears by proclaiming
to the world that the dollar of the
dads" will not buy as much in the
country which created it as will the
gold dollar worshipped by Grover
| Cleveland and the ''Sheenies'' of Wall
and Lombard streets ts.-Nonconformist.
The reform clements are beginning
to come together, and our prediction is
that they will be thoroughly solidified
before another national campaign A
| dispatch from Des Moines, Ia, tells us
that the populists and prohibitionists
of that state have formed a union, and
will support the same ticket. The old
| party papers admit that this union is
very likely to make Iowa pOpulist
state.-Mount Vernon Qll.) Progressive
Farmer.
The Biggest Fraud on Earth.
The heathens of politics tell us that
a gold basis is absolutely necessary to
secure safe business and assure the peo-