Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-31
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
Labor pays all the tax.

The way toprotect the gold reserve
is to pay out silver.
The man who thinks for himself is
the man who succeeds.
The issue is, which is the greater,
the citizen or the dollar?
The way to increase the volume of
currency is TO increase it.
Will some one tell us what silver
bullion is being piled up for?
Let the democratic party issue
more bonds and it's doom is sealed
Emporia (Kan.) Tidings.
1t is an interesting fact that the
heavier the dollar conceived, the lighter
the brain that conceives it.-Jewell
County News.
Unparalleled prosperity is within
the grasp of the people, but they must
reach out with the hand of political ac-
tion.-Missouri World.
Has any one heard of the demo
cratic party squeezing any of the gil
gantic trusts out of existence? Don't
all speak at once.-Oberlin Herald
Raising of wages, though desirable,
is not solution of the wage question.
The system is inherently wrong and
must be discontinued. Cooperation
must take its ce.-Nonconformist
There must be a uniting of the
forces of the west and south. That
this cannot be done in either of the old
parties is self-evident. Then why not
cut the old party tie at once?-Missouri
World.
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per money to do business with, or to
pay the ordinary debts of the people.
In fact there is but very little gold
money in circulation.-Shelbyvi Ull.)
Peoples Paper.
1t is reported from Washington that
a poll of the house of representatives
shows majority of thirty-five in favor
of the free coinage of silver. In such a
house it will be easy to redeem the
pledges of the democratic platform to
repeal the Sherman law and to substi-
tute for it the coinage of both gold and
silver without discriminating against
either metal and without charge for
mintage.-St. Louis Republic
1T seems quite clear that Wall street
is manipulating the gold situation for
the purpose of creating a gold panic.
They wish to get up just enough gold
panic to make the United States issue
bonds to buy gold, and of course as
they have the gold they will take these
bonds at gold profit to themselves.
There is nothing small about Wall
street. They are quite ready to take
care of the finances of the whole coun-
try.-Beacon.
Nearly all our railroads owned by
subjects of other nations; our trust
bonds held in Europe; vast per cent.
of our farm mortgages the same; vet
the jackasses in high places, behind
the press and pulpit, look wise and
dwell upon the balance of trade" of
American gold going to Europe to ''pay
for goods" travelling expenses" and
the like for American husbandmen
who are off sightseeing. All on ac-
count of the tariff!-NoncOnform
Foreign bankers have been clean
ing out the gold little by little draw
ing the meshes about the American
speculators. Finally the break set in,
and after squeezing out a general de-
cline of 25 to 80 per cent. they swoop
l.
III shares, ship them across the water
for safe keeping only to return the
coupons semi-annually for the next
fifty years to collect their interest in
gold, and call it balance of trade"
And the great" papers call it ''sound
tinanciering. "-Nonconformist.
The legislature of Minnesota has
appropriated 1900, 900 for the erection of
state grain elevator This is legisla-
tion in the right direction. The solu-
tion of the social problem lies in the
public ownership and control of public
utilities, and the sooner more of our
legislatures come to an intelligent un-
derstanding of this fact and follow the
example of Minnesota the sooner the
problem will be solved. If three or
four of the western grain-growing
states possessed state elevators, the
anti-option question would be settled
and settled right for all time.-Advo-
cate.
Don't forget that while the pur-
chasing power of the dollar grows by
contraction. that its debt paying power
diminishes in the same ratio In other
words, you must produce a constantly
increasing amount of products in order
to secure the dollar to pay the debt. |
tell you, may friend, there is more in
the philosophy of the dollar than our
Iloratio hath ever dreamed Of" Yes,
we are beginning to see it and NAV
easily profit by our knowledge A few
have made millions out of our ignorance
on the subject Now let our knowledge
make millions for the mauy.-Iowa
Farmers Tribune.
President Cleveland's vigorous de-
nunciation of trusts, in his inaugural
address, is causing considera BILE merri-
ment in Wall street, particularly among
people who are familiar with the class
of securities in which he speculated
and made the bulk of his present for
tune. If anyone will take the trouble
to closely scrutinize the list of Mr.
Cleveland's warmest friends and back
ers. it will be found that without an
exception they are either directly or
indirectly interested in trusts. o. yes.
trusts must go. But when? Certainly
not during President Grover Cleveland's
administration Street News.
cardinal Gibbons. the highest fune-
tionary in this land of the church in
which Columbus was so devout a COM
municant, wrote recently: ''If we be-
lieve those who stand upon the watch
towers and scan the signs of the times,
a tempest of war to which all former
wars were holiday tournaments looms
big upon the horizon and threatens to
whelm the world in horror. Wealth
and poverty, they say, stand more and
moro apart and glare across the widen
ing chasm more fiercely. How inn
minent the struggle may be no man
can affirm precisely, but signs there
are which may well fill us with dis
quiet"