Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-11

IF YOU want 70 E&a ~ 1t+t
rottennesso Of what il a||t6 ara4-ciass
society, upper-tend9 AS e gst ;
few copies Of ToH4 f5eIf s New
York weekly pnbl' Sa |sted to
society gossip pull 4<r fully
comprehends the 154H &, f<<slt and
hypocrisy that pt n t4|.< what Is
called bette I. classe6 .<,e;s|1. under
stands the tastes 81 fhe people Who
move IN that circle. and IS feedinK
them on class Of literature only one
remove from the Police Gozeite or sun.
day Sun. He does not confDe himself
to New York but takes in all the
large cities of the country He keeps
track of the amours that are talked
| sub rosa, and in every issue there are
accounts of salacious affairs that can
be Ia ked about only in whispers If
one-half the stories told or hinted at
by this journal are true, four fifths
of the men in society" are liber.
tines, and many leading ladies
not above suspicion. Gambling
is common among the women as well
as drunkenness, and orgies are in
dulged In that would put to shame the
ha bitues of dance houses This Jour
nal supplies abundant evidence in ev-
wealth leads to intemperance and vice.
and In this respect is more demoral-
izing in its influence than the other
| extreme, poverty.
tbs census bulletin, No. 81, relat-
mortgage Indebtedness in that
state of 1907, S74, SOL or S268
per capita. OF this amount $780,,
Gs4, $50 is upon property in the city of
New York, and S235, ,Ol4,sl3 in Kings
county. New York's Fer capita mort
gage Indebtedness exceeds twenty
other states. In the ratio between
the debt and the estimated true value
of all taxed real estate New York is
the largest in twenty one states re
ported.
the ia a.lway brotherhoodS in one
American federation is the most
sensible move ever made by
railway employees No argument is
| necessary to prove the wisdom OF such
| a move, ard It Is u wonder that it was
not accompli he'd wears ago The
membership should include every
laborer connected with the opera
tioa of railways-reach out it's arms Of
protection to the trackman as we'll as
every other branch of railway service.
When this is done the gap between
| the traclImln's % cents to Sl.I5 a day
and Chaunc,y y Depew's salary will not
| be so great as it to day
| REruBrICAN p p RS i'll Kansas. since
| the populists arc in control Of the
state, are having a rry time. aud
many of them, since they have been
compelled to depend upon the leg ii
mate resources of journalism, find it
impossible to keep up a d are going to
! the WILL Seven out Of ten of these
paper, have su bsisted for years upon
slop thrown from oi1ici i back win
d .ws, and notwiths anding tn ir
of ten of the republican pa
pers of the state are mort
gagged to bankers and politicians and
hopcleSSly in debt. 1t would seem
| that men in this condition would ex.
ercise ordinary common sense, but
these men with bankru, tcy staring
them squarcly in the face are, and
have been for years, protesting most
vehemently that times are good, money
plenty and everything lovely, and con
demning the popuIi IS because they
cannot see tae general pro eperity
! of the country There are old
republican newspaper men in the
state who cannot pay FIVE cents
on the dollar on what they owe
who cou d not get credit for sa worth
of goods in any store in the town in
VIII ch they i've, who persistently
'atuse populists and call them calam-
ity howlers The on fools are really
to be pitied
! PooE old Dan Noor eesi He is find-
ing the gold bug road hard one to
| travel He is beset on every hand
The silver people despisc him forhis
treachery in deliberately Sc ling
| himself to Wall street for Cleve
lands patronage, and he is mis-
trusted by the bankers and
their subsidized organs. The eastern
papers openly charge him with un-