Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-03

machine in control oflpublicanism again? me
that party, means des-l Press win be excused
potism, the overthrow if it follows the eaustic
OF law and order, and advice OF Judge Foster
corporations and aliiast fall and '.sfts
must take theidown,'' il it has to fight
choice OF being theltIe Official state paper
side OF rule by The PEG as ell as the republic
pie or corporation RUE an press OF the state
There Is m ddle Topeka Press
ground--TopekaP Press
The worthy editor of the Topeka Adj
vocate, DR.. McLallin, is right, as indeed
he usually is. The peoples party has
no sympathies in common with modern,
or Cleveland, democracy, and after an
experience of two years with the policy
of the administration headed by Gold
wump Cleveland and his cabinet of cor
poration attorneys and syndicate stock
holders, there will be no democratic
party in the west or south. The Kan
sas City Timesis an average representa-
tive of the present goldolatrous corpor-
alton loving and Shylock worshiping
administration, and yet the ST. Louis
Republic speaks thus unkindly of the
Times and its idol:
THE Kansas City Times is now
owned by syndicate of money lenders
with headquarters in New England,
and, naturally enough, it is displeased
with the distinctively western speech
made by Gov. Stone in New York the
other day. It's proprietors will find by
longer experience that the money they
invest in buying up newspapers to be
used in attacking the representatives of
the people is worse than wasted. 1t is
easy to see that the articles intended
for this purpose would not appear in
any newspaper not owned by money
lenders or subsidized by them. Instead
of convincing anyone they simply spend
their money to increase the prejudice
against their business and against the
methods they use to put their own
above the public interest.
''In his New York speech Gov Stone
represented the people of the Mississip-
pi valley. They are an honest and con-
sentative people, but they do not pro-
pose to submit forever to the dictation
of the few thousand people in New
England and New York who own or
hold mortgages on a great part of the
wealth of the valley. The curse of a
nonresident nobility holding the land
on its own terms has kept Ireland in
poverty and degradation, but the nom
resident plutocracy that seeks perma-
nent control of the valley is more rapa-
cious than the landlords of Ireland
Gov. Stone told these people that
the valley means to be self-governing,
and that it is capable of casting it's
votes in congress and in the electoral
college to defend it's own rights and
interests.
''There seems to be nothing peculiar
ly alarming about this, but there are
people who regard it as little if any
better than the rant of Johann Most
Such people cry out crank and 'anar-
chist' when the people of the valley
show any disposition to interfere with
policies that are approved by Wall
street and Boston money lenders.
''The states of the valley will make
no distinctively sectional movement,
but they will have their rights and if
issues are forced against them they will
meet the issues in the best and most
temperate spirit possible. But they
will not back an inch. They are going
forward, not backward.
attempts to check this movement by
buying up newspapers in the leading
cities of the valley and in New York
will simply result in producing greater
antagonism towards professional usur-
ers as a class. Their open interference
in politics and their attempts to muzzle
the press will be hotly resented by
the masses of the people on whom they
are unwisely thrusting issues that for
the welfare of the country were better
left to adjust themselves Dy natural
processes
Thus does the Republic throw down
the gauntlet to the plutocratic wing of
the democracy, clearly recognizing that
the democratic party is split in twain
and the battle henceforth is between
the people and the plutocrats The
Press and the Republic must give up
their party name or offer their princi-
Piles as sacrifice upon the altar of Shy
lock. Which will they do?
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