Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-10
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

"A foreign paper dubs America 1.-The
land of sheriff sales"
Both parties are controlled by mo-
nopoly.-David Davis.
Watson and Winn won't leave us.
Neither will any good man.
They levy tribute on all our vast in
dustry.-James A. Garfield.
Money is the great engine of force
that moves the car of civilization.
Labor is superior to capital and de-
serves the higher consideration
Abraham Lincoln.
Robbery by law is the worst kind of
robbery. 1t is the most extensive, too.
Farmers Tribune.
BE sure the action of your party is
in your interest before you strain your
self shouting for it's leaders.
Monopoly has the republican party
in one pocket and the democratic party
in the other.-DeWitt Talmage.
The best service that you can rem
der to God is that which you perform
for rhumanity.-Farmers' Tribune
The millionaire is more dangerous
to the state than the barons were to
the liberties of England.-Farmer s
Tribune.
If gold is a good base for money
and bonds, why is not wheat, cotton
and corn a good base for the same
thing; they surely have value to them?
The competitive system of dog eat
dog, everyone for himself and the devil
take the hindmost, is a system of saw
ages. and under its blasting influence
our civilization will wither and perish.
A more humane code is destined to take
its place before the twentieth century
dawns upon a misgoverned world
Nonconformist
The peoples party is party by it
self founded upon principles relative to
the prosperity of the masses Of the
common people These same principles
have been repeatedly ridiculed, derided
and thrown aside by the two great par
ties Of the country, who now represent
nothing but the wishes of plutocracy.-
Concordia Alliant.
All bankers credit-money systems
are founded on some form of interest
bearing public bonds, and is, therefore,
founded upon usury, and the curse OF
usury is sure TO follow. If usury is
morally wrong, and the sages of the
ages all agree that it is, then it must
also he both scientifically and legally
wrong.-Peoples Paper.
The very reverend Joseph Cook
q Co having so signally succeeded in
closing the worlds fair on Sundays are
doubtless looking about for other worlds
to conquer. Go for the mortgage and
bond tends, Joseph. Urge congress to
pass law providing that no bond or
mortgage note shall draw interest on
Sundays Chicago Express.
The better element is phrase
used 10y newspapers to avoid the neces-
sity for char .cterizing more particular
ly a lot of sharks, who wear good
clothes, and their more or less gullible
followers, who take their cue from the
sharks. The ''better element" is the
crown and glory of our dog-eat-dog civ
illzation.-Industrial Union.
The man who sold his birthright
for mess of pottage is universally ac-
knowledged to have acted like a fool
But what would be thought of him who
sold his bithright and did not even get
mess of pottage in exchange? That is
what city does when it gives away its
streets, worth millions, to be used fol
their own profit by professional ex
ploiters. rs.-Nonconformist.
1t is worth noting that large per
.centage of the Minnesota towns in theil
recent local elections were lost to botf
the democrats and republican parties
The successful tickets were either citi
zen's or peoples party. a special elec
tion to fill a vacancy in the Georgia
house of representatives has gone popu
list. Many Georgia counties were car
ried by the peoples party last month
New Nation.
Tom Watson says it is reported tina
Senators Vest and Vorhees, of the sen
ate finance committee, have been con
verted over to Cleveland's side of tn,
question. and that Henry Watterson ha
also made up his mind that there neeC
be no reconciliation of silver. Waiter
son is the great champion of tarit
reform, and he don't say anything
about that nowadays Where are w
at, acknowledgements Farmer.
Within the last few days man il
the city of New York, stole an eighteen
| loaf of bread. He was certainly hungry
They have large number of men ther
who are called the greatest financiers i
the country, and are held up as paragon>
worthy to be patterned after. Ever
now and then one of them steals a mi
lion or two, and has to camp in som
other locality for while and then IT
turns and is received with open arms
But if n hungry man steals an eighteen
loaf of bread, they pounce on to hin
with all the vigcr of the law.-Indu.
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