Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-13
POLITICAL HASH.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
DISSECTED WITH THE KNIFE
OF REASON.

OF REASON.
We look in vain for any recommen-
dation of free silver coinage in the
Presidents message. On the other
hand he recommends that the action
of congress be such as to put beyond
all doubt or mistake the intention
and ability of the government to full
fill its pecuniary obligations IN money
ut Uersdily recognized by all ciuilized
Countries" This last expression,
which we have put in italics can ad-
nit of no other Interpretation than
the adoption of single gold
standard. He takes the ground that
the United States cannot sustain
the parity between the two metals
without the consent and aid of other
countries In this position he reminds
us of the old parson who said sit
couldn rain until we had frost, and
we could not have frost until it
rained." In short, Mr.. Cleveland pro-
poses an unconditional surrender to
the gold bugs of Europe and America.
That's the kind of courage he's got.
Mr.. Cleveland expresses great con-
Germ that the workingmep of the
country should have a good ''honest
dollar" He does not seem to know
that the dollar is 50 good
now that the fellow that has
it wants to keep it and make it little
better, and the workingman can
hardly get hold of enough of them to
keep soul and body together. The
President does not realize that he is
help ng the man who has the dollar to
obtain more of the products of labor
for it and thus impose great hardships
on the producer. Mr.. Cleveland has
taken up the publican cry of an
''honest dollar" with the evident in
tention to deceive the workingmen on
that issue as he has deceived them on
the tariff issue.
1t is thought that a vote on the silver
question can be reached within two
weeks from the time the debate
| opened. Mr.. Cochran, the brilliant
Tammany orator who made the speech
of The Chicago convention against the
nomination of Mr.. Cleveland, is recog-
nized as the Presidents ablest lieuten-
ant on the floor of the house, against
free silver. The free silver men will
probably occupy most of the time al
lowed for discussion. This we un-
| derstand to be the program and
from it we infer that the
much more potent argument
has been used by the anti-silver
men than figures of speech or tables
of statistics.
The President. in his message, re-
ferred incidentally to the tariff ques-
ton as being secondary in prominence.
In view of the fact that the democrats
had been swearing by Adams off OK
that it was first in Importance, and
had on that issue secured their victory
last fall, of course everybody smiled.
But the people who have been deceived
into electing gold bug administra-
ton, whose sole object is to strike
down our silver money, will not smile.
Not much.
The President message points to
the unconditional repeal of the Sher-
man law, and plainly indicates that
anything like a free coinage of silver
measure, which may be passed through
| congress. without the consent of John
Bull and the Rothschilds, will be
promptly vetoed He takes it for
granted that because a few English
pirates refuse to receive the dollar OF
the contract, that said dollar should
be repudiated and the pirates paid in
money mad. so per cent more valua-
bic by legislation which they dictated
and are paying for.
No other reason has yet been given
for the demonetization of silver than
that some foreign investors Invaders
with few American allies, demand
| 1T. There was time when the auces-
tors of these financial pirates objected
to the kind of lead which our ances-
tors used in their guns 10 repel inva-
sion of the rights of the people in this
country, but history don't record that
their demands were complied with,
and most certainly no President ever
recommended that they should be. 1t
il. different now.
A careful reading of the Presi-
dents message convinces us that the
President is either knave or a cow
ard. He frankly insists that the
United States can't "go it alone" The
truth is she could give Europe three
in the game" and come out "a flying"
We could build Chinese wall ar und
us and never allow a foreign ship
to touch our shore and be better
off than we are now. We raise
everything necessary to eat and wear
and could be entirely independent of
the balance or the worId-owe no ma
ton anything. As it Is England has
us In her debt We have not held our
own We are worse OF than if we had