Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-20

KInIey Tariff Still RobbIng-NO OPP
position to National Banks-No Re-
demption of PIedges-The Scramble
for Onice-It Looks Different to =
Man After He Is EIected-Economy
for the Other Fellows But Not for Us.
The recent vote in the organization
of the house shows a clear democratic
working majority, over all, of SO.
They also have absolute control in the
senate. They now have full control
OF every department, and they can no
longe take refuge under the plea 1.-The
repdb.ic MS won let u.s." They have
reached point where they cannot
ift their responsibility. For years
they have insisted that repu blicans
were responsible for laws which they
denounced as Infamous class legisla /
tion and in violation of the constitu |
ton. The financial policy of |
the republican party has been |
denounced in most emphatic |
language as inconsistent without free |
institutions, and inimcal to the in |
terests of the producing class. Among !
the measures they have seen fit to |
criticise are the national ban lag sys-
ten, the Mckinley ariff and restric-
tion of the coinage of silver. II now |
rests with hem. to deal wi h these |
problems. The cOun ry is already dis |
annnin1a1 n fho4
made sooner. The necessity for re-
70 IN wa pressing. 1t should have |
been begun at the earliest moment. |
ere was no reasonable excuse for
d lay. During tie campa gn the
eemocrats were both elo ;uent and
10; ;ic in pointing out the bur ems
imposed by the Mckinley tariff.
According to tn 'ir statements, from
the stump and in the newspapers tn
cou TRY was going to the demnition
bow vows, and that at a very RAPID |
rate, by the way of the Mckinley |
tariff 1t needed repealing, and it
needed it bad nd at once AccorIin
to their figures it was robbiug The
PCOpAC, PllACIpdlly GlS farmers, o. |
$1,000 200 each aud every week Thi
was an enormous sum of money and
should be stopped and stopped at
once. The only way to stop it.
according TO these patriotic poll
ticians, who wanted office by the
way of the democratic faith, was to
elect them to Office. 1t was done And
then what? The next breeze that
came from the east, where the father
of his country is enshrined il endur-
ing marble and everlasting bronze.
and where the Goddess IF Liberty
looks down upon a homogeneous mass
OF striving humanity, brought to our
ears the di> NAL sound of the most dis.
graceful scramble Tor official pie that
yer was own in the national |
capital he 4th of March came and
the man who had given life |
to the issue of tariff reform was |
inaugurated PRESIDENT of these
United States amidst ceremonies the |
most imposing, extravagant and aris-
tocratic that ever took lace on Ameri-
can soil. A democratic house " ith n
majority Of 147, whose members had |
stumped the country with the cry of |
economy ever on their lips, expired by
voting tn IN elves an increase of |
salary equ to more than could be
made on two ordinary farms. he
new administration, with economy en-
grav' d upon it's political creed. began
business with hundred thousand
dollar ball.
Congress went home.
The new administration went over
to H"g Island to shoot snipe
The colonies and majors went
-hington to get Office.
The con try kept right along going
to the VII St where the demo-
cra ii ,.rators said it was going.
The Mckinley tariff kept on rob.
b'rg at the ra e of >l3, oOO. 900 week.
No ca for an extra session of con.
greSs to repeal th' tariff laws
Al tought of pledges nd pro nises
we're o,t in the disgraceful scramble
for Office
Then came the panic.
Then the iolitical doctors discov-
cred that it was not he Mckinley bill
at all-it was the Sherman bill.
They had got hold of the wrong
Bill
They changed their tactics.
IT wosn't free silver we wanted Mt |
all
We couldn't have it unless England
said 50.
hc national banks are not 50 bad |
either. We VIII increase the + circu-
iat'oa to par with the bonds they hold.
An the Mckinley bill!
Well we'll let it keep on robhing at
the rate of $4,000, 900 a week We
must have our salaries, and that |
brings EN-
We've got our chance
But we feel scmcu hat different now
from what we did before we |
Re republicans have got road |
biazed out and it is mitch easier and |
more emunerative to us to follow |
that than to carve out the new one we |
proni ed the people. The people |
wont care, anyhow: they can feed |
the wheat TO the hogs-it's healthy |
for the hog>-and rene their mort |
cages. Life is too short, and it's too |
hot to worry after we get the Office. |
Ta-ta.