Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-04

moral retrogresslon. revolts and social
DISCRIMINATION adds its sombre colols
to the dark picture. Those who have
once known the sweets of liberty and
equality can never be driven to serYi-
tude without resistance, as the money
power proposes. 1t was at the instance
of the gold power that silver was de-
monetiZed in 1873, and no excuse on
earth can be given for the crime except
that it was the will of money monopoly,
one of the final steps OF that power to
get the business of the world into their
own hands, At the time the detestable
act was done silver was at a premium
over gold in this country, so there was
no reason for striking 1T down except
the cringlng of our Legislators at the
feet of mammon. A few money holders
wanted the volume decreased to aug
ment the purchasing power of the re-
mainder, and congress did their bidding
right in the face of people who had
placed them there for protection.
The loss III wheat alone since the
passage of that act has been two bill
lion dollars, or oyer three times our
total gold supply. If that two billion
dollars were today in the hands of those
who produced it, instead of in the
hands of those who now have posses
sion of 1t through system of legalized
robbery, we should not hear of farmers
having to borrow money with which TO
pay their taxes. And taxes Will raise
with the lessening of revenue, brought
about bv this same system of contrac-
ton. The farmer can not withstand
the allied agents of destruction, falling
prices, high taxes, interest and rent.
The whole strain Of contracted cur
rency comes upon the producer, who
suffers all the dire consequences; while
the money power, with its appreciated
gold reaps all the advantage of the
Ubiquitous system. 1t is in the British
programme to depress American pro-
ducts. One of the Rothschilds recently
said he could not see that a fall in
prices was misfortune and that he be-
lieved wheat at its present low price is
rather blessing than otherwise. Of
course that is his opinion; his house has
literally control of the gold of the world
and tie fall of other articles increases
its value in proportion. But how about
the producer, who is thus compelled to
give twice as much of his produce for
the money he must have? The royal
British commission says in its report to
parliament, in defining England's
policy:
1t must be remembered too that this country
is largely creditor of debts payable in gold,
and any change which entailed a rise in the
price of commodities generally-that is to say
di@unition Of the purchasing power of gold
would be to our disadvantage
In the very face of these declarations
we hear those who profess to be men
say that we must have a single gold
standard because Great Britain wants
us to have 1t; that We Americans, after
our fathers paying for our liberty with
their blood, shall now cringe and faWn
before the British throne; that our gov
eminent must declare its subserviency,
pay no attention to its people that are
SO compelled to sell their produce below
cost o. production while borrowing
money at per cent. to pay their tax,
and do the bidding of England. Out
upon the traitors! If they are British
subjects in disguise let them go home.
There is not room enough in this coun-
try for such men. If we have a govern
ment let us stand by 1t and against the
tories who are laboring for it's over
throw.
Silver is the money Of this country,
and our nation mast rise or fall with it..
If we adopt Europe'S gold basis we in
crease our debts and decrease our re-
sources two fold. We are debtor ma
ton and producers, and it is to our In
terest not to contract the money but to
expand it; not to make produce low but
to cause higher prices by expansion.
The farmers of this country want free
coinage of silver, and unless they get it
their products will continue to depre-
ciate. The question is simply a matter
of whether with sufficient currency it
takes bushel of wheat TO buy dollar,
or with half enough money it takes two
bushels to procure the same. Other
products in proportion. How 10y al
American citizen can array himself
against the interests of his country by
advocating gold recommendation is be-
yond comprehension; for it, means
death to industry, paralysis to our fac
tories, increase of our debts, idleness
and starvation to labor and hopeless
struggle for the farmer, ending in mis-
cry, want and despair. Such policy
would lead us in few years beyond the
present social status of Ireland, and
we'll might the coming generation ap-
preciate the words of Goldsmith in his
Deserted Village"
While scourged by famine from smiling land
The mournful peasant leads his humble band;
And, while he sinks without one hand to save,
The country blooms, garden and grave.
VANCE, North Cardinals senator
and democratic leader, says that if the
administration policy is adopted as
the standard of the democratic party,
a great big chunk of democracy will
walk right out of itself. And Vance,
like Bland, knows just whereof he
speaks.
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Strip School Lands.
ma regarding the regulations applying
to school lands in the strip elected the
following reply which will be interest
ing to many:
Executive Office. Territory of Oklahoma.