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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Jerry Simpson is i'll Washington, and
gave out the following, last week: "In
Kansas, all parties are getting in shape
for the struggle over the election of
county officers, this fall AS the su-
preme court of the state has decided
that the certificate of the county clerk
is all that is needed to violate the claim
OF legislator to his seat, it is a matter
of high Importance to elect the right
man to the office of county clerk, and
here is where the fight will come in
The sOcalled stalwart wing of the dem
ocratlc party consists of a score of rail
road attorneys and their satellites
They are really republicans in disguise
and are only democrats in name, for
the sake OF getting a few offices. The
other faction is not in sympathy with
the Cleveland administration. 1t con-
siSts of free traders and free silver men
and they take no stock in the Wall
street theories of the powers at Wash
ington. l will admit that the Sherman
law is not good one, for 1T treats sill
yer as commodity, yet will not sane
ton its repeal unless some better act is
offered in its place, and this, in my
judgment. will be the verdict of the
Fifty third congress-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
Murder Will Ont.

The Capital gives it away. He has
commenced the fall campaign. He
wants the county clerks to stand up for
Kansas next fall. Hear him, and then
rest:
The importance of county clerk s
Office to political parry was demon
strated In the last election, and this
year Will see the political battle fought
along that line A residence of thirteen
years III this city, five years service as
city councilman, and several years
service as a member of the republican
county and state central committee,
has gwen h. b: Whaley such an ac-
qualntance as places HIM in the front
rank among the candidates for that
place. The above facts should receive
the careful attention of every republi-
can voter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
WE MUST VOTE OUT.
The Ballot Is Mightier Than the Swor
and the Offspring of the All-Powerf

The Ballot Is Mightier Than the Sword,
and the Offspring of the An-Powerful
Pen.
The questions now confronting the
American people must be solved by So
Der reflection. We do not need hot
headed passion so much as intelligent
thought.
We want to win people by reason,
not prejudice. Hence all talk of any
labor war is ill-advised. If bloodshed
unfortunately should come in the
course of the industrial revolution, let
it be brought about by the plutocracy
Education is the ''open sesame" Of
our movement-the magical word
which will throw back the gates upon
the road to the new era.
The ballot is the most powerful
weapon ever put into the hands of the
people. 1t is more powerful than the
sword. 1t is more powerful than the
torch. 1t is more powerful than the
dynamite bomb. And by its intelligent
use we must solve the problems which
now confront us.
We must draw men to the new ideas,
not frighten them by wild ptterances.
The way to get out of our difficulties is
to ''vote out. Alliance independent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

Gold may be going abroad because
IT is scarce, but that is not reasonable
1t is going to pay interest to the money
loaners of Europe. Union.
If populism is running Kansas, what
in the world is the matter with all the
other states whose failures furnish ma
terial for our prosperity column?-Ad-
vocate.
Was it ''over production" or ''lazi-
ness" that brought about the failure of
ex-Secretary Foster? No lodging
We want an answer-Iowa Farmers
Tribune.
Vol l, No l, of the populist papers
that come to this Office is simply won
derfuL They are the straws that tell
which way the political wind is blow
ing.-Iowa Farmers Tribune.
-AlAericau farmers make money?
You bet; made ii fast during the last
twenty-five years. Why are they KICK
ing. then? Because the other fellow
has the money.-Farm, Stock and
Home
i say that man who is not as re-
ligious at the ballot box as he is at the
bodTQ. 10 dn dTTdHt ny kJO-
critic, and don't care what church it
is that he belongs to.-James B.
Weaver.
We don't hear the plutes talking
so much lately about ''the best finan-
cial system the world ever saw" and
che honest dullar,p etc. The whole
business is too near the ragged edge
Exchanges.
The gold men tell us that when we
fully remonetize silver, the foreigners
Will not loan us any more money. If
that is true it is one of the best arQu-
ments for free silver offered yet-In-
dustrial Union
Free coinage is an assured fact in
the next congress- There Is a majority
of fifty in favor of 1t. The weight of
the administration, which is against 1t,
cannot overcome this majority
Farmers Tribune.
The gold-bugs say it is only ga
process of liquidation going on When
1t is finished, Rothschilds. Ickelheimer
q Co. viii have all the money and the
rest of this country viii haye all the
experiences. -Ronconfofmisf
The question now disturbing the
administration is, win it make matters
better or worse to repeal the Sherman
silver act? And when the cabinet has
decided, then congress viii have word
to say on the subject Advocate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
Very Plain.

Not since the panic of 'T3 have so
many banks and business enterprises
failed as during the past three months.
To any intelligent man, whose mind is
not cloaded by partisan bias, the cause
of this is very apparent. There Is not
enough money in circulation, and the
dread of an almost certain lessening Of
the present amount has led those who
have money to hoard it, to force coliec-
tions from their debtors and to stop
loaning. There can be no credit with
out some money. Lessen the money
and you lessen credit-take away all
the money and there is no credit IA
only eight per cent. of the great volume
of business is done with actual cash a
very little more of Wall streets con-
traction policy will precipitate a ma
tional panic-Exchange
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

When hundred-dollar coin note Is
presented for redemption it would be
maintaining the parity between gold
and silver as legal tender coin to pay.
out $50 in silver and $50 in gold. It
would be maintaining the parity of the
metals in another way to assert the po-
tency of silver as lawful money of final
account by paying it out to check the
raids on the gold reserve. But these
thinge are not done because il is de.
sired 80 ayoid recognizing silver aa
standard money of final account on a
par with gold for use In all settlements.
The law says 1t shall be 50 recognized,
but the spirit of the law is nullified,
and silver is degraded TO mere coun-
ter, not considered At at the treasury
TO be paid ont on silver bullion notes
no. not even at the rate of one silver
dollar in the ninety-nine of gold.-St.
I.~ris Renublic.
-6ermany has peoples party, just
like Kansas. 1t has 100 candidates for
the reichstag and is headed by Eugene
Richter. Richter is highly educated
man, like most of the leaders of the
German reformers, and has great in
fuence over his followers. The full
name of his party is the radical peo-
pies party, and its object Is to over
throw the military system of Germany
and the monarchy, and the establish
ment of a republic The Germany PEG.
pies party does not go quite so far as
the socialists. 1t is conceded, how
ever, that the socialists will more than
double their strength in the next
reichstag. Germany is on the verge Of
revoluticn. -Tereka Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
What Of the FutnreY

Spirit of Reform: The terrible mon
ey stringency at present and numerous
bank failures is calling forth the best
thought of the nation. The true situa-
ton is becoming more and more evident
that the circulating medium is entirely
inadequate to do the business not only
IN this country, but in Europe as well.
Attention is called particularly to the
banking system and as those who are
trained to the business of banking are
driven TO the wall, it is time for those
less leaned to consider the situation
carefully. Within the last thirty days
nearly 200 banks and their branches
have failed i'll Australia. the result be-
ing an almost complete elimination of
values in that country.
There is hardly nation in Europe
that has not reported failures in bank
ing establishments during the time
mentioned. Even England hes fur
nlshed "a number. In the United States
the aggregate is startling. more than
lOO national and private banks have
closed their doors. Such financial dis.
aSters occurring in every civilized ma
tlon Ill times Of profound peace, force
the conviction that there is some cause
that conSpires TO bring about this un-
fortunate condition.
In all of these failures the plea of dis
honesty, SO often used to cover an iniq-
uitous system, cannot possibly be gwen
as the cause, hence something else must
be responsible. We believe it to he toe
little currency for the amount of bust
ness to be done.
The transactions of the world have
multiplied with such speed, and the
amount Of money stationary, that cash
does but 10 per cent of the business
while credit does the remaining 80 pei
cent
This has been the cause of every
panic in this country, and every evidence
indicates that we are upon the very
verge of another, such as was exper-
fenced in 1887, 1857 and 1873.
All of this could he averted would
congress but authorize the issuance of
more legal tender money. But no, the
dictations of Wall street must be obeyed
and the property of the producer filched
from him by the money broker. On
the other hand, every indication is that
still further restriction in currency
will be made and the little relief at
forded by the purchase of silver bullion
be taken away.
The terrible condition which awaits
the farmers at this time and especially
those in debt. is truly appalling and one
might anxiously enquire, what will be
the result?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
DEFICIT IN WHEAf.

Half Way Between tho Extremes Places
the Deficit at One Hundred and Fifty
Million Bushels.
While the price of wheat in Chicago
is at its lowest point In thirty years
and farmers are correspondingly de-
pressed, 1t is interesting to note that
the best authorities estimate that for
the world at large there will be a big
deficit in the wheat crop this year
The report of the department of ag-
riculture for May renders 1t reasonably
certain that the American wheat crop
will be below the average of the wears
OF lSS0-90, or less than $50. 600. 600
bushels This will be true even should
the remainder of the season be so fav-
orable as to insure a yield of spring
wheat quite up to the average. The
winter wheat has received irreparable
injury and will afford very meager
harvest in the more important states.
The New York Sun has printed an ex-
haustive review of the crop prospects
of the world and the estimated demands
for wheat, based upon the most reliable
data, and concludes that existing con-
ditions indicate that the following is
the most optimistic view of the situa-
ton permissible:
European requirements, 400, 600, 600;
product of average European harvest,
1890, O0O, 900; possible American export,
126, 900, 600; possible Indian export, 49,
900, 900, total, 1895, Ooo, 600 bushels.
Deficit, 81, ZOO, 900 bushels.
A pessimistic representation, based
upon estimates of minimum European
crop or an American crop no greater
than that of 1885, or s57, 600, 600 bushels
would be this:
European requirements, 1,400, 600, 600;
minimum European harvest, 1,147, OOO,-
600; American exports, 4O. 600, 600: Indian
exports, 40, 900, 900; total. 1881, 600, 900
bushels. Pessimistic deficit, 23s, 600, 900
bushels.
Those inclined neither to optimism
nor the opposite might find safe posi-
ton midway between these extremes
Mystic Qa.) Breeze.
Note the fact that India, for the
year 1894, will be able to export 40
600, 600 bushels. For the year 1s90-9i
India exported $500, 900 bushels, and
she exported 81, 1872, 900 bushels in 1901
90. Cheap silver is performing won
ders for India
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
RENT IN TWAIN.
silver Wedge Will Split Into Two
Fragments the Democratic Party.

Silver Wedge VIII Split Into Two
Fragments the Democratic Party.
Says Thomas f. Watson in the Peo-
pies Party paper: ''Fine editorial
work is rarity on the partisan press.
Most Of the dribblings from the aver
age editors pen are too infirm to obey
the law Of gravitation. They need help
even to go down hill. The financial
articles in the Atlanta Constitution are
exceptions, notable exceptions. BIZ
metallism has been advocated and the
single-gold standard has been de-
nounced with clearness, a power and a
conclusiveness which cannot be ex-
celled. We are willing to give I'M
grudging praise to any one who fights
for the welfare of the people. On the
free silver question, the Constitution
has done so''
It may be that Mr.. Watson does not
read the st. Louis Republic, which is
continuously dealing the goldolators
telling blows. The Clay Center (Kan.)
Dispatch says:
when the Dispatch makes mistake
or does anybody an injustice it is al
ways ready to correct the same az soon
as 1t becomes known. Two weeks ago
it was stated in these columns that Col
Jones had been removed from the edi-
torial management Of the ST. Louis
Republic. The conclusion was drawn
that his removal would result in a
change of policy on the part of the pa
per; that, while it had been a bold
defender of the people it would now
become powerful advocate of Wall
street and gold-bugism. We are glad
to be able to say that there has been no
change in the paper so far. It contin-
ues to deal out heavy blows against the
enemies of the people and we trust it
will keep up the good fight for honest
government until the end of time. The
Dispatch is only too glad to acknowl-
edge its error"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
ooLD-BUos ARE A BAD LOT
Men Who Vote with Them Are Fools
for Their FoIly

Men Who Vote with Them Are Fools
for Their Folly.
The daily press of the country is
owned by the gold-bugs.
Nearly all the big papers are owned
by the gold-bugs.
The leaders of the republican party
are owned by the gold-bugs,
The leaders of the democratic party
are owned by the gold-bugs,
Populists are foolish if owned by the
gold-bugs,
Can any one tell what benefit has
been derived from the gold-bugs?
Who is responsible for the ruined and
wrecked business and stagnation of
every industry? The men who have
voted with and for the gold-bugs.
Well, now.say what interest have you
in the gold-bugs any way?
Is this free country? # 1t is, WHY
pot let the people who want gold money
have 1t, and let those who want silver
and greenbacks have them?
The populists want plenty of money
to make times good, the gold-bugs have
better times when money Is scarce.
Why? Because the dollar will buy
much more, you know. In other words,
it takes more bushels of wheat or
pounds of cotton or any other products
of labor to buy dollar.-Oberlin (Kan. }
Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Kansas COmmOner: Perhaps thoes
fellows who talk so yolubly about the
law OF supply and demand governing
prices can explain why wheat is both
scarcer and cheaper than 1T has been
for years? Why is it that at time
when flour is cheaper than it has been
for years, provident associations, mu.
nicipal and county governments are
called upon to render more aid to indig-
enee than was ever known in this coun-
try before? In the light of the present
anomalous conditions in this country,
that old gag about supply and de-
mand" is getting the worst jolts and
shaking up the miserable fraud has
ever encountered
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Among the.~reasons given by Mr..
Cleveland, for calling an extra session
ofcongress, is the need of a change of
the policy which requires the admins
tratIon topay out the gold reserve for sill
yer bullion. Now one of the closing claus
es of the Sherman act, authorizes the Sec
rotary of the treasury to com so much
of the bullion deposited, as he NAV
deem necessary to redeem certificates.
If there Is danger in paying out the
useless gold hoard, why doesn't Grover
order the secretary to coin bullion, and
keep his gold? The French govern
ment, like our own, has a gold and sill
yer currency, and by paying out which
they choose, at their option, they are
never troubled with a gold panic OF a
silver panic. A little practical COM
mon sence will do our statesmen and
our people more good just now, than a
host of fine spun theories.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

The president says the time has come
when congress Will be called upon to
deal with the financial condition, which
is the only menace to the eountry's
welfare and prosperity. Wall street
gamblers have pointed the great issue
out to him. 1t was twenty-One years
old before the old parties would receive
an introduction. What has become of
that tariff that so oppressed the farmer
that homes were being deserted for city
life? The Mckinley bill has been re-
pealed lin the mind. 1t only takes one
eye to see that Cleveland expects TO
make the east and south solid; gold
for the east and wildcat money for the
south. Tie lines are forming-men of
influence must stand up and be Goa
VIcted The Globe Democrat comes
out tor Cleveland-it says, cit doesn't
matter much what Cleveland thinks, SO
1oDg as he goes on managing public af
fairs according TO the methods of the
man whom he succeeded
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
woman the sufferer.

There is no outrage that wealth and
power can commit upon man that il
eannot aud docs not commit doehly aps
on woman. No matter how poor man
is, his wife and daughters are poorer;
no matter how much of dependent he
is, the woman is more so, for she is the
dependent of dependent, the serf of a
serf. the chattel Of chattel Helen
II Gar6aner
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
STOVE REPAIRS!

If any part Of your stoye
burns out or breaks do not
throw the stove away under
the impression that it's days
of usefulness are over. In
stead of going to a great ex-
pense in purchasing a new
stove call on w. III. Odds and
have the old one repaired.
He has had seven years of
experience in making old
stoves as good as new, and
proposes to hereafter devote
most of his time to making
repairs. He will answer
calls within 80 miles of Med
icine Lodge. Send him the
correct number of your stove,
heating or cooking, and he
will call at your place. In
sending in a description of
your stove observe closely
the following points:
Give name and state
whether cook, range or heat
er.
Give name of manufacture
er and where located.
State date of patent.
Give the number of cast
on stove. Do not order No.
6, Z, 8, or 8, because cover
happens to be that size, as
nearly all stoves of recent
make are numbered, for exam
pie, No. SIS; 7-1S; $40; SOIL;
80 and 90 on. Also state
what letter, if any, is on the
stove in connection with the
number.
In ordering centers, state
whether long or short centers
are needed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Kansas CommoneT: What a howl
there would be if some cranky populist
had been the author of the road law,
passed in 1887, pronounced unconstitu-
tional recently, by the supreme court,
instead of Billy Buchan, ex-state sena-
tor, and ex-chairman of the republican
state central committee. Under this
law, Wyandotte county issued road
certificates to the amount of 500, 900,
which, under the late decision, are now
worthless, but held by eastern capital
lists, This will probably give the road
building boom, so popular in the east,
a setback
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

The republicans found a treasury
overlooking when Cleyeland went out
They left it nearly bankrupt, and YET
some of their fool papers tell the dear
people" that uncertainty and doubt as
the cause of the democratic party, is
the cause ef our recent financial trou.
hIao
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Denver Road: Through a quarter of
a century of misrule, America has
about reached the climax of the indi-
vidual who declared that he had five
outs and one in'-out at the elbows,
out at the toes, out of credit, and in
dahf
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Kansas POpulist The money
power" is term that originated with
Abraham Lincoln. 1t IS believed that
it was LincOln's opposition to the mon
ey power that caused his death. The
same is also believed regarding Gar
field. Guiteau, the assassin, even went
so for as to state he was hired to muir
der President Garfield, by the money
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Non Con: Now that Foster is down
and in sad need of money, cant John
Sherman return him the eleven hundred
dollars advanced by Charlie TO pay
Sherman's negro delegate board bill at
the Sherman house in Chicago, in 1888,
10 save the credit of Ohio. Come John,
your goldbug policy downed Charley,
and now that he is in hard luck, just
whack up what he advanced you then.
No niggardliness. John.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

The Sunday opening of the World s
Fair has met with an unexpected OBJ
stacle, IN that a number of the state ex-
hibits and others persistently refuse to
open, and the board of managers have
no authority to compel them to open.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

If some fellow could find some way
to apply chloride of gold to the whiskey
trust, he would deserve a pension.
This is tip to our Medicine Lodge in
ventOTs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

There will be ten contests in the
next congress. -Four of them will be
by pOpulists from the south. Who says
we are a wing of the democrat party?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Pennsylvania has per capita mort
gage Indebtedness of s11T, and in this
respect stands high among the other
states whose mortgage statistics have
been tabulated, as appears from the
following comparative statement:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

In 1869 Europe had 6,95S, 600 soldiers.
Now they have 600. There is
food for thought in these figures.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

In Pennsylvania the average rate of
interest Oh the existing mortgage debt
is $50 per cent, and fram 1880 to 1880
the rate on the incurred debt declined
from 5.S7 to SOS per cent
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

Truth loses one of her noblest and
most fearless champions i'll the person
of eX Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21
81 .OOAY Year
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY.

Dun's agency, for the week ending
May 10Th, reports 247 failures as against
169 in the previous year.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

The plumber of failures for last week
throughout the country, was 322 against
2l9 the week before.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

In the ratio between the debt and
the estimated true value of all taxed
real estate Pennsylvania is represented
by 1891 per cent, and compares with
other states as is shown below:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-21

circnlates in every state in
the Union. 1t keeps its read
ers posted on National as
well as state polotics. 1t is
the leading reform paper of
the great west. One dollar a
year. With the INDDx for
1.75