Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-08-16
For 4 Gold Basis.

ITO COHO 10 q SuOJCCC IOI utep regret, LAS
disappointed very few. 1t has been
foregone conclusion from the very out
set that Cleveland would pursue such a
course in exact line with his predeces-
sors, and continue what has become
next to forced policy i'll the old par
ties to protect the moneyed interests of
this country. The labor interests, pro-
ducers Of all wealth, are, If considered
at all, treated as of minor interest, and
as though the condition of labor is
merely sequential to prior privileges of
capital. 1t il message to be expected
from an executive who Immediately
preceding its preparation, takes dozen
New York financiers "out on the
ocean" in Americas finest yacht, the
property of multi millionaire, in
order to discuss, where there are no
walls with their proverbial ears, the
wishes of these men regarding the life
blood of a great republic.
The platform upon which Cleveland
was elected last fall contained a dec
laration for free coinage of silver in the
following words:
We hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country and TO the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating
against either metal and without
charge for minting.
That was the language understood to
have outlined Cleveland's policy last
fall when he was talking to the whole
common people and as consequence
he received big majority of the votes
of the people of the United States.
Now, in the hour of the Nations great
est need he turns his back upon the
pledges of his party, takes a dozen Wall
street financlers into consultation when
the whole people have already declared
against such a policy, and recommends
single gold standard. No man lis
tenlng to the voice of the people could
have sent such message to congress,
and the very fact of his receiving such
a majority last fall on account of his
platform was in itself evidence that the
people had tired of gold basis money
manipulators in the East. Although
some temporary relief may ensue from
the mongers of finance allowing it for
the purpose of hoodwlnking the people;
in the end, and that in the near future
if the policy is continued, the screws
Will be frightened down on a people
who can resist only by force of arms
and nations will tremble with the re-
suit. 1t is one of the final steps of for
eign bankers and their Wall street
allies to take away the liberties of our
people, a process instituted during and
Immediately after the rebellion.
So far as any argument or legitimate
reasons for the animus of his message
the president makes no pretensions to
offer any. 1t is simply the mandate of
| imperator Cleveland. After producing
the remarkable document Cleveland
has concluded that his brain is over
worked again and has returned to fish
in; but he may rest assured that he
will never catch so many suckers as he
did last fall.
The republicans may take no excep-
ton to this to their credit, for they in
stituted the game by which the people
are being swindled, and have MAIN
tanned it as their policy all the way
along until it is impossible for candi-
date of either old party to be elected
unless pledged to perpetnate the das-
tardly policy that enemies of our coun-
try have entwined about our liberties.
Cleveland's message is exactly in line
with the methods of those vendors in
our presidential timber who live across
| the Atlantic ocean.
No better evidence is needed to con-
vince fair minded people of the truth
of double political dealing than to OBJ
serve the way a certain anti-people
element of the republican party agrees
with Cleveland. How long will the
people be blind to these things?