Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-27

The best times this country ever
saw were when there was neither sill
yer or gold in circulation.-Ober
(Kan.) Herald.
Who got Ernest Seyd's $500, 600?
What were the valuable suggestions
he made on the demonstration bill?
Who were they valuable" to? There
are number of other pertinent ques-
tons we might ask in relation to this
bject.-Iowa Farmers Tribune.
There weri RS4 failures ha7ing $780,
600 or more liabilities each, with S11S.-
600, 900 total liabilities, which represent
an increase of 800 per cent in number
and 600 per cent. in aggregate debts
There were IT'S failed banks with liabil-
tiles of 100000, an increase of 600
per cent. in number over last year and
more than 800 per cent. in debts
The St Louis Republic sees in the
stoppage of silver coinage at the Indian
minis sharpening of the debate on the
currency question in all civilized coun-
tries. ''In this and other counf -ies, y it
says, governments may be forced to
choose between silver and an irredeem-
able paper currency. The people can
hardly stand gold standard. Iowa
Farmer Tribune
James F. Tillman, of Tennessee, for
years connected with the executive
board of the Farmers Alliance, who
flooded the south with official circu-
lars just before election last fall has
received his reward, an appointment as
register of the treasury. Thus the old
parties place premium upon treason
while the soul of John Brown goes
marching on.-Nonconformist
There are some populists who claim
that although nine out of every ten
populists are opposed to both gold and
silver money, good politics dictate that
populists should unite in demanding
the free coinage of silver. 1t would be
we'll to remember that the surest way
to force the monometallists to terms is
to develop formidable movement in
favor of the demonstration of both
gold and silver in the United States.
AT least one good result has beck
attained by the characterization of sir
yer in 1878 and the subsequent wrangle
between the monometallists and the
bimetallists. Both the gold and silver
men have conclusively proved that 20
cents in both the gold and silver dollar
is pure fiat. The people will not be
slow to demand that the 80 cents in
metal be discarded and the dollar be of
paper, full legal tender and inconverti-
BILE
The worlds debt amounts to $780,
600, 100000. There are but seven bill
lions of gold and silver in existence.
Interest on the debt amounts to more
than the worlds annual increase in
wealth. How, then, can the people of
the world expect to free themselves by
paying the debt? The disposition to be
free is growing greater along with an
increasing knowledge of the fact that
by and through the methods now recog-
nized as legal, it is an impossibility.
Mans will is really the law. The
editor class is but small per cent
of the whole. 1t is quite evident that
. in the settlement that is not far dis
tant the interests of humanity will
take precedent over established law, or
revolution prove to be the final court
sitting in equity.-Union Pacific EN-
ploye's Magazine.
The last few days have demonstrate
ed that the fight is not really between
gold and silver, but between gold and
any other kind of money The gold
owners are determined that there shall
be no money but gold; that everything
else used in business transactions must
be credit devices for which those who
use them must pay tribute to the gold
owners. This is the fight, and never in
the worlds history was there greater
need for vigilant and untiring effort ON
the part of the masses of the people.
We believe sincerely that things more
vital to the general welfare of human
ity are involved in the events of the
next few months than were involved
when the shots resounded from Licking
ton, or when Beauregard's balls re-
bounded from the brave face of Fort
Sumter. = Mount Vernon QlL) Pro-
gressive Farmer.
Financial writer's claim that the
present stringency has destroyed hun.
dreds of millions of wealth in this
country. It should not be forgotten.
however, that the land is all left and
is just as fertile as ever. The cattle,
horses and swine have not been de-
stroyed. The old wheat on hand and
the new just harvesting are as nu-
tritious as of old. The cotton fiber is
Just as strong and the wool is just as
warm as if there were no financial
troubles. The wealth lost is in the esti-
nation of values and in the destruction
OF credit values. The man who is out
of debt, who don't want to sell his
land and is in no hurry to dispose of
l, e ~
Wall streets effort to scare the country
into acquiescence in her schemes has
resulted more disastrously to the
wealth represented by Wall street in
terests than to any other property
Kansas Farmer.
told men, and silver men. too, have
u great deal to say about money of
ultimate redemption. We advise the
silver men to drop that nonsense We
/ do not want one kind of money re-
| deemed in another. That is where the
catch comes in, and the rascality is
| perpetrated. Money issued, as it
should he, by the sovereign, needs no
| redemption. 1t will always pay debts
| and taxes and purchase commodities.
| No other use has money. We favor the
| tlCC S9lildSG VI 9i1fC- bOCdlloS IL II an
| American product, and not because it
/ is required as a money of ulti-
mate redemption. Let these ideas be
kept steadily in mind, so that when
we have achieved a reform it will be
worth something. Gold and silver,
with paper money redeemable therein
on demand, is no reformation-is no
advance. Indeed, it would be worse
than our present system, if possible.
That was the system in vogue before
the war and was always sham and
| pretense. 1t means tribute to the mid