Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-27
FE0M TIE FIELD.

FR0M TIE FIELD.
Hard money theorists have a new
argument in their favor Grasshop-
rers tie through the lining of a
Pennsylvania farmers coat and nearly
chewe up roll of & cen backs placed
there Tor safe keeping through fear of
busting banks.
Senator PETER is not waiting for the
populists to have "a chance" but is
sailing in with new measure every
few days along the line of popu-
list demands. He has lately intro
duced a joint resolution to re-
duce salaries of federal office holders
IS and 20 per cent
The New York Post has suggested
to the wholesale merchants of that
city the propriety Of refusing credit to
western merchants who will not per-
sonally appeal to their congressman
to support President Cleveland in his
demand for the overthrow of silver.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad"
Are you observing the signs
OF the times? Three hundred
democratic editors in Georgia
refuse to endorse Grover Cleve-
lands policy. Texas democrats
are burning the President in effigy.
Not democratic paper in Kansas en-
dorses the Presidents single standard
policy. Democrats all over the west
and south are outspoken in condemna-
tion of the Cleveland street
policy.
President Reinhart of the Santa Il e
railway calls the Wall street fellows
pirates" Is that not the kettle
calling the pot black?'
There is little room for anything
else in the daily papers nowadays but
the chronicling of bank suspensions,
business failures, arrest of bankers,
runs on banks. strikes, riots, appeals
of the unemployed for bread and work,
threatenings of riots by hungry men.
If clearing house certificates and
certified checks can be used as money,
why not greenbacks. The people will
take the latter in preference to the
former all the time
John j. Ingalls,, the statesman out of
job, is destined to have lots of COM
pany after the congressional elections
next year. 1heFe'll be lot of fellows
who will be unable to resist the seduc-
tive influences of British gold and
Clevelands federal patronage dispen-
sary.
That is good idea Send the nm
employed in brigands, divisions, corps,
yes, the whole army to Washington,
and let them march and counter
march along Pennsylvania avenue
and form solid mass around the cap
itol This would be grand exhibit,
and attract more attention than the
Worlds Fair at Chicago
We can remem Der when the republi-
can party stood for free speech" To-
day It's leaders are advocating the
seloture rule as means of shutting
off the freedom of speech.
Note the insidious efforts to force
the issue of bonds. When the gold re.
serve was reduced, the issue and sale
of bonds was the only remedy to bring
the reserve up again, but they failed
to get the bonds. Now it is said they
are actually demanding bonds to meet
the current expenses OF the govern
uent- It is bonds. bonds, bonds.
without which Shylockism and the ma.
tloAdt oanhS CANNOT exist
The New York Tribune has got along
far enough in the pr sent G. isis of the
country to consider the possibilities oi
civil war, and is measuring the mill.
tary strength of New York and Penn.
ylyania as compared with those OF
y silver states. Is plctocracy seri.
= = considering the necessity of re
'-ti to arms to enforce its de
rnands?
.Fell. Mr.. Farmer, you have beer
R.nsiing your back all summer and
aye hardly had time to look up. sc
she'd" have you been to get through
n Your worsS, but you oughi
p TIA glaten up and consider
-sEnlts If you have not besn think
:sg while bending to your hard toll i
: Low certainly time 70 begin