Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-03
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

! place telephones and telegraphS under
national control.
1t is said that President Cleveland
now congratulates himself on the con-
! version of Voorhees, and Vest, of the
finance committee of the senate, to his
financial policy.
The recent court decisions should
| convince railroad men that their ONLY
chance to secure freedom from the ex-
actions of unscrupulous employers lies
IN government ownership of railroads.
| Western Advocate.
"A money is redeemable when the
! government issuing it stands ready to
take it back at its face value for all
debts and taxes due it. That's all the
redeemable quality money needs. In
fact, it is all the redeemable quality it
ever has.-National Spectator.
"A gold king is as good as silver
king; silver king is as good as a gold
king. The sovereign people are better
than all such kings. A money based
on the wealth and integrity of the SOW
ereign people is a better money than
that based on a couple of metals owned
and controlled by few silver and gold
kings. See?-National Spectator.
If President Cleveland intends to
carry out the demand of the democratic
platform to remonetize silver and in
crease the money volume, revise the
tariff and drive out the trusts and COM
blnes in the interests of the people, he
has very queer way of showing his
intentions Many good democrats are
hoping against hope for the work of re-
form to begin.-Shelbyville Qll) Peo-
ple's Paper.
Such decisions as that of Judge
Kicks in the Toledo case and the uni
versal conspiracy among the roads to
raise rates to the maximum for worlds
fair visitors will increase the sentiment
in favor of government ownership.
That the government will be compelled
to assume ownership of the railroads or
submit to railroad ownership of the
government, is becoming more glaring-
ly apparent to men who think.
1T is reported that Hoke Smith, sec
retary of the interior, intends visiting
the west shortly. We presume that his
visit will be an official one We hope
that he will extend it to Iowa lust to
II.
Weaver will not disgrace his state by
urging the people in person or through
his paper to egg the noted Georgian,
who was personally responsible for the
suppression of free speech in Georgia
last Septem mber.-MiSsouri State Union.
Neither wealth nor poverty, gold
nor rags, plutocracy nor anarchy can
settle the great economic questions of
to-day. They may destroy the govern
ment but save it they never can To
the brave and honest middle classes
must the nation look for salvation.
And it is well that this class begin to
comprehend their mission, for even now
the gilded throne of aristocracy is being
surrounded by the anarchistic mob ex-
pectantly awaiting the reign of terror
that follows the grapple of the two
forces. Tribune.
-fhe eGlobe-Democrat admits editori-
ally that there is n strong probability
that the south will break from 1emoc-
racy and join the peoples party move
ment in opposition to Cleveland's gold
standard policy. 1t has taken the Globe
quill-driver a long time to get his eyes
lowered upon a result which all well
posted men have been fully prepared
for the last three years. The Globe is
great newsgatherer, but it's editors
are in the habit of depending upon 9TH
er mems brains for their supply of
''originar' thought.-Acorn.
The city election in Abilene was a
straight fight between the republicans
and the populists Republicans elected
their ticket by 80 majority. Last fall
the republicans carried the city by over
$50 majority. At the city election the
populists had about so more male votes
than their opponents and yet the G. o.
P. is boasting of great republican
victory" and telling how the populist
administration was ''repudiated." This
is fair sample of the result of the
municipal elections all over the state
where straight party fight was made.
Clay Center (Kan.) Dispatch.
1t may be safely put down that the
prohibition question will not again
come up in politics as heretofore. Pop
ulists and prohibitionists who have felt
disposed to agitate union of forces
should mediate little over the ques-
tion if the great liquor problem is not
in a fair way to settle itself after the
manner of South Carolina? 1t is sin
cerely to be hoped that it may, for of
all antidotes offered that of state con-
troll and management is the one logical
solution. Great interest will center in
the workings of the new system, and
confident expectations for it's success
already OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
1,
away their right to coin money and fix
the value thereof, and the same was
embodied in the constitution of the
United States, they did not delegate to
the general government the right to
call in the Rothschilds and the mon
arches of Europe to say what kind of
money and how much we should have
There is nothing in the constitution
warranting or authorizing the appoint
ment of the silver commission. 1t was
simply foolish whim of Harrison's.
and Cleveland is going to continue the
same in the interest of Wall street and
the foreign money gamblers, and to
help fool the people.-Oberlin (kan.)
Herald.
Within the past week local bank
er informed the writer that he had re-
ceived several blank circulars from
eastern banks asking him to personally
see all local money loaners in his local
ity and secure their names to the blank
petitions sent out and at once place
them in the hands of the members of
congress from his district The peti-
tions referred to ask the members of
congress to work and vote for the re-
peal of the Sherman silver law, and the
reasons assigned by the eastern bank.
ers for wishing its repeal was that it
provided for class of money Silver
certifcates) which circulated more
readily than either gold or silver and
was every way injurious to the inter
ests of money loaners.-Lamar (Mo.)