Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-22

that he is unable to pay his first debt,
that which he owes the state, and that
which every honorable and every proud
man will pay if he can, then Mr.. Presi-
dent. the state shall be a party in vio-
lation of its own laws, and impose upon
the poverty, upon the misery, upon the
lleartache, and upon the sorrow and
the shame of these people, a penalty of
per cent per month, so that capital,
this much Wanted capital, shall be
sacredly protected, and shall be given
the power to make further encroach-
ments within the sacred precincts of
the American home. When the skies
have been unkindly, when the clouds
have failed to send their moisture,
when all nature seems to have conspir-
ed against this western farmer, then
we make and maintain law that
makes it still harder for this mans
children to be reared as American chill
dren have right to demand that they
shall be reared.
This is the only state in the union,
Mr.. President, if the opinion of attorn-
eys is to be taken with respect to this,
in which there there is a waiver -of-ap-
praisement law, and in which there
may be sold from over the heads of wo-
men and children, the roof tree, with
out appraisement, and without re-
course; these gentlemen had tile oppor-
tunity to correct this wrong, but like
every other wrong, they allowed it to
stand.
Let me say to the senator from
Leavenworth, and let me ask linn
whether he has ever reflected on the
fact that the making of single mil
lionaire involves the making of thous-
and paupers, and that for every million
accumulated by single individual, we
have the pltiful record of thousand
men whose all has been taken away
from them. If the per capita wealth
OF this nation is one thousand dollars,
it must be clear to every candid mind,
that he who starts with nothing and
within single generation builds up
his millions, that he has pauperized,
and that he has impoverished a thous-
and of his fellow citizens, animated by
the same desire, prompted by the same
aspirations, moved by the same impulse
as himself; and when see man, 1.-The
wizard of the west" gifted with superb
nerve, a clear brain, and total want
of what men call scOnscience and sense
of moral right, within my own recollec-
ton build up under the privileges that
are accorded him, or in the absence of
protection that it is the duty of govern
ment to give to the weak, the vast for
tune of seventy millions, l know, Mr.
President, that he has brought ruin
and wreck to the home, and has broken
the hearts of seventy thousand free
born American citizens.
They tell us that there is something
ephermeral about the existence of the
peoples party, and there is not involv-
ed that loftlneSS of idea that leads to
prominence of party organization. Sir,
we have beneath our pl atform and as
propelling force of this governmental the
quickening conscience of rights hith-
erto withheld, and sir, when this great
question shall have been settled, as
some day settled it will be, we shall
then, Mr.. President, have the verdict
of just and patient and long suffering
people. l repeat what have said here
tofore, and what my friend, the senator
from Butler has stated, referring to
himself, that in all matters pariimen-
tary, in all matters touching the rules,
l may be as green, Mr.. President, as
July corn, but. sir, know how to vote;
L know how to defend the position l
have taken on the proud platform of
right, and thanks to the majority on
this side, when we have bottled the
gentleman as we have done here to-day,
we have never failed, nor shall we now
fail to cork the bottle.
L hope Mr.. President, that this reso-
luton will prevail, and that the motion
Of the senator from Butler en- the ad-
option of this resolution may carry.
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