Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-29

sible for the business depression. when
ever since the repeal prices have been
on the down grade.
The truth Of the matter is that the
cry against the purchase law as being
the cause of close times was simply to
blind the people. Since the repeal bill
passed, after three months of extra
ordinary session in our national con-
gress to effect that object, there has
been financial shIpwrecks and disaster
even worse than before. And why not
expect such result? The country was
the currency when one half the limited
supply was cut off. Is that a logical
way TO remedy such situation? Great
craftsmanship. Better turn the pupils
of backwOods school district into the
Legislative chairs. All the hue and
cry about the Sherman law being re-
sponsible for the stringency was raised
at the bidding of the East and London
bankers, in whose interest the bill was
repealed. And now, through the same
subsidized organs, the money power has
the eifrontery to ridicule cOerced peo-
pie, who are trying TO save themselves
and their homes. Many people were
deluded into believing that repeal was
the great panacea for the national ills
from which we are suffering; never
stopping to think that cutting down
half the money supply would necessari-
ly cause money to be higher by its
scarcity, and prices lower. But they
have plenty of time to think about 1t
now. The metropolitan press is teem-
ing with accounts of it's results, and
were it not suppressed could tell far
more. Misery and want stalks through
the land, and in the cities the gorgeous
palace and paupers howell tell the
heartrending story Of the widening eX-
tremes. Millions Of men out Of money
and out of work have no place to go
except TO scantily furnished ruins of a
home, only to find awaiting them a
shrivering and hungry family. In The
cities the societies have exhausted ev-
cry means of assistance, to find the vic
tins Of poverty increasing at an
alarming rate. Dispatches from south
ern cities tell us that thousands OF idle
men are pouring in from the north, to
keep from freezing to death this winter
and running the risk of starvation. In
the West idle men have pawned their
blankets and all clothing except that
essential in summer for bread, and now
find themselves clad in scant rags with
no money and no work, in the face of a
cold winter. What is the vast army of
idle and moneyless men to do but steal
or starve?
All these things are true, ard all et-
forts to ridicule the facts only prove
the brainless condition of the man who
attempts it. And all this awful piano.
rama of woe and misery only acceller-
ated instead of being remeded by re-
peal, cutting off half the money supply.
Surely that should put more money in
circulation. 4 man with one leg cut
off should cert ainly find it much easier
to walk, especially if his newspaper or
the politicians tell him so. How long
can this continue and when will the
masses unite against an organized oil
garchy that has struck at their homes
and families? Do the people yet see
that the promises tor repeal were SIM
ply made to engulf them deeper in the
chasm of helpless poverty?
The Drawn and muscle of this coun-
try must awake to tie fact that to pre-
serve our republic against despots there
must he action taken, and taken soon.
The days of serfdom are almost here.