Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
ONLY TWO WAYS.
1T IS A UNION OF THE WEST
AND SOUTH OK REVOLUTION.
Fhe East Has No Trouble in HandIIn g
the Two Old Parties

The situation is serious. Every
patriot will view with alarm the
waves of discomfort and revolt that
are rising higher and higher all over
the land. The question on everybody's
lips is chow is this all going to end?"
There can be but one answer. Plu-
tocracy must take her hand off the
throat of labor; the money power
must loose its grasp on the industries
OF the country or there is going to be
trouble. 1t is urged that the matter
can be settled by the ballot But
how? No one claims for one instant
that the present congress is carrying
out the policy which it was elected
to do. No one doubts that
the reason is mem bers have
been bribed, either with office or
money, TO betrav the interests of their
constituents. Since 1878 there has
been no expression of the people at
the ballot box that did not demand
an increase of the currency, and that
direct from the government Yet
with systematic regularity the will of
the people, as expressed at the ballot
box, has been set aside and the de-
mands of Wall street complied with.
The people, disappointed with one
party, have gone over to the other,
like two balky horses, but never with
any better success. 1t has been the
same to Wall street whether the peo-
pie supported the democratic party or
the republican party. Within the
cast ten years both old parties have
experienced a political cyclone that
almost swept them out of existence
But disappointed again the people
have returned and resurrected the
corpse of their former love, only TO
meet again sad disappointment. The
.rouble is that neither one of the two
old parties is any longer in the
lands of the people. They
are represented by two machines
politicians that are in'the pay of Wall
street 1t is no longer asked is this
measure what the people need, but
aow will it affect the party? Whether
be fact that minority in each
party dictates It's policy, or whether
It is majority that does so, it is
evident that the people no longer do.
Under these conditions what are we
70 do? The people will never submit
to the injustice that is being heaped
npon them. The money power is
Lrming itself to carry on its usurpa-
lions by force, If necessary, and the
7eople are arming for a resistance.
Revolution, with all its revolving
scenes, its sufferings and devasta ion,
is staring us in the face. The two old
parties can give no relief. They are di-
vided within themselves In such way
that Wall street can use fragments of
'ither to help the other. The demo
cratic party with so majority is power
less to pass any measure of relief. The
republican party would not If it
could. The men who control the two
Md parties are either wealthy
Or drawing good salaries. Hard times
Cor the producers is harvest with
them. Low prices is money in their
pockets. They are not producers.
They are consumers. There Is no
hope OF relief in that direction. But
there are enough earnest and sincere
men in the west and south to control
legislation IL they will unite. They
will never do it under either the
democratic or republican banners. 1t
is unreasonable to expect it The
Peoples party is common ground on
which they can meet. In that wav
revolution can be prevented. 1t is
the only way. With the west and
south a unit relief could be had quick
and sure. The man who still con-
tends for democratic success or repub-
lican success is either n demagogue
or blind to his own and to his coun-
try's interests AS n rule the men
who do so are either drawing a good
salary as result of talking for their
party or expect to do so. The coun.
try is being led into the vortex of de.
struction by spoilsmen instead OF
statesmen. Let the west and south
unite.