Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-26
SPIRIT OF REFORM.
WnS Humor and PathOs as Cleaned
From Our Exchanges.

gression. .-Nonconfcrmist.
The craven coward who allows him
self to be led to the polls 10y few
county bosses and whipped into voting
against his own interests merits noth-
ing better than the lot of Il slave, but
his family is to be pitied for the life
they mu,t lead whict the husband
and father sanctions by his ballot -
Missouri World.
When democrat tells you that
democracy is for free silver coinage,
simply tell him that his party has con-
troll of every branch of the govern
ment and ask him why the deuce we
don't have free silver coinage and in
the ratio OF IL to !, too. Free Trader.
II will bear repeating of tenthat if
national taxes were collected as are
state and county taxes, 81, 900 families
who own three-four hs OF the United
States would have TO pay three-fourths
OF the taxes, or $50, 900, coo a year.
Now they don't pay over two million.
You poor devil, do you see the protec-
tion!-Coming Nation.
Now is the time" cries the old
party boss, ''for every true democrat
Tor republican as the case may be- to
stand solid for his party" 1t seems
TO us that the time has arrived for
every honest man TO join hands and
stand solid for his family; the average
voter, we believe, mas become tired of
voting himself down the ladder of
prosperity and sustaining the leaders
at the top.-Missouri World
Labor organizations vote TO cease
work, and the president of the or
ganization proclaims the order to the
world, for which he is arrested Sugar
kings, railroad kings, and other rob.
Der kings, bribe legislatures and con-
Rress, form gigantic trusts u control
prices in open violation of law, and
when the people question them on
their doings they say: THE people
be damned" They are never ARE ,ted,
though they violate the law every dav.
1t is such injustice as this that is lead
ing the p ople TO dispise the judiciary
The Peoples Advocate.
Attorney-Gcneral Olney has ordered
the case against the Southern Pacific
railroad dismissed, but the case
against Dcbs and the A. i. L. leaders
will be tried. The antitrust law was
made for the suppression of labor or
CARNATIONS and not for wealthy cor
porations Olney knows how the
'onrts will rule, for the judges are ap.
pointed on the recommendation of the
corporations. Working men must obey
the law but it don't apply to railroads
and other wealthy combines. Per-
haps the laboring millions may yet
learn that this is just what they may
expect to receive for their loyalty to
the old parties. New World.
Here is anarchy" run rampant:
"All men have n natural right to
portion of the soil, and as the soil is
indispensable to life, the right of all
men to the soil is as sacred as the right
to life itself"
Every republican politician in the
land would call that anarchy to-day.
And vet it is only sentence from the
republican platform when the party
was honest years ago. That was at
the time when republican professions
carried banners saying, Uncle Sam
is rich enough to give us all farm
Advance.
The school boys composition on
"The Editor" reads as follows: The
editor is one of the happiest beggars
in the world. He can go to the circus
in afternoon and evening without pay
Ing cent; also to inquests and hang
ings. He has free tickets to the thea
ter; gets wedding cakes sent him and
sometimes gets licked but not often
for he can take things back in the
next issue and generally does SO.
While other folk has togo to bed early
the editor can sit mp every night and
see what is going on.
EX-Census Superintendent Porter re-
ports the average income per day OF
Kansas farmers TO be s. cents; their
average yearly interest burdens on
real estate mortgages, s1li. This
leaves net income of 81 cents per
day for 800 working days and Mr..
Porter writes to Secretary Mohler OF
the board of agriculture 10 know il
the farmers find this interest charge
burden and il it in any way re !uces
their comforts. AS good republican
MIR. Mohler is bound to answer no,
the interest is no burden, and farm
ers revel in comfort on 80 cents per
day And lots of ragged, half-starved
republican farmers will confirm it
Jeffersonian.
There seems TO be a growing inclina-
tion among dyed-in-the- e-wool party
newspapers to describe Populsts as
anarchists and law breakers This is
to close observers q sign that the Eco.
pies party has extended TO degree
which makes IT feared by partisan
newspapers A year or two ago ridi-
cule was the weapon by which they
sought to crush it Now violent
abuse and libel are employed. While
the Times does not indorse the whole
Populist program. it holds that the
leaders of that party are to an unus-
ual degree men o; lofty aims, warm
tymPathies and deep earnestness of
purpose. Their movement is rather
to be fostered than decried.-Chicago
Times
1t is estimated that there are now
1000, 600 unemployed men in this
country. This means about Is, ,ocO, ,Oco
people who can not purchase any
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