Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-16
TOPEKA LETTER.
TOPEKA, KANs., May I4th 1894


for our populist friends to preserve for
future reference. They will come par
ticularly handy to pull on the republic
cans during the coming campaign. We
suggest that our last weeks letter
which showed what party was the re-
pudiation party in Kansas, also be
preserved. These facts may be cut
out by the reader and carried in a
pocket-book for ready reference and
will prove of untold benefit and q
source OF great satisfaction to the per-
sons who take the trouble to do 80.
The successful politician and the eff
fectual worker is the man who keeps q
ready record of such data as will enable
him at moments notice to contradict
the lies being told by the opposition In
producing the proof from the liars own
party's statements. Now for instance,
our party claims that pools and COM
bines IN all the great industries Of our
country are a menace to the welfare of
the common people and that they have
grown up under republican and demo.
cratic administrations. The following
press dispatch shows how these large
corporations continue to grow rich and
compel the common people to suffer
from their greed.
Chicago, May 5.-The price of coal
has advanced in this city from $2.75 to
81 per ton. Assistant General Man
ager Wood of the Chicago 81 Alton
road said today that the Ohio coal Oper-
ators had stored In the Lake Erie ports
$4,000 tons last winter and early this
spring. AS soon as these ports had
been well filled they cut their miners
wages to the lowest limit. This action
naturally brought on the strike in
Ohio, which was followed by the gener-
al strike. The Ohio combination is
now marketing its supply at the Rd-
vanced rate and thereby netting
handsome profit"
BY the above process they not only
force the people to pay exorbitant pric-
es for coal but likewise starve the min
ers into submitting to the cut IN wages
so by the time they are willing to go
back to work the operators can pile up
another supply at less cost, and work
the same old robbery in a very short
time. The daily Capital of this city on
March 9th, 1894 published the follow
ing:
Here is large chunk of condensed
political and business sense from the
Hutchinson News: The reform bus
mess is entirely overdone. 1t is crowd
ed to death. The curse of Kansas is
farmers who talk reform while the
suntiOwers choke out their corn; of
lawyers who discuss finance and new.
er have dollar with which to pay
their bills; of doctors who dilate upon
die; and merchants who talk free
trade while. the dust and moth ruin
their goods"
In view Of the fact that the Capital
block belonging to j. K. Hudson editor
of the Capital, was sold last Monday
morning May 18th, 1894, at sheriff's sale
to the highest bidder for So, 200 when
it had mortgages aggregating $40, 239.-
GA, 1t would seem that the major had
ought to be included in the above list
under the head Of republican editors
who dilate upon the glories of a gold
standard, the past history of the grand
old party and the necessity of redeem
Ing Kansas while the mortgage ate up
the building in which his paper is pub
lished. How very strange it is that
this old Briton can see so clearly the
shortcomings of others and jump to his
feet to denOunce deed or utterance
wlch just fits his case and cannot see
his own awkward position. The Capt.
tai makes another break In it's issue of
May 10th:
The New York World issue of last
Sunday is great anniversary number
OF "a pages. 1t is one of the hobbies of
the New York papers to refer 20 the
World as sensational sheet but we
believe for a partisan newspaper it does
more for good government than any
other paper in the country. 1t is fight
ing Tammany and Flower for their
stubborn opposition to reform in New
York politics and in this contest de-
serves the support OF the press of the
country regardless of party"
Put the State journal of this city in
the place of the World fighting the old
Doodle gang of republicans in Kansas,
and the Capital and other papers which
are defending the old crowd and calling
the Journal all kinds of hard names,
and you have an exact parallel case to
the above. In the New York case the
Capital sees ground for commentator
and in the Kansas case it occupies the
opposite position to the World. Oh,
consistency thou art great big oyer
grown bull pup.
The following account of business
transaction in the State Journal puts
the lie to the oft repeated statement
that the ascendency of the populists to
power has driven capital and immigra-
ton from this state:
MIR. A. +. King and son, Horace
King, of New York, have been in Kan
sas several weeks and looking at KAN
sas farms with view of investing. AT.
ter extensive examination and person
al inspection Of farms in several cOun-
ties they finally selected as best meet
ing their views, the Thacher ranch, on
Clcch. ulO dIlIdCIlNO UIOpSI-
ty Is twelve miles southeast Of Topeka.
1t consists of $50 acres. 1t comprises
some of the famous Mission creek bot
toms. The ranch has extensive barns
and sheds and Is we'll adapted to the
cattle business, to which it is under
stood Mr.. King will devote it. The
most interesting feature of this tran
saction is that Mr.. King is cash buy.
er, and Mr.. Horace King, the son, who
is an experienced cattle man. having
been several years in the cattle bust
ness in Utah and Arizona, will make
this ranch his home. A new house for
his residence will be one of the early
improvements. 1t is an encouraging
symptom to note the eastern men with
money and experience are beginning to
discover that the rich farming and pas
ture lands of Kansas offer today the
best Investment that can be found east