The Kansas headlight. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1894-1894, 1894-09-14
BOTH ARE ROTTEN.
Democratic Mistakes Are but the UnifOr
Policies of the Republican Party.

Democratic Mistakes Are but the Uniform
| Policies of the Republican Party.
The democrats told the people in
glowing terms they had to repeal the
Sherman law, they had to clear away
the brush out of the swamp, they had
to get the last vestige of the reckless
republican legislation away before
| they could do anything for the people.
They had to have foundation to build
on. They destroyed the money of
the country, but they never built on
the foundation they had cleared off
They have been in session one year,
stopped the coinage of silver, and gold
has gone to Europe by the ship loads,
but they have done nothing to give us
silver as they said they would. If we
take what they have said about silver
and good times as guide to what they
| will do on the tariff, we can expect
nothing more from them than they
have already done.
The republicans are now calling at
tention to the blunders of the demo
Gratis and telling the country they are
the cause of all the hard times we have.
The reform press is showing the rob
berry of the people in such plain way
the republicans are trying to squirm
out of their part and make the people
believe that times were good when
they were in control. The democrats
are just as bad as they accuse them of
being, possibly little worse, but what
kind of condition did they leave the
country for the democrats to take hold
of? What had they been doing all
these years? We look into the census
reports a little and see what they say.
They are not populist got up docu-
ments but the product of repu blicans.
We will take the wears 1880
and 1880 The republican party
at each time had swept everything
before them and were running the gov
eminent and what they tell now is
that there was high prosperity pres
sure. Here is sample: The number
of real estate mortgages made in 1850
was 3S0,9S4 and amounting to S342. 500
AT, while the number made in 1880
was 525,0G4, amounting to 1856, 726. 7l9: |
an Increase in ten years of II per cent.
Republican prosperity in these ten
years increased the mortgages II per
cent while the population increased
only p per cent.
The above represents the land alone
and has no relation to mortgages on |
town lots Only think of it: in one
year alone of republican prosperity
we were compelled to borrow on the
farms of this country nearly 5000 600 :
600 The town lots suffered worse than |
the farms did. In 1850 272. 159 town lots
mortgages were made for S36S. 322 0a- /
while in 1850 the matter scared slxv-
ward to 70l,229 mortgages. for 81 1866 I
S}S.555; and all this was going on
while the republican party was in the
very flush of power. And on the first
DAY OF January. 1890, we had in force /
in this country Att, COS mortgages for /
the enormous sum OF S6.0la.6-6. qS5. /
This is only one of the facts shown bv
the census of 1890 and goes long vav .
to show what has put the people in the .
condition they are to-day. And because
the democrats have done nothing lint
enact laws TO continue the country on +
the downward road since they came
into power the republicans want tn
distract attention from the part thar
have performed in the ruin of this conn
try. The panic we have had since the
democrats came into power Is the re-
suit Of the bottom being reached bv
the infamous conditions brought about
by the republican party. This enor-
nous debt with Others with which the
country Is loaded bears about 7J< per
cent interest while we only increase 2
per cent, and the debts are eating the
up. The democrats are de-
creaslng the volume of money and that
makes matters worse, but il is no usa
Tor the republicans to try to dodge ont
Of their part Of the responsibility ~
this horrid crime, The people will
hold them to it--Lamar (Mo.) Indus
trial Union.
-Sovereign's epigram: Capture the
government with ballots, and then.
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