Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-25

borer, farmer, merchant, and business
man, and that she is doing it at the rate
Of thousands of millions of dollars an
nually!
Do mt You know that that policy IL
the homes of the people
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from the Gulf to the lakes, and that the
of mortgage Indebtedness COM
menced with the demonstration of silver
in 1873. has grown steadily, disastrOusly
and enormously every year since, until it
Is startling in the extreme; and can't you
see that these robberies and wrongs would
not be possible had we statesmen to
legislate for Us instead of the political
teredos who are the authors of our
misfortune?
Why, man, just think of it for minute!
Suppose we had no mountains of silver,
and England had, and she were indebted
to rs as we are to her: do you suppose that
she would destroy her silver, thereby en-
HANGING the value of gold, and then insist
siOns throughout the vast world, whereby
she has gained a foothold give no man
authority to say yes.
Remember that we are on gold basis
through no vote or voice of the people.
We are where we are through the silent
manipulations and crafty, subtle and evil
influence which emanated from the dark
and silent recesses of congressional cloak
rooms and wine-supper conspiracies.
No man has ever openly advocated q
single, gold standard in Congress or out,
and yet We are on a single, gold standard
basis A greater crime was never perpe-
trated against a free, enlightened and in.
telligent people, and it is perpetrsted
under the stealthy, crafty and deceitful
cover of professional ard political decla.
rations in favor of the greatest possible
use of silver" and its advocates thereby
hope to maintain such political mon
strosity. This abnormal and vulgar crime
Is voiced in another cruel and deceptive
cry, whereby the masses may continue to
be robbed for the benefit of the GLASSES,
under the deceitfUl, spacious, damnable
misnomer called an honest dollar" and
that man who, in the face of what we
were and whore we are now, mouths such
twaddling hogwash is either knave or a
fool, and suspect both, and does not and
ought not to receive the votes of the toll
ing men in Kansas or elsewhere.
You are candidate of a great party for
great Office. Mistakes have been made
in the past, as they always will be. You
nor are responsible for anything directly.
Indirectly, everybody is.
Coming from the war and going back
into the civil pursuits of life, We old SOL
diers remember how democracy denounced,
in unmeasured terms, every act of the
government looking to the issue of green
backs, made necessary to feed and clothe
the armies and save us as a nation.
You and 1 and every old soldier remem-
Der how promptly that party and its
Southern influence declared in favor of
the greenback in the payment of national
obligations. Their sudden conversion was
so startling, that we we're easily entrapped
with the argument that, having fought to
destroy the government and failed, they
were now seeking to destroy the public
credit of that government, made necessary
to help subjugate them, and in a spirit of
patriotism born amidst the hardships of
camp and the horrors of the battlefield
We have allowed the old financial pendu-
lum to swing as much too far wrong as it
was heretofore swung too far right, and
as result we fell into the hands of the
English schemers and money changers,
and we now know where we are at
Remember that every labor organization
in the union and every farmers organiza-
tion in the union have declared for the free
coinage of silver.
Remember that in 1896 the republican
party on no other platform can carry a
single state west of the Missouri river.
Remember that party will not get single
vote south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Remember that it cannot hope to carry
either New York, Indiana, or Illinois, and,
remembering all this, tell me how in the
name of sense we are to elect the next
President, in 1896, Oh the Minneapolis
platform as interpreted by the republican
party in this Congress.
This being so, why hesitate; why beat
around the bush; why prevaricate; why
seek mems votes under false pretenses?
Why not as a party organize upon the
lines of the free coinage of silver and high
protection, unity the party East, West
North and South, and go forward to q
grand and glorious victory in 1896!
Oh, man! What is the matter with you,
that you cannot see this? What is the
matter with the leaders of the republican
party that they won't see it? Why will
they tarry longer in dalliance with the
Shermans and Harrisons and that whole
brood of pestiferous, miserable, double
dealing hypOcrites who have been only
too willing to do the bidding of their Eng
lish m asters on this money question.
Oh, Dick, write me that my interpreta-
ton of your speech is all wrong. Write
me that if you are elected to Congress you
will vote for legislation which will place
silver back where it was before the crime
of 1878, and subsequent legislation relative
thereto enacted into law. At least, that
you will do this SO far as the American
product is concerned, and no man in Kan
sas will throw his hat higher and yell longer
than myself for you.
do MT want to see an old soldier like
yourself beaten by a man whose hands are
red with blood of your comrades and mine,
but would rather see him elected if right
on this question than to see you elected
while wrong on it.
Do MT fail me in this matter. On the
platform made for you, you have a chance
to again touch elbows with the masses
against the classes. For you or the party
now to falter on this question is worse
than political suicide.
Remember the fate of the old whig party
when it faltered on the slavery question.
Get your ear close to the grass roots, for,
as sure as there was God in Israel, 80 sure
you and those who think as you do will dig
political grave for yourself and republi,
csnism in this country.