Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22
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What Is Being Thought, Said and Done
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What Is Being Thought Said and Done |
Here. There and Everywhere
1t is a cold day when the whisky
and sugar trust don't have fin & in
the public pie. By methods whic h !
we're partially revealed by commit
tee appointed apparently for the sole
purp, sc of whitewsshing the mole
affair the sugar trusts Succeeded in
securing a schedule of pro ective
duties that was worth many millions
of dol ars to it, The whisky trust
has not been idle. The p,nding bill
proposes to increase the tax on
whisky from 80 cents to 81 per gallon.
and extend the time from three to
eight years, in which the distiller can
have the government keep his poison
in bonded warehouse. After seeing
Mr.. Lindsay of Kentucky and other
senator's putting forth such deter
mined efforts in behalf of the propo-
SIbIOA W CAiCAu lHC DOAuCu pei
from three to eight years, and
in defense of the whisky ring, ]
concluded there certainly must he
big grab in that thing for some
body, so l put to work to investigate
and found the following facts; the
government now holds 1874, 200, 900
gallons of whisky in bond for the dis
tillers, the present tax on which is 90
cents per gallon. making S12O,6OO, 900
now due the government by these dis
tillers This law proposes to extend
the time in which to pay this amount
for five years, which is equivalent to
giving the whisky ring the interest on
10, 100000 less the increase OF the
tax 20 cents per gallon. Interest on
$l20, GEO, 600 at per cent for five years
is $40, 80. 900, less $25, sou, 600 increase
of 20 cents per gallon in tax, leaves
So, $50, 900 net gain to the whisky ring
on this 1874. 200, 900 now in the ware
houses, to say nothing of the amount
that is tc be put in bond
hereafter. When learned that there
was elan clear steal of 50, $50, 600
Congressman Sibley of Pennsyl- |
vania said in a recent speech: IF my
party has abandoned the principles
for which | stood and they were in
scribed on the banner of any other
arty, whatever it's name, | shall fol-
low that banner" We recommend
that declaration to the prayerful con-
sideration of all democrats, suggest
ing, however, that your county, dis
trict or state does not make the demo
cratic party. Take the majority of
the leading democrats in the nation.
They are in congress. they
have abandoned free silver; the
Peoples party has it inscribed upon
opposition to banks of ISSUE the
Peoples party has it inscribed upon
its banner They have abandoned
opposition to interest bearing bonds;
the Peoples party has it inscribed
upon its banner. They have aban-
doned their position on every import
ant issue that once made them great,
even including states rights and local
self government. The Peoples party
stands for all these.
1t is an old and perhaps a truth
full saying that confession
of the mouth is good for the
soul" The indications now are that
in the demonstration of silver the
money kings have over reached them
selves. Business everywhere has been
SO Frustrated that there is danger of
reputation. The Washington Post,
which by the way clamored loudly for
the decentralization of silver a year
ago. now comes out with the follow
ing com ment on the situation:
Indications multiply to the effect
that the London capitalists who con-
troll the money markets of the world
have over reached themselves in de-
grading silver for the purpose of en-
HANGING the value of their gold
property. The consumaticn they had
in view has not materalized. Instead
of collecting what was due them in a
highly appreciated coin, they now
discover that so far as concerns a
large class of debtors, such
IS those of India. South and
Central America, and Mexico. they
hare simply destroyed the capacity to
pay at all by inparting the value of
the only medium through which those
countries can achieve solvency.
I'VE find In the Buenos Ayres cor
respondence of the London Times of
May 30th. for example, the announce
ment that business in Argentine re-
mains in a state of paralysis lowing
to the continual rise in the premium
on gold" The dispatch goes on to
tell how many hrskers, merchant,
&c. failed On that day; and this leaves