Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-04-14
THE POWER OF GOLD.


THE POWER OF GOLD.
No doubt you have heard as you've jour
neyed thro' life.
That humanity's curse is suffering wife;
But ! ask you. my hearers, this jingle to
scan
Md tell me what's worse than a gold.lov.
ing man?
In the days long ago - an! sigh that
they've fled.
That the men OF those days lang syne'
are all dead
The vote of the freeman our ship OF state
manned
And monopolys powers were not felt in
the land
But now it is changed. all is changed.
Paltry gold
Is more powerful now than in words may
be told.
Esau sold his bir,h-right for morsels of
bread,
But Congress. for gold sells nation in
stead
Sells nation' you ask Yes. I'll say it
again.
That true lovers of gold are our nations
head men.
That we trust our affairs. by the votes that
we cast.
To Congressman. through whom the laws
are all pissed.
And if they are tempted by lucre's foul
lust.
And suffer their honor to fall in the dust,
If. when in the balance. gold takes down
the beam.
And right is found wanting, ARE WE WHAT
WE SEEN?
Are we the free people we've boosted so
long,
With liberty's blessings are we growing
strong'
My answer is NO! Then let's put on no
airs
While money controls all our nations af-
fairs:
But let's fight to the death the oppressors
of right.
And stand boldly forth in blest liberty's
light!
Then when we are free we will furrow the
sod.
And DER US still hover the blessings of God.
Chetopa Democrat: The travelling
grocery fair has been abroad n
the land again victimizing farmer 8.
This time he operated in the terri
tory south of town. Last week he
sold L. II. Duncan bill of goods
amounting to over $27. A few days
atterward Mr.. Duncan was i'm this
city and gave duplicate of the bill
to one of our leading grocery mer-
chants who, after figuring up the
bill, said they would fill il for lit
tie over $l4. or for $l3 less than MIR.
Duncan had paid the travelling fake.
1t really does seem strange that
some of our farmer friends are eter-
nally being guided by these travel
ing fakirs. Within the past few
years we have had the buggy fake,
the stock food cooking fake, the
steel range fake and innunerable
grocery fakes, aud all have found
their victims. II would seem that
WOui0 cOOth ~ pCk-
son cannot travel about from pillar
to post and sell goods as cheaply as
our home merchants who are per-
manently located. You don't find
these travelling fakirs urging their
customers to buy large quantities
of staples, such as sugar, coffee, etc,
but they are always ready to stuff
your order with ground spices, pep
per, teas and flavoring extracts-ar-
ticles that require an expert to de-
termine their quality. These goods
are usually sold by the quarter of a
pound by our grocers. But these
fakirs usually manage to work in
from one TO three pounds of spices,
cloves, cinnamon. nitinegs, pepper,
etc, at IN ICY prices and here is just
where the farmer Is victimized.
Again, we say to our farmer friends,
you will always find IL cheaper in
the long run to buy your goods of
your home merchants. Then IL the
goods are not what they are repre-
scented to be you can return them.
w.. StoweIl was in Baxter last
procuring at this Office q
lot of bills and cards advertising
the stallion sAthos" and Honest
Jack" owned by his father and him
self. "Athos" IL an imported Nor
man horse and the jack is of the
Mammoth Black breed. Both are
first class animals.
Geo. Polster raised enough money
by popular subscription the first of |
The week to have shade trees set out