Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-30
VOL. XVI.
WHO ARE PATRIOTS?
THE BANKERS AND BROKERS
OR THE TOILING MILLIONS?
Abs0rbers OF American Produce Who
Annually Spend Millions in Europe
Are Not Truly Americans-Love Their
Native Land for the Profit Only.

lea, a growing class, who call them
selves Americans, whose individual
members are asking, what does re-
public amount to anyway" This class
is made up of those who absorb the pro-
fits Of American labor and American
enterprise. They annually go to Eu-
rope, and annually spend in Europe
millions of American dollars. They are
not truly Americans at heart, and the
more they see and enjoy the European
privileges which their money so readily
commands the less American are they.
In short they care little for their native
land farther than they reap the results
OF its energies and genius, which re-
suits are dissipated in wasteful self-in-
diligence on the bounties of older civil
izations whose glitter and pomp is aris-
tocracy. Gold is the god of this grow
ing class of Americans, and costly jew
els their playthings; women their pas
time, and fine wines their recreation.
Americas toiling millions to them are
all right so long as the millions do not
rise above their toiling conditions.
The happiness and prosperity of Amer
1ca's millions Is a menace to these an
nual American tourists, to these abb
sorbers Of American blood, and con-
troilers OF American destiny. The
brokers and bankers of this class are
found In the financial heart of every
commercial city, their servitors in
every capital of the country. In speak
Ing OF America to their foreign enter
tainers they praise only it's material re-
sources and it's financial possibilities
Their paid agents and expert s.atisti-
clans count the number of acres under
plow, and watch the weather reports;
estimate the probable tonnage to be
moved and determine how much freight
charges each commodity will bear; CAL
culate the output of every kind of mine,
the produce Of every sort of factory, the
margins Of profits of all which they
oeem TO be theirs by virtue of their
stock-exchanges, their boards of trade,
tnelr chambers of commerce, and the
money OF their banks, and even of the
treasures whose volume they control.
The national treasury itself is not
safe from their manipulations nor the
precious metals Of which money is
coined, they sending the price of the
one up and destroying the value of the
other at will, whereby the farmers bin
OF corn, the miners pound of ore, the
planters bale of cotton, all becomes
theirs.
The man who never goes to Europe
the man who never expects to go to
Europe, the man who loves the govern.
ment and the institutions of America
loves 1t mountains and prairies, its
woods and streams, and all that it is
physically, socially and politically, past
or present, outnumbers the man who
spends his millions in Europe a thou
sand to one. The plain from which
the Caesars sprang, the waters that re-
fleet the palaces of the Doges, the
grape-laden hills and cathedral-shad.
owed valleys of Spain, the castle-be.
studded banks of the Rhine and all tha
England or France has to offer in the
way OF the mist and dust and ruin o.
ages, with all their tinsel crowns, ant
feather-bedecked nobility, fail to at
tract, much less win the heart from itI
fealty to this land of manhood and hu
man equality of the man who never
goes to Europe-of the American wht
Is for America.
The question which is now confront
ing the man who never goes to Europ,
is: Who is to rule America? TIL,
thousand, or the one; the toiler wht
stays at home or the absorber who goe
abroad to criticise his own land? 1t i
confronting him through the medium
that has ruled all lands in all times
and which has become so potent of lat
in this country of the ballot-box an,
school-house-the medium of money
Is it to be a currency of the people or O
medium so limited that the absorbe
can corner 1t at will? Is
to be of both gold and silver an
promises to pay in either or both? or @
a metal which is owned and held by tn
absorber, together with such additiona
currency as the absorber may see fit t
have issued by those who own ou
bonds and control and fix the amour
VI JUL uSOl-DuIuSu! Is IL 10 De uni
versal national prosperity with an even
handed chance for every man, or peon
age to syndicate gold?
In the great middle agricultural sec
tion covering dozen states, in all tn
region whose fields are white wit
fleecy cotton, in the vast sweep {
mountain and plain that stretches froI
lakes to gulf and from the Mississipr
river to the Pacific ocean, there is nc
one man in ten thousand who is an "at
sorber," not one in ten thousand VIII
distrusts the republic, not one in te
thousand but that loves his country an
its institutions.
Why should the ten thousand subm
to the selfish greed and rule of the one
-Uretula Eagle.