Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-15
skepticism, opposition and many of
them prosecutions.

ShepllClSHl, OppOSlllOH anu mdny OI
them prosecutions.
The Standard Oil company advanced
the price of oil IL cents on the barrel
in two days recently, and 81 barrel is
predicted soon. In freezing out small
producers as a means of getting rid of
competition, and skinning the people,
the Standard Oil company is becoming
the greatest robber concern in this
country. In advancing oil Rockefeller
is probably getting ready to endow an
other college or build a church.
Six thousand men in Brooklyn were
interested in the strike in that city sew
eral months ago. The incidents attend
ing that strike and it's result ought to
add 5000 voters to the reform ranks in
opposition to the two old parties, the
policies of which make strikes of that
kind necessary. But how many of these
5000 laboring men will use the ballot
as a means of correcting the wrongs
heaped upon them?
The president of the City National
bank of Fort Worth, Tex, which bank
failed recently, is delivering lectures
before the Young Mems Christian as
sociation in that city on Sound Money
Essential to Successful Banking" That
fellows consistency is on a par with
Colonel Breckinridge lecturing on
'The Purity of the Home"
1t is not a hard matter to locate Gov.
Mckinley Oh the silver question, as he
declared recently that. 'If the repub-
lican party should declare for free sill
yer would decline to become it's can
didate and would quit the party for
ever" We shall see how the silver re-
publicans of the west will line up when
the gold bugs of the east put Mckinley
forward as their candidate.
1t is a startling fact that less than
one-seventh Of the population of this
country-according to census reports,
rest secure in the knowledge that their
homes belong to them. This in free
Americai Is 1t possible that the Amer
lean people will slumber on until all
of liberty is lost, or until the sudden
awakening Of the unthinking masses
shall precipitate revolution.
On with the dance, Banks are
busting at the rate of $4,000, 900
liabilities a month, industrial enter
/ Nv ha To ual1
gaunt poverty stalks the land, men
and women suiciding every day, crime
increasing and yet the masses are
slumbering on! Where will we brisg UP
finally?
Politics makes strange bedfellows.'
Emperor William gave Prince Bismarck
to understand he was a back number
when the young war lord succeeded u
power in Germany. When he found
socialism sapping power from under
him, he was compelled to eat humble
pleas lately demonstrated in the Bis
marck birthday feats, and now, Il
counteract the aggressive policy of tn,
socialists the Bismarck policy has beel
resumed and the ex-chancellor is prac
tically premier again. The People
party of Germany is making troubl
for the young emperor.
The banks continue to bust al
around the country from a half doze
to dozen week, and down goes tn
money of the depositors il the mae
strom of bankruptcy and ruin. VIII
not have government savings banks
Can you tell, readers? Not a MAJ
woman or child would ever lose a Ger
put into government bank. Then VIII
not have them?
Got to be awful particular nowadal
to keep the courts from getting aftt
/ you. A Los Angeles, Cal, preacht
prayed that the Lord might vouchsai
/ saving grace to the city librarian
i cleanse her from sin and make her
!, woman worthy of her Office, whic
I made her mad and she sued him II
s slander. The preacher pleaded that
e prayer was a privileged communic;
: tion to the Almighty, but the judf
4 ruled against him