Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
GROVER A HYPOCRITE
PUBLICLY ADvERTISES HIS n.y.
POCRISY AT ATLANTA.
Not One Public Act of the President
Has Been Conspicuous As Tending
Toward Promoting the General Wei

President Cleveland said in his
speech at Atlanta. Ca:
I'VE shall walk in the path of pa
triotic duty if, remembering that our
free institutions were established to
promote the general welfare, we strive
for those things which benefit all our
people and each of us is content to re-
ceive from a common fund his share OF
the prosperity thus contributed. We
shall miss our duty and forfeit our heri-
tage if, in narrow selfishness, We are
needless of the general welfare and
struggle TO wrest from the government
private advantages which can only be
gained at the expense of our fellow
countrymen."
The sentiment contained in the above
is good, very good, but Mr.. Cleveland
has acted out the very opposite. What
act of Mr.. Cleveland since his inaugura-
tion has tended to promote the general
welfare?"
Does the establishment of the gold
standard promote the general well
fare?" If so, robbing the masses and
fattening the classes is Mr.. Cleveland's
idea of serving the general welfare"
Did the negotiations with foreign
bank syndicate to furnish gold to main
tain useless gold reserve at profit to
the syndicate of not less than $50, ,000, 600
thereby in addition piling gold prin-
cipal and interest debt on future gen.
erations, promote the general welfare" :"
or was it wrestling from the govern
ment private advantages?"
| Was the act of ordering out the fed
eral army to shoot down laboring men
by desire to promote the general
welfare or the welfare of the railroad
corporations?
Not one public act of the present ex-
ecutive has been conspicuous as tend
ing toward promoting the general well
fare, but rather to promoting the well
fare of trusts and combines, the banks
and money combinations.
The success of combinations of capi-
tai must come from the depression of
the welfare of the people. When coma
binations of capital are profitable tha:
profit must come from the ruin of some
other interest Combines live from rob-
bing the general welfare, and without
robbery they could not exist a day,
Mr.. Cleveland's course has been wholly
devoted to promoting the welfare of the
combinations Of capital, which neces-
sarily results to the detriment of the
public welfare 1t could not possibly be
otherwise.
After the record Mr.. Cleveland has
made by his every public act, favorine
special welfares instead of the public
welfare, it is not only cheeky, but an
insult to an intelligent people for him tc
hypocritically proclaim his devotion tc
the public welfare.
The people Judge a man by his acti
rather than by his words. If Mr.. Cleve'
land had followed in the footsteps OF the
immortal Jackson and seized the money
monster by the neck and choked the
life out of it, he then could consistently
call upon the people to sanction his ad
vocacy and practice of upholding the
public welfare. He has done the re
verse. He has rather choked the lif'
out of the public, laid waste the heritag'
of the common people and aided plu
tocracy to enter into the homes Of th'
masses of wealth producers and confis
cate them to their use and profit. TheI
to talk about striving to do thes
things which benefit all our people!
Boshi A man who will thus publicl.
advertise his hypocrisy should hav
been hissed from the stand, even thougl
he may, by some ill-fate to the people
hold the Office of chief executive. Tn
things that are Caesars should be rem
dered unto Caesar, but the things tina
. belong to the people they should de
mand and enjoy. If Caesar is not con
, tent with the things that are his. bu
seeks to rob, oppress and enslave tn
, people, then the sooner such Caesa
! encounters Brutus, the sooner tn
J people will enjoy their inalienabl
Southern Mercury.