Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
REV. SAM JONES TALKS
GIVES HIS VIEWS OF THE PO-
LITICAL SITUATION.
Says Old Party Lines Are Fading Out,
and the Country Is Organizing on the
Brains and Common Sense of the
Common People.

For the past twenty years the rank
and file of citizens have given very little
attention to politics. Our rapidly de-
yeloping country, the various CONNER
cial and agricultural interests, have
commanded their attention, every man
has been busy with his own affairs
watching his opportunities in the busi-
ness world. We have literally turned
the governmental machine over to the
politicians, and for years the profess
sional politicians and tricksters have
manipulated things to suit themselves,
and all they had to do was to write out
their platform and write democratic or
republican above it, crack the party
whip, and the people fell in line. AS
long as the old governmental cow gave
milk enough for the family nobody
cared how many calves sucked, but
when there was not milk enough to
go in the coffee the question was raised.
The people have attended to their own
personal business and nave turned gov
ernmental affairs over to pot politi-
clans and tricksters until they have
managed things their own way until
the government of the United States is
literally in the hands of a set of politi-
cal stealers and government robbers.
The only question the average politi-
clan of to-day asks is: What plank
and what man will capture the most
votes?" The vote hunter has made ap-
preparations wherever he could capture
a vote, and every fellow who got scared
at the sight of soldier or gun during
the war, or who had a bad cold or
stumped his toe, has got his pension and
gone to town to whittle white pine,
while few of the honest soldiers are
supporting nearly a million of Uncle
Sans loafers and white pine whittlers.
The question now is how to get public
pap to suck. When the democratic
calves are sucking the republican calves
stand around the lot and bawl. When
the national election opens the gates
and turns out the democratic calves
every little republican calf rushes in,
grabs tit, shakes his tail and goes to
sucking.
| The people looking on the depleted
treasury, gazing on their property re-
| their grain and stock upon the market
at half price, pouring their hard-earned
money into the depleted treasury of the
United States, in heavy taxes, are be-
| ginning to look square in the face the
question of the absolute bankruptcy of
the United States unless something is
done. They have waited four years on
a wrangling congress, cross lifting with
each other and the President, and
bringing no relief. They have stuck to
old party lines till hope has died within
their bosom, and now almost every
thoughtful citizen in the United States
has got his ears backed and is prepared
to kick the filing out of any fellow that
cracks party whip over him.
/
The old party lines are fading out
and the country is organizing on the
brains and common sense of the COM
mon people: organizing on basis to
secure speedy legislation on the ques-
tions that most need immediate atten-
tion. looked upon this as the most
fortunate thing that could happen to
our great commonwealth. This is a re-
publican government. We need an in
telligent citizenship. To have this we
must have first free press, with brains
| and craftsmanship at the head, not
bought and bribed and dominated by a
party lash. but governed by patriotism,
intelligence and sense of right, instruct
Ing the people honestly and impartially
on the great governmental questions Of
the day The common people are be-
! ginning to think more than ever on
4 government questions; they are begin
ming to doubt, investigate and examine,
and the time is coming and ought
quickly to come, when the masses of
the people will cease to be driven into
line by party lash welded by corrupt,
selfish and designing politicians.
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