Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Everybody knows that the eastern
democrats and enough of the western
and southern democrats to make ma
jority in the party are in favor of a
gold standard on the Cleveland and
Carlisle plan. Nearly every democrat
who is fighting for free silver inside
the party" expresses himself willing to
abide by the action of the party, both
as to candidates and platform. In
other words the minority free silver
democrats say they will abide by the
decision of the majority gold bug demo-
Gratis. The logical result of this will
be gold standard platform, or a strad-
die, with gold bug candidate. These
will be supported by the free silver
democrats. This goes to prove that
the most of the free silver democrats
so-called think more of a party that
is serving Wall street than they do of
principle and that they are actually
| helping the gold bugs by preventing
many honest sincere free silver men
from leaving their gold bug party, and
joining a genuine free silver party.
This is exactly the position that is be-
ing occupied by such men as Bland
| and Bryan. They are doing more harm
to the silver cause-more to prevent
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
than any gold bug in the democratic
party.
The plutocratic press frequently
raises the cry of paternalism when it
| lacks an argument against the owner
| ship of railroads and other public utili-
ties. The fact is the United States
| bears the distinction of doing more for
corporations and getting less for it than
any nation on earth. 1t was the rank
est kind of paternalism to give the rail-
road rporations 215 1000, 900 acres of
land and $64,000,O00 in bonds but the
plutocratic press doesn't say anything
about that That's their masters, you
! know.
All this talk about international BIZ
metallism by, arrangement, is farce.
The only way to secure international
bimetallism is to declare for free and
unlimited coinage in the United States.
According to Mr.. Carlisle's own state
ment this will bring it about. He says
there is not a gold standard country
but what is using silver as a part of
its currency" That is the key to the
situation. They are using 1t because
they have to have it. All the silver
using COT sries have to have it also.
Hence all til countries use more or less
| silver and are compelled to have it.
Now Carlisle says if we declare for free
silver the world will dump its silver
here because it can get more for 1t.
There's where the gentleman is mis-
taken. The nations of the world will
do no such thing because they can't
| spare it, and in order to retain it they
would have to follow the United States
and place it on equal terms with gold.
The courts seem to be running this
country. One man changed his opinion
within sixty days and that change set
aside a law which provided for the col
lection of $30,O00.000 or $40 1000, 900, a
year. Here the constitutionaIity of a
law that was passed in Difference to the
will of at least three-fourths of the
people in the United States, is decided
by one man, and 1t was necessary that
he should reverse decision of his own
made not sixty days prior. This is
closely followed by decision that in
cases where the law will not reach the
people an Injunction may be issued
which would promote the contempt of
Hottentot, and then man be thrown
into jail for contempt, without trial.
Things are coming to pretty pass and
there's going to be trouble In this coun-
try one of these days.
There ought to be constitutional