Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-27
AGAIN.

The Cresset is ever on the alert and
always eager to get in good word for
corporate greed. Last week it had
this to say:
The INDEX seems to think that Sen
ator Lands deserves great credit for
attempting to secure the state sugar
bounty for the cane haulerS. Out on
such political buncombe. The facts
are that under the original bounty law
of Kansas, the sugar mill of this city
should receive 2 cents per pound, and
if it could secure this amOunt-Whlch
is Justly due 1.-THE cane hauiers would
receive their pay in full Instead Of about
80 per cent, and the mill would be kept
in operation in Medicine Lodge. We
mean what we say when we say cane
haulers would have been paid in full.
because the Iowa bank people agreed
that labor bills should be paid in full
first if full bounty was allowed. aud
then they would come in second under
their assignment. But Senator Lands
did not favor that plan; that would
assist the mill as well as the farmers
and he could not Injure the industry
and at the same time pose as the
friend of the farmer. We hope the
farmers will get their money; every
cent If possible; and if not all. as much
as they can; but at the same time
cheap demagOguery don't go.
The Cresset is right when it says we
think that Senator Lands deserves
great credit for attempting to secure
the state sugar bounty for the cane
haulers," and more than that, we think
our farmer friends should be grateful
to him for his efforts We are well
aware of the fact that the Iowa bank
submitted a proposition to the legisla-
ture by which said bank agreed that
the creditors EeSe should be paid pro-
vided 2 cent bounty was appropriate
ed-a thing to which they have no
more right than the man in the moon.
Look this matter squarely in the face
and what do you have? Here comes
bank and a sugar mill company and
propose to pay their honest debts pro-
vided the taxpayers of the state give
them double the amount thereof, Or
more. Great Heavens! has it come to
this that the state must hire corpora
tions to pay their debts? How many
farmers are there in this part of the
state who will jump at the chance to
pay off their Indebtedness if the legS-
lature agreed to donate them twice the
amount. We feel safe in warranting
that every one of them would answer
aye to the proposition. Of course Mr.
Lands opposed the banks proposition
and he has the approval of his constit-
uents for it. Such plan of comprO-
mise would be unreasonable, unjust
and outrageous. Unclothed of all finely
spun apologies it would be robbing the
citizens of Kansas to enrich an Iowa
bank and a class of people who say
they are too fine haired to become citi-
Zens Of America. Senator Lands is
far too honorable to resort to any such
foul work and we are proud of it.
The Cresset has a peculiar idea of
what it takes to ''injure the industry"
Lands has done nothing that would
in the least tend to ''injure the indus
try" and the Cresset knows it; he has
done what he, as an honest man and
honorable legislator, was bound to do.
and that was to help the farmers out
as far as possible without plunderIng
the state. When it comes to taxing
the people to build up usurious money
lOaners it is time that the parties inter
ested enter protest.