Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-25
A FEARFUL SHOWING.

What Are We Going to DO About the
Robberies?
The earnings and substance OF the
people are absorbed by the trusts. COM
bines and monopolies. as a sponge ab-
| serbs water.
The bank monopoly robs through in
| terest. The railroad corporations rob
by excessive charges. to pay big sal
aries to horde of railroad presidents !
and other Observation-Disclosures the mil
lions to pay themselves interest and
! dividends on watered stock and fraud
ulent bonds.
The telegraph corporations rob the
people of millions by charging more
in England and other countries own
ing and operating the lines.
The street railways rob the people
OF millions to pay interest and divi-
dends on stocks and bonds, four-fifths
of which is wind and water. These
| railways are capitalized at an average
| of S125. 900 to the mile, while the actual
| cost does not exceed an average of $1O.-
900 to the mile.
The Standard Oil monopoly robs the
| people of millions for oils.
Then comes the steel trust, the leath-
| er trust, sugar trust, and whole brood
| of other trusts, corporations and mo-
nopolies, each and all preying upon the
| honest and defenseless earnings of the
people to the tune of millions of dol
lars annually.
! The land monopolists get in their
work, and not only absorb millions in
rents, but deprive more than one-half
| of the people of homes, their natural
| inheritance.
| No wonder that in America there
are more than four thousand million
aires averaging three millions each
| Is 1t any wonder that less than one
per cent. of the people own more than
all the rest, while it Is estimated that
not less than three millions of able
bodied men are tramps and paupers,
or bordering on that condition-to say
nothing of the women and children
depending on them for food and cloth
ing and homes?
Mr.. ingalls,. Republican senator at
that time, proclaimed in his great
/ speech in the senate in 1891 that more
than million of men were seeking
work and unable to procure 1t. Since
then times have been much harder
and the number and suffering of the
poor has been greatly augmented
More people are being thrown out oil
employment daily; debts are piline
up. private, state and national.
What have the Democrats and Re.
publicans done to relieve the situation
Nothing. Instead of relief, monopolies
trusts and combines have increased am
flourished as never before. What dc
the Democrats and Republicans pro.
pcse to do to relieve the people? Moth.
ing. Instead Of relief. they pile ur
more bonds and add to the already
unbearable burden laid upon the shout.
ders of the toiling masses. The strux.
gle. upon the part Of the masses. for 8
bare ekfsfeuce is becoming 1ercs. How
is It possible under the conditions i'm
posed upon the people by the policy
OF these old parties for them to pay
these enormous sums extorted from
them annually for interest and monopo-
listic profits. and at the same time live
and preserve the sem mblance OF liberty,
prosperity and happiness. to say moth
ing OF the enormous principal? Mo-
nopoly has squeezed the Juice from the
lemon until 1t Is about dry. When II
refuses to yield any more juice. then
| what t?-Representatiye.