Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
JOIN IN A STEAL
The Popullsts Alone SolidIy Voted
Against the Recent Salary Grab
Cleveland VIII Vote for Mckinley
The Threatend Panic.

Well; congress finally adjourned,
and the history it left behind may be
summed up in foot-note by some fu-
ture historian. 1t proposed to do
nothing-and did it. However, the
republican congress is responsible to
the people for some things the demo-
cratic executive did-and which it re-
fused to pass bill to prevent.
The populists in congress declared
by voice and vote that issuing bonds
was a wrong and robbery-the re-
publicans indorsed the robbery by do
ing nothing to prevent it.
The populist party urged by both
voice and vote some measures of re-
lief They have proposed both finan-
cial measures and measures restricting
the corporations and combines that are
robbing the people yet these measures
failed to pass because the members of
the other party refused to support the
populists in their efforts to secure re-
lief.
The republican party passed steal
creased each congressman's salary 500
per month.
The democratic party gave it's con-
sent and meekly with it's minority
whined in "me too and voted for it.
The populist party solidly opposed it.
Which do you prefer?
The republicans and democrats lave
not passed single distinctively party
act (unless it was the Clerk Hire steaD
with their vast majority of the men,
bers composing the body.
The populists have secured the pas
sage of resolution to investigate the
bond deals that increased the peoples
burdens by Sz62, ,00OO 900.
The populists forced through the
senate a bill to prohibit the further is
use of bonds and placed the republican
house on record as being in favor of
bonds and bondage.
The populists by Offering to assist
the republicans in a tariff measure if
they would in return assist in the pas
sage of a free coinage measure showed
the utter hypocrisy of the republicans
in their pretended friendship for each
Which party's record meets with
your approval?
President Cleveland gives it out that
he and his cabinet will vote for Nc
kinney in case the silver men win in
the Chicago convention. He doesn't
wish to see the gold-bug vote divided.
He evidently considers the democratic
PARTY merely a Cleveland club. He is
the head of the party, and the cabinet
its hind legs
Speaking of the advantageous situ-
tion of the populists in the coming
campaign, the Twentieth Century says:
The party has very little money and
that is fortunate thing. Nothing
Injuries political organization more
than the possession and the expendi-
ture of funds on liberal SCALE Such
pecuniary resources are sure to create
a swarming band of needy adventurers
who prey upon the organism and desert
it the moment their own selfish ends
are attained. Another good thing for
the populists is the fact that the ap-
preaching campaign is to be an cduca-
tionai one in the strictest sense of the
expression. We cannot have too much
discussion. 1t looks as if many a ven
cradle delusion in the world of politics
is destined to be exploded in short or
der. We hear very little of the pauper
labor of England nowadays What
has become of that ancient and conse-
Grated bugaboo? The only resource of
the monopolists is to threaten to bring
about panic and this threat has been
held over the heads of the people Ike
a club for months. 1t does not seem
to have much effect. The people are
quietly and surely turning down the
gold monopolists. That by no means
implies the exclusive attention of the
people to silver. There are many
other things than silver in the world
and the voters are expecting declara-
tions upon other subjects. The peo-
ple's party platform will be broad
enough for all reformers to stand I'D
on.
Congress refused to restrain the is
sue of bonds-and as the gold reserve
is going to Europe at the rate of nearly
ten millions a month, Grover will prob
ably have another chance to make q
stake" upon which to retire from Of
flee. Shipping gold back and forth to
Europe is very profitable to the dealers
In gold. There are charges on both
sides for the use of the gold-and in
both places it lies stored up, useless as
far as the people who pay the freight
are concerned. 1t is a great game of
now you see it and now you DON'T
and the manipulators draw interest all
the time whether you do, or whether
you don't see it.
Even the goldbugs sometimes get
caught IN their own trap In presum-
ing on the interest of the people they
sometimes succeed in convincing them
too thoroughly. For instance, a re-
cent dispatch from Ashland, KY, says:
Col. A. w. Boscomb, one of the Iarg-
est tobacco planters in this section. is
having a queer experience with negro
laborers.
During the campaign just closed
there has been talk about silver dol
lars being only worth so cents. The
negroes have taken this literally. and
when Boscomb offered to pay them
In silver dollars. they emphatically OBJ
jected to accepting 50-cent dollars. and
wanted TO be paid in paper money or
vold.