Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07
ORGANISMS.
Sharon, October 5, 1896.

SuIIO q AutHDCI IIOiu ILLS Vicinity al
tended the Simpson-Long debate at
Harper. Our boys are satisfied with
Jerry's speech so far as l have
heard.
A gold dollar, or any other dollar for
that matter. since all are based on gold,
will now buy more property, including
silver, and more labor than ever before
in the history of this country; and this
increase IN the purchasing power of
gold has been gradually going on for at
least twenty years, yet there are men
who will say gold has not appreciated
In value. Rats
Senator Baker is not as good looking
as Chester. He said he was glad to see
his audience but he did not look like it
with his cold, Notwithstanding coun-
tenance and mouth turned down at the
corners. Altogether, and say it seri-
Ouly, he does not look as if he were a
safe man to trust great interests to.
Senator Baker said the democrats be-
lieve in closing the shops and factories
of this country and the populists would
like to have them sold out and distrib-
uted per capita. Never was q fouler
SANDER uttered against the populists.
While there are, of course, few cranks
among the popullsts as in all parties
who are liable to say almost anything,
no populist of any standing has ever
asked that the property of the country
be distributed among the people. We
do not even ask that the class which
has been especially favored by legisla-
ton give back to the people the wealth
unjustly filched from them. We only
ask that our laws may now be so chang
ed that every man shall have an equal
opportunity according to his means.
Equal rights for all; special privileges
to none"
All who heardthe senator will remem-
Der his saying that the free silverites
only found out in the last few weeks
that our money system is bad and his
effort to clinch the idea by relating the
story of the Irishman and the Jew.
And some of his party were unthought-
ed enough to laugh and cheer. How
ever suppose they were only cheering
the story and not the idea it was in
tended to illustrate. But it seems to
me there has been a good deal of criti-
cism Of our gold standard before 1.-The
last few weeks" How about Coins
Financial School published in the early
part OF 1895? This treatise was a thorn
In the flesh for the goldbugs and they
began looking for man with nerve
enough to attempt to answer it. They
finally found him in the person of Mr..
Horr, editor of the New York Tribune,
who went TO Chicago to answer MIR.
Harvey's (Coin's) statements. Al
though Mr.. HOrr represented the mon
led interests of the country and was
supplied with every facility to vanquish
his opponent which money could buy
or wealth could command, including IL
braries, records, clerks, stenographers,
type writer's and large staff of advis-
ers, yet he did not vanquish Mr.. Harvey
to any great eXtent-presumably be-
cause the facts were against him. Fur
Their, if remember rightly the Peoples
party said as early as 1891 that the fl
nancial question was the most impor-
tant question before the country. Yet
Mr.. Baker has the sublime audacity,
the surprising effrOntery to say "they
only found out in the last few weeks
that our money was bad"
The Senator also said that democrats
and Populists believe in leglslating for
foreigners. Well, what else are those
doing who legislate to maintain the
gold standard? 1t is more in the in
terest of the English bond holder than
in the interest of the laboring man of
this country.
Mr.. Baker charged the democrats and
Populists with hypocrisy in claiming to
be so much interested in the working
mans welfare. The hypocrisy of re-
publican leaders in this respect is no.
torious. They asked for a. protective
tariff IN the interest of labor and after
they got it proceeded to hire labor as
cheaply as possible, even encouraging
the 'pauper labor" of Europe to come
here and nnderbid honest American
citizens. If the republican leaders
really love the laboring man why have
they not kept the scavengers of south
ern Europe out of this country. Their
statesmen know we'll enough how to do
it and they had the power in their
hands until Cleveland was inaugurated
in 1898.
Free silver will not open mills" says
Senator Baker. All admit it will open
silver mtlls of the West. The miners.
teamsters, smelter men and many 9TH
ers will at once find employment. They
will earn money with which to buy our
Kansas farm products and clothing,
hardware, ETC., from eastern factories.
Business will then revive in eastern
mills and on western farms. Farmers
will send products both east and west
and prosperity will again abide with us.
Increased business IN one section will
cause increased business in other Sec
tions of the country, everyone will be
busy who wants employment and all
afforded an opportunity for content
ment and happiness. ]. 0. HAHN.