Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-16
HAZELroH.

The Bryan free silver club was wide
open and running on time Saturday
night. John j. King was the first
speaker to entertain the crowd and he
kept them thinking over the silver ques-
tion for about 45 minutes. speaking en-
tlre'y from the standpoint of farmer.
John used some very convincing argu-
ment, and some that will not soon be
forgotten by those permitted to hear
him. 1t was the first time a Hazelton
audience ever had the privilege of hear
ing him talk in public and all were con-
vinced before he was through that he
had made tbs silver question one of his
chief studies from the way he handled
it.
j. F. Gamble was the next man to
take up the argument In favor of the
peoples rights. and to say he did the
subject justice is putting it mildly. Mr..
Gamble Is very mild speaker but he
uses arguments that cannot be refuted,
and does it In such way that no one
can take exception to his manner of
saying it. About the only criticism
that could be made on his talk was that
not being accustomed to talking in pub
lie, he was to some extent embar-
raised, but the language was excellent,
his illustrations to the point, his quota
tions from leading republicans strong
and his talk of the kind that Is calcu.
| lated to win converts TO the cause of
| right as against the money power of the
| country.
After MIR. CANDLES speech Mr.. S. N.
Loudan, publicly stated that he would
meet any man in joint discussion on
| the silver question, the tariff question
and the question of British supremacy
of this nation. And we predict right
here that there IS not one of Mark
Hanna's gang that will accept the chal.
lenge and undertake to hold up either
the gold standard, the high tariff or the
cause of England but if they should We
predict that they will feel like they had
been struck by good sized cyclone be-
fore he gets through with them.
Some of our gold standard friends il
HaZelton have, in the last few days
had an object lesson on the lasting ben
efits of the gold standard. 1t was this
way: The HaZelton Roller Mill Co
and the State Bank of Hezelton haG
several men employed at good salary
and have had for several years. think
in the fall of 1894, they found it neces
sary to take off one or two men and Il
reduce the salaries of some, it not all
of those retained. Then a few day!
| ago they found it again necessary tt
take off some I0Ore men and reduce tht
salary of those retained. Now those
men would talk of the great advantage
they had in the gold standard enabling
them to buy so much more with thei
salary than they could hope to do under
free silver, but now it begins to family
dawn upon them that under the presen
system, they, like others, are being re-
duced in their salary to correspond will
the low price paid for the things they
have to buy, and also that under tn,
gold standard they are liable to los,
their jobs and not have any salary witt
which to buy those cheap goods; and i
this don't open their eyes so that theN
can see that it is only a question O
time and not very long time at tina
when they will be working at as low
wages as the farmers are getting TO
what they raise, then they don't de
serve any better things than they ar,
liable to receive, provided they, will
the millionaires, succeed in continuing
the present system for a few more
years. But then there are still few
men that are SO firmly and completed,
married to the old republican part,
that they would vote for its candidate
if they were advocating the destruction
of our present form of government
However we give our Hazelton goIt
standard friends credit for being of
much better class of citizens than tina
and would not be surprised on election
day to have every man here vote TO
free silver and better times.
CITIZEN.