Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07
FAIRYIEW.

News is scarce and the atmosphere is perfect.
Mr.. Dunning and Martin Brookhart are stop
ping with your humble scribe. Mr.. Dunning
is going 10 Smith county, Kans.. to get some
household goods and stock. Mr.. Brookhart is
going on to Nebraska. They are both from
Wh;tehorse, Ok.
Mr.. Cummins has been sick this week but is
better at present.
Several neighbors sold their hogs this week
for $3.50 and $40, Mr.. Bud Hall being the
lucny man getting the highest price.
Mr.. John Smith arrived this week from Tex
as where he has been on drive for Fritzlen &
Davis. They brought up about $50 head.
There is a little town in the strip in which
there is a sign which reads Good chease fur
sail here" A passerby said he supposed sail
was spelled that way because the cheese had
shippers in it. VOx PoPULI.
We this week run across part of a speech of
the Hon. w. e. Gladstone, premier of Eng
land and a virtual leader of the English ma
ton. After reading it we don't see how any
honest man can hold out International agree
ment which is the grand rallying song of the
g. o. p. Nr. Gladstone laughs to scorn the
idea that they are going to give up the sure
system which supports them and will support
a posterity in idleness. We will append the
extract itself verbatim. 1t will explain itself.
1t is taken from the speech of Hon. X. F. Pet
tygrew made i'm "a:
suppose there's not a yearwhich passes over
our heads which does not largely add to the
mass of British investments abroad. am NJ
most afraid to estimate the total amount OF
the property which the United Kingdom holds
beyond the limits of the United Kingdom.
but of this am well convinced, that it is not
to be counted by tens or hundreds of millions
One thousand millions probably would be an
extremely low estimate. Two thousand mil
lions or something like that is very likely 10 be
nearer the mark. I"Hear! HEART L think I'M
der these circumstances IL is Father a serious
matter to ask this country To consider wheth-
er we are going to perform this supreme act
of self sacrifice. have profound admira-
ton for cosmopolitan principles. l can go a
great length in moderation in recommending
their recognition and establishment but if
there are these two thousand millions of mon
ey which we have got a broad. IT is a very SER
19us matter as between this country and other
countries We have nothing pay them;
we are not debtors at all; we should get no
comfort, no consolation, out of the substitu-
ton of an inferior material of q cheaper mon
ey: which we could obtain for less and part
with for more. We should get no con ISOLATION
but the consolation throughout thewOrldwould
be great tLaughter.1 This splendid spirit of
philanthropy, which we cannot too highly
prise-beecause have no doubt all this is
foreseen-would result in our making a pres
ent of 80 or 100 millions to the world 1t
would be thankfully accepted. but think the
gratitude for your benevoence would be mix
ed with very grave misgivings as to your wis
dom. have shown why we should pause and
consider for ourselves once, twice and thrice
before departing from the solid ground on
which you have within the last half century
erected a commercial fabric unknown in the
whole history of the world-before departing
and we'll consider and take no step except
such as you can well justify to your own un-
derstanding, to your fellow countrymen. and
London. Il