Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-24


! mighty oscillation of a mass which
his year has probably obtained con-
trolling proportions? Every man can
! answer to himself. If he has been an
| observer, if he has had interests that
! were affected; if he has felt hope 20
see greater justice done and has seen
that hope blasted; il he knows that
the general dissatisfaction has arisen
from the fact that party promises
made were broken to the people by
| party performances, he knows that
loon as the election was over and sue
sessful candidates installed they be-
same the servitors of the party and
The advocates OF a narrow and nom
progressive policy within which alone
there seemed to be an assurance of
selfish safety and partisan approval
GREAT TRUTHS NOTABLY LACKING.
During all this period we have
lacked great constructive admins
tration. No new social truth has
been put forward in an effective way.
While in all the departments of physi-
cal life there have been developments
| and achievements of ease and comfort
to the favored of mankind, in the still
greater and more important domain
OF social reform; we have stood still
Or retrogressed. 1t is not that the
people have not felt the STRINGS of
determination, that this inaction has
endured, but because of the rule of
the party which has largely con trolled
! men in and out of Office. 1t has be-
come a source of reproach to any man
that he should dare to renounce al
legiance to organization. Men have
been expected to submit their views
fC ha info -
though it is common knowledge that
conventions have been swayed to
views and declarations not the most
approved by the mass of the people
nor progressive for their welfare
IF the voices which have sounded
to us from every state in this Union
are an indication of the real feeling,
this year is the appointed time for the
people to assert themselves, through
such mediums as may give best prom
ise of the achievement of justice But
whether we are mistaken or not con-
cerning the general sentiment in the
United States, we have not mistaken
our own duty in Withdrawing from
the Republican convention, feeling
that it is better to be right and with
to be wrong with the majority in ap-
parent triumph.
MONETARY REFORM THE GREATEST.
1--WE hold that in the great work of
social evolution in this country mon
etary reform stands as the first requis-
ite. No policy, however promising of
good results, can take its place. Con-
tinuation during the next four years
upon the present financial system will
bring down upon the American peo-
pie that cloud of impending evil, to
aver which should be the first thought
of statesmen and the first prayer of
patriots. Our very institutions are
at stake. To-day, with rapidly In
creasing population, with widely
swelling demands, the basis of our
money is relatively contracting and
the people are passing into servi-
tude all the more dangerous because
it is not physically apparent. The
nation itself, as to other nations,
is losing the sturdy courage which
could make it defiant in the face of in
justice and internal wrong. From the
farmer and the tradesman to the gov
ernment there is apparent the same
shrinkage from giving offense, lest the
vengeance of some offended financial
power should descend The business
ment and his will, and the nation sub
mlts some portion of it's international
right, lest some mighty foreign cred
itor shall make destructive demands.
Where will all this end if the people
shall decline to assert themselves?
Where will it end if the older parties
in their determination to maintain
themselves in power for powers sake
alone shall refuse to recognize the
right and the hope of humanity.
CREDITOR NATIONS ATTACKED.
"This country cannot much longer
exist free and independent against all
the rest of the world, nor can its peo-
pie much longer be free in the noblest
sense of the term if the United States,
a debtor nation, shall follow a policy
dictated by creditor nations. We pre-
duce all of the necessar:es of life.
| Other nations consume our products.
In the race for existence it is a con-
slant struggle between producer and
consumer. Our present system of
money deliberately submits to the de-
sire and the profit of creditor nations,
leaving us in the mass and as indivld-
uals, prey to the money gathering
| and the deadly cheapening of the
old world. AS the debt to creditors
abroad increases on the masses of the
nation, the price of human production
on the farm and in the workshop is
decreased with appalling rapidity,
| exacting more and more from our citi-
zens to meet the given demand and
holding over their heads a threat of
the day when con6scation to meet
| their obligations will leave them bare
and defenseless.
THE only remedy is to stop falling
| prices, the deadliest curse of national
| life. Prices will never cease falling
under the single gold standard. The
restoration of bimetalllsm by this
country will double the basis of our
money system In time it will dou BILE
the stock of primary money of the
world-wiu stop falling prices and
will steadily elevate them until thew
will regain their normal relation to
| the volume of debts and credits in
the world. Bimetallism will help to
bring about the great hope of every
social reformer, every believer in the
advancement of the race who realizes
that the instability of prices has been
his deadly foe of our toilers and the
servant of the foreign interest gath
erer Bimetallism will help to bring
about the time when q certain ex-
penditure of human toll will procure
certain financial result
UNION OF ALL MEN INVITED.
Who among the great masses of our
people in the United States but feels