Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-02
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The condition of the bimetallists of
the country at the November election.
is very properly defined by VIM ] Bry-
an in his address of Nov 5, in which he
says that the bimetalllsts have not been
Vanqulshed hut simply overcome. This
is the situation exactly; the friends of
free silver and the enlargement of the
circulating medium are as dIligent and
as earnestly engaged In the struggle
now as they were before the election.
They were disappointed but not dis
couraged. Though seeming defeat it
was remarkable victory When it is
remembered that they had the combin-
ed powers of wealth and ignorance to
battle against it is not difficult TO ac-
count for Bryan's defeat. But the con-
flIct is on; education is the necessity.
The people, within four years, will
learn lesson from APPRENTICESHIP
though it will be- and they will then be
convinced that dear dollar is the ad-
vance agent of the usurer, the coupon
clipper, the monopolist and all other in
dlviduals and institutions that absorb
labor and It's products without tender
ing an equitable return. Four more
years of oppression and intense suffer
ing Will teach majority of the Ameri-
can people to love their families more
than their party and instead of voting
for protection to the mlllionaries and
the scoundrels in foreign lands, they
Will vote for protection to themselves
and their loved ones. But these will
not be the only means of education:
those whose hearts are in the cause for
the elevation of their fellowmen and
the betterment of their country will
supply those who have not given the
matter serious thought, with informa-
ton and literature and if their efforts
are rewarded with as much success dur
Ing the next four years as they have
been during the four last past, the we
tory will be so complete that the gold
standard will be buried beneath such
an avalanche of votes that all time will
never resurrect it.
History will repeat itself and the
question of debtslavery will be dispos-
ed of as was that of human slavery.
But in this day and age of our country
the ballot will settle what demanded
the bullet, the sword and the bayonet
in those days. The question of aboli-
ton of human slavery required years of
agitation before the people were con-
vlnced that it was the country's need:
and so the question of debt-slavery and
financial Outrages must be tolerated a
certain amount of time before the peo-
pie learn that their abolition is the
cause of civilization and free people.
But the end will surely come and it
will be final when 1t does come. Only
one year ago, Plutocracy sneered at the
mention of free silver and predicted
that it would have no substantial fol
lowing in any part of the country: to-
day the same question destroys their
peace and happiness by day and haunts
them by night. It therefore follows
that If the attitude of the money pow.
er on this subject can be changed from
passive ridicule to serious irritating
alarm i'll the space of one year, the
same agitation four years longer means
the utter humiliation of a most dan.
gerous and suicidal financial policy.
No, not one who labored in the fielG
of financial reform during the cam
paign of 96,will be found taking back
track in any subsequent conflict. The
war IS on! We suffered our Bull Rur
in 1S96,we will meet our Appomattox il
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