Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-02
DID IT COME YOUR WAY,

The republican party promised the
people of the country during the cam
paign that if Mckinley should be cleo
ted confidence would be restored and a
great wave of prosperity would immed-
lately spread over the land from ocean
to ocean and from the Lakes on the
North to the Gulf on the South. The
publican press told the goodpeople Of the
United States that the hard times were
not caused because Of any act the dem
ocratic administration had done (be-
cause they admitted that the Cleveland
administration had followed republican
tactics almost as closely as would re-
publican president) but the unrest and
financial stringency was caused for the
reason that confidence was disturbed
and that capital was frightened because
Of what NIGHT HAPPEN under an anti
republican administration. Thus they
reasoned that when McKinley's cleo
ton takes place the long anticipated
Confidence would spring from his hid
ing place, Capital would flow from. Its
secreted vault, produce and labor would
command high prices and everything
would be one continual round of peace,
contentment, happiness and prosperity.
A majority of the voters accepted the
theory and on the 3rd day of November
elected the Prince of Protection, Pros
pcrity and Sound Money to the most
exalted position within the gift of the
people. An inquiry is at this time,
therefore, pertinent, timely and fitting.
Have the conditions of the promises
been fulfilled? Has Confidence begun
his journey; has he visited the humble
husbandn al in the common walks of
life the same as the coupon clipper, the
money lOaDer and the bondholder.
Has such been the experience of the
people of Kansas and Barber county.
Reader. has it come your way? DO you
find yourself in much better condition
than you were before the election? If
not, the republican party has deceived
those who voted for Mckinley and the
platform on which he was elected, and
if the people do their duty they Will
never again be ensnared by false prom
ises from this party. For ourselves,
we can conscientiously say that the
much talked of wave of prosperity has
not yet visited the anxious sufferers of
this vicinity and it seems to us the time
is already past when the same should
have been here according to the figures
on the schedule board. Remember, the
good times and prosperity were to fol-
low immediately after McKinley's cleo
ton, because the gold standard is now
with us and all that was required was
confidence, The capitalists wanted
| to be assured that it would remain
| They have the assurance that it will re-
main four more years at leaSt,and there
| is no earthly excuse why even one VI
Uncle Sans children should not have
his portion Of the prosperity.
But at this writing it is wofully alb
sent. We have our idle arroies the
same as we had before the election
Misery, Servitude, crime and starvation
will be without parallel during thu
coming winter and the republican party
today stands convicted of deception
Republicanism is on trial; she has 81
far refused to redeem her pledges anC
all indications point to continuation
of such refusal. The day of reckonin,
will come and with 1t will come the ex
ecution of the culprit that is now re
ducing the American people to serrdom
The republican party has betrayed thu
people the last time.