Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-05-27
CURRENT COMMENT.
Snap Shots at Prom inent Features of
the Political Parade.


the Political Parade.
Western republican papers are try
ing to make their readers believe that
Mckinley is in favor of free silver.
But the following extract from let
ter of John Sherman to the Brooklyn
Young Mems Republican club tells
different story. There can be no doubt
as to the opinion of Major Mckinley
on the money question. He is COM
.mitted in every form, every speech
and otherwise, to the republican policy
of maintaining the present gold coin
of the United States as the standard OF
value. He, in common with myself
and others believes that silver should
be employed as money, always, how
ever. to be maintained at par with
gold. The convenience of silver coins
for the minor transactions of life is so
manifest that no sound money man
would desire its discOntinuance; but
upon the primary condition that its
coinage should be limited and its pur-
chasing power maintained by the fiat
of the government at par with gold.
He believes, as do, that tariff should
be adopted that will impartially pro-
tect all American industries from un-
due competition with foreign produc-
tions that can be and ought to be
produced in the United States"
John Sherman's endorsement makes
him solid in the east, ana his own
silence appears to makes him solid in
the west What towards and dis
semblers ambition doth make of Ma
poleons in time of peace!
The Chicago Express remarks that
the Gould family have won on their
plea of non-residence and are released
from paying taxes on ten and half
million dollars which was assessed
against them last year. The case never
came to trial A states attorney mere
ly dismissed the matter and abandoned
the case Five suits have been filed
against the estate of Jay Gould and his
sons and daughters, to enforce the
finding of the commissioners of taxes
and assessments. The defendants
pleaded non-residence. When the case
of George Gould came UP for hearing
before Judge Pryer, in the special term
of the superior court, the corporation
counsel announced it had been de-
termined to abandon the suits. Judge
Pryer thereupon gave a judgment va
eating the assessments. If it had been
some poor chap hauled up for not pay
ing his dog tax or some poor girl ar
rested on trumped-up charge by some
blue-coated- brass-button policeman, it
would certainly not have been so mag
unanimously dropped.
The Montana republicans say that
hey are in favor of free silver, but that
they care a great deal more for the
success of their party, and will not
leave it undor any circumstances. -
Isn't that patriotism and loyalty for
you? They would rather go to hell
with their party than to heaven with
out it.
=, Samuel Gompers, president of the
| Federation of Labor, makes the follow
ing comment on Senator Tillman's
speech: His defense of the farmer was
masterful, and the ringing warning OF
coming events as startling as they may
| be truthful. >. Another great light
| had appeared He had spoken for a
very large constituency, it is true, but
for those who have to bear the severest
burdens resulting from the conditions
| of which he so justly cempl0ins-alas
| not word.
''The men and women in the facto.
ries, shops, mills and mines, the young
and innocent children whose tender
years are spent in the modern hell
holes, the great army Of the unem
| ployed as well as those who work on
i not boss, the farm, are factors which
Senator Tillman seemed 10 either over
+, look or ignore.
The new force in industry which
displaces labor faster than new indus
tries are founded, which renders +;
large portion of our fellow men ant
women 'superfiuous,' is a theme s,
| fraught with the question of human
existence that he who essays to speal
in the name of the oppressed and th'
! wronged and fails to appreciate thes'
great factors lays himself open to tn,
criticism Of ignorance of cause ant