Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-03

There is something very significant
in the fact that CoXey got twenty days
in Jail up in Washington city for Sleep
ing on the grass, while Miss Flagler
only got three hours for killing a little
negro boy. Both were sentenced by
the same judge. Oh. yes. we hare a
country where all are equal before the
law. 1t ought to make Americans
blush.
A Seattle woman asked to be COM
mitted to the insane asylum, saying:
I've got sense enough to know that I
haven't any" What a great pity it is
that some of the voters in this country
haven't got even that much; or, if they
have they don't exercise it when they
come to voting. The workingmen have
been fighting trusts, corporations and
combines for years, while they vent
right along and voted the same ticket
that the men did who owned the COM
bines and robbed the workingmen.
Our readers will perhaps remember
that several months ago it was dis
covered that some rich corporations
were robbing the city of Chicago of
thousands of dollars worth of water by
having tapped the city's water mains.
If it had been a poor man that had
stolen piece of meat or a sack of -four
he would have gone to Jail with little
ceremony; but how is it with the afore-
said rich corporation? Why, they
have not even been arrested, and prob
ably will not be. Only a few weeks
ago they put man and his wife in Jail
| for kissing. in one of the eastern states
but they were poor and had no pull
with the authorities.
THE sentiment in favor of the cleo
| tion of senators by direct vote of the
people has grown very rapidly in the
last few months. and proposition OF
that kind would probably receive ma
jority of the popular vote in every state
as the case now stands.-Globe-Dem
crat.
| All of which is due to the agitation
of that question by the labor organiZa-
tions and the peoples party. All the
peoples party has got to do is to keep
right on in the middle of the road and
| if the old parties don't do what the
| Omaha platform demands it will be but
short time before the peoples party is
large enough to do it itself.
Figures gathered by the agricultural
department show that the number OF
the horses in the United States have
declined within two years from 1896
S02 to 15,124,057, while their value per
head has fallen from $61 to $42 Since
1898 the loss on the value of horses in
this country amounts to 2.000, 900
AS the most of this has been borne by
farmers. perhaps they can get even by
applying electricity to agricultural
work. Globe Democrat.
And that is about as near as pluto
cratic paper ever comes towards 3olv-
ing an economic question. A loss oil
| 1892 000, 900 on horses, to the farmers OF
this country is not so small thing as
to make light of. 1t means great deal
to the men who are engaged in the most
| important business there is in this
country. 1t means also, as prices for
other things have fallen almost pro-
portionately, that the men who hold
! the dollars, notes and bonds in this
country have been enriched about to
the extent of losses which the farmers
have borne. But then, most of the
farmers voted for it, and they ought
not to complain.
The recent letter of Senator Wolcott
advising the republicans in Colorado to
stick to the party. silver or no silver,
is exactly in line with our predictions
all along. Senator Shoup has written
similar letter to the Idaho repubIi-
cans. and Pettigrew was made to stand
up and eat his own threats by TIE state
convention in South Dakota. Il all
goes to indicate that so far as the bosses
are concerned, no difference how much
they thre7ten, when the time comes for
them t. act they usually curl up on the
floor and act the part of the "yalIer
dog" or course we can only predict
what the rank and file will do. AS a
rule that element is more Independent
than the place hunters. although in the
past 1t has been afflicted with the