Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-29

Feb. q. 1867. where you said, That
equity and justice are amply satisfied II
We redeem these bonds at the end Of
five years in the same kind Of money,
OF the same intrinsic value 1t had at the
time they were issued The bondholder
can demand only the kind of money he
paid and he is repudiator and extor-
tioner to demand money more valuable
than he gave?'
When the legal tender bill was be-
fore the senate in 1862, I find you ad-
dressing the senate on said bill in the
following language:
much prefer the credit Of the
United States, based as 1t is upon all
the productions and property Of the
United States, to the issue of any oor-
poration, however guarded and man
aged.
Do not all citizens hold their prop
erty subject to our unlimited power of
taxation? Do not all share in the bless
ings Of government and should not all
share In its burdens? Shall we infiict
loss only on those who trust and labor
for the government and relieve the sell
dsh, avaricious, idle, unpatriotic citizen
who will neither fight for, lend to, nor
aid the government
Now, II you were honest then, and
your position was true, is 1t not i'm
possible for you to be honest now and
correct in your convictions? You have
entirely changed your position. Either
you were false then or false now. If
making the bonds payable in gold
which were bought with paper at 80 to
40 per cent. discount in 1862 was rob-
berry, avarice and reputation, is it not
just as wrong today?
IF the legal tender quality of the
greenback which you fought for on the
floor of the senate forced the soldier to
receive the same for his services in the
army, why is it not good enough today
to pay the class you style the idle, un-
patriotic, who will neither fight for O.
aid the government?
Are you not Cleveland's right hand
bower, aiding and abetting bim in the
destruction of the very money you
helped to create?
If this is not true, why did you intro
duce the resolution, few days ago,
exactly on line Of the presidents mes
sage, which, If it passes. will destroy
our 500 million of legal tender currency
which has escaped the tomahawk of the
gold savages for so many years, al
though 1t bears the marks of the stabs
of the Wall street pirates to this day.
Il am glad you fellows have come out
Of the brush SO that people can get at
you. It's so plain now the deception
has about run its course. The bloody
shirt racket, the rebel cry, the force
bill, the robber tariff, the horse thief
Democrats. McKfnleyism, Clevelandism
and Shermanism. Monroe doctrine
bonds, sound money, or the wall of war
can't stop this battle on the financial
question.
"And while the gold bugs of both old
parties are hugging each other and
working together, they win some day
find the masses are getting on to their
Job The time is not far of when the
people will be compelled to Join hands
and work and vote together, or submit
to industrial slavery
'Now is the tirle 10 work. The battle
is on, the enemy is advancing upon our
freedom. Don't give up. You may be
hard up. but If the gold worshippers
succeed, you will realize that times are
good now. This is the age of trusts,
combines and monopolies. and they are
all opposition to existing conditions
come together and protect our form O;
government as well as our. homes.
A. G. FORNEY.
Belle Plaine, Kansas.