Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-08

has already become matter of publici-
ty and notoriety hereabouts among
those who have seen it, it will do no
harm to reproduce it in order that our
friends may know what kind of thun-
der the redeemers are using against US.
We publish the letter together with
all It's peculiar OF TYPOGRAPHICAL qualities
as follows:
MIN. Sherlock
Medison Lodge KS
Augusta, Kans, AZ 1895
Dear Sir in looking over Ny books l find
that have sent to Your town from Is to 30
| cars of Stone pr year and one year 81 cars that
was before Mr. Jerrey Simpson was sent to
Congrass- And think there has onley been
one car SHIPPED to Medicine Lodge since
| his first election. if You want quiet town
you people aught to Send him back to con-
grass or Make him governor of the State 1t is
| so Nice to live in quiet town. You want to
| LAZY all Sutch Men on theShelf and raise boom
don't let the papers see this or they Might Pub
| lish it Sterling
Do you see where the shoe pinches?
There is no more demand for Mr. Ster-
ling's product. Over twenty years of
gold basis and high tariff haye got this
western country fiat OH Its back. Say.
brother Sterling, how many cars of
| stone have YOU sent to Medicine Lodge
| since our Chester paraded his beautiful
form in and around Washington, D. c.?
How many cars have you sent to this
neck o'-the-woods since that great and
wonderful redeemer, E. N. Morrill,, be-
came the chief executive of this great
| state? And. by the way, do you see
any prospect ahead? You know that
the republican party is in the saddle.
confidence is restored, but conditions
are worse than ever before in the his
tory of this country. Mr.. Sterling NAV
have sent as many carloads of stone to
| this city as he claims to have sent and
he may not, but he would have shipped
many less had it not been for the bonds
voted for real and imaginary improve
| ments. But the reaction has set in and
with 2OO-cent dollar as a lever, the
city and the country in general are being
| squeezed so hard that it is almost i'm
possible for the people to meet the in
terest, to say nothing about the princi-
pal. Mr.. Sterling and his fellow re-
deemers have voted for and helped to
| prolOng this state of affairs. jerry
Simpson and the Peoples party saw
that the crisis was coming and they did
all that was in their power to prevent
it, but the great majority of the people
went off on an enthusiastic stampede
regardless Of what was ahead or what
the consequences would Re. A great
many people, like Mr.. Sterling, thought
that the defeat of Jerry Simpson and
Governor Lewelling In Kansas would
bring good times and in the fall of 1894
they tried the wonderful remedy. We
all know how it resulted. In this in
stance, Sterling, instead of selling one
carload of goods, sold none. Times
grew worse and will continue so to
grow as long as the people go chasing
after false gods and keep on worship
ping at the golden altar. Can we say
that we have been living under popu-
list lawsp No, the republican party is
responsible for every material
measure now in force.
But this is the kind of poppycock the
peoples party Is meeting every day.
Some scheming politician will plake
the invention and the jackals and ig-
noramouses like this fellow, Sterling,
take it up and circulate it without
knowing or caring what the facts are.
The time is at hand when such non
sense as the above piece of lunacy
should be relegated to the rear. We
need goou men who Will not be govern
; ed by passion and party pride but who
will earnestly study the problem of
cause and effect and vote intelligently
in accordance with the result of such
study. There are altogether zoo mary
men like this Sterling who feel that
they have been hurt but know no more
| as to what is hurting him than does
the orang-outang of the wilderness, land
like the drowning man they will grasp
at the first straw they have been made
to see IN thlr misguided imagination.
Mr.. Sterling and other passionate,
prejudiced men, this appeal is directed
TO you: adapt yourself to the present
situation, study these questions fol
yourself. don't try to belittie party OF
man because designing politician
has told you it is smart; but throw of
| pride, egotism and bigotry and try tc
learn something. Such letter as this
from the back-woOds of ''Arkansaw'
, would not be astonishing, but here in
enlightened Kansas we are supposed te
have progressed and improved over the
dark ages. We don't blame Mr.. Ster
ling for not wanting his letter publish
ed; we don't wonder that he is asham.
ed OF it. and if he don't soak his head
} in the rain barrel for at least twelv,
hours after he learns that the peopl.
here in Medicine Lodge have discover
: ed what consummate tool he is. ther