Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-31

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ySA ward. The New
KSSS28X York World, one
| 35S{NOI, of strongest
| N8152SW IsN opponents of Mr..
eHSXGSH&i * Bryan in the late
Presidential cam
Paign, comes out in the following edito.
rial and really admits that the very evils
exist which a few weeks ago it denied.
It says:
''Carl Schurz and William L. Will
son are men everywhere honored for
| craftsmanship, for absolute sincerity of
mind. for exalted patriotism.
'.It is significant that these two men
have on the same day felt it incumbent
upon them to deliver to the country the
same strenuous message of counsel and
warning.
"That message in brief is this:
There are real wrongs, real grievances,
real expressions to be righted. Behind
the late outbreak of Populism there
was a cause deeper than any reckless
sire for change. 1t would be Irrational
to suppose said Mr.. Wilson, ''that all
the millions of American voters who
massed behind the flag of free silver
were conscious advocates of repudia-
tion and disaster. or less patriotic than
the mass of their countrymen"
The fact that Mr.. Bryan received
so large vote as he. did," says Mr..
Schurz, sis a result which certainly
was not owing to the popular ignorance
and bind partisanship alone" but tto
the existence of discontents not entirely
groundless, the causes of which should
be examined with candor, care and
courage"
All this is what the World earnestly
urged upon attention early in the cam,
paign. But for the existence of real and
grievous wrongs the elements of discon-
tent dominating at Chicago would have
been powerless to control party con-
vention or to enlist even a respectable
support for their cause.
And the real grievances, the actual
wrongs that cry out for remedy, are not
far to seek. There is no doubt that in
this republic, based as it is upon sim.
p!icity and ideas of equality before the
law, there are growing Inequalities OF
privilege and increasingly offensive en-
croachments and vulgarities of the rich.
The trust combinations are fostered
by tariffs that protect them from for
eign competition. They grow every year
more arrogant, more despotic and more
oppressive in their exactions, yet the
| laws against them are not only no:
enforced. but no honest effort is made
| to enforce them.
The Attorney Generals of two admin.
istr ations -one republican and the other
| emocratic-refusedt to do anything to
check the rapacity of these conspiracies
of greed against need. The one neg
| lected the law. The other Knocked and
jeered at it, and was promoted for his
pains.
| In the same way the people have
seen state legislatures of both parties
dominated by corporations SO that No
measure of relief from wrongs done by
corporations could become a law. They
have seen legislators purchased or cor
rupted by the political influence of cor
porations. They have seen great rail
road combinations put their own agents
| into the Senate of the United States.
They have reason to believe that rich
men have even bought seats in that
body.
In brief, money is too largely usurp-
ing the power and influence of manhood.
The people may perhaps exagerate the
facts in their fear of pIutocratic rule,
| but they ought to be no such facts fo1
them to exagerate
| Word was received Tuesday, stating
1 tho cad paUc of ho Of VIII Il