Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-10

come when this Whole matter will be in
sestigated, and the bonds declared to
be illegal nd repudiated as such.
TWENTY WHY'S.

Which Republicans and Democrats Will
DO Welt tn Think About.
Why does it take lawyers to explain
the great principles of the democratic
and republican parties, while farmers
explain the principles of the peoples
party?
Why is 1t that members of the peo-
pies party can tell why they are Popu-
lists, and republicans and democrats
cannot tell why they are republicans
and democrats?
Why can Populists understand the
financial situation. but democrats and
republicans cannot understand it?
Why do Populist papers and speak
ers tell the people that they can IN
derstand the finance question, but the
republican and democrat papers and
speakers tell them that they can not?
Why do democrat and republican
leaders ask the people to take a po-
sition upon a question that they can
not understand?
Why do Populist leaders urge every
man to study politics. and the old party
leaders ridicule the idea of farmers and
laborers understanding politics?
Why do Populists try to learn the
people politics, and the two old parties
try to make them believe that they are
too ignorant to learn?
Why do Populists invite democrats
and republicans to come and join the
issue with them at their public speak
ings, but the two old parties refuse
Populists the same right at their pub
lie speakings?
Why should men vote upon issues
they do not understand?
Why is it that the democrats never
quote Lincoln on finance?
Why is it that the republicans never
quote Lincoln on finance?
Why not drop the legal tender clause
of gold by our law if it is the money
of the world Independent of law?
Why object to the full legal tender
clause and free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, if law
does not make money?
Why should a man want gold
standard that he never owns, to trave
| in foreign countries where he never
| goes, and objects to silver and green.
backs for fear he will get too much
while he and his family is double
| worked, half clothed, rough fed, ant
cannot pay his debts?
Why should farmers want higf
salaried officials, high taxes, high in
terest on the money, and low priced
| products to foot the bill with?
! Why should the farmer be in favo
of the government loaning money t.
national banks at one per cent. pei
| annum and not loan to the farmer a
any price?
Why do not religious democrats ant
republicans take Gods advice on usury
| if they cannot understand the finance
question?
Why do preachers not take such texts
as "The Love of Money is the Root o.
| all Evil" 1T is easier for a camel t.
go through the eye of needle, thar
| for a rich man to enter the kingdom
| of heaven" He upset the tables o.
| the money changers" Restore, / pray
ye. to them even this day, their lands
| their vineyards, their olive yards, ant
their houses, also the hundredth par
of the money and of the corn, the win,
and the oil that We exacted of them
/ Why does preacher serve God lef
| handed, but serve mammon with hi:
right hand?
Why did Christ favor the tramp anC
tramp himself, and oppose the rich ant
| our preachers take the reverse?