Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12

lOnC0 1AOIu LLio OLduC6. lDCI0 Is
every reason to believe that the repub-
lican party of Kansas is sadly and hope
lessly deMorrillized.- Oklahoma Cham
pion.
We hear a great deal SAID about
sound money which is claimed by the
gold bugs to mean gold. Such is an
insult to the memory of the Fathers
of the Republic-Kiowa Review.
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Municipal ownership of water works
means to the city of Clay Center prof
it of S5,7S5.S7 in thirty months, besides
a reduction of 20 per cent in rates to
consumers Welllngton Voice.
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Joe Ady, of Kansas, is the head and
front of 5,million- dollar scheme at
Cripple Creek. He wouldn't haye made
much more money than that IN the
United States Senate.-Kansas CITY
Star.
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A western Congressman who burns
the midnight oil getting up speeches
on the Venezuela, Cuba and Armenia
questions, earns the love and gratitude
of every gold-bug and bond shark in
Wall street.--Adyocate.
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The six senators that represent the
Peoples party in the Senate at Wash
ington, in patriotism and ability are
equal to any other six senators that
can be picked out of both the old par
ties.-Liberty (Mo) Herald.
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A Utah paper states that they have
two true blue silver senator's" How
do you know? Kansas was supposed
to have about that number too until it
was announced from his (Baker's) own
mouth that he had sold out to Wall
street.-Co-Operator.
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You old farmers are now going to pay
those exorbltant lawyer fees, and the
receivers fees in the advanced grain
rate of from % cents to 33 cents. Cor
porate OWNERSHIP of railroads is about
the thing. They make you pay what
ever rate they choose. The pops don't
believe in such doings.-Ashland Clip
per.
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You go to banker for money. He
gives you instead his note which he
tells you is money. You pay him in
terest on his own note. He also collects
interest on the same amount in shape
of a bond deposited with the United
States Comptroller of the Treasury
This is ''sound currency" Are you
going to vote for it?-Buzz Saw.
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Tom Reed has issued an edict that
no more territories can be admitted as
states for the reason that their United
States senators will be for free silver.
There was time IN the history of this
nation when no territory could be ad-
mitted which did not favor slavery,
but this did not kill the abolition of the
slavery cause, neither will the shutting
the doors of statehood by the east to
the territories kill the silver question.
1t will strengthen the cause, as has the
| acts of tyrants since the world be-
gan strengthened reforms. Kingman
journal.
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Hon. Jerry Simpson, who went back
to work on his farm at Medicine Lodge,
Kan, after his defeat at the hands of
the golobug republicans and democrats
of that State in 1894, seems to have lost
none of his old-tlme repartee. In an
swer to letter from an electric light
firm in Greensburg, Ind, inquiring if
the city of MedicineLodge was going to
put in an electric light plant, Jerry said
I'VE need one. but the light of burning
corn at Is cents bushel is sufficient to
enable US to read our mortgages. I'm
ter Mountain Advocate.
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1t is said that Senator TiIlman, of
South Carolina, took his pitchfork with
him to Washington. At all events he
arraigned President Cleveland and sew
eral of the leaders of both old parties
in way that stirred them up as badly
as if he had used a pltchfork. It is
generally conceded that he hit them
| just right. 1t is in order now for pop
ulists to organize pitchfork clubs all
over this country and go after the plu-
tocrats. We do not know of a more
popular implement than a pitchfork,
nor one that is more effective when
properly used.-Pratt Union.
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| About 25 Scott county farmers
bought five car loads of Weir City Kan
sas coal in the past six weeks upon
which the freight charges were about
S265, and the coal cost about S125. The
miner is paid out of the SIPS and the
railroad presidents and foreign stock
holders get their share out of the S265,
freight charges, contributed by these
twenty five 40 cent wheat farmers.
Some of these farmers vote against the
| populists because they want cheaper
freight rates by either having maxi
mum freight laws enacted or govern
ment control of railroads. This item
of freight on five cars of nut coal, the
cheapest quality, ought to open the
eyes of blind man to see where the
money goes.-La Crosse Chieftain.