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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
IEGERsoL ON THE STRIKES.

We referred briefly last week to Rob-
ert j. lngersol's statement In regard TO
the striking miners and we this week
publish. some of his statements. The
republicans who will come out as plain.
ly for the American laborers as Mr.. In
gersol does in the following, are very
few these days:
1.-The question of wages for the coal
miners ought to be settled by the en-
ployers. and it would be il the employ
ers were civilized.
lit IS very easy to ascertain what
wages ought to be paid 1t is easy to
lind how much it costs for good. whole
some food. for decent clothing. for rent.
to take care of the children. When
this is found it is easy to say what wag-
es should be.
when men work all day and just get
enough to keep life in them so that they
can work the next day; when nothing
can be saved; when old age can have
only rag and a crust; when youth of
industry ends in poverty and want, it is
about time tor the decent, the intelli-
gent, the humane to assist the children
of toll.
II do not blame the miners for strik-
ing. They must strike or starve. All
L blame them for is not acting together
Every miner in the United States
should strike, and then if they demand
ed only the reasonable they would sue
coed
My sympathies are with the men
and women who tOil-t0 whom the fu-
ture promises nothing but work and
Want-nothing but failure at last.
LAS the employers are not civilized
enough to act fairly, advocate gem
eral strike-a claim for fair and reason
able wages, and hope that all miners
Will haye sense enough to join. l
know of no other way for them to pro-
tect themselves. If they are reasonable
vast majority of the people will be
with them. So | say, success to The
strike.
If employers import laborers who
will work for less than an American
can live on, then say stop the impor-
tation, and if such laborers come here
on their own accord, then | say by leg
islation send them back and stop their
coming.
II believe IN protection to American
manufacturers and to American labor
ers''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

The republican papers
ought to get together and
agree on the cause of the re-
cent strike. Some say it is
because of the democratic
tariff law, others say it is be-
cause the laboring people are
too extravaganza and don't
save their money, while there
are a very few who say that
1t is because times are so good
that laborers think they
ought to have unreasonably
high wages. They are all
too dishonest to tell the truth
but they haven't sense
enough to get together on
one proposition. Hard times,
low wages and voracious, I'M
principled and damnable cap
italists produce strikes. This
is the long and short of it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28


HE Cresset quotes the BIZ
BILE on the matter about the
poor always being among us.
But we'll wager all the pros
perity we have that nowhere
between the lids of the good
book can you find any justifi-
cation for those who Cypress
the poor, even though they
do it by using the Church as
a cloak. The bible also con
dennis usury but the Cresset
never refers to that greatest
of sins. Practice the bibles
teachings and we will have
Populism.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

The practice of interview
ing republican merchants and
inducing them to say that
times are getting better,
which the republican news
papers have instituted, is not
at all original. The nation
al republican committee and
the New York Sound Money
League instructed them to do
it. The millionaire robbers
are making a desperate effort
to make the common people
believe they are prospecting.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
SEXTON,

We are still advertising for success
full rainmaker.
Miss Annie OFT is attending the Med.
icine Lodge normal.
j. L. McGrath and son Rollie made a
flying trip tothe Salt Plains last week.
Miss Lottie Howard, of Dry Creek,
visited few days with Mrs. r. III Clay
last week.
Mrs. j. q. TalIaferro has gone to the
strip to visit few weeks with her
mother.
j. L. McGrath went to Kiowa recent
ly, and came rolling home in a brand
new wagon.
ID. S. Angel has his steam thresher
running in Oklahoma. and came back a
few days ago. ostensibly to start up his
horse power here but in reality to see
that fine girl baby that was born in bis
absence.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

BOB INGERsoL says that
the miners must strike or
starve. Lutte Axline says
that they strike because
times are good and they
think they ought to have ex-
orbitant wages. Of course
Bob Ingersol don't know
nothin.r
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

WE take the following terse state
ment from Living Issues, the leading
reform paper of Utah, published by
that thinker among thinkers, Warren
Foster, and invite our republican
friends to read it carefully. 1t may be
that Some of them will suddenly awake
to their wo-begone condition. We es-
pecially invite certain republican edi-
tor in the south part of the county,
who didn't get the post office, to read it
twice and once more and if there is any
meat between the lines we hope he will
partake OF it freely. If, down deep in
his heart it don't strike responsive
chord, then certainly the animal called
man is retrogradlng:
1--WE are IN favor of allowing the fools
who think prosperity has come, or that
it will come, to indulge themselves in
the delusion as far as they like. TIE
ostrich. it is said,when danger appears.
hides its head in the sand and makes
itself think the danger has disappeared.
We. however, feel disposed to apollo
gize to the ostrich for using, its name in
connection with Mckinley prosperity
fOol.'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
Reasons Why Chamberlain's Collie.
Cholera and DiarrhOea REM
edy IS the Best.

L. Because it affords almost instant
relief III case OF pain i'll the stomach.
collie and cholera morbus.
:. Because 1t is the only remedy that
never fails in the most severe cases of
dysentery and diarrhOea.
3. because 1t is the only remedy that.
will cnre chronic diarrhoea. -
4. Because it is the only remedy that
Will prevent bllicus collie
+ D. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure epidemjcal dysentery.
6. Because it is the only remedy that
can always be depended npon in cases
of cholera infantum.
Z. Because it Is the most prompt and
most reliable medicine in use fer bow
ell complaint.
s. Because it produces no bad re-
suits.
8. Because it is pleasant and safe to
take.
10. Because 1t has saved The lives of
more people than any other medicine
in the world
The % and soc sizes for sale by j. X.
Young Drug Co.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

WE have read great many republl.
can papers In our brief journalistic ca
reer but the silliest thing we have ever
seen in any of the sheets referred to
was statement in last weeks Medi-
cine Lodge Cresset which we quote YER
batim, as follows: STRIKES occur only
during good times" Was anything be-
fore printed on paper which was more
devoid of truth! No honest man who
has an ounce of brains will entertain
such IN absolutely ridiculous state
ment. Nature, herself, teaches US that
1t is false, to say nothing of history.
Strikes are not inaugurated when Ia
borers are getting justice, they are put
into force at such times when wages
are so low that laborers can exist longer
by remaining idle and not wasting their
energy, than by working hard ten hours
each day and receiving little more than
enough to buy a square meal. Among
other reliable (?) statements which the
Cresset makes is one that the late strike
was not caused by reduction in wag
es. This is simply untrue. At the
time the strike begun every leading
daily paper in America In scare head
lines conveyed the intelligence to the
public that big reduction in wages
forced the difficulty. In some instances
they were reduced to so cents per day.
Every man who reads a newspaper
knows that what we say in this connec-
ton is true. There never was a stllke
in American history that was not en-.
forced by low wages, and to say that
strikes are evidence of good times is SO
extremely silly that anybody who will
endorse 1T must convict himself of be-
Ting natural born fool. History is
against him, theory is against him.
common sense is against him. If
strikes prove that the people are blessed
with good times, there must have been
an abundance of "good tines during
Cleveland's administration and there
was no reason for McKinley's election.
The statement is as rotten as the brain
from which it emanated. In these
times laborers endure as long as they
can. They will put hope in promises:
strikes are inaugurated when the
promises are not fulfilled and when all
hope is gone. These are cold, stubborn
facts, and no one but confirmed idiot
or most constituencies liar will claim
that strikes occur in prosperous times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
CEDAR TOWNSHIP PRIMARY.

The primary caucus of the Peoples
party voters of Cedar township will be
held at the usual voting place on We'd
nesday, September l. instead of Thurs
day, September 2. on account of a pic
mic which will be held on the End. Ev-
cry Populist i'll Cedar township will
please note the change. a township
ticket will also be nominated at this
meeting. A new township central
committee will be elected at the pri-
mary. c. f. WARE,
Chm. Twp. Cent. Com.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

Every farmer, laborer and business
man of Barber county shoHld read the
Topeka Advocate, the foremost reform
and agricultural journal in Kansas.
The Advocate is also very thorough on
congressional and state news. The
subscription price is one dollar per
year, but the publishers have made us
a clubbing rate whereby we can furnish
both the INDEX and the Advocate one
year for S1.25 cash in advance. Re-
member this applies only to those who
pay one year in advance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
DEAR MONEY VS.. PROSPERITY.

There are many things in the way of
economic and political problems which
are unsettled, but one thing has been
settled beyond successful dispute, i. e.,
there can be no lasting and substantial
prosperity under financial system of
dear money. We have examples of
crumbled nations in all ages-all trace
able to monetary system which al
owed few men to fix the price of the
dollar and to concentrate the wealth of
the nation. Concentration of wealth is
but a natural consequence of coin basis
and dear money. Without these there
could be no concentration. The cap
italists have practically won their bat
tie when the dollar is made so dear that
it Expresses the producer. No form OF
slavery Is so complete and so severe as
debt slavery. 1t rules with a rod of
iron and strikes terror to the husband
mans heart quicker than does the bay
Onet. This is the reason why the cap.
italists and money spectators choose
this form in preference to chattel slav-
cry.
But we diverse. Before the Ameri-
can people can get on a solid basis. be-
fore they can get on the right road
which leads to individual success aud
happiness. they must learn that a sys-
TEN of dear money is more dangerous
to the liberties of the masses than
standing armies in times of peace.
Partisans can disagree on all others
jects but they must necessarily, if they
desire to be honest, agree that there can
be no success, no content, no happiness
and no prosperity among the American
producers and labOrers, as long as their
continuous services will not secure the
necessaries and comforts of life. AS
long as mans labor will not command
sufficient amount in dollars and cents
to feed and shelter his body that man
cannot be prosperous either physically
mentally or financially. This much we
will all admit to be true no matter
whether we are republicans, democrats,
POpuliStS, socialists or mugWumpS.
Gold monomaniacs may shout prosper
lty but it is only frenzy. There are
men who will become intoxicated by
party prejudice just like others will be
put in the same condition by bad whis-
key, but no sane, intelligent man will
claim that his countrymen are prosper
Gus when starvation, enforced idleness
and dlsmay are staring them in the
face.
Cheap money plenty of it and proper
ly distributed is one of the principal
elements that enter into the recipe to
produce good times. To make the rec.
lpe complete government ownership of
all public facilities should be added.
Nothing else can do it. We may wag
along in our present ,deplorable condl-
ton for time, we may take stimulants
to keep our courage up. but after the
few brief hilarious moments have pass
ed we will find ourselves in a worse con.
dition than before. And so, under the
prevailing system of finance and gov.
eminent, If 1T continues, we will reach
the bottom after awhile. 1t has beer
the history of all nations and America
cannot escape it. The only preventive
is for the American people to awake
from their slumbers and put into prac
tical force the lessons taught them b.
their forefathers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

If the gold finds in Alaska
continue much longer. the re-
publican party will be advo-
eating the demonstration of
gold and the adoption of a
diamond standard. That
party never will favor any
substance which is plentiful,
to be used as redemption
money.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

HE Cresset is correct when
it says that the INDEX claims
that law fixes values, inter
est rates, etc" But we do
not claim that law is the ex-
elusive 'fixer." In the mat.
ter Of fixing values of pro-
ducts, especially, various
agents participate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

If congress would do away
with redemption money one
great step toward financial
reform would have been tax
EN-, and a burden would be
lifted from the hearts of the
people. To redeem one form
OF money with another is a
good way to perpetuate debt
slavery.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

HE republican way of
proving that money is plenti-
full is to say that you can
borrow all the money you
want if you can give satisfac-
tory security. This proves
nothing. 1t is admitted that
a man can borrow money if
he has the right kind of col
lateral and enough of it, but
the fact that so much securi-
ty is required is proof with
in itself that money is scarce
and hard to get. But a bet
ter way to determine wheth-
er money is scarce or plenty
is to examine the price Of la
Dor and products. lie the
price is good money is plen-
ty;; if the price is poor money
is scarce. AL economic writ
ers agree on this proposition.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

ONE of the busiest and most earnest
workers in Congress is Hon. J. d. Bot
kin, congressman-at-large from this
state. He is the author of bill intro
duced IN the house, to establish postal
savings departments, to encourage saw.
ings among the people, to furnish them
safe and reliable place to deposit their
idle funds, and to put into actual use
money OF the country. OF course it is
not to be expected that congress, as at
present constituted. Will consider this
measure fayorably but we are glad to
note that Congressman Botkin is labor
ing so earnestly 10 behalf of his constit.
uency in spite of the enormous and de-
termined opposition.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
THoUGH republican paper

THoUGH republican papers
dispute it, it is a fact that
owners of manufacturing in
stitutions and mines have re.
duced wages and numbers of
laborers since McKinley's
election. It is not true that
laborers receive as much for
their work as they did a few
Years ago.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

IT is announced that Maj.
}. K. Hudson will soon go to
Alaska with a view to pros
pect in the Klondyke gold
fields. The Major is practic-
ally out of politics. He went
to bucking Boss Leland and
his head was soon severed
from his body, politically
speaking. In view of al the
circumstances, we believe
Hudson shows good sense by
going to Alaska. He is one
OF the e. O. p. has-beens.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

PROSPERITY item from the topeka
Capital. Cresset please copy:
Fort Smith, Ark. July 2l.-A shock
ing case OF restitution came to light In
this city yesterday afternoon. In an
old shanty within the shadow of the
United States jail lying upon a pile of
straw and covered with rags, was found
Mrs. John Haurer, the widow of a once
well known German resident of this
city, almost dead with malarial fever.
In another corner lay two scantily
clothed corpses. They were the bodies
OF Mrs. Haurer's children. one SIX
months old the other four years. The
children had died from disease, expos
ure and starvation. In the hut were
also found Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. Haurer's
mother and three living children, all of
whom were fast yielding to the pangs
OF hunger. Mrs. Haurer was removed
to hospital, where she will de-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

You can't pick up a daily
paper without seeing an &C
count of families starving to
death or suffering for the
necessaries of life. Yet
there are a few who will
claim that everything is
''lOvely."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS.

The following townships will hold
their Populist nominating conventions
on Thursday, September 2-the same
day on which the primaries will be held !:
Elm Mills, Mingona
Elwood, Nippawalla.
Moore, Sharon,
Cedar Turkey Creek.
III there are any other townships
which Withhold their nominating con-
ventions on this day they will confer a
favor 10y reporting, through their COM
mitteemen, at once. Township officers
are elective annually.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

EVERY law which Expresses
the weak and favors the
strong is unjust and should
be wiped out existence. A
just government will protect
the weak from the ravages of
the strong.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

The Cleveland-B kin
ridge element seemed to dom
mate the democrat conven-
ton of Kentucky. That
sounds rather bad.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
FRANKLIN.

We had little sprinkle last Saturday
night.
Byron Brattain came up from the
strip Friday to visit his sister, Mrs. Mel.
lie Roessler. He returned home Satur-
day.
G. d. Moomau is up from the strip.
Messrs. Martin and Roessler took a
load of fruit and vegetables to Pratt
last Friday.
Robt. Tilden and Douglas Martin
went to Pratt last Thursday after
some cattle and returned SATURDAY..
See Woodward for bargains in Dry
Goods
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

The man who claims that
times are better now than
they were a year ago, does so
to create political thunder.
He couldn't argue the propo-
sition five minutes on it's
merits.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

You may hunt the world over and
you viii not find another medicine
equal to Chamberiain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel COM
plants. 1t is pleasant. safe and relia-
BILE. For sale by j. r. Young Drug
Co.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
Low RATES AND HOT wEArHER.

are here. A trip to Colorado doesn't
cost much how, and you may be COM
Portable in a cooler climate. Apply to
agent Santa Fe Route, or to w. j.
Black, G. 2. a.. Topeka. for rates and
a Colorado Summer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sub
mitted his currency MESA ge
to congress on Saturday just
before adjournment. Finan-
cial legislation goes over un.
til the next regular session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28
vAGARIEs OF SUGAR.
Topeka STATE Journal.l


The sudden advance of ten points in
the price of sugar stock yesterday on
the strength of the news that the tariff
conferees of the house and senate had
reached an agreement shows how little
is actually known by the general public
about the sugar schedule and its effects
on Che trust.
The people have been told all along
by eastern newspapers pretending to be
conversant with the situation that the
rates fixed by the house bill were not so
advantageous to the sugar interests as
those>in the senate amendment. This
was offered as an explanation of the
steady advance in the price of sugar
stocks since the schedule was changed
by the senate.
When, therefore. it was announced
yesterday that the senate conferees had
been compelled to recede frora their
amended schedule and accept the house
rates it was reasonable to expect that
the price of the trust stock would de-
cline. Instead of doing so it Jumped
up $40 per share.
The language of the sugar schedule.
embodying as it does lot of verbage
about Dutch standard" polariscope, y
"centrifugals'', etc, etc. which nobody
understands outside of the initiated
seems constructed expressly to deceive
The sugar tariff seems to be built on
the principle of the Africans trap
which was warranted to catch coon
a-comin' and agoin', the coon in this
instance being represented 10y the con-
sumner of sugar. When an institution
already paying large dividends on an
issue of stock amounting to more than
500 100000, is enabled TO sell that
stock at premium of S34 a share, and
can then advance an additional SO in
one day, there must be a big rake. off
somewhere.
If other stocks had advanced in pro-
portion the circumstance might have
been attributed to the near approach of
a settlement of the tariff question. But
they did not so advance. The situa
ton, then. to an outsider, must appear
about like this: Either the house rates
are better for the trust than are the
senate rates or else the spectators
have tip That the senate schedule will
| finally prevail.
If the New York papers are to be be-
lieyed, it is notorious fact that the
action of the conference committee has
been known in Wall street before any
where else, all through its sessions.
The people are rot likely to know
anything about the matter until it is
all settled and thew begin to- nav for if.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

IT is easier to starve in idle
ness than to starve at hard
labor. This the principle
upon which strikes are based.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

BANK failures, business fail
ures and idleness are more
prevalent today than they
were last year at this time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

The Appeal to Reason, published at
Glrard. Kansas, by J. A. Wayiand, is
the foremost socialist journal IN the
United States and one of the best edu-
Gators in circulation. We have num-
Der of sample copies at this Office for
distribution. Come in and get one.
The subscription price is only 25 cents
a year IN advance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

In his currency message to Congress
President Mckinley says that our mon
ey is good now but should be put on an
"enduring basis" That means that
money Should be made scarcer and
more precious. Congress will prob
ably follow the presidents recommen-
dations at the next session.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-28

Noble q Case are headquarters for
finished lister shears, factory made with
bolts ready to put right onto your lister
for only 1928 each.