Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-02-03
THE CAMPAIGN Is OVER, SEE.

The Wichita Eagle has broken loose
again, now that the campaign is over, :
and begun publishing Populist editcri-
ais. During the campaign nothing
could have induced the Eagle to allow
such articles as the one we have taken
from its last Thursdays issue and pub
lish below, to appear in its columns
We have no fault to find with the senti-
ment expressed in this article but 1t
looks very inconsistent for the Eagle to
father it. During the campaign it has
done all in Its power to establish the
same conditions in Kansas which now
exist in New York. The fellows who
enslave the poor of our country are the
ones who elected Mckinley and the
EdgIe made strong fight to deliver the
vote of Kansas to this same outfit.
The roar, however, is refreshing. 1t
follows:
II Is HE'LL.
Gold is the god of the New Yorker.
Because Kansas refused to worship the
New Workers. god, in holding that
many other things are as good as gold,
that the sweat and blood of toll should
be considered as of some value, the
New York papers have for months de-
rided Kansas and scorned It's people.
These writers have exhausted their vo-
cabularies OF invective for which to be-
little an honest, enterprising and pro-
gressive people. They have, in the in
terest of their god, slurred and slam
med, spit upon and execrated the very
dame of the state in their endeavors to
discredit and cripple, and all because
Kansas would not fall down and wor-
ship the golden standard erected by
New York, 10y Its dependencies and con-
stituencies. To New Yorker the un-
pardonable sin is the inability to pay
debt, the highest mark of distinction
and greatest honor the possession of
gold. No matter how the gold obtained
its possession is the one indispensable
requisite to church or state, to society
want of it is-hell. In New York the
other day, man named William Fem
was thrown into prison for debt. These
worshippers of gold who have such
barbara law in their statutes yet point
to Kansas as wanting in intelligence
and progressiveness. This man, SAYS
the World, whose sole offense is that he
owes money which he cannot pay, was
thrown into prison, where he lay until
he could get bond for bail. This Sc
cured, he went over into PENNSYLVANIA
to get work to discharge his obligation.
His time elapsed and the bond being in.
sufficient to discharge the debt, he was
arrested, put in irons and taken back
to New York and thrown again into
prison, where he still lies, unable to
pay unable to get out. Habeas corpus
proceedings being resorted to, Judge
Beekman held that the outrage was reg
ular and legal, and that he must re-
main helpless, doomed felon, until
his creditor was satisfied. This is no
romance, but an actual fact, hideous
wrong and relic of barbarism practiced
under the laws of people who criticise
the intelligence and honesty of the peo-
pie of Kansas. Gold is said to be the
root of all evil. In New York it is the
trunk and branch also, and the entire
plan of salvation. The price of the vir-
tue of its Dlen and women, the value of
their virgin daughters, the worth of
their preachers. and all, are measured
by money, and still these prate about
Kansas honor. With gold their city
government can be bought, and often
is, outright; by it their state legisla-
lures are debauched and It's highest
courts commanded, and yet their jour-
nails and statesmen, their financiers and
politicians all howl over the degeneracy
of people who have set the pace for
nearly every progressive step taken by
the country IN the past quarter of a
century. The question in New York is
not what he is as man, but what as a
man he is worth in money. Is 1t any
wonder that the Orator of the Platte d
that man from tbs free, wide prairies
of the west got upwards of SIX millions
of votes inNovember by simply holding
that Gold is not GodP