Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-13
BROKEN PROMISES.
THE GOLD STANDARD PARTY HAS
NOT FULFlLEED THEM.
But Has Deceived stlae WOrkinG-man
For Years and he Has Been Left
Without Hope fnf@ Leaders

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campaigns or on election day, that the
care and protection of the working
men has been the special providence
of that party;. and as such, the grand
old party was the YOn1y simon pure
friend the workingtpan had. Let us
examine the truthfianess of this as
sertion. The care and protection of
the workingman means, if it means
anything, the care and protection of
his interests, intellectually, financial
ly and industrially, that he shall have
equal rights with his fellow men,
equal opportunities in life for employ
under which to labor, and an equita-
BILE share of the products of his toll,
for his compensation. 1t means more
than this: 1t means protection by leg
1slation against oppression and coer-
c1on; it means prompt aud just deci-
sion from courts, based upon merit
in a word. it meaus all that goes to
make up the highest state of citizen
ship among the working men of onr
nation, and carries with it that pros
perity and progress which is the essen
tia1 foundation of every true and hap
py home and fireside. Let the work
iugman take a short retrospective
view of the past. Do these conditions
exist! Have these fair promises which
have hpar hold for h,,4
Republican party been fulfilled? Rath-
er have they not been repudiated and
forgotten? Too well does the work.
ingman know that this is the case.
AS an example, during the late CAM
paign of 1896. great banners and trans
parencies were hung across the streets
in the manufacturing cities of the
eastern states with mottos "Vote for
Mckinley and higher wages" "Vote
for Mckinley and prosperity" "Open
the mills, instead of the 1nints." Mark
Hanna and his gold Standard crowd
was elected. What was the result to
you, my fellow working man: pros
perity did not come to you; your wages
were not increased but were reduced
twenty per cent, when they were al
ready so low that you were starving.
Neither the "mi1ls' nor the ''mints"
were opened. These promises were
made as vote getters and after the
votes were delivered the voters were
forgotten, and it was the rich mill
owners and money sharks who furnish
ed the $4,000, 600 campaign fund who
were thought of and rewarded by the
Ding1ey tariff bill. Thus has resulted
the kindly care and protection vouch-
safed to the workiugman by the Re-
publican party. An army of million
unemployed marching up an down in
the land asking for an opportunity to
work, evidences the kindly regard and
protection to labor by that party. And
what has been the attitude of the Re
publican party to organized labor?
Review for a moment the struggle of
organized labor for better conditions
in the great strong holds of Repub1i-
canism, Pennsylvania. during the
Homestead strike; the state militia,
the Pinkertons and the subsidized Re-
publican press of the state, all fought
nobly for their master, the corpora
tions.
The corporations and Wall street
brokers have long dictated the policy
of the Republican party and always
regardless of the interests of the work
ingman. In reciprocation they have
at their beck and call, the military
branch of the states to aid them in
crushing organized labor in its efforts
to secure an equitable share of its toll.
The struggle of the Cour. de-Leon
miners few years ago; the American
Railway Union strikers of 1894; the
great coal strike of 1897, all of which
were characterized with end1esss in
functions at the hands of corporations
under the guise of Federal Judges,
and their nefarious work eliminated
IN the slaughtering and wounding of
nearly four score of miners at Latimer,
Penn, by their corporation agents,
under Republican state government,
IN Republican county, acting under
an order from a Republican, court, as
so called deputy sheriffs. In fact the
whole power of the present Republi-
can Administrations has upheld and sus-
tanned those assassins, even to the ex-
tent of ordering United States Dis.
trict Attorney to attend the trial and
participate therein, ostensib1y to pro.
tect the. government from unjust
lclaims for indemnity from foreign
governments, but in reality to assist
in the acquittai of those mnrderers ir
order that the corporations may fee
more secure IN their so called s'vestet
fRights.1 efTea. 'sClt @9
X These are the methods. adopted By
1.-THE corporations, aided and abetted By
1.-THE Republican party and their crea
lures, who were once respected as Fed
Eerals Judges, bat who now run tl1ei
courts as though they were mere clerks
! for corporations; and in their eager
mess to assist their managers in crush
ing the spirit of labor. they usurp ii,