Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-13


and independence among the laborer
means check to corporate greed 'ant
ayarice. Hence. the corporations ant
trusts and the Republican party actins
as the tool of corporate wealth, canno
be expected to give permanent ane
honest relief to the workingman, wher
to do so means to surrender those sci.
boughten rights and special privilege:
for which they donate so freely.
Every effort, every method employed
by the Republican party in the cam
paign of 1896, smacks of the sordit
power of gold. Their motto of "Suc
cess by fair or foul means" was pur
sued by vigilance unsurpassed. The
very fact that the National Repub1i
can committee turned over 10O, 900 ,OO(
political documents printed in ten diff
ferent languages, and in addition tc
this prepared regular supplements fol
more than ?, 900 newspapers and main,
tanned separate bureaus to furnish lit
erature for commercial and travelling
men; a colored mans bureau; a wheel
mans bureau; a woman's bureau; a
labor bureau, and a shipping bureau
and this literature was scattered broad
cast, regardless of expense, through.
out the United States, and the ennis.
saries and agents of this tremendous
financial power, were employed on all
the highways and byways, and in
every large factory and commercial
establishment.
Contemplating this monster effort
to control and influence the minds OF
voters, we may stand amazed at this
unholy and corrupt power of money.
The size of the fund which kept this
institution in motion, may be imag-
ined; but the campaign fund reaching
into the millions was sufficient and
was furnished by those who expected
to profit by the success of the Nation
al committee; but the workingman
did not donate these millions nor can
they expect any protection or relief
from any party, practically purchased
by these corporations.
Can anyone deny that this is the
record and history of the Republican
party? Il is well dubbed "The Money
Political Party" And as an evidence
of the Endorsement by the Republican
party of that kind of practices and of
the corrupt uses of money in bribery,
debauchery and veritabIe commercial
traffic in the vote of free people, and
perhaps as a fitting climax in the
mastery of corruption. the Repub1i-
cans have purchased the National
chairman of that infamous campaign
and the recognized manager of that
party, a seat in the United States
senate.
The power of gold in American POI.
itics has reached its zenith. The work.
ingmen of the nation must rouse
themselves and stand together. They
can drive every tool of the corpora.
ton off the bench. They can put al
end to that legislation which robs the
poor man and fills the Golfers of the
trusts and combines; they can put ar
end to those conditions under which
honest men become mere helpless
slaves, and they can, if they will, build
an entire new sky oyer the future OF
their children.
Such is the efficiency of unity in
political effort. All wealth is the &C
cumulation of Drawn and brain, ot
labor crystalized into form to meet
the uses of the human family, and
the producer is entitled to an equitable
share of the product of his toll. The
Peoples Party re-affirms the divine
injunction that "The 1aborer is worthy
of his hire and should be protected
against the unmercifu1 competition
greed and oppression to which he has
been subjected by Inonopo1ies, origin
ated and fostered by the Republican
party, and to this end we commend tc
the consideration of the 1aborer a
comparison of the methods of protec
ton vouchsafed to him by the Repub
1ican party with the legislation and
execution thereof of the laws for the
benefit of the workingman, enacted
in his behalf by the Peoples Party
The workingman owes it to himselt
and his family and to his country tc
make an intelligent comparison with
au unprejudiced mind of the history
deeds and works of the party which
claims to be his friend. If this i:
done, there can be but one result. Il
will mean a n ut-pouring of ballots by
the workingmen for humanity, fo,
reform, for purer politics, for bette,
conditions for the 1aborer, for happier
homes, noble manhood, a pureI
wornanhood, and a happier childhood
a return to the land of the free ant
the home of the brave, instead of tn,
land of bondage and the land of tn.
slave.
Insurance Commissioner McNal
has made remarkable record" sal.