Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-07

THE people pay the taxes; monopoly is exempt
Witness the war tax.
The state treasury is in better shape now than it
was at any time during the Morrill, administration
The Kansas Salt Works Co, has reduced wages from
$3.50 to $l3O per day. Republican prosperity is get
ting in its work everywhere.
LET thoroughly understand the initiative and
referendum and he will be talking it. It's one of the
vital principles of free government.
ABOUT the only reason offered for a change of adj
ministraton in Kansas this year is to give such scabs
as Mort Albaugh place at the pie counter.
The best thinkers of the age say that the time is
at hand when party names will be forgotten and
principles will be the only issue; it can't come too
soon.
| THERE any amount of men in this country who
protest against legazed robbery 1854 days in the year
and vote for it the 365th Men of that kind ought
to be robbed.
If you approve the work of McNall Boyle and Stry-
you ought to be honest with yourself and vote for
continuation of their policy, matter what your
politics may be-
| G1LLETT says hard times and the debtor
needs mercy at the hands of the courts God pity
the people of the Oath district if this corporation tool
should be elected.
| The people who long for reform, but give no sup
port to the papers which advocate reform like the
man who wants crop but will not plant the seed
Pittsburg Kansan.
HE Hutchinson Interior Herald, one of the strong
est republican papers in the district says that Ches
ter Long will be defeated and all the weinformed
republicans know it.
The lobby is the greatest to our legislative
bodies Direct legislation will abolish lobbyism and
those engaged in that nefarious business will get
a chance to make living honorably.
CAPITAL is shrewd enough to organize against labor
but labor is foolish enough to disorganize and com
pete Before laborers get justice they recognize
the efficacy OF the cooperative system.
The telegraph monopoly refuses to pay the war rev.
enue tax and yet it has made enough out of the war
to pay for this pittance century to come. Monopoly
is big hog and the people foolish enough to be
hogged.
SECRETARY ALeER is getting roasts from all parts of
the universe. Even old John Sherman has turned
his batteries toward him. Alger is guilty of gross
neglect and should be summarily fired. Please re-
member that Alger is member of McKinleys cabinet
Some men not interested in reform because they
believe they have plenty of this worlds goods to go
on. They may be right and they may be wrong but
granting that they right, they reason from sell
fish standpoint He is poor citizen who will not
help to elevate his race.
IT is admitted that the present administration is
the best the state has had and that is the first
that had the courage to compel corporations to obey
the laws of the state thereby saving to the people of
the state almast 100000 annually. Can anyone as
sign good reason for change?
The city of Atlanta has decided to own it's own wa
ter and light plants. The old parties in the South
improve every occasion to abuse Popusts but we
glad to notice that the cities all over the United
States have learned the feasibility of Populism so far
as municipal ownership is concerned.
THERE have been instances wherein farms have sold
for dollar under foreclosure and personal iudg
1hent hung the debtor for the entire debt But
since Mckay come the bench that kind of business
haS hona Elorn C.