Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-19
HANNIBAL BIMETAlLIC UNION.
NOT MISSED A MEETING SINCE
BRYAN WAS NOMINATED.


BRYAN WAS NOMINATED.
Their New Hall Dedicated An Address by
Hon. Champ Clark.
The union mentioned above has
not misseds meeting since Bryan
was nominated. They own agrand
hall at the recent dedication of which
Hon. Champ Clark spoke as follows:
'1 once heard man preach who
knew more about theology than alb
out grammar. After reading a pas
age of Scripture, he fhut up the
Bible and said:. Brethren and sis
ters, the whole gospel is all squz up
in that one text So it may be truth
fully stated that nearly the entire
theory of democracy as to the fnan-
cial conduct of the e vernment may
be squz up into the short, terse
phrase:
More money and less taxes
We are for the free. unlimited
coinage of silver, chiefly because
there is not money enough; and we
are for cutting down the taxes be-
cause more money is taken from the
people in that way than is necessary
for the economical administration of
public sffairs- which is the limit of
taxation always fixed by democratic
statesmen.
Economy IN the public expenses
that labor may be lightly burdened,
is certain to also be an issue in 1900:
for economy in expenditures lies at
the root of all lasting and widespread
prosperity.
"Thele may be what the doctors
would class as sporadic cases of pros
perity IN this country now.
81 have no doubt that the small
)coterie of distinguished statesmen
who recently had their rendezvous on
Jekyl's island-otherwise known as
the recreation ground of mnlti-mil-
lionaires-are prosperous: but that
any general and abundant measures
of rosperity has coma to the great
body of the people is a proposition
that can not be maintained by any
evidence at hand.
There are two ways of propagat-
ing prosperity among the masses:
First, by passing laws wise and
just so that they may receive more
money for their labor; second, to cut
down the taxes to that less of what
they do earn shall be taken from
them by the strong arm of the gov
ernment.
1T Is astounding to study the ap.
preparation bills of the tifty-ffth
congress and to undertake to COM
prehend what democratic member
felicitously termed the riotous total
expenditures That is phrase
which will live in literature and in
history. 1t was not riotous total
it was wicked and wanton waste Of
the peoples money; for never let it
be forgotten that dollar means a
hard days labor from the rising of
the sun to the going down thereof by
an American citizen somehow some
where.
THE fact that the original billion
dollar congress. the fifty-fret, ap-
propriated $1,O35,6SO, 1O9.94 had a
great deal to do with hurting the
republican party from power; but
the fifty-fifth out-Hsroded Herod
by appropristing the vast sum of 81,
$50, ,890.016.2S. 1t staggers the i'm
agination; it exhausts the mathemat.
zeal powers OF the mind to compre.
hend it.
"The entire volume of money of all
sorts in this country-gold, silver.
nickle, copper and paper-has been
generally estimated at about 81, 800
600, 900; and here comes the fifty-fifth
congress and votes away the entire
sum in two years.
Republicans will not practice
economy in the public expense, fol-
they care not how heavily labor is
burdened.
'No people upon the face of the
earth can long stand this awful drain
upon their resources, their energies
and their toll, and as suie as grass
grows or water runs they will, when
they clearly realize the situation
drive from power the party which sc
shamefully squanders their substance
and abuses their confidence"