The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-10-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

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Wasered stocks and wildcat money.
That is the latest from the sound
money" crowd.-Independ
About the time that the trusts be-
come too independent to fill the re-
publican campaign .bar'f', that
party will begin to think about taking
steps against them.
Speaking OF Roosevelt as a>dead
shot, it must not be forgotten that he
has done. wonderfully we'll IN seeing
how near he could come to the trusts
without hitting them. = Johnstown
Pa. Democrat.
The drastic measures which At
torney General Philander c. Knox
has instituted against the trusts and
the vigor with which he is prosecuting
them recalls the dictionary definition
of his first name, "Philander- toy
or daily
The republican leaders say that
taking the tariff off OF trust-made
articles would not kill the trusts, but
they are quite sure that such policy
would cripple the republican party
and lessen the campaign funds
Bryan's Commoner.
Judge a. n. Ellis OF the supreme
court died last week and the scramble
for his place began almost before the
last breath was out of the body and
was settled before the grave was filed.
Kansas republicans are rapid in ao-
tion.-Topeka Observer.
Chairman Babcock says, "The re-
publican party has a record on the
trust question that was made in con-
gress. Quite right, and that's just
what the people are complaining
about and just what the republican
party is trying hard to hide Bryan's
COmmoner.
No one will criticise the secretary
OF the treasury for wanting to help
supply the country with money and
avoid a panic, but good many peo-
pie object to the method of having
him supply it to the banks without
interest while every one else who is
short has to put up dearly for it,
Hutchinson Gazette
Maysville (Mo. Herald: Cam
paign orators tell US that we should
vote for protection in the interst of
our own factories and not those of
Europe. Yet when the time comes
to reciprocate those factories sell
their goods cheaper to Europe than
| they do at home. How long will it
! be until we will have our eyes open?
The withdrawal of Speaker Hend-
erson from the race for congress has
called attention to the trust question
| in the most forcible manner. The
trusts are menace to the prosperity
and happiness of individual republi.
| cans, as well as of individual demo-
Gratis, but the people are strong
enough to remedy the evil if they will
resolutely undertake the rk.-Par-
sons Eclipse.
| Why, asks the Omaha WorId-Heraid,
Is the American citizen required to
pay $3.50 per 100 pounds for galyan-
lied barb wire, and $3.50 for panied
or vanished barb wire per 100
pounds! This same barb wire Is
sold by the American manufactures
TO the foreigners for s2.25 and 81. 80
per 100 pounds. Here is differences
of 20 and 40 per cent. in favor OF the
foreigner.
Hastings (Minn.l Democrat: A
few hundred millionaires have nOu
SO far been protected that they con-
troll all Important lines in trade, and
industry, in this great country aud
have the consumers completely at
their mercy. They even compel
Americans to pay more for their pro-
ducts at home than foreigners pay
for the same products iu foreign
markets.
Say, did you know thai things are
panicky; that the secretary of the
treasury has had to put out $780,
000,0 in the hands of the big
bankers TO relieve the strain? Mark
you, the secretary doesn't get any in
terest from the bankers, but these
bankers do get the interest from the
people. Now, isn't this a great sys-
tenn where the people are taxed out of
their money until things begin to
pinch and then the government turns
the money. free of charge, over to
the banking trust to loan back to the
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