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BAKBER COUNTY INDEX.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1900.
One Year ... $1.00
Six Months .50
Three Months .25
PAINTER & HERR, Publishers.
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
Oppression emanating from
a king is no worse than op
pression emanating from a
court. Our courts are our
masters.
Business failures through
out the United States is on
the increase. They are going
all the way from 220 to 400
per week. '
Gov'. Stanley made a whole
lot of noise and gave vent to
much boasting about what he
would do with the infamous
Klondike, but the thing is
still runuing in full blast. Cy
and his crowd called the gov
ernor down.
It requires fully twice as
much of the products of the
farm to buy wire and nails
than it did one year ago. If
the country keeps on prosper
ing at the same ratio a few
years longer the farmers will
surely be "out of sight."
The recent great advance
in the price of paper has op
ened the eyes of publishers.
They have gotten advanced
far enough to learn that pa
per is manufactured at less
cost now than ever before and
that cost of production is in
significant compared with
what it costs the publisher.
A government paper mill
which would furnish paper
to publishers at cost would
be a nice thing and they
could have it if - they would
put in a little time advocat
ing it.
If tlie country were on a
sound financial basis with
an irredeemable cur
rency, not composed of one of
the precious metals exclusive
ly, the commercial world
would not get wild every
time gold fluctuates to a high
premium,as it does now. Talk
about gambling dens and hell
holes! This nation is at the
back of the worst one in ex
istence. It robs 70 millions
of people who are innocently
forced into the game. If men
will be punished according
to the sins they commit, the
rich man's cries of agony in
the lake of fire .won't be a cir
cumstance to what is in store
for the Wall street culprits
and their aiders and abettors
in Washington.
There never has been a po
litical party and there never
will be one which will not be
come corrupt in a long lease
of power. It was so with the
democratic party and it is so
with the republican party.
Whenever a political party is
in the ascendancy and its
prospects for continuous suc
cess are good, all the scabs
and ofl-sco urings of humani
ty flock to it and find places
at the public trough, and, as
a rule this element are the
most unfit to hold positions
of public trust. They are ut
terly selfish and unprincipled
and have never any concern
for the public good. For this
reason alone, if for no other,
ought the people have the
power to make and unmake
their own laws. Representa
tive government .is a failure.
Theire .aw too many environ
ments surrounding the repre
sentativei and political -parties
;are too easily controlled.
A iew people .can be corrupt
ed, (but .pie ; whole . people
Freight rates have advanc
ed from 25 to 50 per cent.
Times are getting better at
rapid gait.
; There is very little differ
ence in the underlying prin
ciple in the wars in South
Africa and the Philippine Is
lands. Each is a war of con
quest on the part of the ag
gressor. The liberal contributions
from all over the country . to
the late General Lawton's
widow is commendable. It
will make her financially in
dependent in her declining
years. But it is to be deplor
ed that the widow of a pri
vate who sacrifices his life in
the country's service, is
scarcely ever assisted. We
suppose it will ever be thus.
t It is all settled now that
the reports given circulation
against some of the officers of
the 20th Kansas are false.
An investigating committee
has found that they were
without foundation. The
committee was appointed for
the purpose of exoneration
and they were careful not to
give to the public any unfav
orable evidence against the
idolized officers. If you go to
war, go as an officer, or get
on the "inside," at least, as
soon as possible.
If every public servant
were elected by a direct yote
of the people and every law
enacted by a direct vote of
the people there would not
be one-tenth of the corrup
tion and injustice in the ad
ministration of public affairs
as there now is. We do not
believe that there is one out
of 100 sane menr who will dis
pute this statement, yet at
least 90 per cent of them will
refuse to vote for a system of
direct voting and direct law
making, simply because tfiey
are wedded to the party.
The republican row in the
First congressional district is
quite interesting. When Cur
tis was nominated in 1898 he
was assisted by the Bailey
forces and a written contract
is now made public, signed
by Curtis' friends, in which
Mr. Curtis is bound to retire
in favor of Mr. Bailey in 1900.
But Curtis ignores the agree
ment. He says it was made
without his knowledge or
authority and through Cy
Leland's chicanery. It seems
that the rogues in the First
district havefallenout and are
about to make public a whole
lot of rottenness.
We often notice that when
ever a paper or a politician
wants to prove that things
are prosperous he points to
an assumed fact that there is
no idle labor here or there.
Now we do not believe there
is a place on earth where
there are no idle laborers, but
we are willing to waive all
that and say every laborer is
at work every day and yet
the majority of them may be
next door to starvation. When
men are forced to work for a
paltry pittance or starve and
freeze in the streets, it shows
the worst type of hard times;
long hours of toil prove that
times are hard; large divi
dends for corporations con
trasted with correspondingly
low wages for those who pro
duce the wealth, is the best
evidence of the hardest times
imaginable. When we speak
of "hard times" we mean that
the majority of people - are
denied the comforts and lux
uries of life in return ior a
reasonable amount ' of their
energy which is the situa
tioh today. . , : '
Small pox have invaded Lexington,
auv XUICIUCUUCI , If JT.
Musgrove'a pacer, admits that the dis
iYIIKKfllin ' 71 . T 111 AA7
ease is mere, a tramp negro crimi
nal brought the disease to the city.
This nation U not going to mourn
much over the losses ot Wall street
gamblers, called,-out of politeness,
speculators. Wichita Eagle.
5lo, the fellows who are running the
nation take the "rake off" and their
work is done.
Conguessmak Loxg, as a member
of the ways and means committee, may
find both the ways and means of get
ting rid of the annoying Bill Wallace,
says the Hon. Fred L. Vandegnft in
the Kansas City Star.
The profit to the trust ou tin plate is
258 per cent. Tinware is higher now
than it has been for years, notwith
standing that it is produced much more
cheaply thau ever before. Yet there
are some who still insist that private
monopoly is a benefit to the people.
E. II. Madison, of Dodge City, has
been appointed judge of the 31st dis
trict to succeed Judge Price. Madison
was one of Chester I. Long's formida
ble opponents and his appointment
takes him out of the road. The 6n
tactics of our congressman seem to be
knocking the persimmons for him.
Tins democrats of Kentuckey will
contest the election of Gov. Taylor.
That there is good ground for a contest
is not to be doubted for a moment but
Goebel democracy Is no better. Gob
elism is as rotten as Taylorism, and
Taylorism is as rotten as GoebeJism.
"Hoss and hoss."
Bkk Clover committed suicide on
Saturday by shooting himself. He was
one of the congressmen elected In 1S90
uhen the Peoples party swept the state,
but later returned to the republican
party where he was neither honored nor
rewarded. He died in poverty and bis
misfortunes drove him to the rash act.
The Roberts case is consuming a
whole lot of congress' time. It will
not be settled before Februrary 1st,
and perhaps not then. They are using
red tape galore and the nation's funds
will be spent lavishly. Roberts may
be a bad man but he has lots of com
pany in congress. He is a saint in
comparison witli Ilanna of Ohio and
Clark of Muntana.
Secuetaky Gage's attempts at stop
ping the Wall street monetary strin
gency are like trying to drain a pond
without cutting off the source of sup
ply. The more money he forces into
circulation the more speculation there
will be. A natural currency expansion
which meets the requirements of legit
imate business is necessary to good
times. Enforced expansion or con
traction is usually disastrous to some
body. State Journal.
Governor Stanley ought to b3 asued for the
resignation of the members and employes of
the court of visitation. If not. Auditor Cole
might get in a (stroke of economy for the
state. Sterling Bulletin.
Why will our friend "stir up strife
within the party?" Why do you pub
lish squibs of this kind that "may be
used as ammunition by the enemy?"
Why introduce such perplexing ques
tions "to disturb party harmony?" Ee
sturdily conservative. Have no con
victions upon political questions. Pub
lish no suggestions or comments on
party politics without first securing the
O. K. of the bosses. Thus you can be
happy and your name will be placed
upon the list of the elect. Topeka Cap
ital. The war between capital and labor,
between the classes and masses, is on
and it will not end until millionaires
and the evils of inordinate Individual
wealth are abolished. The classes rec
ognize that this contest is on and are
acting accordingly. There is not a col
lege or a pulpit supported by the
wealthy and all paying good salaries
are when a man who teaches as Christ
taught, who advocates justice and
equal rights and privileges for all will
be allowed to speak. Herron, Bemis,
Ely and many others who have dared
to speak their honest thoughts, have
lost their positions. The uppermost
seats today in church and college are
held by Pharisees as they were in
Christ's time. The clashes have abso
lute control of government. Justice as
between a great corporation and the
common man is almost unknown in our
courts. Wellington Voice.
Neither the ring organ nor the hand
maid dared to attempt to say a word in
defense of its masters, who 'usurp the
power to dictate to the republicans in
this county whom they must support
for office, and whom they must boycott,
because not a servile tool in their pow
er. Republicans are .neither knaves
nor fools and cannot be betrayed and
driven like a flock of sheep by schem
ing bosses and their collies. Ring
rule Is the foundation of corruption,
and the stepping stone to im
perialism. The . republicans are
opposed to nngrule....Ringrule, such
as has developed of late in this county,
is as degrading and humiliating for the
republican party as imperialism with
its damnable system of the knout and
deportation in chain-gangs to the ice
fields of Siberia is to despotic Russia.
Ceasarism and czarism are remnants of
the barbarian age, but the people of a
free country will not submit to coercion
and subjugation by party bosses and
ringleaders. Free speech and .a free
prf ss are the bulwark of American
liberty, and the people will defend th6ir
sacred rights against all attempts by
designing politicians. Kiowa News. .
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HABZELEI3T FIOHTS BACK-
If the republican ring leaders of Bar
ber county "ever doubted 0car Haber
leln'a ability to fight when he Is slap
ped in the face, those doubts were re
moved by a perusal of last week's Kio
wa News, Oscar rips tnem right and
left and our advice to his assailants is
to let him alone. ' ' He has the "edge' '
on them and has already come danger
ously near exposing some of their cam
paign methods, 'i'v
We clip the following extracts from
Mr. Haberlein's reply to the attack in
the Cresset of two weeks ago. The ar
ticle in the jSews occupies a whole col
umn and there is a double-edge in ev
ery sentence:
. "Like the witches of Endorthey hov
ered about the steaming black caldron,
gathering and tossing in llzzards, ser
pents tud other vile and corrupt things
until the smirch was -boiled down to
the desired consistency and ready to be
poured steaming hot into their literary
slop-bowls to be offered to the ignorant
or credulous patrons of the official re
publican feed-troughs."
.. - . ..
: "The attack with blackmail upon the
editor of the News in the organ of the
clique (and the wishy-washy rehash of
the vomit published at their behest by
tbelr brainless and unprincipled man
Friday) is more'a wail of jealousy and
self-condemnation of the ringleaders
than anything else." .
"The organ whines because, as it
claims, the News received more legiti
mate cash subscriptions for papers
from candidates than any other paper
in the county. ' Its insinuation of sel
ling out is a deliberate prevarication of
the facts in the case. The people with
a turn of mind to business say: Good
for the Newsl It comes with bad
grace from a partisan organ which
draws it3 main support from the pub
lic treasury to assail a contemporary be
cause it sees fit to write against ring
rule."
-
"The only thing with any foundation
of truth said by the organ is that the
News receives subscriptions from any
body who pays our regular subscrip
tion price, i. e. $1.00 per year, 50 cents
for six months, 5 cents for a single co
py, sample copy free we have no oth
er price, and none know this better
than republican candidates who ap
proached us on this Bubject."
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One of the principal things
which stands in the way of a
political reformation is that
too many men belong to this
or that party because thei r
daddies did. They don't exer
cise their thinking powers in
the least.
The laboring man who de
pends on capitalists to regu
late government in his (the
laborer's) interest is not very
many degrees above a fool. It
is the business of the capital
ist to absorb the products of
labor and he will not be slow
in securing a law which will
aid him in his selfish purnose;
when an opportunity 'pre
sents itself;
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POPULIST NATIONAL PLATFORM- . 1
The Peoples party, aeserabled In national
convention, reaffirms its allegiance to the
principles declared by the founders of tne re
public, and also to the fundamental principle
or just troverument, as enuuclated In the plat
form ot the party In 1S92. We recognise that
Uirouirh the connivance of the present and
preceding administrations the country bat
reached a crisis in its national life as predicted
" "cvijiuuuu luur jenrs ago, til) a mac t
prompt and patriotic action is the supremo I
duty oft ho nour. We realize that while we. f
and industrial independence is yet to be at
tained by restoring to our country the consti
tutional control and exercise of the functions
fuuetions have been basely surrendered by "
nui vuuiiu M-nauis iu corporate monopo
lies. The inliucuce of European money'
chancers has been more potent in shaping; '
leurisiation than the voice of tho American
people. Executive power and patronage
have been used to corrupt our legislatures
mid defeat the will of the people, and plutoc
racy has thereby been enthroned upon the
ruins of democracy. To restore the govern
tnent intended by the fathers, and for the wel-
fare of this and future generations, we demand -the
establishment of an economic und llnan-
iwisisiviii, nuiiuruau um us musrers Ot
our own affairs and independent of Kuropean v
oontrol. by the adoption of the following doo- '
lu ration of principles:
liNANfl.
First We demand a national money, safe
and sound, issued by the general goverumen
only, without the intervention of banks of is- f
sue to be a full iegal.tender for all debts pub- 1
lie and private a just, eouitubie and etlieient - i
means of distribution direct to the people and
iiituupu mo wwiui uisuurscmems oi tne gov
ernment. Second We demand the free and unre
stricted coinage of silver and gold at the pres
ent legal ratio of sixteen to one, without wait
ing for the consent of foreign nations.
Thinl IVnrlMninlh.iihni.. n i
culatiug medium be speedily increased to an
amount suineivnt to meet the demands of the
business and population of this country anfl
to restore the Just level of prices of labor auj I
production. J
Fourth Ve denounce tbo sale of bonds an
mo increase oi cne puoiic interest bearing
debt made by the present administration ah
unnecessary ana without authority of law.and
that no more bonds bo Usucd except by spe
cific net of eonwreys.
Fifth We demand such legislation as will
prevent the demonetization of the lawful
money of the Uuited Slates by private con
tract. Sixth Wo demand that the government, in
payment of its obligations, shall use its option
as to the kind of lawful money in which they
are to bo paid, and we denounce the present
iiuu rn f.iniK uuMiiuisirauons ior surrender
ing tnis optiou to the holders of government
Ol'l ix'itiouS.
Seventh We demand a graduated income
tHX to the end that aggregated wealth shall
bear its just proportion of taxation, and we
regard the recent decision of llm nurnvm.
court relative to the income tax lav as a mis- -interpretation
of tho constitution and an in
vasion of the rightful powers of congress over
the subject of taxation, jl .. . .
uipuiu ..r uciunuu uini postal savings
banks be established by tho government for
the safe deposit of the savings of the peon1
and to facilitate exchange. .
TRlMcnAtfTlTtnn
First Transportation being a means rt et- .
chancre and a necessity. th mpn.ninr.k...ia
own and operate the railroads In the interest
of the people aud on a non-partisan basis-to
the end that all may be accorded the aarnA
treatment in transportation and that the
umuuj ira wiiucii power now exorcised by
me great rauroau corporations, which result
in the impairment, if not the destructiou. otk.
the political lights and personal liberties off T
the citizen, may be destroyed. fuch owncfX.
shiD iS tO be aCCOmnllRhfwl irraHnall. in 1
ner consistent with sound public policy.
the public highways built with public moneys
to the Pu2itlc raihoadp. should never lie alien
ated, mortgaged or sold, but guurded and Dro
teeted for the general welfare, as provided by
the laws orvnuiy.inir suri njfit-ni.. mi... ... '
. - . , . p. -v- uiiivaiia, iuc lore
closure ot existing hens of the United States
n iiirso iimusBDUUlu HI once lOIlOW C
payment thereof by tbedebtorcompi
at the foi pclnauro nlna nf via ,f.
ernment .slinuid TiumhnaA thu
, ww vv rstu II 11 vv
Cllinoa in ('i svorv tn nrntt 1 . ...
Z.-i .1. ' i - imrioBM mere
in. or if thej can be purchased at a reasonable-
i-iiyc, nii-i mi- Kovernmeni snail operate said
rsilroatiH hs public highways for the benefit or
the whole people and not in the Interest of the.
fw,Vu"(,tLreui,ab,cPreviBton" r protection!
of life and property, giving to all transporta
tion interests equal privileges and equal rates
for tares and freights.
Third We denounce the present infamous
schemes for refunning these dnbts. and de
mand that the laws now applicable thereto b
executed and administsied accord. ng to the .
true intent and spirit. .
Fourth The telegraph, like thu post o 4.'A
system, being a necessity for the truncal
of news, 6bouid be owned and opomr J it
the government in the interests of. tho" JmI
land. .
First the true policy demands tbV.. h
tional and state legislation shall much
will ultimately enable evrry vrud t i.
dustrious citizen to securea C , 5La?? ,D'
fore the land should 1 not bS r"Bnil ZS'IZ
speculative purpose AlUaT.'lH wJ fhX
railroads and other oorplVar ,ons n excua of
JuKtfleriVn.eo0,ro?l 3nf "nd belf torac
m win . Idi22 J,-an 'a,e land raomipoly,
Esv.ell as alien ownershtv. should l prohib
Second We condemn the frauds by Tbfcfa
havea?hrPht8tPatl'Jo railroad mpaS
nave, through the oon'a vanco oftbe iutoiior
aZTeWor multitudes of tuoK
o8 f "l "roes and miirsof tbeir
S S.Vm'1 w?domf l' gislation byemgres.
which will enforce tho exemption of mineral '
Jate? SU rfcn.t af.tw.- before
oall" iuhLl fnT',ithat aM t1 set tiers
' C.i nd8 trznt&l iree homes, w
pioidedintl,e national homestead law.ind
1 .1 cxPKon be made in the crm o In
Sn AETt luV.'S?- Wh6a 0fM,ned ,or Hexnent,
fhll ScmJ S D-OW Patented " . .
tici r2l"Um under P'-"- constitu
OENKHAL PROPOSITIOWP. : , . i
,-irir; t-W,e demad the election of president. -vice
president and United State senators by s "
direct vote of the people. 7
for hr htT deePeBt1Byn,Pthy in their strGggle
we telievo the time bus come when tbe United
states, thn iftH-Ht Mmhi . .
iefaultln
Liiies;ana
mo tjov- I
recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought -
M.i ,". . "wiuoeni state. - - -
mission of tbe territories as states. -1-ourth
All public salaries should bo made
duetsreSPCd the rric'3 or ,abor BDd 118 pro" -
Fifth In tbePe times of industrial depres
Fion ld.e labor should be employed on publta :
works as far as practicable. .... '
Sixth Tbe arbitrary course of the court. In -.
efHsuming to imprison citizens for indirect con
tempt aud ruling them by injuucUon thoold I T
be prevented by proper legislation. f
Seventh Wo favnr imt ..nabn 1
disabled Union soldier. .1
i-ighth Heiievinar that the elective franchlse
and untrammeled babot are essential- to gov
ernment of, for and by the peopie.the Peoples
party condemns the wholesale system of dis
franchisement adopted in soaie rt tbe state '
un-repubiiean and un-democratie. eud we
declare it to bo tbe duty of tho several states
legislature to take such action ks-wJU se-ure-a
tuli.f ree and fair ballot aqd au honest count.
Ninth While tbe foregoingpronoitio4COu--Jtitute
the platform upon which our partr
6,a"d9-ndl'be vindication of -which itn-
: lryfJlottl.he. maintained, we ntcovBiz
that tbe grest and pressing issue of the r Di
o.,.HciiXu ufiu kuibd ioe present prefi
ot.ntis! election will turn is ibe Unaoial ques
tion. r.r5 unon this great pnd sptino issue be
tween tbe parti s we cordially-. lovito tho st
and co-operation of organizations and c
ens agrteicg wUh upon " this vital r
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