The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-08-21

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laboring men are out OF employment and
starving, after a quarter OF century of
Republican ruleS that Republican Iegis.
letion on finance Is responsible for the
present disturbance Of the business of
the country and that the greenLack il
the remedy for all these ills.
The address takes the position that
the United States wants no ship canal
across the Isthmus of Panama, save
ats OWE, as foreign enterprise
of that nature would be destructive to
our commerce in times of peace, and
source Of danger in times of var.
Experience, the best teacher, contin.
uesashe address, establishes the fact that
comNsrce, the industries, the laborinp
man. she anti mOnopolist, the greenback
or, the farmer or other small producers,
all of whose Interests are identical, can
getoF hope nothing from either or both
of the present organized parties.
The Republican party is bound hand
and foot 20 capitalized monopoly.
The Democratic party is governed in
Its conventions by Combination of q
solid SOUTH from whence no laboring
man, white or black, Is delegate, and
where the aristocracy of capital alone is
heard, and the political machine cor
rupcions of substantially {. single state
of the north, which confederacy denom-
mates its platform and nominates Its
caAdldates and holds them firmly in its
grip If elected.
What then is the DUTY of the classes of
rnen just enumerated. in the coming
national election They, by numbers
as well as intelligence everybody
knows more than anybody-ought to be
the governing classes. under the theory
of our constitution. They stand ID the
same social, business and other relations
To the class of men In the old parties
who belleve they are of right the gov
erning class, and who, in fact, by the
control of party and other machinery are
the governing class, IS did our fathers
In the time of the revolution to the
clergy, the officials and offshoots of
British aristocracy who claimed 20 be-
and believed they were the governing
classes,
You have the power to make this gov
eminent your government as did your
fathers. This can only be done by act
| log together! Be not deceived, stand
by each Other!- Let the people unite
for the gold of the pcoplei To prevent
such union has been the policy of the
leaders, mOnopollsts of ali shades of
| opinion, enemies of the people, who.
while they join together in fact In CON-
troll Of the government, claim TO belong
to different parties, You know that it
makes no difference to you whether one
set of them or the other is in power, no
| burden on the people IS lIghtened, no
! monopoly crushed. Whoever wins.
the worklngman gets only a curse.
Whichever party carries on the gov
eminent, laboring men and women are
perm itted to enjoy only the benefits of
the primeYal curse: In the sweat of
thy face shalt thou eat bread" You en-
joy none of Gods blessings! Why not?
You earn and produce them all-all that
He vouchsa:es to man, save the air we
breathe They are yours In the sight of
high heaven! Stand together and a
just share of them is yours.
In other lands the just rights of the
people are only to be got out of the
hands of their enemies and rulers by the
bayenet and the bullet. But In America
as yet, thank God and your brave
fathers, the ballot, the freemen's shield
and sword is left to you and you can if
you stand together protect yourselves
against all oppressive. unjust and pur-
chased Legislation. which burdens the
people and undermines the free institu-
lions of your country.
The address asserts that the precious
ballot is in danger from the encroach-
ments of the British psrty-the people
In this country who ape the English
aristOcracv; who wear imported clothes;
who are waited upon by British servants,
ana who areiseeking to establish IN some
of the eastern states. an aristocracy of
birth.
So that in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, as beginning, turn to throw
every obstruction, hindFance and imped-
tment in the way to prevent the poor
man exercising freeman's right to cast
his ballot, and to drive him from the
polls by requiring money qualifications
and all other devices that ingenuity may
invent. BY these means Rhode island
is governed by the few and not by the
many; by an arist0cracy OF birth and
wealth, and not bY the people. In the
late general election for members of
congress in that state 5,021 votes only
were thrown by all parties in the election
of a member of congress, while at the
west, where free ballot is still in the
hands of every man, at the same election
90, 2S6 votes were TGquIred in the election
of q congressman.
And this is called equal representation
of the people in the government!
Let every true American ponder upon
these figures. an inquire, whittier is the
country Grit M? Ii such inequ lItit s
| are possible in the beginning, what Will
! be The end? Let the people rise in their
might and bring back the government
where our revolutionary fathers placed
| IL, on he foundation of freedom, with
| equal rights, equal burdens, equal priYi-
| leges, anu equal powers to all men.
The cunning of the monopolists and
cepitSliSls has taught them that If they
can only keep the people of the country
voting according to party line, they
then can govern the county Whichever
party prevails. Did need evidence of
this, it would be in the declaration as
cTibed to the largest and eblest railroad
| king in the country, Mr.. Gould, who is
said to have testified before q commit
| tee, in substance, that when he had
| Democratic Legislature to manipulate he
was Democrat, and whenever q Repub-
lIcan legislature, he was a Republican.
| That Is to say, to carry his measures, he
| helpt d elect, by his money, Democrats
and Republicans Unfortunately; but
both sets of his members were always
Gould men,. ee
| No moGOpolist cares which party
WINS, He is only anxious that the nom-
| mating convention of each party should
nominate candidate whom he can con-
troll. iiat - 1tfst -
Thus are the people played with and
i kept apart by the fetish, called ''party
| alliance" ever bound to the chariot
/ wheels of their oppressors
| Might We lot learn something from
| the fate OF the African negroes? In their
| own country, each tribe had its fetish,
and they fought each other for Its su-
/ premacY, and both sides sold the prison
| ers captured IN those battles to the
white men as slaves. So the laborIng
| men votes for his fetish. the Democratic
] party; and the farmer votes for his fet-
| Ish, the Republican party, and the result
/ is fhsf foFF are handad ovar "a eankorz