Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-25


Z brutalized human beings whose besotts
/ minds and deadened Consciences make theI
/ ready converts to the mOnstrous theCris
I that property is robbery that law is opprel
/ slons that government is tyranny, that z,
/ iigion Is cheat, and that everything mar
/ kind has been taught to revere should b
I prescribed and DESTROYED
TIE CONFESSION OF AN ANARCHIST.
! One of the most prominent men in thi
state told me- some months ago, of CONVEX
satiOn he had with a we'll known New Yor
/ socialist. The Kansas man said to the Me-
I Yorker: fsYOu claim Won desire to eIevat
I humanity. You know, as every intelligen
man does, that Tor a very large proportion
of all the poverty crime and woe OF thi
world, the liquor traffic is resDonsfble. WHY
then, don't you endsavOr to close the sa
O0ns Of this Cityg' The reply was promp
and conclusive Said the New Yorker
ftCIose the saloons. Why, if that was done
We should have no -eetng places. We FIND
and make most OF our converts in the ga
IoOusn'
Here, then, in the saloons, where. poverty
vice, crime and suffering are bred and uur.
tured, are the haunts and homes and recruit
ing offices OF the dynamiter and bomb
throWer. From the saloons come the mis-
creaDts who parade with red flags. and who
r6Vl6 and denOunce the brave old banner OF
the ''Stars and Stripes" From the saloon
issue the wild eyed and crack Drained enthu-
siasts and the brutal and vicious emissaries
a republic Of reason, order, security, liberty
and law, the inconstant, uncertain un known
and arbitrary government of the mob.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
Another prominent question upon which
the two platforms express opinions is that
Of labor and capital. And in discussing this
question, as all others, the republican party
deals, not in vague promises or glittering
generalities, but in definite statements. It
points to what it has done, it presents &C
cOmplished facts, TO sustain its assertion
that 1t viii honestly favor 'all legislation
tending to secure to the labOrers their Just
proportion of the proceeds of their work,
to protect them against the encrOachm6nts
of organized capital, and to provide easy
and speedy redress for all wrongs suffered
by them, or threatened to them"
A political party making professions Of
devotion to the interests of any class of the
people should be able to show, by its record,
that when in position to control legislation
it originated or adopted some policy beneh-
ciai to that class. Can thesdemOcratic party
present such evidence of friendliness for or
sympathy with the laboring masses?
For nearly thirty years 10 had supreme con
troll of the national government. Did It.
during that time, devise or perfect any
measure or policy to amellCEat5 the cOnul-
ton OF the labOring classes, or shape and dl-
rect legislation to the end that human self
ishness or rapacity should be held in check
and the opportunities of all men be equal
iZed2
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TEE ENEMY OF HONEST
LABOR.
No, 1t did not. On the contrary, during
that period, every measure OF the democratic
party was directly against the interests Of
men. The homestead law was re-
pestsdly defeated by democratic congress
men, and was never enacted until the re-
pubIlcans came into power. Every attempt
of the democratic party to legislat6 on the
FaF IA
Of foreign capital and low priced labor and
against home enterprise and American
WOrkingmen. The democratic party formed
an alliance, offensive and defensive, with an
Olgarchy which held to the
mOustrous doctrine that capital should own
its own labOrers-OWn5 and buy and sell
them as cattle are owned bought and sold.
The stronghold Of the democratic party was
and is to-day this community of great plan
bers, and the favOrite candidates of the dem
OCratIC party are men with "bar'ls'' mo
and milliOnaires, who are expected
to buy their way to place and power.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ALWAYS THE HELPFUL
FRIEND OF THE woREEGALES.
On the other hand, the republican party
has always been the real, practical and help
full friend of the poor man. Before 1t he'd
been IN power a year, 1t had opened the pub
lie domain to the people, by the passage Of
the homestead law giving land TO the land
less, ard free homes to the homeless. 1t
and paid iabOrers, thus relieving every work
ing man and woman, north and south, from
the TuInOus competition Of slave labor. 1t
has steadily insisted on protecting Ameri-
can enterprise and industry against foreign
competition and the poorly paid labor of
Europe. 1t has insisted, at all times and
under all circumstances, that the real press
ing need Of the country was not cheap man
ufEctursd goods of any kind, but prosperous
and contented mechanics, 1t destroyed the
the ownership Of labor, and has raised an
other and an hum bier class Of men to power.
Its candidates have been taken from the
people. Its first president was a 1at-bOat-
who was the architect of his own fortunes.
Its second was a poor tailor, whose wife had
taught him to read. Its third president, the
son of poor tanner, lived for years IN OBJ
5curity. and knew the bitterness of poverty and
fEendlessness. He Oiled the world with the
glory of his achievements, but preserved to
the end tho simple manhood of modest
citizen. Its fourth president was also man
Of the people. After him came man who
had been a carpenter and a sChOolmaster,
and then followed the son of a poor Irish
minister. Its last candidate was another
5elf-made man OF the people, who had beens
Ia turn, schOOlmasters reporter editor, con
gresham, senator and secretary Not one
Of the republican candidates for president
was born to the purple. One and all, they
came up, by their own sL6ruOns5 from the
lumblest walks Of life. Working people
themselves, they have understood and sym
9athized with the aspirations, the interests,
he Well-being Of the real working people.
TIE LAWS OF KANSAS TOUCHING THE LABOR
QUESTION.
In this state, one of the first acts Of the re-
publican party was Of vast importance and
.FyandOtte constitutional convention which
assembled early IN 1853 was the hrst dis
lnCuVeiy republican official body ever as
embled inkansas, and one of its mCsbnOtabls
.Ctions-and as novel and beushcent as it
vas uotable-Was TO adopt constitutional
provision eLempting from forced sale, un-
fer any process OF law, and the homestead
# every citizen. Years ago tOO-lOng be-
ore labor questions were much
iscussed-republican Legislatures of Kansas
.naCted laws protecting the wages of
he labOr6rf laws providing Tor
mechanics lien broad enough to
eEialss and laws making liberal exemptions
rom taxation to small manufacturers and
iealers. And these benedCeut acts have
J6en supplemented during later years. with
avs authorizing the incorporation Of asso-
Nations Of WOrk1ugmeus and providing for
he safety and health Of miners while dur
ng the legislative sessions Of 1885 and 1886
10 act establishing a bureau Of labor statls-
les charged with the duty Of collecting
acts and statistics concerning the moral,
financial and educational condition Of the
abOring masses, and a law providing for
he legal arbitration Of all differences be
Ween employers and employees were
inacted.
Thus from its first accession to power
lOWn 70 the present time, the republican
Jarty of Kansas has been enactng laws TO
protect WorkIngmsu against the encroach-
nents of capital, and to provide remedies
or wrongs done them, or threatened to
hem. The statute books Of no other state
II the Union contain 50 many laws de-
igned especially 70 protect WorElngmens
md to secure justice for them. Claims for
EbOr take precedence, under our laws, over
ID others. No contractor can IN Kansas
.heat a mechanic out Of the wages
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