Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-25

ter meals, than they had provided for then
before the saloons were banished. Il there
home anywhere in the state that IL Lee.
peaceful, prosperous and happy, or chin
that Is clothed in rags, or wife whose lole
and happiness has been blighted, becauae
the saloons have been closed? Not oner
not q single one.
ING STATION OF TIE ANARcMsIA
|, Another and, If possible, more urgent
reason why the saloon must 60, has recently
been brought home to the people of tbs
country with convincing force. Americas
have believed that this was the freest, hip
piest land under the sun, and 1t Is. Its aov-
eminent is the perfection of human wisdom.
1t is, as the greatest of our presidents has
said, "a government If the people, for the
people, by the people," No limitations or
restrictions are placed on the rights OF lib
erty of any citizen except such as are neces-
sary to protect the rights and liberty Of all
other citizens. The humblest man IN
the land may aspire to the highest
vast majority of those citizens who
have attained the loftiest konors
sprang from the humblest walks in life.
Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, Logan and
thousands of others who might be nance, ARE
conspicuous illustrations of this truth. Ours
is government of liberty regulated by law.
Its delegated and reserve powers embody the
ripest fruits of mans experience with and
knowledge of mans weakness and strength,
eelfishness and generosity, cruelty and JUS
Gce-embody, in fact, the experience of 800
centuries of human progress. Only a few
brief years ago the people gladly and
proudly sacrificed 500, 600 lives ana billions
of treasure in order to preserve, for them
selves and their children, this heritage of free
government.
But within the past decade there has been
spawned upon our hospitable shores school
of depraved and vicious foreigners, who are
poisoning and polluting the very atnos-
phere they breathe. Incapable of compre-
hending the difference between absolute
despotism and republican freedom, con-
founding liberty with license, regard
ing all restraints of law as tyranny,
and denouncing all government as oppres-
sion, these apostles of anarchy are sedu-
ously sowing the seeds of discOrd, envy,
hate, rapacity and murder. And where do
these miscreants find the most wiling con-
verts to their atrocious theories? Where do
spire and to argue? Read the reports Of the
trial of the anarchists in Chicago, and you
will ascertain. Read, in the journals of any
of our large cities, reports of anarchists and
socialist assemblies. Follow Most, and
Schwab, and Spies, and Fielden, and Par
sons, to their favorite haunts. Do this, and
you will find that the saloon is always and
everywhere the assembly room, the school
house, the tabernacle of these wild, vicious
and dangerous apostles of lawlessness.
There they teach their ferocious doctrine,
'burn and murder and plumber, in order to
live" There they find the ignorant and
brutalized human beings whose besotted
minds and deadened consciences make them
ready converts to the rnonstrous theories
that property is robbery, that law is oppres-
sion, that government is tyranny, that re-
igion 10 a cheat, and that everything Iaan-
kind has been taught to revere should be
prescribed and destroyed.
THE CONFESSION OF AN ANARCHIST.
One of the most prominent men IN this
state told me some months ago, of CONVEX
sation he had with we'll known New York
socialist. The Kansas man said to the New
Yorker: "You claim you desire to elevate
humanity. You know, as every intelligent
man does, that for q very large proportion
of all the poverty, crime and woe of this
world, the liquor traffic is responsible. Why,
looms of this city," The reply was prompt
and conclusive. Said the New Yorker:
'Close the saloons. Why, if that was done,
we should have no meeting places. We find
and make most of our converts in the ga
loons!'
Here, then, in the saloons, where poverty,
vice, crime and suffering are bred and nur
tured, are the haunts and homes and recruit
ing offices of the dynamiter and bomb
thrower. From the saloons come the mis-
creapts who parade with red flags, and who
revile 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
of envy and hate Who want to substitute for
a republic of reason, order, security, Liberty
and law, the inconstant, uncertain, unknown
and arbitrary government OF the mob.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
Another prominent question upon which
the two platforms express opinions is that
question, as all others, the republican party
deals, not in vague promises or glittering
generalities, but in definite statements. 1t
points to what it has done, it presents &C
complished facts, to sustain its assertion
that it will honestly favor call legislation
tending to secure to the laborers their just
proportion of the proceeds of their work,
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 benef-
cial to that class. Can the2democratic party
present such evidence of friendliness for or
sympathy with the laboring massesl
For nearly thirty years it had supreme con-
troll of the national government. Did it,
during that time, devise or perfect any
measure or policy to ameliorate the condi-
ton of the laboring classes, or shape and d.
rect legislation to the end that human self
ishness or rapacity should be held in check,
and the opportunities of all men be equal
lied?
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE ENEMY OF HONEST
No, it did not. On the contrary, during
that period, every measure of the democratic
party was directly against the interests of
laboring men. The homestead law was re-
peatedly defeated by democratic congress
men, and was never enacted until the re-
publicans came into power. Every attempt
of the democratic party to legislate on the
subject of the tariff was made IN the interest
of foreign capital and low priced labor, and
against home enterprise and American
vorkingmen. The democratic party formed
an alliance, offensive and defensive, with an
aristocratic oligarchy which held to the
monstrous doctrine that capital should own
its own laborers- 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