Western Kansas world., 1888-09-15

ct republican doctrines. instance tie fol
lowing:
C0-0PKRAIIvE LAWS.
Ihey say they are in favor of encourag
ing industry by cooperative laws. IF they
wul take the trouble to turn to chapter u6
| session laws of 1887, they will find that the
legislature of the banner republican state in
tnls union. Kansas, had passed law au-
thorizlng Just that thing, giving to all In
/ dustr1es right to organize cooperative as
sociations, and bestowing on them all the
rights and privileges of corporations. Thai
law was passed and the legislature had ad-
l0urned sine die, twelve months before this
| chapter of lamentations was breathed into
| existence.
EDUCATING THE YOUNG.
They say they are in favor of educating
the young. So are we. That's what I am
| at now. Trying to educate this pestiferous,
little political STRIPPING. Straight as an ar
row through this land runs Mason's and
Di1on's line. On one side of that line is
liberty and learning and light. On the
other side is darkness and ignorance and
tyranny. On one side is free schools, free
ballots and free men. On the other side is
intolerance, social ostracism for opinions
sake, with the blood hounds of Copiah and
Yazoo, as presiding deities of the ballot
box. This side is republican, yonder is the
Cossack. This new party leads forlorn
political hope in the interests of the
Cossacks. Is this to educate the young? We
offer your allies Blair bill. They dare not
accept it. For In that day, when the run of
northern intelligence crosses the political
equator in this country, the days of the
"Solid South" and of silver crowned DEM
ocracy are numbered.
CHINESE LABOR.
They say they are opposed to foreign cheap
labor and Chinese immigration. All the
world knows that we are. We are opposed
to foreign labor, whether it seeks our shores
in concrete packages,-that is in the form
of manufactured articles, or in the raw ma
terial, as .Chinaman with pigtail on the
back of his head.
But these harpies that are preaching this
doctrine, 60 over the country howliug for
free trade. Jesse Harper proposes to take
that side in q disussion with me. Now let
me ask you wherein lies the difference, SO
far as concerns American labor, whether
foreign laborers come here and make things
for our consumption, or whether they make
them in their own country and ship
here, for then we might furnish the proven
der they would consume while they did our
work.
The fellow who talks against Chinese labor
and works for free trade reminds me of the
Chinaman's comment on his lawyer. John
being arrested for some deviltry hired
q lawyer to defend him. His lawyer
might be ikened unto union labor orator,
in that he expected to accomplish all things
by the work of his jaw. OF course John got
beat and paid his fine. When asked how he
liked his lawyer he shrugged his shoulders
and said. 80, too muchee damn chin chin,
and too little workee right.
OPPOSED TO TRUSTS.
They say they are opposed to trusts.
am proud to own that am member of
that party that is first to demand the pas
sage of such laws as will punish these new
tangled robbers, "with the:highest penalties
of the law" Go read the republican ma
tional and state platform, if you want the
sound doctrine on this question.
LAND MoNoPoL1Es.
They say they are opposed to land monop-
oily; 80 am I. They say that they believe
the earth was made for,the people; SO do I.
And believing this, can't cast my vote in
this election for Andrew Jackson Streeter,
an old monopolist who owns 5000 acres of
land and lives on rent. Heis worth several
hundred thousand dollars, and is strill try
ing to turn an honest penny occasion
ally around the Chicago board of
trade. on which he is said to be
successful operator. And this is the
labor patriot that is running on platform
that says: "We believe that the earth was
made for the people, and not to enable an
idle aristocracy to subsist through rent
on the toll of the INDUSTRIOUS"
No. can't cast my vote for a man
like that on a platform like that.
prefer to cast it for that brave SOL
der, wise and conservative statesman, up
right Christian gentleman, Benjamin Har-
rison, of Indiana, a man whose ancestors
began fighting for the rights of the people
it up ever since.
CLASS LEGISLATION.
The very name of this party is based on
class interests and class prejudices, and the
platform from bottom to top, abounds in
demands for class legislation.
GRADUATED INCOME TAX.
They say they are in favor of graduated
income tax to put all the burdens of govern
ment on the rich. I never understood this
plank of their platform until heard Mr..
Harper explain it. He says that if man on
eighty acres of good rich land, can make as
much as his neighbor can on 16O acres of
the same amount of taxes. That is, the
tax must be on the rental value of
the land. But hold, now. Suppose
the fellow on eighty acres of land is
diligent, industrious and economical. A
man whose beaming face, wet with the hon
est sweat of honest toll, greets every morn
the rising sun, and then smiled triumph
ant adieu to the last rays of the departing
orb of day. A man who spends all his labor,
time and thought to make two blades of
grass, or two ears of corn grow where but
one grew before. And suppose his neighbor
is jaw-smith, who spends his time pro-
ducing shsvings from the dry goods boxes.
at the corner grocery, and discussing the
national debt, while the weeds take the mead
ows, and the COWS cut the corn. Now how
will you graduate your income tax? Make
the man with eighty acres pay as much or
more than the Jaw-Smith with one hundred
and sixty? Put premium on laziness, eh?
o L see the scheme. They want to let
their whole party out of paying any tax at
all. But how about this? Some patriot like
Streeter down east. comes out west and buys
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