Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-14
ASH CREEK.

at once.
M. Hermann has rented Mr..
BOughtOn's fine farm down the creek.
Mr. H. is Il good man and a line
farmer.
Mr.. j. \. Mcngain was out last
Sunday and attended preaching at
Silver Light. Sam Rooney was also
present.
Miss Ella SeIbe closes her school
in district IS this week. She has had
a successful session.
Harry Downing has left school and
gone to work on farm near Prairie
View Fred Pratt has hired to Mr
Mercer Of Deer Greek.
POWER OF THE PEOPLE.
There is no danger in trusting the people, and
il IT. not question to whether they are Demo
Gratis, Republicans, KNIGHTS of Labor Green
backs, ~or members of the Farmers Alliance
When the politicians that you mean they
shall perform their duties honestly they viii
break their necks TO get on your side. hen
Jumbo had his Leg tied to a tree he was am object
of sympathy. That Is the way they have Won
chained and they will continue to think so until
You love your samiiies better than your party
(cheers) and / say than all parties.-GeE. JAS. a.
Weaver before Farmers and knights at st. L0His.
The above is true, or else the doe
trine that governments derive their
. Just powers from the consent Of the
governed" is not true When the
people awake to a consciousness of
their power and realize the fact that
trusts, mOnOpOlies and combinations
control the commercial world. the
politicians begin to bid for their sup
port. They say to us farmers that 1T
stands to reason that they can do
more for us than we can for ourselves
from the fact that they have the ex-
perience They only wish us. the
people to furnish the capital and be
silent partners in the concern, while
they Will furnish the experience and
do the work Now the producing
masses Of the people are very sympa-
thetic and do not feel that Is right to
impose all the work on a few, and. as
we have furnished the capital" so
long that we have nothing but Eek
perience' we have almost concluded
that we had better give politicians
las the term IS understood a rest.
SO the General Is right when he says
politicians will break their necks to
get on your side;' and the General
ought to know what he is talking
abOut-he has associated with them
little bit So ought some party men
who met at Kansas City a few days
ago and resOluted and talked a great
deal about the ills that affect prOduc-
ers. One of their resolutions is as
follows:
RESOLVED, That the principles Of the Union
Labor party being substantially in harmony with
the demands and purposes advocated by the Farm
ers Alliance and Industrial Union the Knights
of Labor, the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association
cordially invite members of such organizations to
cooperate with us politically in the campaign Of
That is all right. gentlemen. but
the Generals wise words come to our
minds, and remembering that Uncle
Jesse Harper, A. j. Streeter, $. E.
Norton, ct al were present. we are
afraid that those resolutions have
some sinister design. and want some
of our capital" Corporation is
good, but how would it do for YOU to
cooperate with US for awhlle5 We
aren't bit stuck up YOU know. but
we have cO-Operated with politicians
quite a spell, and we are afraid that
some OF them will break their necks''
and we should hate that mighty bad.
Mr.. Boyd, following up the line Of
thought suggested in the above resO-
tuition says: You can't be Union
Labor man and Democrat or a Re
t1NAD4AId1A Cl It4C od1l4C time. Oh
can't be an Alliance man and Dem
Ocrat or a Republican at the same
time" Why did not he say you can
not be a Union Labor man and an Al
lance man at the same time? Are
there none of those terrible politicians
in that party Let Uncle Jesse and
all those wheel horses answer. We
have SAID that the people will come
together if the politicians viii let
them. They are coming together:
let them alone If the time has come
for a new party the people viii look
out for IT. If the desired reforms are
to come through purifying one Of the
old parties, the people viii look after
the work and it viii be we'll done
working injustice to none, for the peo-
pie believe in equal rights to all and
special privileges to none. There
fore it comes with bad grace for d
party to caution the people against
politicians and invite them to cooper
ate with them In almost the same
breath. So we say, Mr. Politician,
please do not SOW discord among us,
but just let as become harmonized
and then see US 90. PED