Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-05-24

PAooAOAAAS u 0lGnef one or the OtneI
OF the old parties; and while we are
proud Of the men thus elected, we
find that their efforts are retarded by
the rules of the caucus.
We will now turn to the parties,
the Democratic and Republican par
ties, and we find that, as a result of
the Indifference of the people to their
dolngs they have. become dishonest
and unreliable. They stand to-day
with noperceptible difference between
them, and, so far as their Indifference
to the wants of the people are con-
cerned, they are one They pirate in
their platforms about the welfare of
the people and the sovereignty OF the
American workingmen. and when the
shades of night fall on the battlefield,
in which the two parties were con-
testants for the votes of the people,
they clasp hands against the indus
trialists of the United States. They
bowed to the sovereignty of American
citizenship before election, and after
that day they knelt IN supine attitude
before another soYereign-king eau
Gus. What the caucus wllled became
the law of those who pledged their
effort to the people, and robbery of
the peoples lands, squandering OF
the peoples money, conspiracy against
the very government they professed
to serve, indifference to the wishes of
the people, inattention to the duties
of their Office, selfish manipulation of
public trust, and hundred other
ofenses can now be charged against
the Office holders.
Before election we see the chief
tains of each party standing on public
platforms abusing each other and
warning the people not to trust the
other side-not to have even ordinary
intercourse with one of them. After
election we find the men who shouted
for protection and those who shouted
against it sitting down as sharers in
the plumber that they as directors of
mining companies and railroad affairs
were enabled to haul into their nets.
We see to-day two great parties be-
fore the people of the United States,
and the only issue that divides them
is the tariff. One party, with its
skriveled soul held tightly between
the fingers of greed, shouts for pro-
lection at the gate of entry-only at
the gate; the other, with its cowardly
spirit shrinking from the truth, pro-
claims against protection at the gate;
and both of them stand looking sea-
ward, not daring to take up the great
issues of ballot reform, railway con-
troll, control of trusts, regulation of the
finances of the nation in the interest
of all the people of the nation, inter
nal taxation, away from the gates of
entry. Neither of them dare to set
forth the truth in their platforms and
go up or down upon them. They
mean everything when looking for
votes and nothing when they get
them. They are ruled, owned, con-
troled and dominated by the wealth
of the world, as well as of the United
States; but, to our, shame, be it said,
they can truthfully assert that the
fault lies with the sovereign working
men and farmers of the United States,
who have neglected to watch them in
Office as we'll as out of it. Look on
the picture who will and tell me if I
lie. The tyrant CaliguIa had his
horse elected consul of Rome because
the people had fallen so low that they
believed everything the political
trader told them; but horses would
not make half as bad officials as many
of the men we some times elect.
Looking on such a condition of affairs,
realizing the danger that threatens
the Republic, is it any wonder that
leaders of reform organizations should
become disheartened when they know
that the people, the citizens. them
selves are to blame for these things?
Is it any wonder that here and there
men arise to protest against these
abuses and ask for the formation of
new and honest parties? The same
difference that made these possible
has in the past damned the efforts of
reformers when they tired to stem
the tide by organizing new parties.
With these things in mind I wrote
1.-The new party will not come until
the people are ready for it; the peo-
pie viii not be ready for It until thev