The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-12
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Sayl Mr. Farmer, when your glib
tengued orator comes your way to ask
you to vote the old ticket just this
once ON the assurance that all will
come right, stop and think OF the wife
and babies; look ahead to your supply
of coal; remember it is in the hands of
government-prote trusts-and
the price is advancing; think of the
coffee you drink, and, in short, every
thing you eat, drink and wear, it is all
in the same watchful care of a trust
and you are paying more for it every
time you go to town. Think of wife,
she has been hoping for months for a
favorable opportunity TO speak to you
of the needs of the household. New
comforts for the babes; the old shoes
are about gone and winter is coming
on; the children must have shoes aud
stockings, then possibly new dress
and few other articles would bright
en- up the general appearance of the
mother. Think of Them L say, and
when the plug HATED, oily tongued,
good old party speaker comes and ell
treats YOU not to throw your vote
away, ask him why congress has not
done something during all this weary
SESSION. Why they have not done
something to check these monstrouS
corporations? Why they have not re-
duced taxation? Why they have not
dealt with these trusts in summary
manner? In short, ask if it is not Il
TACT that every giant monopoly, trust
and blood sucking, tax gathering in
stitution has its agents, members of
both old pa lies, in COh less and the
Senate ana that they never intend 10
reduce your burdens? If they die
would they not have done so this past
summer wien they had such ample
opportunity?
Take IL cool, Mr. Farmer, you are
to answer to your wife, your little ones.
your neighbOr and his children and to
your God for how you cast your ballot;
when you vote your principle yen are
not throwing your vote away. Mr..
Farmer you want to begin to think
and act for yourself. You have been
letting others lead you and think for
you long enough; now brace up aud do
your own thinking and cast your vote
mteiligent!y and for your own interests
and not in the interest of trusts and
corp oIations. 1t is not tie grei
are counting this year, but the sober,
manly comparison of notes one neigh
Dor with another; the hungry stomi Gil;
the empty coal BIN; the baIe-foOted
and thinly clad children; the interest
unpaid and mortgage falling due; no
credit ut the store; no favor at the
bank; Il cold shoulder on every hard;
all be a';se y.u have 10 money. Who
~ got it! ANA ny can you get some
of 1t? Because you have reen voting
for twenty ys;:ts to let private COR
::aration do YOUR business for yod.
Now they are doing it, how do you
ike it? The &. o. y. is the monopoly
and monopoly doth everything right,
they say. The poor should he content
with the crumbs that fall from their
table. MIR. Farmer how do you like
such talkI All have to ask Of you
now is, are you going to continue that
same line practice this fall or are you
soberly going to your neighbor and ask
him to go with you and for once cast a
vote for your home, your wife and
babes, and not for the bond attorneys
or professional tasks? Had you of
been at the court house on last Satur-
day night you surely would have been
disguised with the proceedings ri the
would be leaders of the so-called Re-
publican party of Edwards county, tie
old game was tried on, bulldoZing. but
the boys that had gathered for the
purpose of organizing a citizens alii-
ance would not bulldoZe worth Il dam.
AN ABE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN,.