Thomas County cat., 1890-07-03
CAST OUT THE THIEVES

Do you not see that there is work
ahead? Do you not see that trusts,
syndicates, corporate monopolies, and
shylocksm are growing more power
full year by year. Do you not see
that the common people are sinking
deeper into debt, despair and poverty
with every rising and setting suni
Do you not SEQ that our republic,
founded upon the principles Of liber-
ty, equality and fraternity, is fast
becoming mere oligarchy of wealth!
Do you not understand that the con-
gress OF the United States is made
up of plant tools of Wall Street, and
the shylocks!
How long will you submit to these
things. To what extent is your pa
tience capable of being tried!
The people rejoice and breathe
freer to hear of the death Of some
notorious train robber, yet there are
bigger thieves and scoundrels in con-
gress to-day than Captain Kidd ever
dared to be. He robbed people of a
few thousands openly, while they rob
and plunder millions in the commit
tee rooms and under the guise of
legislation.
When are the people going to rise
up and take matters into their own
handss How long are they going to
send bankers and lawyers to Wash
ington to rob and plunder the treasu-
ry?
1t is time to work. It is time to
again kindle the beacon lights on the
hill-tops. It is time to arouse from
this terrible lethargy. 1t is time to
declare war to the knife and the knife
to the hilt
Every year matters are getting
worse. When will you be better pre-
pared to cope with the hydra-headed
monster that is fastening its fangs
upon the republic?
Year after year you have been
wheedled by the siren songs of ''bet-
ter times coming" or '1et well-enough
alone"-but when are the better
times coming, and is the well-enough
what it should be!
With their hands clear up to their
elbows in the United States treasury
the Republicans point you to the
denominations of the Democratic
party. With their pockets filed with
corporation plunder the Democrats
revile the Republican party. While
they go through the public
farce of ''arraigning" each
other "before the people" both of
them are secretly stealing like lot
of highwaymen. They are at logger
heads openly-like couple of paid
lawyers-but behind the door they
are partners in the abominable work
of plundering, robbing, cheating and
defrauding the people! The time
has arrived when these political ras-
Gals will make up the states" for the
coming compaign.
In a few weeks they will come
home to their constituents (the "dear
people''), make few high sounding
speeches, hold a coucus, farm out the
offices, put tickets in the field, start
out the band wagons, hire the halls,
get up torch light professions, abuse
all advocates of a third party-get
themselves or some of their pals
elected to congress only to continue
the same monstrous system of pick
ing and stealing.
How long will you endure it, you
farmerss How long will you endure
it, you workingmen? How long will
you endure it, you small dealers,
merchants and manufacturers? How
long will you submit like the patient
OK to be muzzled as he treads out
the corne
How long will you work day after
day, year after year, in order that
few thousand corporations and
monopolies shall live of the fat while
you pick the bones7
How much longer will you be
ground into dust and dirt?
When will you awaken to realiza-
ton of the fact that you. the real
masters, are being used as beasts of
burden by pack of licensed high
waymen!
Aye, patriots, there Is work ahead
eternal, constant, vigilant, and per-