The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-20
MUST DIVIDE ON THE LINE.

other. 1t may be that among the farm
ers there is a disposition to demolisl
the old party order, regardless of es
tabliShed differences. On the othe
hand the student of political histor
sees that from the beginning the mail
battle OF parties has been conducte,
over the form of government, and tina
there Is not a single sign to show tha
it will not continue to be so for an
other century. Shall government b,
by the people and for the people or b,
powerful classes for powerful classes
The federalists held that the people
were not capable of participation il
government. The Jeffersonian schoo
predicted that government by a clas,
would inevitably result in government
for a class.
The Federalist and Democrat school:
have been fighting for control always
Whether the JeffersOnion prediction
was sound the people of to-day car
judge.
There is party bound by inclination
and money obligations to class. II
is not a popular party and with all its
money power could not have carried
any recent national election without a
negro vote, which belongs to it by a
peculiar condition growing out of the
war and the slavery question, which
disturbed and complicated the natural
political relations of the parties for
years.
The Republican party is bound to
the protective tariff league of manufac-
turers and to combinations of capital
lists in the large eastern cities. The
brokers, manufacturers and money
owners of the union league clubs i'll
New York and Philadelphia are fair
examples of the thOroughness with
which permanent upper class is being
established by the Republican or Fed
eralist theory.
Any awakening desire for political
knowledge among farmers will end in
weakening the Republican party. The
farmers who are now meeting to hear
of what legislation has done and is do
ing will soon see that party which
makes contracts through Russell HarTi-
ton, son of the president, with few
mine owners in Montana
and Colorado to tax the mining and
industries and the general
public is not party Jealous for the
public welfare. A party which ar
ranges the rules of the House of Rep
reSentativeS so that the speaker and a
committee, backed by cowed caucus,
can arbitrarily take up or postpone
bills, close debate, muZZle protest and
absolutely crush representation of
public opinion, is making away from
popular government.
Farmers and merchants are not
alone by these evidences. More
tangible facts have been put before
them by tariff bill passed by a prac-
zcally unanimous Republican vote.
That bill taxes fine worsteds for the
-ich from 90 to go per cent and COM
non woOlen cloths for the poor from
I20 to $50 per cent. The tax ON win
low glass is ia per cent. Tin plate
'or kitchen utensils and dinner pals,
low taxed 81 per cent, is raised to "A
Der cent. Those are only specimens of
What the bill abOunds i'll. To show
low such a tariff presses on farmers,
he ability of manufacturers to sell to
oreign pauper labor countries is a
orcible example. A sewing machine
old for $3.50 in America is exported
or $20.75. a cultivator sold here for
III is exported for $40. a high
lass steel plow sold by the manufac-
,Iirers in the American market for
S6S. so is exported for $500. 1t was
proved some time ago that plow sold
here for $15 cost the manufacturer,
aid on the cars, labor and all, but
little more than S5. A kettle sold here
ior S1.4O is exported to foreigners for
s. cents.
Liberal circulation gives one-seventh
If the working population of America
TO manufacturing industries. Sup
pose all these industries survive only
The labor employed gets
none of the protection. 1t must take
what average wage rates. give. That
leaves mere trifiing fraction of the
population getting the benefit of the
tariff laws and debating schedules to
the Ways and Means committee and
through it and the speaker to- the ma
ton.
For this luxury the farmers are taxed
Their trade with the
world is cut of. Their labor is not
only rendered comparatively renumer-
ative but its fruits are seized 10. pay
for the yachts and race horses of mill
lionaires.. Merchants. are taxed in the
same way, their trade governed by
trusts and associations, their sales
limited and their incomes diminished
j, The tariff is the most serious queS-
tiOn before the country, both in its
economic efforts and in its clear expo
Sition of the essential distinction be-
tween the parties.
1t is not and can not be true, unless
the old Federalist was right and the
people not capable of knowing their
own interests, that move which stim-
ulates discussion on economic ques-
tionS among farmers will draw equally
FROM bnkh parties. 1t may be that
Democrats more readily agree with the
central demands of the farmers move
ment, but on the other hand all farm
ers who put thought upon the subject
of government Will leave the Republi-
can party instantly. Most Democrats
will remain with their party with more
satisfaction the more they study.
Most voters who leave the Republican
party through the convictions forced
upon them by the enlightenment of the
farmers movement, may find a. tenn
porary halfway place, but they will
become Democrats because three and
four cornered political contests are i'm
possible over any considerable period
in this country To carry through al
idea one party must represent it.
Division of forces gives the fight tC
the other side--KansaS City Times.
W. W. Moore, of the Grand Opers
House. Des MONIES. Is an early settlel