The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-18

name the editor of the leading Peoples
party organ OF the United States. thu
National Economist. as corrupt and ES
having sold out in the Georgia senatorial
election; and in connection with that there
were published letters from the president
of the Farmers Alliance of Kansas saying
be mad been whitewashed at the Ocala
convention for the good of the o.dsrI
so 1t seems these people can 10 some of
the things which they have been crediting
TO the old parties The Democratic party
corrupt-we have always known that; the
Republican party corrupt, and the Peo-
pies party corrupt according 10 the judg-
ment they recently put upon themselves
Now, we have had congresses according TO
this theory elected by the suffrSges Of the
people of the United States which have
been corrupt The largest expenditure
ever made BY any congress in time of
peace was S400. O00, 900. II we cannot trust
congress to expend 800 0o0, ,OOO. how can
We trust congress to spend fifty thousand
million dollars?
1t ought to be a fundamental proposition
with farmers and with all men that con-
gress should have the least possible power.
and thereby have the least possible temp
tation for the misuse of that power
Now 1t Is worth while TO consider who
it is that invites US to this third party
action Did we get it from the states from
which we came! Illinois, Iowa, w iscon-
sin, Ohio or Indianaf No; we get 1t from
that section of the country in which there
- practically no free speech, no free press.
One of the great boasts OF this party Is the
paclticatlon of the country and the elimin-
alton of what they call sectional strife
The bloody chasm has been filed; and so
It was said that one time the lion and
the lamb had laid down together, but it
AfsonuoroA that The La y m,
the insidel
Four people, men and women, have gone
from Kansas to the south the first in
stance in the history oil the country since
the war, and while there they claim they
have freely spoken their views on public
questions, and we are invited TO believe
that this means that the bloody chasm
has been filled and that free speech has
been restored in that section of the country
In which it has here ofOre been denied.
What did those four persons go south To
say? They went south to say they had
poisoned the Republican stream at its
fountain head, Kansas; that they had de-
stroyed the Republican party In Kansas,
and they came bringing its head as upon a
charger as al offering to the ex-coufeder-
ates OF the south Do you suppose that II
they had gone down there TO say they had
destroyed the Democratic party that they
would have been heard to SAY it2 Tar aud
feat hers would not have held theml They
went TO burn incense under the nostrils OF
the men who decry free speech. who will
have none Of free schools or free press or
a free ballot.
We have got to trust somebody. fellow
citizens You and cannot run this gov
ernment; we have got TO agree with some
body and go with them aud they with US
according as the common judgment shall
direct and dictate And who shall il be
with? We believe whoever has anything
of interest to humanity can only make
that known in the place where he can
freely speak aud write aud print of what
is iu hun We believe in free schools, and
this Republican party, which has been
To oppress the people, has con
tributed more 20 the education OF the peo-
pie through the free school system than
all the OF her agencies OF the world put TO
gether We fnd that If there is any place
in the United states whers man cannOt
freely speak and write aud print. and
where be cannot freely vote and have his
vote counted. that that is place where
the Republican party IS 10 the minority.
You won't 90 there for your political
gospel
We hear much in this controversy about
Wall street. but those who talk about IL |
think designedly overlook the fact that
Wall street IS a part Of New York City,
and that New York City has not elected
for eight years a single Republican mem
Der of congressl Leaving aside New York
City and Brooklyn, you will hBd in the in
terror, in the uplands Of the state on the |
farms and in the small towns where vir
tues chiefly abide. Republican majority |
Of from 60,0U0 10 10000 Turn now 20 New !
York City and Brooklyn, with their gut |
ters and palaces, tenement houses, COM |
binations of capital, streets OF the rich aud /
poor. and those two cities give a majority /
which wipes out the Republican majority |
Of the state.
The people of this state looking upon /
these pictures know where their interests 1
lie They know that Wall street il against 1
them, aud therefore they vote the R-publi- /
can ticket Tammsny hall a single organ
Zation. controls these two great cities. aud /
through them the state of New YORK, aud /
the state Of New York the other /
states OF New Jersey and 4
and they. with the solid 1
south, have votes enough 20 control the /
republic.
do not need to say what every man /
knows: that there will not be single cleo
,Oral vote cast south OF Mason & DixOn's /
ine for any other party than the Demo
cratic party, unless it may be in the states
II West Virginia or Delaware. And 80
his controversy IL to come back finally I
lot only to the two old parties, but 20
between these instrumental
ties on the one side watch have built up
,ur civilization and on the other which
end to its destruction.
IL is said that this is a nation OF slaves,
made so by law Did you ever consider
hat this is the only nation 10 the world TO
which peopls are coming; that 10000
people every year come TO the United
states aud that every year We apply new
restrictions in order 20 keep out the weak.
unworthy and the wicked Then con
,ider that IL is the only country In the
world from which nobody - going. Not
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