The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18

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= capital OF $4,000, GOO ana a proper
tionate mum ber of wage serfs, There
IS no tariff on electricity What has
congress TO say about this iniquitV2
The railroads Of the Unitei States
representing billions of dollars, have
no tariff to protect them They do nos
stand ia dread of foreign competition.
yet they tax the American people ala
traffic will bear They levy tribute
each year to the tune of hundreds of
millions of dollars The people pay
this tuibute- They are the self Same
people for whom you shout turiu on lm-
ports Why do you lack the states
mauship, the foresight the honesty 30
introduce a bill to prevent the railroads
from raising "a tariff on the people and
place these public highways under the
control and ownership of tHe govern
meut2 The te'cgraphs are on the free
list We do not dread the competition
Of foreign line of telegraph. One
line has p monopoly. l. lcvIes a tariff
amounting TO ms lions each year ON
the American people. Where is the
free trader in congress with his bill to
cut down that oppressive tariff by
placing the Telegraph under the com
troll Of the governments
Billions of dollars are raised each
year from the people who pay taxes on
lands. Other ana richer men are on
the free list, so far as being taxed is
concerned Land is on the free list-iu
is not on the list OF dutiabIc articles.
anyway. Why do the democrats, who
are opposed to tariffs, not shout for
free land in this nation?
The importers of man-made srticlcs
and the trsnsportsrs OF God-mude men
have thrown the tariff bone before
congress and tine dogs, who yclp at tho
sound of the voice Of the master nib
BILE at the bone while tine meat is being
s-H.r 0 D Hl
There is "a ta1l on money IL is mo-
nopolized. Its manufacture Is 50 pro-
tected that few men have it I'm their
power to contract the currency when
they please and i1creuse it as will suit
their interests Paying for the use OF
money at both ends, the manufacture,
workman. merchant aud farmer aro
taxed for every dollar they cara. Why
do we not near tine voice OF the democ-
racy rising above the strife for parti-
san advantage in "a demand for free
money!
Each one of the issues have raised
stands pre-emineut above that of tho
tariff; each one comes nearer TO the
people of the uatioui each one is closer
TO the interests of the masses than tho
tariff. but that old, timC-vvoFu thread
bare coat of many colors is before the
house OF representative who mis-
represent the people TEo tariff
was an issue when Washington lived;
it was an issue when Jackson was
a baby, and he dicl before it ceased
to be anything clsGi the tariff
was an issue when Grover Cleveland
was born a nd it viii be an issue - hen
he is dead. Under tariffs and without
them the people went on and prospercd.
Those opposed TO either side of the.
question did every thing short OF treu-
son, many did not stop at that 60
spread misery throughout tine c5uHtrv
in order to demonstrate lhat their p1si-
tiOu was the right one There never
was a time in the history of the United
States, whether under "a tariff or with
out a tariff when those who opposed
the prevailing condition diL not do
more to injure their oppoleat- and the
country than To- act as loyal citizens Of
T the republic. When WusHiugt died
I and when Jackson was born there yvera
no railroads no anthracite mines, no
I teIegraphS, no electri-ityi no steam
ships, with "a capacity of fifteen
huudrcd passengers % the steer
+ age, no luud-grsbbiug Hs there
is to-day; no trusts, Ho moBop-
/ olies. no miIliouaircs Today we havo
all of these things and I'm addition
have a class of statesmen who are liv-
ing i'm a by-gDue age, who are dF.fLi1E
along in the rut that Wa=HiE-t In be-
gan in stage coach and jackson trIV-
e.ed ia, rather than trust himself o. tho
steam car OF any other Ha v-fanglsI iu-
/ veutioa- c ugrcss hears tac puuv wall
Z OF alleged statesmen whose tariff
/ speeches werg written before the war
. of the re be1iiau began. whose ears uud
/ eyes are closed TO the rush aud roar of
[ events which crowd each otler
50 fast that they drive men and
systems so hard that each day
/ witucsscF a new departure from COM
I ditious which were not known 70 onr
/ fathers aud with which we urra-ae
I familiar but a few years ago. Ecgis=
. lating for past age are our states
? men who ignore the great questions I
T have mentioned. They shou give
way for men who ISaow tlc nee 3s aud
] wishes of our people, OF the people who
I live and move aui have thcir being in
: the awful present and not in the dusI y
I and a IN 1st forgotten past
& God give us men a tlunc like flf- demands
Great hearts strong minds, true faith ana Will
ing hands
{ Men whom the lust Of once docs not IsuI:
] Aicu whom flr -Euils of once cannot uugs.
+ fTeu who pl-sl--s opinions and vTilI-
/ Men who have honor. men VI Ea viii NOT IL--
I For while the rabbie with Ih=lE ilulu1-VT1rl
cEee1s,
] Their large professions and thofr IItlIa deeds.
] TvrauFIe fu selfish srrIfe-Io- Freedom 1gecrs. -
/ Wrong rules the land ana waiting Justice
sleeps
IT. y. Poydsrly. in journal Of Knights
. Of Labor