Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-08

brown men and women whose faces
Indicated that they needed bread.
VITA these things in mind. and deeply
Impressed - am with the frlghtful
condition Of the people, am in no
mood TO expound the magnificent
setTicesP' which Jon say this admins
tEstion has rendered the people.
If the services have been as you
claim. the people need not % told of
them. as results wonld speak for
themselves. The fact il, g admins
trRtion has rendered magnificent
services" not 30 the farmers and Ia
borers, bat to the Carnegies, with
their PInkertOns; the McLeods, with
their coal trusts, the Armours, with
their beef combines, and the Goulds,
with their railroad systems; and in
fact all Of the many agencies formed
for the purpose of controlling the
output OF the mines, the shops, the
fields and the farms.
I fear your par ) has departed from
the teachings of Lincoln, Stanton,
Seward and Chase. fear that
spoilsmen dominate your councils,
and lobbyists corrupt your law maxi
ing body. I fear that you follow
leaders who by slow but sure transit
tions lead you to do the bidding of
the most cruel and heartless power
this country has ever known-the
meAey power. Your rank and file
are honest, but they are deceived by
sophistry and false logic. Your lead
kefs stir up prejudice and set men
against their neIghbOrs. They light
the fires Of sectional hatred, and
arouse partisan bigotry. They have
placed your party practically on the
side of capital, which is nothing but
property chattel, and against labor,
which is humanity IN action. Human
ity is above all chattel property OF
earth. It holds within It's mighty po-
tehtialities, human hearts and immor-
tai souls which cannot be made to
long submit to useless ceremonials,
empty formulas and questionable doc.
ttines.
With 100000 men organized II
the various industrial and political
organizations of the country protest
ing against the conditions that nov
confront them; demanding that the
bread winners and wealth producer
receive an equal distribution in the
democracy of life, admonish us that
something Is wrong with the mschin
cry of government and that it shoulc
be adjusted. Great social problems
are living down among the people
and are continually presenting them
selves for solution.
Senator Palmer of the United
States senate, in speaking of tn,
Homestead trouble, sprung some o
these problems, and he was denounceC
by the Republican press as socialis
because he said labor had a propert.
interest in that which it created. l
this belief is socialism as understood
by the old and existing order, then
am proud of the honor of being on
rolled in the new school of politics
thought, and I here enter my protef
against system which enslaves an
degrades labor by denying to it equt
protection with capitals propert
interest in that which it creates, an
an equal distribution in the proceed
Of It's earnings.
= Your tariff questions are surfaC
: questions and very incomplete b.
cause you do not take into accour
the social questions and inequalltiC
of adjustments that lie back of ii
! theory of protection. Hence you nee
not be surprised to hear of lock-ou
and strikes. They are but the 70
canic outbursts of the convulslVe fir
within, which if properly adjuste
are harmless, otherwise destructiV
It is the duty of government to so a.
u just these relations that peace ar
. prosperity may belong to all class
% and become the birthright of eve
3 citizen. Your silver plank was frame
in the interest of the money powe
le hence it is not entitled to any respe
rs from the laboring and producing ella
IN ses, or in fact from any class of ci
II zens who have a patriotic regard +
le their country. Your force bill "
r intended to be the safe guard of
same dominant power and compel G
d. shaved labor to vote under the tou
ct of federal bayonets. Your idea
n yovarnmaDk IL force- which Is mc