People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
A DUTY TO PERFORM.

by the Minneapolis convention, as a
platform of principles, would be most
ludicrous if il were not for the many
bright anticipations which must be
wrecked If those who promulgated 1t
succeed.
The third party and all wavering men
have duty before them in its earnest
examination. e ~
1t contains its usual congratulatory
sauce for a proclaimed prosperity in
our fields and workshops
Which is the most patent to labor,
such assumptions, or the facts which
drive them into organizations in self
defense?
Labor will recognize the sincerity
Labor's condition is and has been
reality, and not pretense. .
The republicans gloat that this, con-
dition is largely due to their wise legis-
lation.
Labor will here see that the republic
ans recognize the fact that legislation
makes the conditions which surrounds
labor.
This is their first open admission of
such fact.
This gives us fair starting point
Conditions are result of law enact.
ments.
This shows marvellous advance, as
it was opposed to all extent during the
old period of greenbaek education.
Yet with this advanced creed they
hasten to reafiim their ancient allegi-
ance.
They close their ports by protection
and open them by reciprocity as a
means Of benefting American labor.
Reciprocity can be nothing less than
a concession TO free trade.
Free trade opens all markets.
Reciprocity opens agreed markets.
England's free trade principles, put
in practice, has made her the CONNER
eial mistress of the world.
The next bird of beautiful plumage is
the proclamation favoring bimetallism.
when they alone are responsible for de-
stroying bimetallism. even at time
when silver was made the most valuable,
as pretense TO its destruction.
Aye, it was made too valuable as per
the present principles.
If they favor silver as a standard
money at parity, why did they create
the disparity, and when they saw its
operation refuse to retract?
Their action shows no desire for a
parity.
They show that they well know that
congress destroyed that parity which
they now demand; but do they propose
to undo the work which destroyed the
parity?
The purchasing and debt-paying
power of money is not controlled or in
fuenced by its material.
II it was, the law could not destroy
that power
Every fair productive interest de-
mands that all money shall be alike in
money functions, which are impaired
only by the law and should bear upon
all forms alike.
In their denunciation of southern out
RACES, so-called, do the republicans re-
member that they alone are the archi-
tects Of the system under which they
are perpetrated, if at all?
If they have failed, after their thirty
years Of endeavor, are they competent
servants?
Is it not best to force a change with a
view to more efficient course?
1t would seem as if the republicans
were self-convicted inefficients.
When were the mentioned political
reasons more forcibly illustrated than
in the memorable seven to eight con-
test?
If the republicans are the especial
champions of the oppressed, why, after
so long period of supremacy, should
they claim a continuance?
1t may be patriotic to sympathize
with the Irish and the Jews, even while
importing Polachs as means of plac-
ing American labor upon the same level.
1t may be the height of political patri-
otism to reafiirm opposition to trusts,
etc, even while building them upunder
various phases of law.
These same republicans created the
great monetary trust corporations
which are to-day absorbing the very
life Of all industries.
Such a creed, following such a prac.
tice, hardly gives the intelligent Amer
lean the most exalted ideas of that ma
tional honor which the politicians and
thepolitical press so earnestly endeayor
to instill into the minds of all people.
Even the great war failure platform,
which the democrats offered in 1864
was no more humiliating for its false
positions than this last great work Of
the money scabs in convention assem-.
bled at Minneapolis.
1t seems impossible TO get an express
sion in a political declaration which
dares antagonizes Americas worst enc.
mics.
The late convention was as servile to
the banking oligarchy as the old democ-
racy was to the slave power
There is not manly expression in
the whole thing which reaches out to,
or beats in unison with the LOYAL Amer.
lean heart
1t is simply magnificent disappoint-
ment, with silver enemy as a head
and labor enemy as tail, using scab
employees as court to labor votes.
This is the first sop thrown TO the
labor WHOLE. R. Williams, in Ma
tional View.
A Vanderbilt Ticket.
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