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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
AN INCOME lax.
What Leading Metropolitan Democratic
Paper Has to Say About IL.

What Leading Metropolitan Democratic
Paper Has to Say About 1t.
A graduated income tax is a peculiar
ly fair tax
Under it the man who profits most by
the favorable conditions maintained in
the republic will pay most for the re-
public's support
Under it the taxes will be placed
where they are most easily borne. In
like other taxes it falls only upon re-
suits achieved, laying no embarrass-
ment whatever upon endesvor.
Under it the poor man will have full
opportunity to lay the foundation Of
wealth through saving.
Under it profits will be taxed and
wages exempt; business enterprise will
be free to earn and will make its con-
tribution to the public revenues only
out Of its surplus earnings.
Under it wealth will no longer escape
while poverty is made to pay. Under
it prosperity will be invited, where now
it is discouraged.
No plan so equitable has ever been
devised for raising necessary revenues
Why should not the present congress
levy such a tax as part of the reform
work it has been commissioned to do?-
n Y. World.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
Advice to Carnegie.

At the close of a newspaper interview
in relation to the Craftsmanship of the
republican national committee, ex-
Chairman Clarkson touched Carnegie up
in the following style: ''Carnegie's vast
fortune has been made by his working
men and he has written much about
the responsibility of wealth Now is
his opportunity to sustain his reputa-
ton as philanthropist His work
men must be right in their contentious
There have been no such commissions
in business as could possibly make
these great reductions necessary. Mr..
A. Carnegie should settle the difficulties
at once and be generous to those men.
He has discussed the beauties Of CO.
operation in magazine articles and he
should now put his theories into prac-
flee
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
4 Political RoHcott.

The Ventura (Cal.) Unit publishes a
most pathetic letter from one Benjamin
A. Rice, of Hueneme, that state. Mr..
Rice has been refused the privilege of
releasing land he has brought under
cultivation, and on which he has
erected humble home. His landlord
gives these good and sufficient reasons
for desiring TO be rid of his tenant:
Rice went to Los Angeles last fall as
Q delegate to the state convention of
the Farmers Alliance and also to Mont
alyo to make stump speech, and he
goes to church, and l want a man to
stay at home" Let our grand old
parties pass some more resolutions of
sympathy for the evicted Irish tenants
oferuel English landlords Wang uard
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
THE REM EDY,
The Rallot and Not the Winchester is La.
bor's Potent Weapon OF Defense.

The BALLOT and Not the Winchester Is La.
bore Potent Weapon of Defense.
The Homestead workmen, and all
others similarly situated, will have the
individual sympathy of every peoples
party man in the country, so far as it
relates to the question of grievances,
but peoples party men will at at all
times insist that the evils which beset
the wage Garner must be settled by
constitutional methods and not by rev.
dictionary violence.
The unequal conditions existing be
tween capital and labor are the direct
result of long existing system of class
laws in the interest of the rich which
have received the sanction of work.
ingmen themselves at every general
election.
Workingmen must learn the use and
power of the ballot and confine their
efforts to lettering their conditions tc
those peaceful methods which organ.
lied society has thought proper to in.
stitute for its government and protec.
ton. Methods which involve the lives
and property of the community are not
to be thought of or tolerated.
The peoples party offers full and
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
GOOD REASONS
Why the Peoples Party should Elect the
Next President.

Why the Peoples Party should Elect the
Next President.
Should the republicans elect the
president, the utmost they could &C.
complish in the way of legislation
would be the redemption of their plat
form promises. The people would still
be left groaning under ~ the Mckinley
tariff, (9) the national banking system,
49, the contraction of currency, (4) cor
poration rule and (5) the exemption of
millionaires from taxation on their in
comes Let the republicans win at the
next election, and it may be fairly said
that government by the people is dead,
and that class rule is perpetuated.
Suppose every plank of the democratic
platform enacted into law, what relief
would come to the masses of the people?
The national banks would remain; tar
if burdens, if molested at all, would be
only scaled slightly; corporations would
retain their special privileges; currency
would remain contracted, and only be
filtered out to the people through the
banks Wedeal generously with either
party in admitting their honest inten-
ton to redeem platform pledges The
democratic platform of 1884 demanded
the gold and silver coinage ''of the con-
stitution." The coinage of that era was
free and unlimited gold and silver, up
on ratio of fifteen to one. Mr. Cleve-
land was elected upon this platform.
The first thing he did after election WAS
to .truckle to Wall street, and repudiate
this free silver pledge.
Both parties are responsible for the
vicious legislation which now Expresses
the country.
In 1878 the millionaires demanded the
repeal of the income tax. Democrats
and republicans united in obeying. In
the senate, only two democrats voted
against the repeal; the house vote is not
recorded. In February, 1878, an effort
was made to restore the law. II failed.
Had the democrats, who-under the
lead of S. S Cox, Fernando Wood, and
Mr.. Springer-leader of the present
democratic house-voted against the
proposition, voted in favor of it, it
would have succeeded. Another at
tempt in the following June failed for
a similar reason.
Upon the tariff question the record
is much the same Neither of the old
parties will support a bill that is not
distinctively protective. Economist.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
CONVICT LABOR.
The Peoples Party solves n Worthy Prob
lem In the Interest of Justice and Hon
est Labor.

The Peoples Party solves Worthy Prob
lem In the Interest of Justice and Hon
est Labor.
A plank in the Missouri state plat
form of the peoples party reads thus:
We favor the construction Of a system OF
good public roads by the state, and the utiliZs-
ton of the convict labor Of the state in pre-
pairing material for and in the construction OF
such roads.
And the county platform Of Pettis
county, Mo, says:
We favor the apportionment Of and the en-
ployment by the several counties Of the state
convlcts 70 build and improve our public roads
Because, first II VIII withdraw convict LABOR
from competition with honest labor and sec:
ond, because the benefits TO the public Of con-
Wet labor will be immensely greater than from
any other system that could be devised
The Illinois state platform has this
plank:
Wedemand that all convicts In this state here
after be employed in the winter months in pre-
pairing material for, and in the summer months
in making, permanent roads and other state i'm
provements.
Commenting upon the plank in the
Illinois platform, the Chicago Post says:
Eat least one plank in the platform
adopted at the state convention of the
so-called peoples party in Danville will
command the respect Of all good citi-
zens. 1t relates to the employment of
convict labor. The peoples party is not
without reason in accusing the two
dominant parties of gross and I'M
patriotic negligence of the subject of
prison labor. As the matter now
stands return to the odious old con-
tract system is precluded by consti-
tutional amendment The existing
contracts are expiring and the state
must soon assume the problem, the last
legislature having lodged it in coward
ly wise Since enforced idleness is a
thing too horrible to be considered at
all, and since the state must, therefore,
furnish employment of some kind to
convicts, the question seems to resolve
itself into choice between the appli-
cation of convict labor to public works
and return to the familiar and there
fore odious system Of labor on state ac-
count. We venture that once the sug-
gestion of the peoples party was
adopted there would be no further
trouble with the convict labor question
and the scandal of our public roads
would become a gradually vanishing
quantity"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
WHO KNOWS?
Is It Not Possible That Weaver's Chances
Are as Good as Any?

Is II Not Possible That Weaver's Chances
Are as Good as Any?
The final wind-up of the silver bill
was reached on last week in the house,
and clean Knockout was the result
After all the platform resolutions, be
fore and after conventions, the voice of
the people is not regarded, and Wall
street reigns supreme. The question to
take up the Stewart bill was killed by
the following vote: Yeas, 1856; nays,
154. Democrats voting yea, rs; peo-
pies party, 10; republicans, s; total, 1856.
Democrats voting nay, "a; republicans
voting nay, 60; total, 1854.
1t is pleasing to note that every PEG.
pies party man was true for the meas
ure. 1t is also gratifying to note that
the per cent. of democrats voting fol
the bill was greater, by far, than oul
republican brethren Why is it that
republicans have gone back on such
platform statements as were adopted
in Topeka in 1890, which were as fol
lows:
"The practical operation of the silver
act, now in force, recently passed by a
republican majority and opposed by a
democratic majority, in both holSes Of
congress, is rapidly increasing the value
of silver, is good step in the right di-
rection; but we, the republicans of Kan
sas, demand the free coinage of silver,
measure strongly opposed and vigor-
ously denounced by the late democratic
administration, led by ex-President
Grover Cleveland.
And on January 4, 1891, the Topeka
Capital said: stop your windy
speeches about the election bill. Pass
the Plumb measure for the free coinage
of silver, and give the country one OF
two hundred millions more of paper
currency"
And yet after all this pretense TO re-
lieve the people, only eight republicans
voted for the bill. Oh, how they honor
the late Plumb, and the fight he made
for free silver But, Wall street said,
NO" and they make the laws not the
people. How long; oh, Lord how long,
-Emporia Kan Tidings.
The vote of these free silver demo
Gratis and republicans in the face Of the
terrible pressure that must have been
brought to bear upon them would seem
to indicate that they are true friends 10
the cause of the common people. In
case the election of a president should
be thrown into the house, and the re-
publicans, including the eight who
voted for free silver, should support
Harrison, the free silver democrats and
populists would yet have majority Of
thirty-four over the anti-free silver OF
Cleveland democrats We shall see
what we shall see Who knows what
we may see? GEORGE c. WARD
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
Generous MIR. Frick.

Mr.. Friek, in his testimony before the
congressional committee, stated that
296 men were employed in open hearth
department No . and about 100 were
affected by the reduction offered. The
following reply has been prepared by
the locked out men of that department
There are 122 tonnage men affected
by the proposed reduction They pro-
duce on daily average of twenty-four
hours $3.50 tons of steel ingotS In
Shoeneberger's open hearth depart.
ment at the same number of furnaces
as in No. ., 16S tonnage men are re.
quired to produce 1872 tons of steel in.
gotS At one particular position in the
two mills the Homestead man would
receive s1415 per ton. In ShoeDeberg.
er's he would receive SIS. In Home.
stead if any accident occurs to the heat
of the steel the men get no pay for it
while in Shoeneberger's they would b.
paid by the day, be the steel good OF
bad"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
The Homestead War.

Is it any wonder that humanity.
downtrodden by such shameless de
vices, frightened, Infatuated, should
lose sight of the respect which is due
property and the law, and resist the
movement for its final subsection? The
Globe thinks not The war between
the common people carrying their owD
muSkets and the millionaires who have
fattened on their labor is come at last.
God save the union from the shock
which will follow. We have planted
ourselves on a lie for a quarter of o
century, and the fimsy foundation is at
last giving away. Wealth acquired BY
robbery has now to maintain itself by
the force of arms. The land of freedom
is turned into a field of bloodshed, and
the air is full of threats of vengeance,
because the oppressed are awakening
to a realization of how they have been
.cheated-St Paul Globe.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05

will make against Cleveland and Harri-
son will be earnest, intelligent and sue
cessful. Colorado is not a gold-bug
state and this the people will prove III
November"
The force bill is species of politi-
cal slight of hand or legerdemain pro-
posed by eastern democrats (?) through
eastern republicans in the interest of
the money power. 1t won't work. The
people of the west and northwest
pledged the south at Omaha that it
shall never become a law.-Southern
Mercury.
The question is, shall we keep a
standing army to compel labor to obey
the commands of corporate capital or
starve, and force the farmer to foot the
bill? Carnegie and the old parties, by
their acts, say yes. The peoples party,
no never Every man must answer for
himself. What say Brookfeld
(Mo) Union.
Labor builds palaces and lives in
novels Labor builds palace cars and
rides in the smoker. Labor weaves
Administer and Moquette carpets, and
lives on bare floors Labor makes silks
and satins and wears cOttonades and
calico Labor raises sirloin steaks and
mutton chops and eats liver and SOW
belly.-Arkansas Farmer.
These protectionists who are al
ways talking about property rights, and
against paternaEsm, are always calling
on the government to help them accu-
mulate property, and then when they
get more than they can handle, they
want the state and national govern
ments to help them take care of it.
That is paternalism with a vengeance
Exchange
Gen. Weaver seems likely to utterly
side-tEack Harrison and throw the cleo
ton Of president into the house where
it is supposed Cleveland would be
elected, but it is possible some of the
democrats in the house may be switched
over into the nearer through train.
Everything political as well as atmos-
pherical has chaotic outlook. Iowa
State Reflector.
u. S. Hall still says he is an ALI
ance democrat Ha, ha! The idea.
Might as well speak of Christian in
fdel. The two are opposite. The time
has passed when any allianceman can
conscientiously belong to either of the
old political parties There is nothing
in the alliance constitution to prevent
it, but there is something in the educa,
ton he has received in the alliance
which drives him far away from either
of them.-Torch of Liberty.
1t might, however, be prudent for
this same banking power torefect upon
the fact that no matter what political
influence may be brought into play,
President Harrison may be expected tC
veto any and every form of free coinage
which is not international in its scope,
and that the next president, be he Mr..
Harrison or Mr.. Cleveland, will equally
protect the country against AM merely
national free coinage. For five years,
therefore, the country is safe against
this danger; and, at the expiration Of
that time, the heresy will have found
its destiny in the tomb of exploded pop
ular fallacies -Henry Clews' Wall
Street Review.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

II the plutocrats really want rev.
olution all they have to do is to press
the button. Indiana Union
The American labors to show that
Gen. Weaver has been a most bitter en-
envy of the democratic party. Had he
not been the peoples party would never
have placed its banner in his hands,
WeHkly Toiler
-WOrkingmen, which will you do,
think or fight? One or the other you
must do soon. If you refuse to think
you will soon have to fight unless you
will consent to be slaves Spokane
Wash. Alliance Manifesto.
1t is probable that the resistance Of
the Homestead employees of Mr.. Carne-
gle to his reduction of their means OF
existence will fail. Justice is with
them and the law is with him. They
can remedy their wrongs when they
choose by striking at the polls.
The Denver Daily News, the lead
ing democratic newspaper west of st.
Louis, says: ''The fight the silver men
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05

nearly every branch of government.
Drive out the hook-nosed Shylocks
whose glittering gold has perverted and
destroyed the democratic principles of
Jefferson and republican wisdom of
Lincoln.
Drive 'em out.
Drive 'em out at the ballot box.
When that fails, then and only then
will you be justified in declaring war.
This scheme of public plundering, tax
eating currency contraction has reached
the end of its rope.
1t must stop now.
A peaceful victory we hope and pray
| for, but a victory it must be, even
though the long roll once more be
heard in the land to awaken down
trodden, tax-ridden people to arms.
There is an end to all things.
We have arrived at the end.
When it comes to struggle between
organized monopolies and trusts with
their edicts to organized labor unions,
the unions will win.
Plutocraey might as well take heed
now and assist in preventing the spill
ing of blood.
Whitelaw Reds nomination upon the
tail of the republican wing of the gold
party ticket is a direct challenge to
fight.
Clevelands nomination upon the DEM
ocratic wing of the gold party ticket is
another slap at the people who cry out
in anguish against the further rule OF
the money power.
The turn in the road has been
reached.
Dow.' with monopoly.
Down with trusts.
Down with the Carnegies
Down with the Reds.
Down with the gold party, and for
the sake of home and the republic crush
Harrison and Cleveland, the two men
above all men who stand as fgure-heads
for the ShylockS
God pity the laboring men of this ma.
ton if the fight now being waged by
the old party campaign fund raisers
succeeds. Denver Road.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05

complete remedy for the hardships now
being imposed by the republican and
democratic parties upon all classes of
wealth producers in the interest of the
money power. That remedy is a con-
stitutional and peaceable one and re-
quires at the hands of the worlkmen
that they throw down the Winchester
and take up the ballot
Until every effort and power in this
direction is exhausted, the peoples
party will stand by the constitutional
power of the state to enforce obedience
to the public will in accordance with
existing forms of law.-Lamar mo J
Industrial Union.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
The Difference.

A nation of homes is a nation founded
upon a rock. A nation of boarding
houses and tenant farmers is prosperity
foundered upon rock. Men will fight
for home, but no one will endure the
privations of war for soft place in an
aims house. Patriotism perpetuates
republics. Patriotism is the product Of
love for country. Slaves are not pa
triots. denver Road.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05
NEW METHOD OF CAMPAIGNING.
The "fish Institutes Of Minnesota Ar
lining a Great Work.

The "fish Institutes Of Minnesota Are
Doing Great Work.
There may not be many things new
under the sun, but certainly DR. Everett
W. Fish, state lecturer of the Minnesota
alliance, has inaugurated method
which is new and remarkable. 1t re-
quires little nerve and dash to set the
method in motion. A county attorney
who was known to have great hostil-
ity TO DR.. Fish once heard group of
village people denouncing the doctor
and the peoples cause.
well, said the attorney, Il will say
this for the doctor, no man ever called
him cowardl"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05

"A consignment of full blooded
"nigger force bills" has been received
from democratic headquarters by the
local committee, and will shortly be
turned loose in Barton county. Keer
your children in after dusk. Industrial
Union.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05

The Homestead workman should
first learn how to use a ballot before
he takes up Winchester.-Industri
Union
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-05

are thee SaIatn tn IDEAS wihN
people Labor
fnt based
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-03-16
St. Patrick's Masque Ball.

James Virgins, the Empire enter
tainer, has made every preparation to
give the public first class masque-
rade on the 18th. A good orchestra
has been posted as to the require
ments of Empire dancers, and first
class music will be the result. The
well known caterer, Mrs. Koahl, will
spread one of her home made ban
quets for those who desire to enjoy
it. Costumes can be secured at the
hall, ard plenty of stable room is at
hand for those attending in carriages
Cash prizes will be give as follows
by James Virgins at the coming
mask ball in Empire, March 18th:
Every lady and gentleman in costume
gets number at the door. When
the announcement is made to I'M
mask, all these numbers are put in
box and shaken up before a COM
mittee selected in the hall. The
first number drawn gets $40, the
second S. and the third So. so. All
cash prizes. Everyone putting a
number in the box gets duplicate,
so there will be no mistake or chance
for an argument. milo
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-03-16

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tie. n6tf
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ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. Wins
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