People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-11-11

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expense to the plutOcratic fraternity
to make that foreign trip and bring
back just such timely campaign
fakes"
When he said we would all be Jay
GOulds if we could, as a cynicism t.
deter all righteous opposition to the
malevOlence of the G. 0. p. legislation
the air seemed vibrating with theil
thrObbing retOrt, thou designing
and malevOlent judger of thoughts;
why, with your pretended virtue and
patriotism, do you not strive to in.
spire us to work with you for a sys-
TEN by which such or any premium
will be taken from wantOn selflshneSs,
and under which we may all be rich
in the spirit of mutual helpfulnesS
or unallOyed blessings
You tell us that Jay Gould and 9TH
erS of like ilk, got their wealth by le-
gitimate and honest processes! Do
we not know that in that other
speech you told us you doubted if any
could acquire million dollars even.
and not merit the penitentiary.
DO we not know that you must
have known that Jay Gould, under
oath before congressional commit
tee, had to testify that by the legis-
latiye committee Of corporation plu-
tOcratS, it was assigned to him to
carry with doodle" the vote of four
states including New York, in the in
tereSt of corporations, to secure eSpec-
Tally enfrancnised privileges to plum
der the people under legislatively
sanctioned methods? Is that the
way of being born free and equal, and
does it make good your state
ment that legislation can have moth
ing to do with the distribution of
wealth?
Yes, you tell us that government
cannot make money, but in that
other speech you said "mOney is the
creation Oflaw;" still | seemed to hear
them saying, rs he SOsaturated with
his own yenal egOtism that he re-
CARDS us as so demented; or over
awed by his imposing dignity and
royalty of presence, that we do not
know that sentence after sentence he
is giving the faint of falSehOOd to va
riOus previous sentences of this same
speech.
That even his closing sentence
knocks every prop of truth from I'M
der the one statement that he pitted
to hang his all upon to save his name
from standing emblazOned as the
boss falSifer of himself-"that all
these evils and conditions are social
and can in no way be mitigated or
cured by legislation" that sentence
averring that it is the mission of the
Republican party to cure all these
evils.
L did not hear, but saw the smile of
cOmmiseratiOn which seemed to say,
as ne assumed the pose of the oracu-
lar on the money problem, and like
father to child" address them as a
set of semi-idots, "yOu are an egotist-
ical ass, there is no cOherency or point
to those hackneyed aphOrisms."
And still | seemed to feel the pulsa-
tion of their mental soliloquizing: "if
you are not constituencies trimmer
for personal political preferment only,
how could you make the truthful and
mastery portrayal in that January.
1891 speech and the one twelve years
previous, and still in your high and
privileged place, by oath of Office
plighted to your country and during
all the interviewing period and since,
never lift your finger or raise your
voice to give the alarm Of the impend.
ing danger and mark your solicitude
as to the plan and methods of deliy-
erance and reform"
L Imagined | could audibly catch
the suppressed groans of their insult
ed patriotism, when he, in measured
cadences stated that the American
flag-the stars and stripes-originally
limnered by the better angels of the
advanced spirits of Washington, JEFF.
fersOn, Adams and Hancock, emblem
OF liberty and national honor, if only
in part, but the emblem of what was
yet to be in the new nations upward.
onward, excelsior march; was only a
filthy rag until the Republican party
took, and with dainty fingers, shook
out its vile execratiOn.
Also, their breathings seemed pal-
pable, saying, Eyes, he would. for as
sumed consistency, put the postal
system on the plane of the enfran-
chised telephone and telegraph sys-
TEN and have our wagon highways
farmed out as are our railroads.
know am allowing this review
too much length, considering the
merits of the subject, but reader, bear
in mind, l am simply pointing to
only q faw of tha 1o~..o.:. 4,