People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-08-26

NVHiV III anu Stl Illelr pay. the COM
pany claiming that they could not
afford TO pay the increase. and have
shut down their works. 1t NAV be
true that they cannot afford to nav
more, but it is a fact that the salt
companies of Kansas pay in excessive
frelghtS, enough to pay their salt
rakers 20 cents an hour, and their
cooperS > cents per barrel. instead of
4 and leave themselves a nice
round sum for dividends. 1t seems
that the people of this state are blind
er than the MONDAY owl: they know
these things, for the salt men. the
wholesale grocers, and the implement
men of Kansas have repeatedlybuught
the matter of rate discrimination be-
fore the Inter State commerce COM
mission, without being able 10 gain
the slightest relief. 1t is dollars and
cents that people are after, and ID has
been truly said that a dollar saved is
better than a dollar earned. Then if
there is any way for people to save
dollars, is it not strange that they
will hesitate? There is but one thing
in this world that will keep the mass
es from doing so, and that is. that it
might conflict with some of their old
traditions and be contrary to the
principles of the political party that
accident has made them a follower of
Away with party, say |, il it is being
used to rob me, and up with the one
that will save me dollar, Kansas is
the center Of the Union, and Hutch
insOn the great salt center nearly the
exact geographical center Of the United
States. With equal charges, then,
throughout the U. S. for equal dis
tance, Kansas ought, and would fur
nish more than one half of this cOun-
try with salt. With such a territory
to supply, Hutchinson, Wellington
and those cities Of this state fOrtu-
nate enough to possess salt, would
spring into cities Of the first magni-
tude in short time; property would
advance: empty stores and dwellings
fill up and wealth and prosperity
come to the people. This condition
can be brought about in but one man
ner, and that is for the government
to take the railroads and operate
them at cost. That this would fail
to do so | challenge any man to deny
through the press. And as it will do
this, why do people hesitate for one
minute to work for, vote for the only
party that is pledged to bring around
this altered condition? The saving
in freightS to the salt owners would
enable them to pay their help 25 per
cent more, and leave large surplus
for themselves. Now, honor bright,
Republicans can you, honestly, truth
fully, point to one sin gle solitary SEN
tence in the Republican platform
that you know, or even think will
save one farthing. to you? No, you
cannot. Then why do you tarry with
them longer? Shake off the shackles
that bind you to them and come out
boldly for the Peoples party;-the
only party that today can and will
save dollars for you; the party of Ia
boring people and for the labOring
class. Can you not, labOringman,
better intrust your interests to those
engaged in the same walks of life as
yourself, than to those who neither
toll nor spin? The farmer will be in
terested in having the same laws as
yourself; the latter cares naught for
you only to use you to further their
own selfish ends. For once, then,
leave the Republican party and see If
the world will not revOlve as usual.
r. Z. BRAY.
Hutchinson Kansas, August 20, 1902.