People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-08

be a school whereby each meWDer may
learn the relation which the laws of the
land bear to the welfare of the citizen.
Let it be remembered when the a
bove is read that the majority will of
the people, when properly directed,
can have many other beneficial effects
than upon national law. l have omit
ted all reference to the Union as a
commercial agency, or to its influence
upon state legislatures. We will get a
full conception of its benefits only from
its practical workings.
We should not distrust the people, or
fear to clOthe them with power. The
masses, with their interest for the COM
mon good, are more trustworthy even
in their ignorance than our profession
al politicians, influenced and controlled
as they are by the money of the united
corporations.
BY obligating ourselves to abide by
the Union we simply pledge ourselves
to abide by popular government with
the corporate and moneyed classes left
out. All who have had enough of gov
eminent by the mOneyed classes and for
the mOneyed classes should enroll inl the
Union, which is a government within
our government by the people and for
the people.
Section 3 of art. 3 of the constitution
reads as follows: Each local union
shall be entitled to its due proportion
of power in the suggestion of measures
for unity of consideration and action"
In keeping with this grant of power
the following rules for local unions
are adopted for the forming and revis.
ion of calendar.
HOW THE UNION EDUCATEs.
First, the measure on calendar first on
the list at the time for making report
shall be entered on said report and the
vote thereon shall be reported, first by dis.
trict, secondly by state and thirdly by the
national Union
Seconds No more than three different
measures shall DO entered on calendar al
any one time.
Third: But one measure shall be en-
tered on calendar at any one meeting.
Fourth: All measures formally and
legally adopted shall be entered on calen.
dsr in the order of their adoption.
Fifth; When no other business is pend.
ing the union may proceed to revise cal,
endar, first, by erscing any measure,
second, by making additions or sbbre.
viations to any of the measures, third, by
changing their numerical order on the cal
endar.
How could we conceive of a more
potent means for education upon i'm
portant public measures than this
But three measures can be on the cal
endar at any one time, and then there
is the order of precedencel How the
money reformers, the transportation
refOrmers, the land reformers, prohibi.
tioniStS, free traders and others would
try to get recognition on the calendar
and at the head of the list, and how
the people would study and investigate
when they would know that npon them
} rested the responsibility for the rejec.
ton of the mint, anise and cummin,'
and the acceptance of the "weightiel
matters of the law"
Why stand we here idle when such q
means for the education of the masses
and the overthrow Of the money power
lies within our graspp AS the love Of
money, which is the root of all evil
has been suffered to take possession o.
the plastic forms of our government
let us now learn to accept the means
! for the restoration of more righteous
love, the love of humanity, to agar
take possession of those susceptible
! forms, and to breathe into them tn,
quickening breath of new life.