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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
THE DIE is CAST.

The National Organ of the +. 4. g. l. u.
Advises Alliancemen to Quit the Twin
frauds. tar.
The position of the Economist, often
defined in its columns, as to the Farm
ers' Alliance and political parties, is un-
changed, but the condition of the ma
ton is very materially changed polite
ally. Both the republican and demo-
cratic parties have had three years to
consider the alliance demands, and have
been repeatedly invited to accept them
or any part of them. Both these parties
have held their national convention
and made platform directly opposed
to the principles involved in these de-
mands, but in favor of concentrated
wealth and monopoly. The Economist,
as the special champion of the great
common people, cannot longer call upon
the people to make sacrifice of their
feelings for the old party they have long
loved so well, with the hope that there
is the least shadow of chance for them
to receive any relief whatever from it.
1t has uncovered its own wicked ends
and purposes at its recent national con-
vention, and stands squarely as the
avowed enemy of every man who has
dared protest against the reign of plu-
tocracy by even winking at the doctrines
of the alliance The very substance of
the peoples demands as expressed in
every reform paper and upon every
stump are equal rights to all; special
privileges to none" More money
and less taxes" And this doctrine
is so distasteful to the men who now
dominate the democratic and the re-
publican parties that they have an
nounced fight on the great peoples
movement that shall know no compro-
mise. 1t must be crushed out of exist
ence they say. What does it mean? II
means that the great common people
who love this government and have
fought for its principles, if they are
honestly devoted to the principles Of
truth taught and advocated by Jeffer-
son, Webster, Calhoun, Clay. Jackson
and Lincoln, no longer are welcome in
the ranks of the monopoly-ridden ma
chimes which mask under the names Of
the parties represented by these illus
trious men of history.
Has the Economist changed its base.
then? No, not at all. 1t is fully, firmly
and completely devoted to the cause Of
the people, and will never swerve from
that position; but both old parties have
placed themselves in an attitude which
excludes alliancemen from membership
unless they stultify themselves by sub.
Ordinating their principles to the party
policy. 1t remains to be seen how MANY
such alliancemen they will find. Not
many; and they are more than wei.
come to take all such, because thew
would be of no value in the coming
struggle.
One thing is certain; the Economist
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tunity for the democratic party to re.
ciprocate, and hence the republican
party is left with the single issue of
tariff. Taken as an entirety, the two
platforms are works of art in their way
and will no doubt be preserved as mod
els Of political chicanery for future ref
erence and guidance.
The force bill feature developed its
usefulness and aptitude during the sill
yer struggle in the last congress. 1t
proved such a shining example of a
complete bugbear that its services in
hotly contested campaign could not be
well dispensed with, hence its incorpor-
alton in the republican platform. The
edict has now gone forth from demo
cratic headquarters to make the force
bill the main issue in the south. While
the strength of this scheme should not
be underestimate, and its effect in the
hands of INSCRIPTIONS politicians should
not fail to receive due consideration.
yet, being fraud and a delusion. il
cannot stand before the spreading and
increasing power of education that is
now and has been at work in that sec
ton of the country.
The average democratic congressman
of the south is entirely uniformed as
to the sentiment of his district He
lmagines there has been no change
that the same old conditions hold good
that did twenty-five or forty years ago.
de forgets that there are about GOO
newspapers scattered through the south
thatare now, and have been for nearly
three years, scattering seeds of discord
based upon political education. He
seems ignorant that %, 900 sub-alliances
have been propagating independent
ideas for about the same period. f
All this and much more he will learn
to his sorrow long before he will. know
what the true situation is The idea of
this force bill, therefore, is founded
upon the ignorance and prejudices of
the people, upon the superstition that
old conditions yet obtain, and because
Of this will fail miserably in its mis-
sion. Those who go about retailing
this force bill scarecrow will be sur.
prised to find the people more anxious to
know something about finance, land and
transportation, than to listen to the sillv
talk about white supremacy. Never
before have the people been in such an
earnest mood. Never before have thew
united so determinedly for better condi-
tions' and those who fail to recognize
this fact end still insist in bringing
out such foolish side-tracks as the force
bill, will find out their mistake when
relegated to political oblivion. The
force bill scare will fall fat II can
never become law without democratic
or peoples party votes, neither of which
it can obtain. The whole thing is a no
litical trick, delusion and a snare
which will be met and torn to sbreds
by every peoples party speaker when.
ever it comes up-National Waterman
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
GEN. JAMES G. FIELD.
Gen. Viewers Running Mate is a stron,
Winning Candidate,


Winning Candidate.
Gen James Field, the vice-presiden-
tial nominee of the peoples party, was
born in Culpeper county, Va, in 1926,
and spent his boyhood there. He was
educated a lawyer, and became a demo
crat of "the old-fashioned kind" as he
puts it In 1859 he was appointed COM
monwealth attorney for Culpeper
county. At the opening Of the war, in
April Of 1851, he resigned his position
and volunteered with the Culpeper
minute men. That company became
noted for having a rattlesnake for its
emblem and Don't tread on me" for its
motto. The company marched to Harp
er's Ferry and assisted in the capture Of
the federal arsenal.
Gen. Field was promoted from the
ranks to major in the Virginia forces,
md subsequently was assigned to a
position on the staff of Gen. A. P. Hill.
He was in the service from April Il,
1861, to the surrender of Appomattox,
and won distinction for his gallantry.
He was wounded at the battle of Cold
Harbor in 1862 and again at Slaughtar's
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

mountain ian engagement known in
the north as Cedar creek on August 8,
1862. As a result of the latter he lost
his right leg below the knee, and now
uses an artificial limb and a crutch He
was out of active service until May,
1868, when he joined the army at Fred
ericksburg. He was with the army in
the Gettysburg campaign, returned
with it to Virginia and was continuously
in service till the close Of the war.
After Lees surrender Gen. Field re-
sumed the practice of law. In 1877 he
was appointed by the governor of Vir-
ginia to fill the unexpired term as at
torney general of the state, and in No
vember of that year he was elected to
congress for a full term Of four years
beginning January 1, 1878. Since 1882
he has been practicing lawyer and
farmer, residing on a considerable es-
tate in Albemarle county.
Though never member of an ALI
ance, a grange or any other industrial
organization, Gen. Field has since 1886
proclaimed from the stump throughout
Virginia that redress for the grievances
of the people could only be had through
reform organization. He held that
the influence of the party caucus had
grown superior to the will or the con.
stituents of the party, and therefore un,
wise legislation could neither be re.
pealed nor prevented; therefore, a new
party was a necessity. Gen. Field is a
Baptist and has for some time been al
the head of the state organization Of
that church in Virginia. Omaha (Neb
rocsin. ....
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
THE HAND OF GOD.

In the Selection of Candidates and Formu-
Iatlon OF Platform the Hand of God Is
Visible.
The movements of the national peo
pies party seems to have been directed
by supernatural hand. From the
fact that there were no contending
factions in the new organization, and
no candidates seeking recognition, it
was natural to predict that there would
be no discord in the Omaha convention.
But the most sanguine could hardly
hope that the 1,4SO delegates who were
there to represent the different states
and territories, could 50 easily get to-
gether on a national ticket.
Gen. Weaver represents all the con-
servative elements Of political reforms.
He is called conservative because he is
practical. In all his public career he
has never openly advocated any measure
that he could not defend before the best
statesmen of the country, and none
that was not.in line with the wants Of
the common people. He is man of
the masses, friend Of the people and
an intellectual giant To him belongs
the credit Of having led the first grand
fight against the money power in con-
gress after the war was over He took
up the cause Of the people against gold
where Thaddeus Stevens and his col
leagues had dropped it, and in doing so
commanded the attention Of the nation.
Since that time his devotion TO the
cause of industry has never faltered.
A statesman, philanthropist and an
Intellectual giant is the man whom the
peoples party have Endorsed for presi-
dent
Gen. Field is a native and resident OF
old Virginia, the home of the early
presidents; man who has made polit-
ical economy one of his life studies and
who has been for some years identified
with the independent and industrial
element Of politics He is an idol Of
the laboring classes Of his own and adj
joining states, though he has never
aspired to any position on a national
ticket His good reputation and his
superb ability will prove a tower Of
strength to the peoples party.
The platform upon which these
standard bearers are placed before the
nation surpasses anything in history as
a masterpiece Of craftsmanship 1t is a
plain, clear declaration Of principles
that needs no explanation. 1t contains
only those demands that are uppermost
in the minds of the common people set
ting out clearly the doctrine of equal
privileges to all and the way to obtain
them There is nothing ambiguous
about it, for it is written in plain En-
glish. 1t is just what we would like to
have everybody read and study. No
true friend Of reform can refuse to sup.
port either the platform or the nomi-
nees of the Omaha convention.-Topeks
Kan Tribune.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
MISS KNOWLES AIMS HIGH.
BY the Peoples Party For At
torney General of Montana.

Nominated BY the Peoples Party For At
torney General Of Montana.
The spectacle of female attorney
general for big state is among the
possibilities in Montana The peoples
party have nominated for that Office
Miss Ella L. Knowles, the only woman
lawyer in the state. The older parties
have not yet made their nominations
for state officers The constitution does
not say that the attorney general, or
any other officer for that matter, shall
not be a woman. According to the
New York Recorder it infers as much
by speaking OF the attorney general as
"he" and referring to ''his duties"
Miss Knowles, who is about IS years
old, was born in Northwood, Rocking
ham county, n. H., and is the daughter
of David Knowles and Louisa Knowles.
Her father still resides on the old home
stead in New Hampshire, in what is
known as the Knowles district Her
mother died when Miss Knowles was
IA years of age. Miss Knowles grad
uated from the Northwood semin-
airy at the age of Is, and one
year later from the New Hampshire
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
THE FORCE BILL.

An Issue Adopted BY the Two Old Parties
to Keep Alive National Prejudice and
Race Hatred.
1t is now evident that the campaign
as made up by the two old parties is to
be contest over the tariff and force
bill. The tariff will be used to its ut
most in the north and the force bill in
the south. All other issues will be
smothered, if possible, and those two
forced to the front. That this is a
shrewd political scheme there is nc
room for doubt, and that it is the result
OF cooperation on the part of the lead
ing political managers of the two old
parties seems to be a self-evident fact
The republican platform would have
been stronger without the force bill
than with it, since it digs up and brings
out under a new form the bloody
shirt" which has become so obnoxious
in the north and west. 1t was evident.
ly placed there to aid the southern
democracy in keeping the south solid,
for when the south ceases to be a po-
litical unit, republicanism has gone to
its long home. The one is a necessity
for the other, and has been for thirty
years. There appeared to be no oppor-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

body but traitor to the American re-
public could have framed such a bill:
nobody but traitor could support il. ="
and that provision is the one which
places the election machinery in every
precinct in the hands of two democrats
and one member of another party.
We trust the Appeal will load up and
shoot again-Searcy ARK. Economist
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

"A fed
And reb
Both generals.
The reb has only one leg.
The blue and gray-the north and
south. q
The war is over, sectitnalism de-
stroyed and the bloody shirt buried.
There is but one solution to the
tariff and that is income tax. With this
you need no sariff and the great ques-
ton is solved.
Can anybody tell why the peoples
party cannot win this year? If so,
speak out North Carolina is going to
win her part-Progressive Farmer.
Why don't the republicans and
democrats join forces and push the
force bill for all it is worth? They are
handicapped at present in their opera
tions.-Progressive Farmer.
The character of the men nomi-
mated and the platforms adopted by the
plutOcracy is an attempt to drive ALI
ance doctrine down the threats of ALI
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

ancemen with a pile driver. National
Economist.
Typographical union No. 6 of New
York Joins 1O1 in repudiating the re-
publican nomination at Minneapolis.
Whitelaw Reds death-bed repentance
didn't fool anybody.
Silver was demonetized in 1878, and
that year, for the first time, Hindoo and
Russian wheat was enabled to compete
with American wheat in the Liverpool
market.-Great West.
1t was glorious convention. A
grand gathering of the common peo-
pie" And, best of all, they all paid
their own expenses and were actuated
solely by patriotic motives. ftf "a T
Talk about perennial candidates
James B. Weaver has been nominated
twice nowin twelve years; Grover Cleve-
lrnd three times in eight years; Benia-
min Harrison twice in four years.
All this rot about national force
bill and "a plot to disfranchise the
voters Of the south" is very tiresome.
The man who would give credit to such
ought to be placed in an asylum
Arkansas Economist.
An exchange says the free silver
advocates are dissatisfied, but will re.
main in the democratic party to fight
the force bill. A man that would STAY
IN party to fight a thing that will
never exist is pretty sort of crank
Progressive Farmer. .sr. rN5a
The peoples party of Colorado has
daily papers in the Denver News, the
Durango Muldoon, Colorado City Chief.
tain, and the Pueblo Daily Crisis will be
issued next month. 1t also has twenty.
two weekly advocates. The field is
fully covered. Coming Crisis.
The attitude of the old parties to
yard the alliance is one of war to the
knife and the knife to the hilt" The
alliance must either boldly accept the
challenge or pusillanimously acknowl
edge that it has only been trying tc
scare somebody.-National Economist
The peoples party candidates fol
president and vice-president differ from
the old party nominees in that they
were chosen by the masses, not BY the
money kings of the country. They arr
men for whom all honest people car
cast their ballots with a clear con
science
The Atlanta Constitution tells tht
farmers of Georgia all other issues ar
impotent in the presence of the threat
ened force bill. The farmers know thai
the peoples party stands pledged to de
feat this legislation if placed in power
and will keep its pledge. Then it would
seem that the logic of events points the
southern farmer to the peoples party
as his haven Of safety'-Atlanta (Ga.
Peoples Party Paper.
The political antecedents and pas
history of leaders of southern mob:
should be carefully inquired into. The
revival of the force bill issue and tn,
NEGRO supremacy" yell are sus
piciously coincident with the present
epidemic of negro lynchings in the
south. Machine politicians of the twin
fraud persuasion are devoid of con
science, honor and patriotism. If tn,
men of the southland would be fire,
they must crush out negro lynchingl
with an iron Aeel-Exchange.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

Eleventh hour converts in politics,
as well as in religion, are to be fostered
and looked after, assisted and helped,
but should not be put into the front
ranks to lead and direct. Those who
have helped make the platform, and
who have fought for the principles con-
tanned therein, are the ones to rely up
on.-Great West.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
Peoples Party Platform Boiled Down.

!. Honest money honestly distributed.
9. A graduated income tax for the
support of the government instead OF
tariff.
3. Land and all other natural sources
of wealth and life, the heritage of the
people.
4. All means of transportation. COM
munication and natural monopolies
owned by the people. Marion Qnd.)
Independent
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

"A solid democratic south is a menace
to good government Let the west
northwest and south come together in a
grand national party free from section
alism.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

Organized labor will hardly be sat
isfed with either Reid or Stevenson.
One favors non-union printers and the
other employs non-union miners.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22

And while the average working fam
lily in pauper England spends $50 year
for amusements, the same sort of fam
lily in the United States can only afford
50 year for that purpose. How is
that?-Exchange.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
An Object Lesson,

THE tariff is doing its own talking. ,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-22
Read the Figures.

The quadrennial appeal Of the Car
negie statesmen to the workmen to vote
the republican ticket because high
tariff means better wages" is now. due
and viii soon be thrust on an innocent
people This reminds us of some fig
ures in Labor Commissioner Carol d.
Wright's last Seventh ANNUALLY report:
an Germany England
q Il - -
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1t was a great convention, and the
plutocratic twins are trembling in their
boots
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-03-24

say, after trial of nearly five years,
that such life is not without reward.
| found my greatest difficulty in
application and steady endurance; for
in order to become a prisoner / had
made myself especially weak in those
qualities. Being weak, it required of
me greater resolution and courage
than of the man who worked beside
me, to resist thoseinsidating pleasures
which so easily seduce the pleasure
lover.
| had, ever since my intimate knowl-
edge of criminals, become convinced
that the vicious tendency was but an
unhealthy state of mind, and it was
only by skillful wrestling with myself
that was able to conquer any false
methods of reasoning, which invari-
ably led me to disaster. But not to
go to such matters for reasons and
causes, | could rest the whole success
OF my life, for the past five years, on
the fortunate opportunity for work
which was presented me Immediately
after my release And to this one
thing k-1abor-this overcoming
of resistance, do | attribute what sat
isfaction I have in living
For the accomplishment of his task,
! can see that each man makes of him
self that which God intended him to
be, and does his part toward building
the foundations on which is con
structed the civilization of the future.
Some men do not understand the
plan and motif, and hinder the work
tear it down-but the man who con-
stantly builds, rarely returns to
prison, and grows stronger and more
skillful as a worker and a man.-Nun7-
Der One.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-03-24
(For Prison Sunday.)

l did not become prisoner a second
time, because during my confinement
1 had thought a great deal of work as
a means of salvation, and was of a
mind to tryit. ,"...... ..-..
After leaving prison, did not return,
because, having a good trade at which
l could earn money, soon found en-
ployment which kept mefrom mischief
IF men would keep at work they
would seldom slip. 1 found that ali
the trials to which unsuccessful men
attribute their downfall-the frowns
and jibes of the world-were but so
many tests applied to try the metal OF
man, and / have been forced to
believe that he who keeps heroically
on his course, and succeeds in convinc-
ing his neighbor of his integrity, makes
of himself a better man than he who
has not been strengthened by opposi-
ton. Every bitter rebuff serves but
to whet the edge of his ambition if his
purpose is strong.
There was, for me, fascination in
the heroism required to live down pre-.
judice and suspicion; and, although
many times was discouraged, car
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-03-24
The Use of Prison Sunday.

It is one of the hopeful signs of the
present that this day is being more
and more generally observed by the
churches of the land. Too largely has
the Christian pulpit left the problem
of dealing with crime and criminals
to legislatures and courts. Now it is
being reminded that it has some re-
sponsibility in the premises, and the
last Sabbath of October is accordingly
set apart for the consideration of this
grave object. There are now about
eighty thousand criminals of various
ages and classes in our penal and re-
formatory institutions. The average
age of those in penitentiaries is little
more than Twenty-Five and a half
years, and Of juvenile delinquents only
thirteen years and a half. The com
parative youthfulness of these offend
ers is what makes so imperative all
preventive work.
In the downward path which leads
to criminals life, it is the first step
which is the most important, and Just
at that juncture is where the kind1iest
and wisest effort to save should be
expended. Then, too, the importance
of the crime question arises, not alone
from the large number in forced con-
fnement, but as well from the large
number not in prison, who ought to
be.
The Christian church must concern
itself more with the question of how
to treat criminals, how to manage
our large prisons. The improved pris-
on system of Great Britain, with it's
pron1seful results ought to be intro