The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-05-23
WHAT IS WANTED.

It is evident to the observer Of public
sentiment that the rabid anti-railroad
agitation is losing ground among the
people OF this state. At the last state
meeting of the alliance the question of
freight rates was passed over without
discussion, and save for the usual ster-
eotyped resolution demanding maxi
mum rates and government control
each contradictory to the other, the rate
question would have been ignored en-
tirely.
The recent report of the state railroad
commission has shed new light on many
of the dark corners of the freight ques-
ton, and the people are beginning to
see what Judge Mason saw four years
ago. that the through rate to and from
eastern markets is the one thing needful
to our prosperity as western state.
Public sentiment is nearly always
right when it finally settles and crystal
ICES on any point in dispute. Farmers
as class are honest and fair. In the
starting of the farmers movement the
hot-heads naturally crowded to the
front. and the cooler judgment remained
in the background and waited to see
what would turn up. The cranky and
headstrong fellows who denounced
everything and everybody. from the
supreme couat down, were the bubbles;
the suds: the soda water fizz of the in
dependent movement. They must sub
side. They must give place to men of
better judgment and cooler heads. The
froth must evaporate and blow away.
and underneath the bubbles and the
suds. in the depths of the peoples con-
science, is the innate honesty and fair
ness that guarantees justice and fair
treatment to the nonresident investor
There is enough of business sense and
common honesty among the people OF
Nebraska to protect the eastern capital
list who lends us money or builds our
railroads, or helps us in any other way,
from the impetuous rashness Of parti-
san hate, and we believe there are in
the Independent party enough honest
men to protect it from the dangerous
councils Of the demagogues.
If the independent party is to come
into power in this state, as it no doubt
believes it will, let its judgment and not
it's prejudices, its sense and not its non
sense. it's honesty and not its dishonesty,
control its policy.
As young state We must move for
ward; we must progress; We must
build; We must develop. These are the
objective points of mutual interest, to
which each party and each individual
citizen must contribute. And whatever
party is in power. let its intelligent
conscience and its patriotic manhood
sit in its councils and shape it's course.
If the practical farmers of the state. who
are the real bone and muscle and blood
of the reform movement. have the true
interest of the state at heart, they will
send no more radicals to the legislature.
Impetuous and unreasonable men in
the legislature are constant menace to
capital, and it naturally becomes cor
rupt in self defense. Professional agi-
tators and hobby riders may serve a
purpose as recruiting officers for a new
party, but there is no room for such
men in a law-making body. We want
no railroad hirelings or anti-railroad
howlers among our lawmakers. We
want simply intelligent men: just plain
men, who will bring their manhood
with them when they come, and take
it with them when they go. The more
the manhood and the conscience of the
Independent party asserts itself, the
less will be the bitter antagonism
against capital. and the sooner will
come satisfactory adjustment of all
differences. to the credit and pros
perity of the state.-Beatrice Daily Ex-
press.