People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-23
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

his mead.
The adoption of the initiative and
referendum system of legislation by the
people, is the shortest road to genuine
reform.
Says Gen. Field: I'VE are not in
favor of the force bill, but we are going
to see that every vote put in the box is
counted"
Land, money and transportation are
the issues. Until these are settled
minor matters should rest We need all
our ammunition for the big game Oma-
ha (Neb) Tocsln.
English gold has fought and won
its last issue in American politics if the
people perform the duty they owe to
themselves and their country. -Elwood
(Neb.) Independent.
The time has come for country and
city labor to unite as brothers in a COM
mon cause for labor's interest. Will
they do it? If not, our cause is hope
less.-Weekly Toiler
Converts to a new and growing
party that reach for office about the
time they proclaim their conversion,
may very properly be suspected of i'm
pure otives.-Pittsburg Kansan.
You cannot examine closely into
the means by which these undue accu.
mutations of wealth were made without
finding at the bottom in almost every
case special privilege conceded by law
or taken in spite of law.-Springfeld
Mass Republican.
The attempt of the democratic
press and politicians to make party cap
ital out of the Homestead trouble
smackS Of hypocrisy. Nothing in their
platform and nothing in the past his
tory of their party gives promise that
the democrats know of anything or are
willing to do anything which would
prevent such conflicts. journal Knights
of Labor.
AS factor in controlling prices the
tariff cuts but small figure, which is
well understood by the money changers.
As long as the tariff can be kept before
the people as the main political issue
the money question will not be agitat-
ed, and Wall street will continue to
control our financial legislation in the
interest of millionaires and the creditor
classes. - Shelbyville nL) Peoples
Paper.
They say America and Americans,
but we say America for free men now
and for evermore. The rule of plutoc-
racy must be overthrown and the law
of equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none be enthfoned as the law
of our land. America must be free in
deed as well as in name. The United
States should not pay tribute to any
nation, and our people will soon see
that she does not-Brookfeld MOI
Union.
The organization of the peoples
party, as well as its wonderful growth,
is a great political protest from the
masses of the country against the man
agement of public affairs solely in the
interests of the few and against the in
terests of the many. 1t is the breaking
away from false leaders when their
perfdy has been discovered; it is the
unspoken curse of the down-trodden as
they rise up to strike their oppressors.
Lincoln (Neb } Alliance Independent.
Only few months ago the demo-
cratic national committee was planning
to throw the electoral vote of the
northern states to Weaver to improve
the prospects of Cleveland. The repub-
lican national committee, to keep even,
propose to use their minority in the
southern states to give their electoral
vote to Weaver. The late stampede to
the peoples party has forced them to
change their tactics and they are now
trying to combine their demoralized
forces to prevent Weaver from carrying
every thing in sight-0maha (Neb J
Toscin.
wait, says the democratic party,
'just wait until we get this tariff ques-
ton settled and then we will attend to
the silver question: About one hun
bred years ago the people began listen
ing to the tariff wrangle, and with the
exception of the question of slavery, 1t
has been the bone at which the old
political parties of the past have con-
tinuously gnawed. Judging from the
progress made in the past, when Christ
comes again, the democratic party will
bob up and say: Christ, we wish you
would wait until we get this tariff
question settled Lamar MO- Indus
trial Union. ....
1.-THE opposition Of the miners to the
employment of convicts in the mines is
concurred in by nine-tenths of the peo-
pie of the state, so far as the lease sys-
TEN is concerned" says the New York
Times. But however much the people
Of all classes and parties are opposed to
the lease system, so far they have not
been able to have it abolished" And
still this is government of the people,
by the people, and for the people. Nine
tenths are opposed to the lease law but
cannot repeal it because Of the accumu-
lated power of one-tenth. What are
you going to do about it?-Brookfeld
Mo- Union.
Our Platform.
l. Justice to all; special privileges to