People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-11-25
A Democratic View.
Chicago Herald.

CnlcdgO herald.
The habit of lying has been so thor
Oughly acquired by the Republican
newspapers of this country that even
in the face of defeat and diSgSace not
one Of them is willing to admit the
real cause of its party's humiliation.
1t is clear enough to most people
that the Republican party was pun
Shed because it taxed the people in
the interest of monopoly and then
lied about il, and because it outrage
Ously oppressed the workingman.
while it pretended to befriend and en-
rich him, yet the pOst-electiOn utter
ances of that party's newspapers are
the same as those that preceded the
ballOting-insincere and hypocritical.
After such a drubbing as that OF
Tuesday it would seem to be the part
of wisdom for Republicans to own up.
They stole and they lied and they got
caught. What is to be gained now
that exposure has come by repeating
the old falsehOOds, sounding the old
warnings that everybody long ago dis
counted and returning once more to
old alarms and scares invented to pro-
tect as despicable crew of robbers
as the earth has ever seen?
The fact is that a political party
appealing only to ignorance and i'm
morality cannot win victories in this
country. The Republican party is
such an organization, 1t must d.
vOrce itself from the tariff thieves
and repent in sackcloth and ashes or
it never will carry another election.
RELIGIOUS VIEW.
Our rules on political matters, pre-
clude any searching discussion of
such a question in these columns.
Suffice it 10 say that, in our judgment,
it amounts to a notice served on the
Republican party, in particular and
all parties in general, that new ideas
are scattered abroad in the land, and
that new relations must be determin-
ed between the state and the citizen,
the employer and the employed, the
rich and the poor. The party has tCO
long contented itself with aggregate
prosperity. 1t has been enough to
demonstrate that the country Is, very
wealthy, that our increase of wealth
is enormous: that we are the richest
people in the world. But the average
wealth of which We have heard 50
much, is average only on paper.
There is a vast population, not badly
off as the world goes, who are very
much concerned about relative
wealth. The Homestead wage-earn-
ers were the best paid workmen in
the world, and the aggregate profits
of the Carnegie mills were enormous,
but the relative profits were so disprO-
portiOnate that these best paid work.
men in the world revOlted.
because the wealth in the
hands of the mill owners had so ac-
cumulated as to threaten them
with disruption. Enormous wealth
in the hands of the few means ulti-
mate poverty to the many, and the
instinct Of the masses turns against
the colossal fortunes amassed in few
years by men of no mark except for
greed and cunning.
There is discomfort and unrest, and
general demand for new safeguards
against new evils-safeguards the
necessity of which is slow to become
apparent to those who have been
long in power.-Christian Standard.
INDEPENDENT VIEW.
1t cannot be denied that the ten
denotes of public thought are greatly
toward a humanitarian socialism, or
as some prefer to call it national
ISM" According to its traditions.
the Democratic party can never be-
come the exponent Of these tenden-
cies. The bent Of the Peoples party
is much more in that direction than
is that of the Republicans. It's even
now predicted by some that the Popu-
| list movement will displace the Re
publican party and that the political
battles of the future will be between
the nationalistic ideas Of the Popu-
| lists and the conservatism OF the Dem