The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-31


has rendered the people. If the services
have been as you claim, the peoole need
not be told of them, as results would speak
for themselves. The fact is, the admins
tration has rendered magnificent services" F"
not to the farmers and lsbOrers, but to the
Carnegies, with their Pinkertons; the Nc
Leods, with their coal trust; the Armours,
with their beef combines; and the Goulds,
with their railroad systems; and in fact, all
of the many agencies formed for the pur-
pose OF controlling the output of the mines,
the shops, the fields, and the farms:
fear your party has departed from the
teachings of Lincoln, Stanton, Seward and
Chase. fear that spoilism dominate your
councils and lobbyists corrupt your law
making body. / fear that you follow lead
ers who by slow but sure transitions lead you
to do the bidding of the most cruel and
heartless power this country has ever known
the money power. Your rank and file are
honest, but they are deceived by sOphistry
and false logic. Your leaders stir up preju-
dice and set men against their neighbora.
They light the fres of sectional hatred and
arouse partisan bigotry. They have placed
your party practically on the side of capital,
which is thing but property chattel, and
against labor, which is humanity in action.
Humanity is above all the ohattel property
of earth. II holds within il mighty pOten-
tislities, human hearts, and immortal souls
which cannot DO made to long submit to
useless ceremonials, empty formulas and
questionable doctrines.
With 100000 men organized in the vari-
Gus industrial and political organizations Of
the country protesting against the condi-
tions that now confront them, demanding
chat the bFead-winners and wealth -produo-
ers receive an equal distribution in the
democracy Of life, admonish Jus that some
thing is wrong with the machinery Of
government and that it should be adjusted,
Great social problems are living down
among the people and are constantly pre-
senting themselves for solution. Senator
Palmer, in the United States senate, in
speaking of the Homestead trouble, sprung
some of these problems, and he was de-
nounoed by the republican press as social
igt because he said labor had property
interest in that which is created. If this be-
lief is socialism as understood by the old
and existing order, then I am proud of the
honor Of being enrolled in the new school
Of political thought, and / here enter my
protest against a system which enslaves and
degrades labor by denying to it equal pro-
teCtion with capital-a property interest in
that which it creates, and an equal distrlbu-
tion in the proceeds of it's earnings.
Your tariff theories are surface questions
and very incomplete, because you do not
take into account the social questions and
inequalities Of adjustments that lie back Of
the theory of protection. Hence you need
not be surprised to hear of lock-outs and
strikes. They are but the volcanic out
bursts Of the cOnvulsive fires within, which
if properly adjusted are harmless, otherwise
destructive. II is the duty Of government
to so adjust these relations that peace and
prosperity may belong to all classes and be-
come the common birthright of every citi-
zen. Your silver plank was framed IN the
interest of the money power, hence it is not
entitled to any respect from the laboring
and producing classes, or in fact from any
class of citizens who have patriotic regard
for their country. Your force bill was in
tended to be the safeguard of the same
dominant power and compel enslaved la
Dor TO vote under the torch Of federal bsyo-
nets. Your idea Of government is force,
which is monsrohial and per SO destructive
of the liberties of the citizen in free re-