The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-21
REVOLUTION ADVOCATED.
A Leading Populist speaker Advocates the
Destruction of This Nation Unless Popu-


Destruction of This Nation Unless Popu-
list Dema dis Are Conceded.
Mr. A. G. Stacey, the well known
Kansas newspaper man, has been at
tending a number of populist meetings.
He was prepared to hear many vision
airy theories advocated, but to his sur
prise at all of seven meetings he attend
ed there was the same cry of blood
and threats of revolution in case the
voice of the speakers was not listened
to and needed. He says, after listening
to the last speech:
American men have leaned back
ward in their efforts to do honor to
American women. The courtesy shown
has led us into many ridiculous situa-
tions, to say nothing of the dangerous
relations that may follow. With the
same forbearance that causes us to
| gaze with equanimity on the rebel flag
| floating high over the Oklahoma terri
| tory fair we listen to the revolutionary
utterances of Mrs. Emery, who is now
/ stamping the state in behalf of the
/ populiSt movement. In the desire tn
accord her a respectful hearing we have
been permitting her to daily utter
| reasonable sentiments that mock at
mans patriotism and love of country.
Mrs. Emery is a more dangerous
woman than Lucy Parsons. They adj
vocate the same things, the same re-
| forms Lucy Parsons would use dyna.
| mite; Mrs Emery prefers the bayonet.
! Lucy Parsons would use the torch: Mrs.
Emery prefers gunpowder and shot.
Lucy Parsons unfurls the red banner
and cries aloud for vengence; Mrs.
Emery publicly declares there will be
rivers of blood unless her demands for
money are needed. Lucy Parsons
| breaches the cause of the socialist: Mrs.
| Emery goes n step further and openly
| advocates anarchy
MRS. Emery is the more dangerous
woman of the two and more capable of
evil, for to her education she adds the
faculty of specious lying carefully
guarded by sophistry in argument that
deludes many of her hearers She is
not honest. because she purposely mis-
quotes and warps the statements of
public men who have proven them
selves patriots. She caters to a danger
Gus element for pay, and under the pro-
lection of freedom of speech she attacks
her government and maligns the men
annually elected by the people to make
laws and to enforce them.
Lucy Parsons advocates evil in such
language as to shock the better classes
and to make converts of none. Her one
thought is vengeance. Her cause is
personal Her husband was one of the
Mrs. Emery class, though more violent.
and suffered death because of his MUIR
derous proclivities and acts. The
speedy death of her husband caused
Mrs. Parsons to seek to become his
avenger and to wreak the destruction
of society. Uneducated, she became
harsh and coarse, and is clasSed with
the demented. Her fangs have been
drawn, and she is no longer a menace
to society
''Mrs. Emery, the goddess of the pop
ulists. is Moloch at whose altar only
bloody sacrifices are acceptable. She
has the acuteness to draw a veil of re-
fined reasoning about her demands. but
their responsiveness is just as apparent
to the thinking observer. She lacks
the personal courage of Lucy Parsons.
because the latter would lead her armies
while Mrs. Emery would cause her
dupes to follow the torch carried by
chosen lieutenants.
I'm all her speeches her cry is more
money, give us more money or blood
shall battle this fair land of ours She
unhesitatingly declares mankind worse
than ever before, and that half our pub
lie men and legislators are sensual,
drunken dcbauchees, lost to all moral
influences She asserts that this re-
public is within a dozen years of its
end and that a monarchy is even now
in contemplation. She incites a war
of classes, and urges the 'pauperized
people to rise in their might and de-
stroy the 'aristocrats.' Among men.
she is not of them, but is a priestess
whose garments are red. whose words
are scorpion stings, and whose long
arguments are but the writhing snakes
of anarchy. She conceals the terrible
purposes that impel her until in a mo-
ment of forgetfulness she throws off all
disguise and reveals herself in all her
hidcous mental deformity. Her lips
are strangers to truth and her brain is
but the nest of vipers, singing them
selves in their eagerness to do evil.
This is the woman brought to Kan
sas to teach free men and women. Act
ing under instructions of her kind she
would throw dust into the eyes of those
honest enough to refuse to follow her
advice and enlist under the red flag.
The time has come, if not already
too late, when patriotism and love of
country should put stop to the treason
able utterances of such persons as Mrs.
Emery. Mrs. Lease. Rightmire, McLal-
Ian. Scott, PETER, Simpson, Davis,
Close, Otis and others of that party
now seeking to drive this nation to
headlong destruction. The 1iceutious
debaucheeS' who make our laws should
add one more making treason Il crime,
rs it ostensibly is now. These speakers
all employ the same line of thought.
Only few days ago one of them. a man
named Walling, of Caldwell, addressed
n populist meeting at Oklahoma City.
After tearing down and advising the
total destruction of this nation he said:
If our demands are not granted at the
ballot box, then we will enforce them
with bayonet and TORCH which utter
ance was received with cheers from 1T
least two hundred men.
prosperous Kansans have listened
To Mrs Emery irnDOrted from Mjchioa,