The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-02

trIghttul condition OF The people, Il am
in no mood to expOund the 'magnif-
cent services which you say this ad-
ministratiOn has rendered the people
Ifthe services have been rs you claim,
the people need not be told of them,
as results would speak for themselves.
The fact is, the administration has
rendered magnificent SERVICE" not
to the farmers and laborers, but to the
Carnegies, with theI PinkortOns; the
McLeods, with their coal trusts; the
Armours, with their beef combines,
and the Goulds, with their railroad
systems, and in fact, all of the many
agencies formed for the purpose of
controlling the output Of the mines,
the shops, the fields and the farms.
l fear your party has departed from
the teachings of Lincoln, Stanton,
Seward and Chase. / fear thaC spoils.
men dominate your councils and lob
byists corrupt your law making body.
fear that you fellow leaders who BY
slow but sure transactions lead you to
do the bidding of the most cruel and
heartless power this country had ever
known-the money power Your rank
and file are honest, but they are de-
ceivcd by sophistry and false logic.
Your leaders stir up prejudice and set
men against their neighbors. They
light the fires of sectional hatred and
arose partisan bigotry. They have
placed your party practically on the
side of capital which is nothing but
property chattel, and against labor
which is humanity in action. Human
ity is above all the chattel of the earth.
1t holds within it, mighty potential
ties, human hearts and immortal souls
which cannot be made to long submit
to useless cereMOnials, empty formulas
and questionable doctrines.
With 100000 men organized in
the various industrial and political or
CARNATIONS Of the country protesting
against the conditions that now con
front them; demanding that the bread
winners aud wealth producers receive
an equal distribution in the democracy
of live, admOnish us that something is
wrong with the machinery of govern
ment and that it should be adjusted.
Great social problems are living down
among the people and are continually
presenting themselves for solution.
Senator Palmer, Of the United States
senate, in speaking of the Homestead
trouble, sprung some of these prob
lens and he was denounced by
the republican press as II socialist be-
cause he said Labor had property in
terest in that which it created.
If this belief is socialism rs under
stood by the old and existing order,
then l am proud of being enrolled in
the new school of political thought,
and here enter my protest against
system which enslaves aud degradcs
labor and denying ii equal protection
with captal-a property interest in
that which it creates and an equal dis
tribution in the proceeds of its earn
ings.
Your tariff theories are surface ques-
tions and very incomplete, because You
do not take into account the social
questions and inequalities of adjust
ment that lie back of the theory Of
protection. Hence you need not be
surprised of l0ckouts and strikes.
They Nre but the volcanic outbursts of
the c0nvulsive fires within, which, If
properly adjusted are Harmless, other
wise destructive.
1t Is the duty of the government to
adjust these relations that peace and
prosperity may belong to all cases
and become the common birlhright of
every citizen. Your silver plank was
framed in the interest of the money
power, hence it is not entitled to anY
respect from the laboriNg ana produc-
ing classes or, in fact, from any class
of citizens who have y patriotic regard
for their country. Your force bill
was intended to he the safeguard Of
the same dominant power and compel
enslaved labor To vote under the touch
of federal bayonets. Your idea of
government is force, which is mon
archal and is per Sc destructive Of the
liberties of the citizen IN Il free repub-
lie. Your idea of money belongs to
the paganism Of the past--imperialism,
Cesarism, absOlutism. Your idea of
wealth distribution is conferred in cor.
pOrations, trusts, combines and trans
portation lines. Your idea Of land is
not use, which is the primary test but
ownership in large bodies by u land
lord class.
Your idea of transportation is pri-
vate ownership, when the very results
demonstrate danger of such = system.
Finally, your ideas Of individual lib
erty are 50 strongly repressivc that
men tremble when they face the fu-
ture, knowing that long course
of repressive Legislation creating
an unequal condition of things, must
wipe out the now powerful mid
die c ass, which is the balance wheel
Of our civilization, and drive the two
extremes of society--bhe milIi0naires
and anarchists. Into hostile camps
between which no white flags can pass
and no heralds proclaim peace. To
prevent snch condition Of things
it is the duty Of every citizen IL Labor
increasingly and untiring'y to bring
about an egality Of conditions and
wise and humane administration of