People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-12-09


tions of the times and the causes of
the overthrow of the Republican par
ty. The election being over many Of
the Republican leaders will now pro-
ceed to admit, as the Eagle does, all
that the POpulists have cOntended
for. The Eagle says:
Our readers all know the Eagles
opinion of the Mckinley bill, which
is now so unanimously cited as being
a suicidal dose done up in reciprocity
sugar. But we hope that these same
readers will not forget the Rebel
lion" and casus belli we cited. While
it is party politics to attribute the
disaster on the one side and the vic
tory OF the other to platforms, to pro-
tective tariffs, to inactivity begotten
of Overconfldence, and so forth, we
have believed these to have been
merely subsidiary. Back of all these
reasons and reaching deeper, are
other and more potent troubles. III
was not so much Cleveland more than
Harrison. so much free trade more
than protection. as an all round pro-
test against existing conditions which
are fostered just as much by the Dem
ocratic party and by its leaders as by
the Republican organization. The
truth is that American statesman
shin has not kepu pace with American
growth and civilization out OF which
development have arisen abuses, in
e0ualities and burthenS that must be
riphted or the Rebellion" will be-
come a revolution. The only reason
the Republican party was voted out
was because it, was in, and therefore
held responsible for the unSatlSlac-
tory conditions and discomfort to
which we allude. The Democratic
party. holding to either free trade or
protection. would have just as surely
been defeated had it been in power;
"Plutocracy" is the newly coined
word which expresses perhaps more
clearly than any other the sum total
of the specific trouble no less than the
outcrOpping discOntents, in which the
wings of Cleveland'S private yacht are
as conspicuous as the livery OF White
law Reid's ObSequiOus servants.
These are of the red flags which cor
porate greed waves in the face of Ia
Dor that is demanding more beef soup
and less bean soup or otherwise that
there be less champagne drank on
Cleveland's private yacht and on
Reids private car. 1t is a demand
that organized labor shall receive the
same consideration at the hands OF
the law making power as commanded
by organized capital. The verdict
last Tuesday was not against prOtec-
tion to American labor and American
markets, so much as against the Nc
Kinley kind of protection, that kind
tf protection which takes care OF the
shoe manufacturer while it lets the
producer of the hide shift for himself;
that holds up and pampers incOrpOr-
ated capital at the expense of the
struggling individual. Protection, il
right as a principle, must be equitable
and universal, and not for the few
as against the many, not for the pow
erful as against the weak. Corpora
tiOns not only ride while the lame in
dividual walks or crawlS, but COrpO-
rate power drives through national
state and municipal governments and
marches with its money pennant fly
ing through legislative halls. The
protest of Tuesday was not against
corporations per Sc, but against the in
eQualitieS and burthens which have
come to the people through failure
to limit and control such powers eff
ciently and properly, to the end OF
rather to the death of all the com
bineS and trusts that now control all
our markets as against the producer
and out of which organizations grow
all the abuses and Stealings of cor
pOrate stocks that in turn absorb the
wealth of the COuntry-faster than il
is produced in some lines-by system
attic watering and by option gambling
whereby present values are depressed
and the fnture discounted.
In ShO. t, the Republican party wa.
defeated last Tuesday, not because it:
principles lack in exalted patriotism
or for anything of that sort, but be
cause it was the party in power at &
time when the abuses growing out Of
the negligence, ignorance, corruption
and the lack Of craftsmanship of al
parties have given rise to a protest
from the Drawn and muscle, and from
the struggling producer and laborel
of whatever class, of the entire coun
try, against existing unequal cOndi
tiOns, to which expOStulating major
| ity belong all those who filed theil
protesting ballots in favor of Weaver
instead of for Cleveland, the only diff
ference being that they were thu
more earnest-the most emphatic.
In all good candOr, friend Republi
cans, why not come with us and hell
us establish the principles we know
to be right? This is only a step il
the onward march of civilization
Annihilate all partisan spirit within
you and come stand with US and ouI
principles. We all love this granC
old republic. Let us unite and SAVE
it from going the way of all predeces
sOrS under the despOliating hand anC
influence OF an unpatriOtic plutOcracy
Had the Republicans fused will
the Peoples party in Missouri as tht
Democrats did in Kansas. they would
have defeated the Democratic STATE
ticket and over half their congress
iOnal delegation. But the Re1ubli