People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

Dy keeping their mouth IhuI. DOn
you think tho, Charlotte"
Eyes, | do" the son answered, posi-
lively. ut would have been much bet
ter for the settlers in this instance if 81
Anderson had kept his mouth shut.
The agent told me after the meeting
last night that he had about arranged
to offer the settlers very fair terms, but
that Anderson got to clustering around
town yesterday, threatening repudia-
ton and all kinds of things, and one of
the mortgage holders happening to be
in town and hearing the threats or
dered that no compromise be offered
"If we make terms with the settlers,
now, after hearing the threats, said
the capitalist to his agent, this fellow,
and others like him, will give out the
impression everywhere that we were
forced to it, and the consequence will
be no end of trouble all along the line
81 told the agent that it was wrong
for the people to suffer on account Of
81 Anderson's actions, and he replied
that he knew that, but before he could
mediate between the debtors and cred
itors the settlers must discard such
leadership as Anderson's and choose a
representative in whom the capitalists
could trust"
AYE, thath what l thay," Mr.. Cornell
exclaimed. "The peopleth muth have
a leader who hath more thenthe and leth
CAB. tell you, Charleth, the peopleth
thuffer ten timeth more from their fool
friendth than they doth from their tho
called enemieth. I've theen 10th of theth
troubleth betweenth the debtorth and
creditorth, and every timeth thereth a
lot of thcalawagth who get in the lead
and pretend to be great frienth to the
weak and opprethed, and who don't
thuctheed in doing anything exthept to
thir up trouble. l tell you, thon, there
alwayth hath been and there alwayth
will be differentiated between the rich
and the poor, and the rich, ath a clath,
will alwath oppreth the poor; but if it
wathen't for the blamed rathcalth who
tibet themthelveth up to lead the poor,
and live off of them, there'd be 10th
leth differenth and opprethion than
there it'll"
That's very true, father" Charles
replied. ''If 81 Anderson and one or
two other men had kept quiet we could
have settled this difficulty perfectly
satisfactorily. l did everything in my
power to influence the settlers into the
right movement, telling them that an
adjustment might be made yet if they
would change about and select diff
ferent man to represent them, but they
refused to listen. They said:
All, you can talk and advise and be
very moderate in your ideas, because
you haven't any mortgage to pay, and
you are not oppressed"
1.-THE blameth fooleth," exclaimed
the father with little show of anger,
don't they know that the reathon we
amt got any mortgage to pay it'll be-
cauth we've already paid it? We did
have mortgage, ath big ath any of
'em, but we paid it off, and now tho
far ath we're contherned the capital
this can juth whithle with their op-
prethion."
The son soon found an opportunity to
change the conversation, and the sub
ject Of the land troubles was dropped.
understood but little of the question
at that time, for l had never heard it
discussed before, and about the only
conclusion | could form was to the eff
feet, that men who followed the leader
ship Of such men as the drunken brute
who had attacked me did not have the
slightest reason to expect success for
their cause. l thought how much
more sensible 1t would be for the set
tiers to choose for their representative
a man like Charles Cornell, who was
conservative in his ideas and demands,
yet firm as adamant for the right, and
who, best of all, had made a success OF
his own business, and was therefore in
a position to inspire respect and conf.
dence in the breasts of those with
whom he came in contact.