People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-04-07
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

"A vote to strengthen the militia Isl
vote to place a rife in the hands OF plu-
tocracy to shoot down laborers.
"A party that's afraid to convene its
congress to carry out its promised re-
forms is fraud and cheat and will
be so branded by an indignant people
Iowa Farmers Tribune.
The pure-elections bill passed by
the Missouri legislature and signed by
the governor is in the right direction.
It provides for limiting the campaign
expenses of candidates, the object being
to abolish bribery in elections as far as
possible.
If a workingman is idle and hungry
he is liable to arrest and Imprisonment
for vagrancy Why not arrest those
well dressed fellows who, without visi-
BILE means of support, feed and fatten
on the best in the land-Fresno (Cal.)
National Spectator.
give us chance~ was the chorus
of the democracy before the election.
The people will have sufficient cause to
give that party a rest four years from
now if tangible results are not forth
coming-and Cleveland's veto on an ex-
ira session is bad indication. Mis-
souri, World.
The law prohibiting what is known
as the gold clause" in notes, mort
cages and other obligations, and max
ing silver as well as gold legal tender
for all debts in Kansas, is measure
for which the populists of the legisla-
ture deserve credit Republicans
fought it viciously.
Stick to your old party. Don't read;
don't think; don't do anything that
might be looked upon by your wealthy
neighbor as cranky" Take your med
icine, if you are poor, and conform to
all demands pleas antly, and by and by
you will have to secure a permit to
breathe Gods fresh air.-Road.
MY agency in procuring the pass
age of the national banking act was
the greatest mistake of my life. 1t has
built up monopoly that effects every
interest in the country, 1t should be
repealed But before this can be &C
complished the people will be arrayed
on one side and the banks on the other
in contest such as we have never
seen in this country."-Salmon P.
Chase.
Henry Clews, of Wall street. says
that ''the disposition shown by some in
terror banks to give their gold to the
treasury in exchange for its notes is
satisfactory in more ways than one"
Yes, but he fails to state that it shows
that the people have as much conf
dence in the governments papermoney
as they do in its gold money, and much
prefer to handle it-Journal of Agri-
culture
We have been quoting quite freely,
of late, from the St Louis Republic
Not that we cannot find scores of fully
as able editorials in our many reform
journals, but that we may enable our
pOpulist readers to prove to their demo-
cratic friends that the ablest democ-
cratic journal of the west comedies that
populist principles are just and right
eous. Then, in case the Republic eats
. crow and becomes a defender of that
which it now condemns, it will be
handy to quote the Republic against
itself.
Grover Cleveland's Utmost soul is
stirred up with woe in regard to the
poor man, for fear he will have to take
a cheap dollar. In the name of high
Heaven! do we have to be insulted with
that old chestnut, cheap dollar, for
ever? Does he not know that the world
is full, running over with cheap men
and women, and that all sacred ties of
humanity, Christianity, education and
civilization are calling in tears of woe
and supplication for dear men and
women and cheap dollar?-Lamar
(Mo) Industrial Union.
The first purely and distinctive
populist measure became a law under
the post office appropriations. Hon.
Tom Watson forced an amendment onto
that appropriation bill which granted
$4,000 as fund for experimenting in
free rural postal delivery. This will
not be attempted in villages or cross
road towns, but among the farmers
absolute. Mr.. Watson thinks this ex-
pertinent will develop into a general
free delivery among the agricultural
portion of the country. As it now
stands the farmers help pay for delivery
of mail in cities from three to ten times
each day. Is it any more than fair that
the farmer should have a chance at
some of those favors? Mr.. Watson
thinks it is not and hence this experi-
ment National Waterman.