The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-09-15

whose efforts and industry have been
the basis of our greatness, and whose
courage and wisdom have been the
source of our progress and standing;
In behalf of the loyal soldiers of the
late war, that they may have not only
the pension that they deserve but that
they may receive that which the gov
eminent owes them on account of the
deprecated money in which they were
paid, with interest on this balance at
per cent from January 1, 1866;
In behalf OF the rank and file of our
industrial legions who are being driv-
en- to the pen or the howell by the phil
osophy they have conquered, by the
two blades of grass they have made to
grow where but one grew before, by
the labor they are saving through the
wonderful machines their genius has
devised and their cunning constructed
and lastly;
In behalf of those who have so as
siduously cultivated their selfish prop
ensities and barbarian purposes that,
not only have they become welded to
the worship of a golden calf, but their
only purpose and incentive now seems
to have degenerated to the one great
impious ambition to increase the size
Of the calf; so in behalf of our 10000
millionaires, that their opportunities
for usefulness may be enlarged and
their chances for happiness hereafter
increased (for their good as well as our
own,) let us break the spell of their de-
fusion and destroy the chain of their
idolatry before their idol falls of it's
own weight and grinds them to pow
der, as they have ground those whose
unrequited toll has furnished them
the means to crafty their groveling
greed. It will be mistake for us to
believe or assume that the admonitions
of st. James (ch. 5, V. A. was intended
solely for the Roman world
In behalf of all these people, whose
conditions and wrongs have but su-
pericially alluded to, urge and earn
estly petition you to carefully consid-
er the accompanying bill, which has
already received the approval of the
Kansas senate in a resolution, a copy
Of which has been furnished your
speaker, and which will command the
approval of majority of the state
whenever opportunity offers; and which
will, if enacted, make some restitution
to labor for the wrongs of the past,
and, in part at least, restore a plumber
ed people to the condition they would
have occupied if they had not been
robbed.
I trust you have the courage to IN
1ertake and the wisdom to complete
such solution of the problems pre-
sented as is within the lines of rigor-
Gus justice and generous charity;
that you will make a careful examina-
Jon of the conditions that prompt this
petition; that then you will be satisfied
With no remedial measures that will do
less than this bill would do, and that
you will inaugurate a process which
will offer to every American citizen
Wiling to work the opportunity of get
5ing a home of his own, and of giving
its inmates the comforts, the protec-
ton and the opportunities for iIts33~uc-
5ion and recreation to which the fami-
" of every industrious American citi-
zen is entitled; which will restore to
our million idle laborers the privileges
and opportunities which are promised
them by our institutions; which will
take the farmers boys from the plow
handles and send them to school or set
them at play; which will stop the vii
famous processes that have plundered
the farmer -enabIe him to pay his
debts-tazing him out of the market
as a borrower and out of the clutches
of the speculator, thereby decreasing
the demand for money and the inter
est rate; which will furnish the funds
to enable the government to keep it's
contract with its loyal defenders, and
meet all of it's other war liabilities by a
tax on the surplus of the capitalists
and bondholders and thereby free our
industrial classes and laborers from
this enormous burden; which will re-
move the necessity for lives of dis
honor or death by starvation from
quarter of a million young women, and
help to close the schools of vice and
brute development for children in the
streets of our cities; which will help
our industrial legions to share in the
benefits of the philosophy they have
conquered and reap something of the
harvest from their genius and cunning
and which will reduce the mischievous
results of id1eness aud idolatry and
help to revive the promises of christi
anity and its consort, civilization.
For these reasons amid the multi
plicity of calls on your time, earnest
ly urge your honorable body to give
the purpose and propositions of the
accompanying bill some serious con-
sideration.
You may have no fear that the bugle
of the homeless tramp will sound for
you; that the demands and extortions
of the capitalist or manufacturer viii
ever draft you into the paupers' ranks,