The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-02-08


Yes, fair "Four Hundred" as the mobiles
Of France told the peasants TO ''eat grass
and were amused at their attempts of the
performance, 80 you would feed a lot oi
poor children in Madison Square Garden
and take stalls and boxes TO look on at the
peculiar performances of the hungry, eating
You know that each child is but the coming
American man or woman. You would make
Roman holiday to exhibit the necessities
Of the people who are your rulers. Delight.
full entertainment for the exclusive "FOul
Hundred sit around with their many
millions and gaze at the rsvenous appetite
exhibited by the children of the poor. II
was holiday like the holidays Of Rome
when the mobiles assembled to see che perse.
cuted Christians torn and mangled by every
form of beast that, by research, could be
brought to the Roman arena.
Do you wonder, millionaires, why the peo-
pie whose children you would exhibit 70
create carnival for you, did not vote with
you November 8, 1892? OF the purchasers
Of the boxes at Madison Square Garden fol
this unique performance, so per cent. we're
republicans. Shades of Abraham Lincoln,
look down and see the strong oak of thy
creation benumbed by this parasite en-
twined around it!
Following the discussion of the
"Crime of Caste' the author suggests
some remedies which the people may
possibly apply to these conditions.
Wequote few paragraphs from this
part of the work:
Suppose that the PEOPLE should demand
and insist upon the passage Of an income
tax for the support of the federal govern
ment, which would relieve them, the "Oom-
mon people," from paying for the privi-
leges enjoyed by the rich, of living in a
republic and the security which their prop
erty there enjoys.
And suppose that the sham sristocraoy
should CRY "Inherent Rights" as they
would. The people might respond that it
is not question as to the inherent right Of
Mr.. Astor, Mr.. Vanderbilt, Mr.. Rockefeller
ct al to possess, under the present system Of
laws, any amount of property. II is a mere
question Of the will of the people. Many
good, learned, and great constitutional
lawyers have argued, and with much sp-
parent truth, that the federation Of states
prior to 1866 was but mutual 90 partner
ship entered into by the sovereign states;
sprung from the original thirteen colonies,
constituting but partnership, surrender
ing no right to the firm or co. partnership
except such rights as had been specifically
named in the federal constitution.
Without entering into the legal aspects Of
the case, as to whether these claims are just
or not; without assuming to know whether
the notification proposed by John G. Cal
houn was legally sound; without discussing
the question whether South Carolina and
the other states of the south had RIGHT to
secede and disintegrate the union; assuming
that they had the right, inherently, and to
draw a parallel to the assumed inherent
right of the rich of America under the laws
and the constitution as they now exist,
their attention might be attracted proRtably
to the lesson that was taught the minority in
the south when they assumed to exercise
inherent rights contrary to the wishes of
the majority.
The author enumerates other rem
edies for the relief of the poor, for
the removal of determinations, aud
for placing the burdens of taxation
upon the wealth rather than upon the