People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02

is very reasonable and conservative
measure similar to the law in other
states" The VOICE has tried hereto
fore to impress upon his mind that
all Kansas Populists wanted was to
be lifted up on plane equal to the
inhabitants of other states. And
now that this measure is conceded to
to be reasonable" and similar to
the law in other states" we desire
the people to witness that in order to
secure its enactment we had to take
the carcass of the corrupt old party,
whose leaders falsely claimed to be
standing up for Kansas" by the
throat and strangle it into silence.
1t is for the good people of our grand
commonwealth to say who stood up
for Kansas" Talk about the valOr of
the American eagle is cheap when
such gross cOwardice and submissive
tlunkeyiSm is shown at the same time.
And again, this being reasonable"
measure, and in reality about the
only measure our people were able to
farce through of nature in any way
calculated to drive capital from the
state" what becomes of that old
chestnut about "injuring the state?:"
La this self same issue the Monitor
quotes a column article from the
New York Review, of which the fol-
lowing paragraph will show the char
aCter:
There are so many places where the
rights of property are perfectly Sc
cure that few persons are obliged to
remain where an act of the legislature
may deSpOil them, but the interests
of Kansas are too vast and too real
and too many people of the state are
of sound mind and well-balanced
judgment to leave the state govern
ment long in the hands of curious
combination of theorists, some Of
whom mean well and some do not; of
philanthrOpists and fanatics, of social
lists and dreamers, of adventures and
persons whose worst fault is their
want Of information. Already there
are signs of political change. The
average intelligence Of Kansas is
above that of many of our states, and
the performances in Topeka IN the
last two or three years will not con-
tinue very long.
Now where is your consistency?
II the laws enacted by this awful out
fit are reasonable and conservative"
who is doing the state the most harm,
the fellows who made the laws which
give the people what they are enti-
tied to, or those who below to the
outside world about anarchists"
"cranks," fanatics" 'lunatics" and
"broken down politicians" Speak
ing Of broken down politicians, the
following paragraph from the same
article may throw some light on their
whereabouts:
More singular is the heglra of
prominent Kansas citizens. Al. the
members Of the late state admins.
tratiOn and members OF state boards
and Of the legislature have gone, or
are preparing to 90 elsewhere. Color
ado gets some Of them, Missouri gets
a good many and even Oklahoma
draws on Kansas"
Ye gods! what a spectacle! Doff
your hats, boys. Speak softly, tread
lightly. It's funeral procession.
When the Monitor says the sena-
atOrial investigating committee dis
covered "a scheme of systematic and
wholesale boOdling in, for and by the
Peoples party" it knows full well it
is publishing a bald-headed falsehOod.
1t even cOnvicts itself of falsehoOd in
the same item in which it makes the
charge, by saying the Doodle was
paid to Jim Legate and never reached
the officers of the state. Jim Legate
may be neutrality-suspicious. ought
to know, as he is a graduate of that
party-but he's not our pup. He may
vote the Peoples party ticket, but he
is neither the party, nor leader Of
the party. 1t is little strange, too,
that the g. o. p. never saw anything
bad in Jim Legate until he left that
party. If he were still Republican
they would probably swear that he is
square, honest man, above boodling.
Assistant Attorney General Allen
has prepared an opinion to the effect
that all tax certificates issued both
before and after the new law took ef-
feet will draw but fifteen per cent.
interest.
Remenyi, the Hungarian viOlinist,
entertained large audience at the
opera house Saturday evening. He is
master Of the bow and was encored
on each selection. His concert COM
pany pleased the hearers very much.
Miss Florence Sage, the pianist, is a
cousin of c. E. WEIGH, the Superior
Court reporter of this city.-Santa
Barbara correspondent in Los Angeles
Times, May p.
A Good SuQQestion