People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-24
THREE VITAL REFORMS.
Transportation, Money and Land-Gloomy
Prospects Ahead.

Transportation, Money and Land-Gloomy
Prospects Ahead.
The Peoples party platform was sound
and statesmanlike in declaring that the
prosperity of the great plain people de-
manded sweeping reforms in our finance,
land and transportation systems.
Fifteen hundred newspapers and 1000
orators maintained this proposition Of
Of the Peoples party by memorable logic
and unanswerable argument, and yet
only million American citizens voted
with them, while $4,000, 900 by their bal
lots declared that the tariff was the
great and all overshadowing issue of the
campaign.
If in the next four years q food Of
clear revealing light does not show the
actual truth to these $4,000, 900 voters,
what will happen?
In the next four years this republic is
destined to see some terribly hard times
There will be strikes and lockouts with
out number-wages will be steadily de-
pressed-large numbers of men will be
thrown out Of employment-and the
turmoil and bloodshed at Homestead, at
Buffalo and in east Tennessee will prob
ably be multiplied in magnitude and
horror.
The business Of the country will be
shocked by it, and financial disaster
will overtake tens of thousands of ,busi-
ness men who are now solid and we'll
to do.
The farmers produce will bring a beg.
carly pittance in the market, and from
all over the land great cry will 90 up
from the $4,000, 900 who voted for Cleve-
land and Harrison, IF these are the
blessings of Democratic free trade, we
want no more of them"
Then the Republican plutocratic poll.
hcians will give q great and Joyous
shout, crying unto the fool people,
What you want is quadrupls dose Of
McKinley's tariff, and then happiness
and prosperity will sit by every hearth.
stone in the nation"
The mission Of the Peoples party men
Is to begin now and increasingly declare
that the tariff is sham issue, used BY
plutocrats to gull the people whom they
are robbing.
Stand on the mountain tops Of thought,
o ye Populist orators, and tell all the
people Of sll the land that the good
things they earn and merit viii b
snatched away from them and their
children beggsred so long Is railway
bsrons use the iron highways, which Of
hight belong to all the people, for the
robbery Of ali the people.
Tell your fellow citizens that there
can be no peace and prosperity in the
republic until the people own and run
the railways and possess government
banks Of loan and deposit which kill all
usury and command Shylock's accused
occupation to begone.
Declare unto them that we must have
. system of land taxation which will
take hundreds Of millions Of fertile acres
out OF the greedy hands of English lords
Of blood and American lords of dollars
and convert them into happy homes for
millions of stalwart toilers.
The producers Of this nation are
hemmed in and oppressed by a ruthless
capitalism, which is rapidly expropriat-
ing all the wealth creating resources Of
the continent. The aggressive march Of
the triumphant plutocracy can neither
be checked nor turned back by free
trade nor by high tariff, but it can be
utterly oyerthrown and annihilated by
making the public utilities of the nation
the property of all its people.
The people must own the railways.
The people must own the banks.
The people who make good use of land
must be its rightful and only OWNERS
Lester Hubbard in Vanguard.