People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-01
AN APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM.

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the merchant, the farmer and the cit
izen are identical. The security of
American institutions are in peril.
The principle of democratic govern
ment has been violated and the will
of the people has been set at nOught
by man who should have been a SER
want, not ruler. Greater inSolence
and diSreSpect for the wishes of the
people has not been shown by King
William of Germany. The people are
no longer supreme. There is no deny
ing that their sovereign privileges
have been taken away from them by
a weapon placed in the hands of one
whom they trusted as a servant but
who has proven a tryant to them and
a grOveling slave to the European
money power.
The present congress when elected
was undoubtedly in favor of the free
coinage of silver, and represented a
constituency. eight-tenths of whom
according to the very best authori-
tative estimates) were in favor of
that policy. The vote on Monday re-
yersed that policy overwhelmingly.
and the people are well aware of the
means by which it was brought about.
The mlniOnS of the worlds money
power working through a willing tool
on this continent, aided and abetted
by every conceivable cOrrupting in
1uence known to diplomacy, has de-
feated the will of the people, repeal
ed the only silver measure the people
had and left them with no further
issues of money in prospect except
that which can be dug out of the
gold mines. True the bill has only
passed the House, but it is now con-
ceded on all hands that it will be but
a question of time until it also passes
the Senate, with an amendment
which merely declares that it fayors
bl-metalism. To intelligent Ameri-
cans who are well aware that it is as
easy to enact law as it is to enact a
declaration this amendment will be
adding insult to injury.
With mortgages on the homes, the
railroads and the mills of America
and no money to pay them in but
gold, and they in possession of the
greatest part of the gold, England has
practically accomplished what she
failed to accomplish in the war of the
Revolution. Americans are as much
slaves now as if they each one had a
ball and chain to their leg.
These circumstances and these con-
ditiOnS toward which we have been
trending for years, regardless of what
political party has been in power, are
such as should surely arouse the peO-
pie from their slumber. All these
years while the people have been float
ing along complacently trusting in
the integrity and fidelity of the party
to which they belonged this fire of
corruption and destruction has been
eating its way underneath them.
The warnings of neighborS and of
patriots have appeared to them under
the influence of their party spell, as
the bTeathings of pessimists. Now
the worst is upon us and we are GER
tainly justified in appealing to the
patriotism of all American citizens.
We would not appeal to them as
Democrats or as Republicans. Let
us forget those old names for while
and abSOlve all party lines. Let us
look at these questions as American
citizens and solve them regardless of
who shall fill the administrative
offices of the country. Let us bring
forward that spirit which prompted
Congressman Bland to say that he
was a Democrat, ''yet an American
above Democracy" Let us form a
solid West and South against a die
tatorial East backed by foreign mon
arches.