The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-21

ton. to which the labor as.
sociations and the anarchist aspire.
Obviously the question of social radi-
calism can no longer be whistled down
the wind. The absurd and preposter-
Gus theories on which the followers OF
Jack Cade carried so many states are
very much in evidence, and cannot be
ignored among the potential political
forces of the future.
Congress and the administration are
thus confronted with more complex,
grave and momentous questions than
have been presented to the American
people since Lincoln's Inauguration. 1t
is transition period. The old issues
have been settled. The war of the re-
bellion, its passions and resentments
are like volcano that has burned out.
Scorie and lava abound, and they will
never kindle again. The nation is SUI
preme. Slavery and secession are dead
dogmas Even the race problem is
practically extinct. The negro must
take his chances with the rest. There
will be no more force bills" nor civil
rights legislation. The rule of the
minority in the south is acknowledged.
The elimination of the African as a
political factor is complete, and, with
four assured years more of the policy
of local self-government and home
rule, the supremacy of the Anglo
Saxon race will never be disturbed.
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
There has been, indeed, for some time
a growing sentiment of acquiescence in
the admitted suppression of the colored
vote, and 4 subterranean conviction
that under the same circumstances the
whites of the north would act very
much in the same way.
''Who would be free themselves must
strike the blow" The patient and un-
complaining submission of the freed
men to the denial of their rights, and to
the imposition of unspeakable tyranny
and injustice for SO many years, has re-
suited in suspicion that they are in
different to freedom, and are unworthy
of further effort and sacrifice. Benevo-
lence will not cease, nor will their edu-
cation and instruction in morality and
religion be neglected, but socially and
politically they will tread the wine
press alone, and, like all weaker races,
will be crowded to the wall.
During the quarter of century of
freedom there has been no indication
of successful competition with the
whites in any common field of effort.
The love of fair play, which is charae-
teristic of our race, will demand an
equal chance for them, as it has for the
Indians. the Chinese and all the other
subordinate inhabitants of the earth, so
long as they do not interfere with our
own cupidity, ambition or love of do
minion. Their liberty will be absolute
if they do what we desire. The people
of the north are strongly in favor of al
lowing the negroes to have their rights
in the state of Mississippi, though they
held them as slaves till slavery ceased
to be profitable above the Potomac.
They are equally ardent in their phil
anthropy for Indians in Nebraska and
Dakota, though they displayed the
head of the murdered Phillip upon a
stake at Plymouth, and sold his infant
son into slavery in the West Indies.
There will be no more political cam
paigns fought in the United States upon
the attitude of the democratic party
during the war. nor its relations to
slavery and secessionor, reconstruction.
the disputed succession of 1877. The
dead past has buried its dead. Social
and economic questions are at the front.
The industrial issue is the Aaron's rod
that has swallowed all the rest. The
masses have discovered that political
equality does not bring about social
fraternity; that the ballot is not a med
icine to cure all the diseases of the
state, and that the inequalities of for
tune and rank are as great under a re-
public as under an empire. In a coun-
try where liberty is universal. educa-
ton provided for all. and every citizen
the equal of every other before the law,
with an equal chance in the struggle
of life. many are called and few chosen:
one eats crumbs and wears rags, while
another is clad in fine linen and purple
and fares sumptuOusly every day. Jack
Cade assures Lazarus that he is as much
entitled to terrapin and champagne,
good clothes, coupons, a steam yacht
and private car as Dives; and that the
reason why he has not is because Dives
compelled congress to enact a tariff,
demonetize silver, issue bonds and fill
his Golfers by law.
To refute these heresies, readjust the
relations of the citizen to the state, APP
pease the craving for change, allay dis
content. reconcile employers and en-
ployed. arrest the tendencies to danger
Gus accumulation without impairing
the right of individuals, to preserve per-
sonal liberty and the independence of
the state, is task that will test the
craftsmanship of Mr.. Cleveland and his
associates, who have done so much to
precipitate the crisis they are now re-
quired to meet
SILVER AND sUB-TREAsURY PLANS.
Justice to Jack Cade requires the adj
mission that our present silver policy
justifies the widest schemes of the pop
ulists, and makes the sub-treasury
plans of the Farmers Alliance respect
able.
Silver in its relations to the fiscal
system of the country is either money
metal or it is commodity. If the
former. then it is entitled to free adj
mission TO the minis. at the option of
the owner, upon terms that will make
a silver dollar as nearly as possible in
trinsically equal to a gold dollar.
If it is a commodity, then there is no
more reason why the government
should purchase and store it. and issue
certificates upon it to circulate as
money. than there is why it should pur-
chase wheat, pork. or saurkraut, or
dried apples, and issue certificates upon
them to circulate as money. The prin-