The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14
pOPULIST IDEAS
Are nei Visionary and Tmprac,jcabs.
as Supposed.
TIE PRINCIPLES OF THE PARTY ARE
BEING ADVOCATED BY 10TH DEMO
Gratis AND REPCBLIcANs.


The Jioice is indebted to Charley
Welch for a copy of the San Francisco
Daily Chronicle of June 18th. The
Chronicle is edited by NJ. II. DeYouug
| and is the leading republican paper of
the Pacific coast, 1t sounds peculiar
to hear republican paper talking out
boldly as does the CHRONICLE, like this:
nThe gold monOnetallists who alb
surilIy imagine that the present serious
| condition of affairs is dine to the fact
that the government IS purchasing
silver, should ask themselves Why mOn-
| Ometailic Australia, where gold is the
| only legal tender, is in ths tI,rOes of u
! financial crisis relatively far more
serious than that threatening the
| United States. n little study of tile
situation at the antipodes you'd teach
! the Wall street tlatheYskites that the
! ''sin.:sir' iii Australia is due to pre-
| cisely the same trouble now meDacing
us. Owing to the demonstration Of
silver and the constant contraction,
the price of wool has declined oyer 80
per cent. and Australia is now Obliged
to give two bales of wool where she
formerly gave one to pay Il debt. In
the United States the farmers in the
north are paying their creditors two
bushels of wheat where they were
formerly required to pay one, and the
southern cotton planter is obliged to
give a great deal more of his staple
! than formerly to settle up. Under
~ &c
| suppose that the country can prospe
Nor viii it until the producer once
again receives something like a fair
equipment for his products.
The truth is the principles advocated
by the peoples party are SO self-evi-
dent that We find both democrats and
! republicans in all parts OF the country
breaking over party walls and advo-
eating them. Our party has not Il
single tenet that has not been amply
demonstrated to lie correct by eminent
leaders Of both tine old parties. Is it
any wonder then that the party is
growing? Men are getting their eyes
open every day to the fact that they
are blindly pursuing a party name,
hoping that it will finally come around
and give the country the relief it needs
Many Of them, however, are becoming
convinced that there can be nothing
} lost in voting their sentiments straight
regardless of party names. Partisans
may make WY faces and cl,aracterize
the populist demands as customary
and impracticable," but so long as
their soundness Is admitted and advo.
Gated by men Of known capacity and
.intagFity in their own house hold, theil
derision falls harmlessly to the ground
The same issue of the Chron,cl
champions another of the radical
demands of the peoples party. Speak
y ing of the great fight on rates now il
), progress between the great norther,
;. railway out Of Chicago and the othe
linss, it sRys:
at Is not always, as this case shows
. that competing railroad produces an,
permanent beEefit to the travelling an,
e freight shipping public. Where mum
= Der OF .rOads units in pooling thei
q issnes it makes it IA very hard matte
for single outside road to stand III
against them, and as railroads ar
IS simply business enterprises, they cal
g not be expected tn be Carried on ut
?. disadvantages. They must pay thei
way, and if they cannot maintai,
+. themselves against opposition it
20 natural that they should make peac
and adjust their differences.
There is but one solution of this prot
= lem, and hat one way in which equalit
e and uniformity of rates can be secured
It and THAT is by government Ownership an
control Of the grcs ratianay lines in III
:" Unsted States. That would remove a
" incentive for undue competition, Will
y securing at the same time reasonabl
NJ rates all round, for the United State
n would have 10 object in trying to ear
:, dividends on the capital stock an
m there would be no interest to pay o
g railroad bonds, so the rates might b
S. cat down to such II figure as to provid
imerely for the cost of operation an
the creation of Il fund for MAINTENANCE
+, and repairs. 10 this the railroads G
>, this country must come in the cours
of time"