The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11

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classes for supremacy and bread, until
business, home and personal integrity are
trembling in the face OF possible want in
the family. Feed a tiger regularly and
you tame and make him harmless; but
hunger makes tigers Of men.
"When this beast is wounded by a
hunter in India, and is making prepara-
tion for a revengeful assault, the must
clans seated on an elephant play vigor-
ously to charm him with their melody.
And thus the people are appeased by
jingle of all the sonorous words Of party
platforms. All that makes existence val
liable or government desirable depends
upon the enforcement OF restraints upon
the actions Of others, and therefore, the
restraining power OF government Is
evoked to-day. Our hearts have ached
because of the evictions under the Irish
tenant laws, but hundreds Of our own
families are made homeless every year
by the foreclosure laws of Kansas, and
thus the power which freed the African
is forcing into the same cruoible the sons
and daughters Of our own blood.
1.-TWO great forces are forming in
battle llne; the same under different form
and guise that have long been in deadly
Rntagonism, represented in master and
slave, lord and vassal, king and peasant,
despot and serf, landlord and tenant,
lender and borrower, organized avarice
and the necessities Of the divided and
helpless poor. I appeal to the people Of
this great commonwealth to sRrray them
selves on the side Of humanity and JUS
tiCe.
"If it be true that the poor have no
right to the property Of the rich, let 1t
also be declared that the rich have no
right to the property Of the poor. 1t is
the mission OF Kansas to protect and ad.
vance the moral and material interests
Of all ito citizens. 1t is it's especial duty
at the present time to protect the pro.
ducer from the ravages Of combined
wealth. National legislation has FOR
twenty years tostered and protected the
interests Of the few, while it has left the
south and west to supply the products
with which to feed and clothe the world,
and thus TO become the servants Of
wealth. The demand for free coinage
has been refused. The national banks
have been permitted to Withdraw their
circulation, and thus the interests OF the
east and west have diverged until the
passage of the Mckinley bill eliminated
in their divorcement. The purchasing
power of the dollar has become so great
that corn, wheat, beef, pork and cotton
have scarcely commanded price equal
to the cost of production. The instincts
Of patriotism have naturally rebelled
against these unwarranted encroach-
ments OF the power Of money. Sectional
hatred has also been kept alive by the
old powers, the better to enable them to
control the products and make the pro.
ducer contribute TO the millionaire. And
thus while the producer labors IN the
field, the shop, and the factory, the mil
lionRire usurps his earnings and rides in
gilded carriages with liveried servants.
To check and change these condi-
tions for the good Of all, Kansas steps
forth to-day, and while demanding the
rights Of the laborer and producer she
also presents the olive branch of peace
and good will to the people Of the south
by sending to the national congress a
distinguished farmer and stock raiser,
who was q colonel in the confederate
army. And thus a change is fore.
shadowed; change is written on all
things. One generation passes away,
and another succeeds-from life, to death |
the tomb, the spirit-the seed, the
plant-the chrysalis, the butterhy-out |
Of the throes of nature - revolution
higher life-progress. There must be |
change, and change must be exsltation
and progress. The old man bows to |
earth with the weight Of years and amid |
a mighty conflict Of ideas the new man |
takes his place. From the accumulation |
of past wisdom and experience the times
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