The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
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= Noble Hand Fighting for the People
Rights IN Kansas.


4 Noble Band Fighting for the Peoples
Rights IA Kansas.
Strong in their consciousness that
the law Of the land, mans right and
Gods eternal justice are with them,
the Populist governor and legislature
Of Kansas stand patient, serene and
dauntless, amid the storm Of anarchy
which has been raised by the pluto
cratic wreckers of peace and order.
A gang Of revolutionary anarchists
tcomposed of dissolute political bravoes
who have sold their souls to thedevil
and their official influence to the
band of robbers which runs the Santa
Fe railway, call themselves Republi-
cans and lyingly claim to be the sole
and only legal house of represents
tives for Kansas.
The brazen faced league of hired
| desperadoes which poses as the regu-
larly constituted Republican house
has all the brute courage and audacity
of that road agent class which makes
decent society it's prey.
They are ready to fight at the drop
of the hat, which is held to be the
most valuable attribute of the pro-
fessional depredator.
| On the afternoon of February 10th.
alleged speaker of the Republican
| house marched ct the head of his
! fellow outlaws, and broke into the
state house at Topeka with sledge
| hammer.
After this anarchistic act the Re-
! publican speaker does the bidding of
his Santa Fe railway masters, and
issues hypocritical address to the
law-abiding citizens of Kansas, in
which he charges the patient, long
suffering and law-respecting governor
with the said speakers own crime of
anarchy and revolution.
| The law-making and executive DOW
ers of Kansas were voted into office
by the people that the organized
spoliation of the producers of the
state might be stopped by law.
| If peace continues to exist the San
ia Fe railway will no longer be per-
mitted to ride rough shod over the
plain people of Kansas Therefore
the Santa Fe managers have deter
mined to bring on cruel season of
turmoil and bloodshed.
! This ruthless corporation owns the
Republican members Of the legisla-
ture, and it has Kissed them on to
the criminal conflict
The great corporations, bankers
and loan sharks of Kansas are all one
in interest, and in one way or another
are fleeing the producing masses;
hence these are all backing the Santa
Fe anarchists.
! Through their influence and that
of subsidized press some of the
militia officers of the state have be-
come mutineers against their COM
mander-in-chief, the governor, and
declare they will not obey him.
The sheriff of the county, who has
proved himself Santa Fe lackey, ar
rogantly insults and defes the gov
ernor of the commonwealth.
| A solemn crisis is nigh at hand, not
alone for Kansas, but the entire re-
public, says the Vanguard.
| If the-plutocratic anarchists of that
state are triumphant in overriding
the law, if they wantonly break the
peace and are permitted to shed inno-
cent blood with impunity, then is our
great democracy as at present consti-
tuted nigh unto it's last days.
Our constitutional system of repre-
sentative government cannot endure
such outrages and continue to live.
A fundamental change in the char
acter of our political, social and
economic institutions would inevi-
tably come in and nothing could
stop it.
Either the money power would
transform the republic into military
Oligarchy wherein the classes would
openly rule the masses by the strong
hand, or else there would be sufficient
valOr and virtue in our producing
millions to put this nation back on
the old Jeffersonian lines, and thus
make it republic in fact as we'll as
in name, which it Is not now.
The honest people of Kansas are
! trying to govern themselves, and the
corporations regard the attempt as
an encroachment on their charters.
Men of America, if the decent peo-
pie of Kansas are baked in the, patri-
otto endeavor by the plutocratic an
archists, it will either be the death
warrant of popular government in
America, Or else a revolutionary
wave of fire and blood will roll over
this continent from ocean to ocean.
Good patriots all keep your eyes on
Kansas, and, if the need and time
come. be prepared to strike brave
blow that the republic of Washington
| and Lincoln be not murdered.
'.In Identical Language"
In Senator D. B. Hills speech on
the 18th, when he favored the repeal
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