People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-02-24
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

in effect as compared with the usury
mill.
The people are thinking, and the
iegalized robbers and parasites are
quaking.
Charity is great blessing, but if
there were more justice less charity
would be required.
Put your hand in your pocket and
feel around. That is the issue, friends,
and don't you fail to remember it
Road.
The London county council is con-
sidering the question of establishing
municipal coal yards and retail at cost
to the poor
How queer it is that the farmer can
have an 'over-production" of every
thing but money.-Des Moines Ia }
Farmers Tribune.
-Laboring men should not forget
that the present congress declined to
pass the anti-Pinkerton bill The next
congress may be depended upon to fol-
low suit Stick to your old parties -
Road.
Direct legislation is the only method
whereby the people can have just such
laws as they need and not be troubled
with the numerous, foolish and unfair
laws which now burden them.-Mem-
.phis Tenn Unionist
If a democratic congress repeats
the 10 per cent tax on bank circulation
and inhicts wildcat and red-dog money
on the country, Mr.. Cleveland's admin
istration will be retired in 1896 in igno-
'niny and disgrace Exchange.
The farmer who Joined the alliance
and yet sticks to his old party while it
promises nothing and is doing nothing
to carry out the demands of the ALI
ance, shows his bad faith to his bust
ness interests and his fellow farmers
st Louis Monitor
The whole question of politics has
become a matter of business purely.
Bankers, money lenders, bondholders,
and monopolists generally act together,
While the industrial classes remain d.
vided If the latter would act for their
interests as promptly as the former do
for theirs, reforms would soon be
brought about -St Louis Monitor
birmingham, England, is larger
than Boston, Mass The former city
Owas its own gas, water and electric
plants. The cost of maintaining them
in lS9! was about one million dollars.
The cost of sustaining the same insti-
tutions in Boston, under separate cor
porate control, cost nearly ten million
dollars Comment is unnecessarily
Road
On the 18th inst the populists in the
Nebraska legislature succeeded in elect
ing Judge William Vincent Allen, of
Madison county, to the United States
Senate. He is a whopper and square
in the middle of the road Take cour-
age, boys, everywhere Senators PETER,
Kyle, Stewart and Allen will compare
favorably with any four senators in
that body.
Every manufacturer ought to re-
member that his fortune was not
achieved by himself alone, but by the
cooperation of his workmen. He should
acknowledge their right to share the
benefits of that which could not exist
without their faithful performance of
duty Not until the capitalist is just
enough to recognize this truth can he
ever jim group of workmen and feel
b5moeG among his friends Peter
Cooper
The Philadelphia Ledger urges the
railway companies to get up petitions
an favor of the repeal of the Sherman
act, and in the same article points out
that the continued coinage of silver
vii. have tendency to increase the
wages Of railway employees That may
be good reason for the railway kings
TO get up petitions for the demoneti-
cation of silver, but hardly a good rea-
son for the employees signing them. 80
journal of Knights of Labor
Steward, of Nevada, has been re-
elected to the senate. but he has
dropped out of the republican party
Last year he supported Weaver for
president The republicans of his state
recognized that he had left them. and
put up a senatorial candidate against
him. He is returned to the senate.
therefore, as populist, or an independ-
ent, and in all calculations hereafter as
70 the strength of the parties in the
senate his change of party base should
be taken into the account-Globe-
Democrat
The man of moderate means-worth
MS twenty, nifty or one hundred thou
sand dollars-has nothing to gain bv
siding with the trusts. Why? Be-
cause the policy of the trust is to wipe
out the capitalist of moderate means.
The trust wants to fix prices to suit
itself 1t cannot do this when there is
competition in the way. The moderate
capitalist, while he lasts, is a compel.
itor He, therefore, is marked by the
trust for destruction and is only help
ing an enemy when he helps the trust
Berlin pa Record
"A big southern city daily, in refer
ing to the anti-option bill. says its
"avowe1 aim is to benefit one class in
the community at the expense of the
other" Yes, it is designed to benefit
3 the masses at the expense" of class
of market wreckers who sell what they
do not own. 1t is class legislation on
the same principle that laws against
highway robbery is-that is, it discrim-
mates in favor of the people by protect