People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-15
A NEW INDICTMENT.
THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC
PARTIES BEFORE THE BAR.
They Are Guilty, as Was George III, Of
Tyranny and Usurpation and of Repeat
sdly InjariDg the American People.

eddy InjariDg the American People.
VIII This Indictment stand?
In INC, July 4, at Philadelphia, a
meeting was held composed mostly Of
farmers and artisans, who adopted meas
ures which made our fathers free and
Independent people. For more than 100
years the craft there launched has been
riding securely the tempestuous sea Of
national life. Storms yes, terrible
storms-have many times tested its
strength. The winds of adversely have
howled around it and beaten upon it, but
it has proven equal to the occasion in
every instance.
Those who selected its timbers, shaped
its mast and fashioned its keel have long
since gone to their reward, leaving to us,
their posterity, the greatest legacy ever
bequeathed to mana just, frugal and
free government. This sacred trust has
been delivered to rs to guide and shape
for those who are to come after us. The
chart, which was the inspiration in 177G,
is our heritage. 1t remains to be seen
whether we shall hand it down to the
generation which is to succeed us as free
from blot and blemish, as pure and IN
sullied, as when we received it.
That chart, which has no eqnal on
earth, declares: eve hold these truths
to be self evident: That all men are
born free and equal; that they are en-
dowed by their creator with certain I'M
alienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness; that to secure these rights gov
ernments are instituted among men, de-
irving their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed; that whenever
any form of government becomes de-
Structive Of these ends it is the right Of
the people to alter or abolish it and to
institute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organ
izing its powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not
be changed for light and transient causes,
and accordingly all experience hath
shown that mankind is more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But
when long train of abuses and usur.
pations, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government and to provide new guards
for their future security.
"Such has been the patient sufferance
of these colonies, and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter
their former systems of government.
The history of the present king of Great
Britain is history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct OBJ.
ject the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over these states. To prove
this let facts be submitted to a candid
world"
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The present condition of the American
! people uner'ingly indicates that we,
through neglect superinduced by conf.
dence in unfaithful leaders, have wan.
dered far from that God given chart,
and consequently are struggling in the
throes of a financial despotism. With
all propriety and truthfulness, the same
indictment can be brought against the
so called Democratic and Republican
! party leaders, including the present adj
ministration, that the heroes of 177G
brought against George iii.
They have refused to enact laws neces-
sary to the peace, happiness and pros
perity of the people, though often peti.
toned to do so while in office. They
have created corporations contrary to
the constitution of the United States.
They have licensed corporations to tax
the people without their consent. They
have overturned the constitution by
farming out to corporations the finances
of the nation, the commerce among the
states, the transmission of intelligence.
They have disinherited people by Great.
ing land monopoly. They have con.
spired with aliens to rob the people
through bonded indebtedness.
They have permitted Europe to die.
tate the financial policy of the United
States. They have rendered nugatory
the law of primogenitpre, the law Of
mortemain, the law preventing monopo
ly. They have created multitudes Of
unnecessary new officers to harass the
people and eatup their substance. They
have foisted upon the country an unnec
essary army to owerawe the people anG
keep them in subsection. They have
rendered the military superior to the
civil authority to overawe American arti
sans and compel them to submit to the
most tyrannical exactions. They have
invaded the sanctity of the ballot anC
thwarted the will of the people. They
have increased the taxes without tn,
consent of the people.
Will this indictment stand?-Southerr
Mercury.
Signs of Prosperity.
The Times of Clay comfy Kan fnI