People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-04
"WhO Built the Ark?"


form very small part of the republic
can party.
Those few are entitled to the honor
and thousands of them are in the Pop-
ulist and democratic parties. Not as
partisans, but as patriotic men and
soldiers we honor them.
No matter if they believed the moon
made of Limburger cheese when they
enlisted, they did their work nobly.
The tariff was not then the question
nor even the silver question.
Slavery caused the rebellion and the
rebellion threw another problem more
important upon the hands of Uncle
Sam.
Slavery was almost lost sight of in
the struggle to save the union.
The proclamation freeing the slaves
applied at first only to the states and
parts OF states in actuul rebellion, and
the noble patriot, Abraham Lincoln,
thought more Of saving the great un.
ion than of liberating the oppressed
cOlored people.
The freeing of the slaves he stated
in his proclamation, had become jus.
tifable as military necessity.
They were first freed where their
masters were in rebellion, and were
invited to enter the armed service OF
the United States to help garrison
forts, etc.
The object was to weaken the re.
bellion, to secure the help of the ne.
grOes to put it down.
Uncle Sans soldiers were not abOli.
ton soldiers, but union soldiers. They
fought to save the union.
After the war was over the radical
republicans declared in their first
platform that the REBELLION Hal
FREED THE SLAVES, and asked that
measures be taken to perpetuate that
| freedom.
These same republicans were so bit
terly radical that they advocated con
tiscatiOn Of all lands held by rebels.
The republican party was divided
into radicals, liberals and plain repub
licans. They were not united and pol
litically cute enough to claim thai
the republican party struck tn,
Shackles from four million slaves I'm
til 1872. Before that their time wa.
taken up with denouncing the demo
Gratis as rebels.
The saving of the union was a nObl,
service, and the freeing of the slave.
in the shuttle was an act that should
have been done hundreds of years be
fore.
But what has the republican part!
of today to do with the case?
What have these young men done
What do they propose to do?
They are ambitious, of cOurse-bu
do they expect to win glory in second
hand uniforms.
The republican party of today boast
of its young men. The old crowd O
patriots has been showed out to Civ,
place to the ''yOung crowd" in thi
state such fellows as Chester l. Long
Douglass, 1[Och, Curtis and othe
bantlings Of the second growth.
In this county the leaders are sucl
men as John Haughey, Harry Woods
j. G. Campbell and others too yOunI
to remember the smell Of gunpOwder
Nowadays when republican club
organized it is YOUNG MEMS repub
lican club.
This county has YOUNG mems re
publican club in Wellington, one a
Caldwell, one at Oxford and Othe
places in the county.
These young men are all right-bu
what have they to boast of in tn,
achievements Of thirty years ago?
Many Of them can give no reason TO
their utilization except to point back
ward.
Forward is the direction we mus
go.
What are their ideas of the future
Many of them have none.
Members Of the Wellington clul
have admitted to us in conversation
that they do not know anything abou
the questions Of the day.
They are fairly intelligent and capa
bic young men, but they are Indifferent
to the responsibilities Of the ballot ant
content to drift along like green log
half-buried in the muddy stream of DO
litical drainage, fertilizing nothin,
and constructing nothing.
1t is no honor to be the son of al
honored sire unless you are an honor
able son.
Your daddies' laurels will not max,
a fiOwery bed of ease for you.
Plant laurels for own crown.
Never boast Of doing what you haC
no part in doing.
Go to work now and do somethins