The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-13
LAW AND ORDER.

with the P1utocracy Law and Order Means
That the Idle should FescabIy Stsrvs ia
Death.
The following circular was not issued
from lunatic asylum nor from the vii
lage of Hyattsville, Md, when the
shadow of Co1ey fell ON that cage OF
frightened cuckoos. Read:
MANSFIELD, O., June Is, 1884
To All Law and Order Respecting Citizens:
We take it for granted that you believe In
peace and good order; that you are aware OF
the fact that nine-tentEs Ct the unemployed
are willfully SO. because they will not work un.
less paid twice the value of their labor; that II
man cannot get dollar day he should be
satisfied with seventy-dve cents-or even less
Ia half loaf is better than nonei" that the
employer has the right to set the rate OF wages
at which he will hire. and he should have free
access to the labor markets of the world, as
without the employer there would be no en-
ployed
The farmers who are bowling about hard
times and 80 cent wheat are Of the same lazy,
ShiftlesS class who sQuander their time in loaf
ing and talking politics. Let them attend to
their farms and their own business and leave
politics to politicians. -.
He who by the pillow would thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive"
There is no need Of industrial armies or third
party visionary crankS, because every neces-
sary reform can be secured through the demo-
cratic and republican parties whose leaders,
Sherman, Cleveland; Mckinley; Brice. Reed,
Harter and others, have been tried in the cruci=
Bile OF public service and found loyal TO the
principles of our free government
There is no use whatever for so-called labor
unions, farmers alliances. grangers, A. r. A:
and all kindred organizations, most Of which
are hot-bedS of diSSension, anarchy and trea-
son, favoring the free silver heresy and green
a hoat hnt on mir ipS
against the welfare OF the general publie.
Therefore we have organized a local law and
order league, whose members stand pledged
and ready at command OF the city, county, state
or national authorities to resist, by force Of
arms II necessary, the further entertainments
of so-called industrial armies of the Randall
type, whose thugs and buns disgraced our
streets so recently; and that we heartily COM
mend the action OF some Of our oficials and
leading citizens in endeavoring to keep out the
dirty horde Of vandalS and prevent them from
airing their vagaries.
Knowing that you are affiliated with one Of
the two leading parties named we hope you
will use your influence in the direction indi-
Gated herein, and induce as MANY OF your
friends as possible to assist you and our or
ganiZation in securing the objects desired
Very respectfully, yours,
RICHLAND LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE
So nine-tenths of the unemployed
are willfully SO, because they will not
work unless paid twice the value of
their labor" and the farmers who are
bowling about hard times are of the
same lazy, shiftlesS class" To a sane
person such stuff as this seems to be a
joke, though n pretty grim one; and
when it is followed up by the cold
statement that there is no use of a
third party" because the two old par
ties of Sherman, Cleveland, McKin-
ley, Brice and Harter can bless us with
everything we need. the laugh comes
in with a vengeance. Practically, John
Sherman Is the worst man now living
in the world. In 1873 he stole the
money demand away from American
silver by fraud of legislation more
dishonest than burglary and more
deadly than any thousand of murders.
John Sherman is the very father of the
tramps-he made them. Cleveland
the physical, mental and moral lum-
mox of the White house-has centered
the London gold-and-bond conspiracy
against the human race, and has done
everything possible to ruin his country
will sum him up as John Sherman's
GWln UrdltOT. Mchluley may hedu
well enough for blind man, who
thinks that protective tariff can
protect the United States against
Britain, while she dictates our prices
for everything through her money.
Mckinley, being mostly fool, is saved
from being a knave. AS for Brice and
Harter, there is no need of talking
about them outside of Mansfield, O.,
and the ''Richland Law and Order
league" mere railroad wreckers and
bank tcadies, will never be set up in
general as implements of political sal
walton.
But such manifestoes of claw and
order" as the one printed above are
sickening sign of the times. They
show how manhood, common sense,
honesty and patriotism have been ex-
tinguished in many quarters by politi-
cal rottenness and a subsidized press.
The "Richland Law and Order league"
is, of course, made up Of pap-sucking
officeholders; but their circular shows
that their masters now demand idiocy
of the creatures as we'll as total de-
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