People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-11

John Bull FooliShly Endeavors to S.
generation to recover from the loss
sustained. The farmer has an in
creased mortgage to bear, the me-
chanIc is deeply in debt for r)nt, food
and clothing, and business Len with
financial losses, deprecated merchan-
disc and worthless accounts, and the
masses of the middle and lower classes
are to-day hopelessly bankrupt, and
the government, with a rapidly in
creasing deficit, has nothing but its
natural resources and former good
credit to sustain it on the tempestuous
seas of Clevelandism. As a remedy
for all of this Cleveland, in his last
message, offers-nOt an increased
volume of money, nor measures to re-
store confidence and prosperity, not
silver restored to its old time and hon.
ored place at the side of gold, but
more bonds.
l think it was Senator Hoar who
said that mortgages and indebtedness
were signs Of prosperity, and, on this
republican theory, Cleveland has tried
to steer his craft. Evidently he be-
lieyes that more bonds, more debt and
more interest to pay are what will not
ouly please Wall street and the cred
itor nations of the earth, but the PEG.
pie as well.
The difficulty with him is the fact
that he is so thoroughly owned by
capital, and is so constantly surround
ed by capitalistic advisers who keep
him drugged mentally aud physically,
that he is so far beyond the reach of
the people that he can not hear their
mprecations and appeals
1.-THE theory of personal devil is
correct, it is evident that he has taken
up his abode in the executive mansion,
and while Cleveland pens his state
papers this friend with the cloven
foot is at his elbow, inspiring and die
tating and Turing him on with lying
promises OF future greatness. And if
it is true that hell lives on the sin and
misery of the earth, must not the
devil felicitate himself on the vast
acquisitions to his domain which his
dupe at the white house has enabled
him to gain in this past year?
When we think Of the thousands
without food or shelter, OF the for
tunes lost and homes broken up, of
the thousands of citizens formerly in
telligent and happy who are now
tramps and criminals, of the suicides
multiplied as never before, we can
measure tn, responsibility resting
upon, this human engine of destruc-
!, ton, and if the devil a Aforesaid does
not applaud this performance OF his
white house colleague, it is because
he is kinder-hearted than the men Of
Wall street.
And now Coxey and his batta ions
are..marching on to Washing on from
all parts of the country in detach-
ments large and small, to show Cleve-
land and congress samples of the
work they are turning out from the
government mill.
The physical misery is terribly APP
parent, but the heart weak, the
mental misery, the moral deteriora-
ton, what pen can picture them? The
army of the commonweal is living,
moving condemnation of the present
administration.
Unless prevented by armed force.
Cleveland and his sulphurous adviser,
will have an opportunity to review the
work OF their hands when this army
of peacable protest reaches Washing
ton.
Stern law says that iuasmuch as all
this misery is the result of legal en-
actment, that we must bow 10 the
mandate as "law-abiding citizens"
even though our farms, houses, stores.
and the opportunity to earn our daily
bread are taken from US.
But this may go too far, and we
need not be surprised il the sleeping
spirit of 900" awakes and the slug
gish blood in the veins of the robbed
and wronged rises to turbulent tide
that impels men to the overthrow of
the robber laws that starve men,
break the hearts of women and slay
the innocents by thousands
Now that men have found out the
little trick Of marching TO Washing
ton to interview their servants" the
fad may become SO fashionable that
boodlers will hide behind doors and
shake in their boots a. the tramp,