People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-30
Anew Declaration of Independence.

to surrender before they shoot.
We still hold these truths to be
self evident: that all men are Gre
ated equal; that they are endowed by
their creator, with certain unalien-
able rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness. That, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers ONLY
from the consent Of the governed.
That whenever any form Of govern
ment becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right, and duty, of the
people to alter or abolish it, and to
institute new government, laying its
foundation upon such new and old
principles as experience proves good,
or their judgment believes good.
Prudence is good thing-but when
it freezes into mere fOrmality with
out consideration or feeling, then
outraged and suffering humanity de-
mandS a hearing and must be heard,
whether it speaks from the roStrum,
the doorstep, the stump or the
street.
When the despOtism of usury and a
usurping money power turns the use
full tOiling masses into slaves for its
own greedy qualification, then JUS
tice and loyalty to each other and
God commands them to throw off the
yoke and build new fences for Secur-
ity against foreign foes and preying
beasts of their own swamps and jun
giles. The history of plutOcrary is a
bloOd-curdling revelation of bribery,
corruption and sneaking deception
ending with a chapter of open def
ance, heart-rending distress and star
walton.
1t has prevented the passage of
laws most wholesome and necessary
for the common good.
1t has delayed laws of pressing i'm
pOrtance to speculate in the food Of
labor.
1t has purchased representatives of
the people to prevent the passage of
laws for the benefit Of the masses.
1t has made it an object for judges
and lawyers to work for fees only.
1t has, lin the guise Of partisan pat
rOnagel, created multitude Of use
less high salaried offices.
1t has in times Of peace shot down
starving workmen who applied for
work.
1t has forced the calling of congress
| in special session to demonetize sill
yer, and double the debts of the cOun-
try.
1t has manipulated the land laws
and stolen land sufficient to support
ten million people in honest industry
1t has prevented the administra-
tiOn of justice by controlling the ju-
dietary power.
| 1t has made PinkertOn thugs indie
pendent of civil power.
1t has combined with the English
money power to force the people into
debt and steal the products Of their
! labor.
1t quarters large bodies of armed
troops among US, because armies are
fashionable.
1t wants to train up our boys to be
soldiers instead of useful citizens.
1t protects, by mock trial, lecher-
GUS rich men who ought to be
lynched.
1t cuts of trade with the world to
protect wealthy manufacturers who
spend their money 10 Europe.
| 1t appoints receivers to build up
swindling corporations, and sends
poor men to Jail for debt.
1t imposes taxes on the poor man
and escapes taxation itself.
1t discOurages independent thought
and individuality.
! 1t defeS the constitution, laws and
government by the people.
1t abOlishes government meney
and Institutes bank money.
1t has murdered our sons, prosti
tuted our daughters, destroyed oul
homes and starved our fathers and
mothers.
1t is at this time planning to force
another issue of bonds upon which t.
perpetuate the national banking sys
TEN and its ten thousand attendant
wrongs mi miserable hypOcrisies.
1t has constrained honest men
chosen fifty to represent US in con
greSs, to become tools of plutocracy
and executionerS of the people.
1t has maintained partisan delusior
and enmity among US to keep the PEG
pie from discovering the real enemy
The people have petitioned
changed parties, worked, hoped
prayed and have been disappointed