People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-15
TRUE COURAGE.
Is Not Afraid to Tell the Plain
Truth.

lTulH.
The Oxford Register is a free lance
1t sometimes cuts the pOpulistS, again
it roaStS the democrats, and anon it
hits the republicans a back-hand
swipe: but usually its utteranceS re-
Ter only to facts and principles, indie
pendent Of all parties. In the last
issue we find the following thought
stiDulants, presented without parti-
san sugar;
COXey is a maryland fool. So
Was John Brown.
Governor Waite'S course in the
mine troubles at Cripple Creek is
cOmmendable in all particulars, with
possibly the exception of his "cuss0
words.
Relief is the demand Of the com.
mon people" And senatorial courtesy
be hanged-and the senate, too. for
all the good it has dOne-is doing-or
will do.
Only the rich oppose the income tax.
They can't dodge the provisions OF
that bill, if it becomes a law, with
the perjured ease they can avoid the
present tax laws.
Keep of the grass" politics will
make many mugwump voters. Hail
the mugwump! When he becomes
sufficiently numerous to hold the
balance Of power" then honest men
may be chosen for Office.
The senate continues to "whip the
devil around stump" as the senate
believes. The fact Is, the devil has
the senate by the c0at-tails, and in its
great Sprinting act the senate is sim.
ply dragging the "Old Man" around
the stump-and whipping empty afr
The air is now as heavily charged
with observation-disclosures, distress, an.
archy, treaSOn-and all the porteuts
OF war, as it was In lS6O-6l. The
pilots Of the ship Of state are as blind
as when they ran the old ship afoul OF
a snag before. 1t may not be the part
OF policy to say this-but read the
stars for yourself. Revolution is in
the air-and coercion will not put it
down. Justice only can triumph. We
are having too much keep of the
grass" government.
Colonel FOrney, a republican, and
Banker Caldwell, democrat, both OF
Belle Plaine, created a disturbance
during Rev. BOtkin's lecture in that
city recently, and their arrest and
punishment under that charge would
have been far more just and reason
able than was the prosecution OF
COxey and his lieutenants at Wash
ingtOn. Colonel FOrney explains
that Mr.. BOtkin secured the church
for the delivery Of his pOpular-or
pOpuliSt-lecture through false pre-
fences, or something Of the kind {;
apologies for his connection with the
matter, and intimates that Rev. Bot.
kin will languiSh in pain with a great
load of undeliyered pOpulist doctrine
Obstructing his happiness, away off
into the unlighted realms Of eternity,
before he ever gets another chance to
pop, it to the republicans and demo.
Gratis from the Belle Plaine Methodist
Episcopal pulpit. Awful, isn't it?
Partisan mistakes" are too holy to
parade before the public from a pull.
pitt Political facts ought not to be
mentioned in the 'holy place." Rats.
RATS. RATS! The whole business
is a lot Of tomtOolery, and Colonel
FOrney'S explanation" the worst tom
fOolishness Of all. Everybody knew
what Mr.. BOtkin's lecture treated Of.
At least, there is no reason why they
should not knOw-if they can read
for it has been reported in nearly
every paper in the county. The lect.
ure was delivered in the church in
this city, and spoken OF as a highly
creditable address by our people, with
out regard to politics. 1t was deliv-
cred at Wellington-in the church,
tso; and the people Of that town were
greatly pleased with it. There must
be vastly higher degree of partisan
intelligence over at Belle PLANE than
in the other towns named, or else
their church people are Of the over
Jealous, puritanical sect. who think
that anything but the Holy Bible dis.
cusSed from the pulpit Is sacrileye.
The Register believes it duty Of cler-
gymen to familiarize themselves with
political questions, matters pertain
ing TO government, and the actions
and lives OF public men-and discuss
them from the pulpit. Give their
hearers the benefit Of their study and
try TO assist them in temporal mat
tiers, as well as TO steer them in the
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