The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-27

it. The readJuStment must come by
lawful and peaceful means. The courts
and the congress must force an equit-
able redemption by squeezing the
water out of the stocks of the corpora
tions and opening the prison doors as
wide for the steal of millions as for the
larceny of hundreds. The country is
not poor; it is rich, bat no COW affords
good butter when the mixer swallows
all the cream. Greed has taken the
cream while the wage-earners and pro
ducers have worried along on the skim
milk Drive out anarchy. Greed must
be disarmed or manacled. Give Ameri-
can labor fair show and American
prosperity viii be restored.
When a corporation refuses arbjtra-
ton of differences it insolently says
that capital is king and that labor is its
slave. That statement is a lie. It is
an insult to God and an Outrage upon
his children. There is much talk now
adays about "the rights of capital that
the man dares speak a word for the
rights of humanity is derided as
crank or denounced as a fanatic. The
country is literally honey combed with
cOWardice from ocean to ocean. Never
before have there been so many cheap
men in public life, never so many
meritless candidates for public trust,
never so many Scrawny representatives.
of public opinion" whose honor can
whose shriveled souls are hidden in
the mercenary meshes of the myriad
nets spread by corporate monopolieS
to catch the political insects who are
fattening upon the body polite. 1t is
'..Phe Gilded Age" when there is
golden calf in control of congress and
when Villiany in corporation garb can
deliberately kick honest American
manhood into the streets if it were the
vestments of toll and cares have an
opinion of its own. Avarice and an
archy have the American people by
the throat.
Men seek to hush up discussion by
saying that it breeds anarchy. What
stupid folly! The emissaries of George
III said that to Ben Franklin. Tom
Paine, Patrick Henry and John Han
cock Mr. JEFF Davis said that to Wen
dell Phillips. Ben Wade, Governor
Seward, Gerrett Smith, Owen Love
joy, Charles Sumner and Abraham
Lincoln. Those men were confronted
by a condition, not theory" Liberty
is quite another thing from anarchy.
Americans love the one and hate the
other But there are lawmakers and
newspapers now who prefer to let the
republic become the prey of mammon
rather than have their equanimity dis
turbed by discussion affecting human
rights.
There never was such an opportuni-
ty for human advancement as has been
offered in the United States. Sobriety
and intelligent industry ought to be
masters of the situation; but they are
not. They ought to be prosperous and
happy; but they are not. Why? Be
cause the government has established
a prOtectOrate for greed and taxed hu-
manity for the costs. Free labor is the
corner stone of the American business
fabric. Greed has imported anarchis-
tic hordes to drive Americans out by
starvat on prices, and taxed labor to
death to earn dividends upon watered
stocks. The arrant fraud of the cor
pOrations and the murderous intent of
foreign anarchists are sapping the life
blood of Americanism and threatening
the national life. 1t is time for indivi-
dual American citizenship to respond
to the call to preserve the republic
from the combined forces attempting
to destroy it. You must be patriotic
citizen in the present conflict, or ser
vile subject in the future "Of thorns
men do not gather figs. nor of bramble
bush gather they grapes"
Many centuries ago ST. James wrote
these words: ~ our gold and silver Is |
cankered, and the use of them shall be |
witness against you and shall eat
your fish as it we're fire. Behold the |
hire of the laborers who have reaped |
down your fields. which is of you kept |
back by fraud, crieth; aud the cries of |
the reapers reach unto the Lord
''Your riches are corrupted and your
garments are moth eaten" Those |
words read now like a prophecy Per-
haps there were corporations and |
organizations" in those days. At all |
events, then as now, there were mobs,
anarchists, Judases and Pontius Pi-
lates.