People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-18
OUR BOSTON LETTER.
SLIPPERY ELM DAN BEGINS TO
SEE THE HANDWRITING
ttt ON The WALL.
BE Delivers a BrOadside in the Senate
Against the Plutocrats-Mr Wash
burn Make Some Pertinent Comment
ThereOn-A Timely Warning.

mediate need for men to prepare
themselves for battle with the dan
gerous classes" should be printed in
every reform paper in the land. He
says: what shall be said of one Of
the leading arguments urged against
the enactment of an income tax? We
are graveIy informed that such tax
can not be collected, because of the
wholesale perjury which income own
ers will commit in order to evade the
law. If the criminal classes of the
country, or those of assumed respect
ability, can defeat the enactment of
Jaws by threatening to commit crime
in their violation, then, indeed. have
we reached depth of degradation far
beyond the power of resurrection.
81 will believe nothing so infamous
of the congress of the United States
as its submission to threat so afro
cious, or an argument so revolving
II confess that am shocked. mex
pressibly shocked, to be assured by
gentlemen of great ability and high
position, that the principal property
holders and income owners of the
United States, are ready, for the sake
of defrauding the government out of
4 small pittance, to blacken their
souls with the detestable crime of
false swearing; to render themselves
fit associates for thieves housebreak-
ers, forgers and cutthroats in the
prison houses of this world, and to
become everlasting inhabitants of
hell, in the world to come"
Too much stress can not be laid on
the fact that the wealthy men of this
country, the insolent IS, 900 who alone
would suffer from the proposed in
come tax, openly declare their inten-
ton of committing perjury to evade it.
A set of men who are ready to per-
lure themselves to avoid the payment
of paltry yearly sum, on plethoric
incomes, will commit murder and ar
son, or hire Pinkerton thugs Ito do it
for them, if laws are enacted in the
interest of the plundered producer of
this land, and against their privilege
TO plumber. Their sanctimonius whines
against the disinherited, who are
struggling to right themselves by ap-
pcaling to their legislators for the en-
actment of just laws, are attempts to
conceal the anarchy of their own in
tentiOus and acts under a pharisaical
pretence of being devoted to claw and
order"
:. To their grasping, avaricious little
souls this income tax seems unjust and
oppressive, but they have prostituted
every great daily paper in the coun-
try to favor laws that have closed
mill doors in the faces OF starving me-
chanics; that have mortgaged the
homes of the farmers and the labor of
the generations unborn, and now
openly declare their intention to
swear falsely to escape from return
ing even drop from the ocean of
wealth in which they idly swim, like
the devil fishes they are.
The large income owners are the
dangerous class in this county.
Let them be branded with the mark
of Cain, for they are also their broth
er's murderer and are lost to every i'm
pulse of humanity or patriotism.
Right here | wish to make state
ment in regard to this dangerous
class" and then proceed to verify it.
They have Systematically under
taken, by force or fraud, by fair means
or foul, by the use of brides that
many times exceed the amount of the
income tax, to prosecute, deride, and
III every way to throw discredit and
ridicule upon every prominent official
who is elevated to the position he
holds by the wish of the plundered
people, as expressed by "a free ballot
and fair count"
will first cite, in proof of my prop
oSition, the revolt against order which
occurred in Kansas, with lawfully
appointed executive, a legally elected
legislature on the one side, and the
anarchists of the state on the other.
The governor was the commander-in-
chief of the militia of the state, but
nonetheleSs, republican militiamen
disobeyed his orders in direct viola
ton of their oath The republican
sheriff of the county threatened to
make the governor his prisoner, and
summoning thugs and cutthroats from
all parts, he swore them in as 'depu-
ties 10 support him in his mutiny
against the lawfully appointed rulers
of the state, and was reinforced BY
the employees of a railroad corporation
which had failed to rule the state
through their menaces and money.
The prostitute press all over the coun-
try supported this resistance, because
the men upon whom authority had
been conferred, were Popu'ists, and
not in sympathy with the robberie.
md rascilities of the rich.
When Gov. Pennover of OREGON an