People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-16

conditions. His ceremonies laid by, in
his nakednesS he appears but man.
SHAKEsPEARE.
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Shooting cuckoos is always in sea-
son.
Some Of the new spring Jokes need
springs.
Many men talk as if they had ere
ated God.
Wheat is cheap-but it still takes
money to buy whiskey.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men
rule the law.-GOldSmith.
Now set your hens, and let Hicks
storms 90 to thunder.
Grover got back from his duck hunt
without blowing into The gun.
Money brokerage is what broke the
laboring people Of America.
The Republicans Of Kansas will get
sledge-hammer soup in the next cleo
tiOn.
Don't get ahead Of your breath
you will need good wind for the final
tuSsle.
The Dalton gang is winning almost
as much notOriety as the Democratic
party.
IL is no longer possible to describe
the old party politicians in polite
language.
Truth has been kept down so long
it must be clothed in rage to regain
its balance.
Give congress an emetic-it is cOH-
stipated, and can't do anything but
throw it up.
Nothing remarkable about congress-
men speculating in sugar-they are
making taify.
II the word ovation has any refer
ence to eggs, Grover deserves an eQua-
torial shower Of them.
Congress had better adjourn and
attend the Breckenridge Pollard trial
while somebody burns a rag.
The French revolution was a step
the coming revolution will be two
kicks, a jump and a foot-race.
1t is not enough to hang the Off.
cial conspirators in efiigy-some Of
them should be hanged in hemp.
Since clover has failed under both
Democratic and Republican farming.
we'll try real farmers and alfalfa.
The people have been on the
mourners bench 50 long they have
lost faith in the mercy OF the plutoc-
racy.
Since "a woman in the case" con-
trOls each individual man-would il
be strange to have all women combine
and rule all men.
Congress acts much like the coun-
Gil of some country town on a creek
bank discussing the advisability Of
digging a town well.
If the Populist party is insane
there must be some terrible reason TO
drive so many sensible men insane at
once. Fools never go crazy.
Congress is more interested in the
Breckinridge-Pollard case than in
business. Many Of the members have
similar skeletons in their own close Is.
1T is an i'll cook that cannot lick
his own fingers" How many pre-
fessing Democrats would lick the
fingers they now have in the govern
ment kitchen?
Bring the rays Of intelligence to a
focus-shOrten the platform-nail it
closer together-make it gold-bup
proof and John Bull high. Nobody
can get around it.
lfyou look around a little you will
find that the most intelligent farmers
are all Populists. 1t requires some
thing more than banner and tin
badge to make Populist.
The Breckenridge case is a fair in
dex to the lives many congressman
lead. What hnt corruption can be
expected from men under the con.
slant influence Of wine, wemen and
Wall street.
The poetry Of the skunk will prob
ably have big run, since "Uncle Jo-
mas" Cook, of the Harper Sentipsl,
confeSses in verse that he got his
start by hunting skunks. Nobody
can keep in smelling distance Of the
new poet.