People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-09
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uOWn dJ CALDWELL Is dn dIlOOZln llU-
tie cusS."
After a swing around the circle
lasting about ten days the writer re-
turns to find that our Obliging con-
Temporary has voluntarily closed up
our controversy, and draws on his gall
to claim the victory.
So far as doing the NelCS man any
present good is concerned, the con-
troversy had as well been closed be-
fore it was begun, but in the hope
that some people who do not make
up their conclusions from the labels
on the outside, will catch some ideas,
we have prolonged it.
By continued prodding we have
been able to draw the NelCS out on
''repudiatiOn" again. At the outset
he had a great deal to say about Pop
ulists being regulators, but our
readers well know we have not been
able to keep him on that subject save
by repeated probing.
Now he says Edward Belhmy and
Lyman Naugle have both advocated
repudiatiOn of all pyiStiny debts in
their advocacy of Be,lamy's Socialistic
theories, the former in his published
work and in his paper, and the latter
in the VOICE in editorially endorsing
the same theory"
And so this is the sort of repudia-
ton our neighbor is troubling about.
Now We propose to show the eOple
that this vauting teacher is 10 dense
ignorance of what he is talking
about.
Edward Bellamy is a Nationalist.
He believes the government ought to
own and operate the railroads. the
coal mines and all natural monopo-
lies, for the good of the whole people
Now if Mr. Bellamy proposed to take
these monOpOlieS from their present
owners by force without fair consid-
Grafton, then Mr.. SimonS would have
the best end of this controversy per-
hapS. But Mr. Bellamy does not pro-
pose any such thing, Strange as it
may seem to people who read such
papers as the NeocS, Mr.. Bellamv
proposes that thegOyernment bun and
paytor all these mOnOpOlieS-not all
at one time but gradually, by evolu-
ton. Now really, is not this a Queer
sort of reputation? We have an
idea that a good many property own.
erS would relish this sort of repudia.
ton. Now what on earth is Bro. 81.
mons driving at, can anybody tell?
Now as to Lyman Naugle's connec-
tlon with the affair. We did com.
mend the NeoO Nation and would like
Ito see every citizen of the coun.
ty read it. 1t presents some
splendid ideas. Bat, unlike such
time servers as Republican editor,
nave degenerated into, we do not ac
cept everything that we read simnI,
because it comes from a source W.
cherish. We can likewise commend
the Arena, the Cosmopolitan. in fact
all the periodicals are now so full Of
the new problems which Statesmen
have before them that we feel Xix,
commencing them all; really W,
might occasionally find somethins
OF profit In the Caldwell NeaOs, but
J we can't begin to endorse everythin.
| that anyone of them might say.
Again, so far as Edward Bellamv i
concerned the Populist party is no
responsible for all his ideas, be the,
good or bad. He has never, to on
knowledge, attended a Populist con
VentiOn. The Populist platform i
} the crucial by which we are to b.
tried as a new party. There ar
ldeallsts in the Republican party
but the only way of judging the mer
It's OF a party is by its record and it.
official promulgatiOnS.
Our files are open to Bro. Simops
and we say to him now that we ar,
ready to father everything that W,
have ever written. We are not a re-
pudlator, neither in theory or prac
tice. We have never yet gone bacl
On contract that we have made
Within the past few days we hay,
voluntarily paid off several unfertu
nate liabilities that were almost
barred by the statutes of limitations
We hope the self-righteous editor O
the NeooS can always show as clean ;
a record.
In reply to our query, why moi
go to greenback currency al
once" the Neacs rejOins, "Why moi
ask US why. we don't usher in tn,
millennium at once?"
If this one step would suggest tt
our brother the arrival of so impor
tantan era as the millennium. we car
but take hope. We should like Il
remind Bro. SimOnS that the princi
nal rpacOn whv va do po+ ,,,ou.