Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-09-27

pOnCy VI Az the governing parties Of this nation
whose Legislation has favored capital ana Oppress
| ed labor, and We hereby declare our sym path!
with all tOilers In their eiiOltH to improve the
| COnditiO' and demand such legislation IN will re-
| suit In removing some OF the burdens OF toll b.
shortening the hours Of labor without lesseninl
their daily wage,
they have divided so that 1t reads
thu !:
orr sympathies go out to the unemployed
hon Ieess una lundeBs people Of the country
who have been brought TO their present condition
in Il great measure through the vicious, un-Amor
ICE n financial policy Of this government; ana We
hc I'd sacred the Declaration Of Independence tha
"a men arc created equali they are endowed BY
Ielr creator with certain lnalienabe rights; thai
among these are life, liberty ana the pursuit o.
happiness,
giving the rest of paragraph 2 under
what would be i'll the document par
agraph 7.
But this is not all, for, after giving
paragraphs 3, 4 aud 5 substantially
correct, they mutilate paragraph q
until it reads this way:
We ere unalterably opposed to the issue OF gov.
eminent interest bearing bonds, aud demand in
steud the issue Of aud payment Of the same, IL
government, full egal'tender treasury notes.
Now compare this with the sixth
paragraph Of the popullst platform,
which is as follows:
We are unalterab!y opposed to the Issue Of gov
erDment inerest.beuriug bonds, aud uenaud in
stead full legal tender treasury notes; ana la the
payment Of the current expenses OF tue govern.
ment there shall be no discrimination made be.
tween such notes and void Or silver
and VIZ have plank that is alto
gether different to Whit the "docu.
ment" would indicate The reauer
will notice that the plank, as gwen
by the democratic document" prac-
ideally commits the peoples party to
policy tavorlng only "IredSury
Notes. and SjLUer Us The mediums
for meeting the Leeds of the gov
ernment," thus making us, HIS Dick
Blue and Major Hudson says, SILVER
monometalIls,s," while the true de-
mAnd in the populst platform Is for
full legal tender treasury notes." on
an equality as money lUjth gold and
SjLUer.
One finds it difficult to understand
why such u document should be
Issued at this time, when men and
women too, have learned that it is
not safe to accept every statement
that is made, but, like the Bereans,
search daily whether these things
are So" OF course, 1t may be the
fault Of incompetent persons having
the matter III charge, and III view OF
the fact that the so-called popuIist
platform, Ms gwen In the document"
is u tumble ot errors, it demonstrates
ono Of two things-elther there is a
deliberate attempt to mislead voters
by falsehoods, or that the leaders are
blind leaders" who are simple
enough to expect to tnd blind per-
sons to be led
Ii they expect to deceive voters by
false statements, they will find that
in the people of Kansas there is a
spirit of fairness which will cause
them to frown down every attempt at
chicanery on the part Of any party,
hence they will hot gain by such
plan. If, on the other hand, they
demonstrate, by plea of ignorance,
that they are blind" leaders, they
will not find blind people to be led
into the ditch.
The document" gives the suffrage
resolution, as for as ii goes, but 1t
omits the following part of said
plank: But aCe do not regard 1t as
a test of party fedIty"
l presume the object Of this is two
fold. First: to make voters believe
that in order to be popullsts they
must be equal suffraglsts; and sec
ond: to injure the cause OF equal suf-
frage by making 1t odious to those
democrats who are intensely partisan,
through the claim that it is populist
measure.
The fact of the matter is, that while
there are TESTS Of fellowship" in the
peoples party, equal suffrage is not
one of them, beng, rs far as this
campaign is concerned, local; and as
popullsm is, of necessity, founded up
on the fact that great wrongs have
been perpetrated against producers
and labor generally In the interest of
monopolists, through unjust legisla-
ton, it follows as u logical sequence
that the righting of those wrongs is
the great reason for the existence of
the peoples party, and the great OBJ
jet to be accomplished; and while
the tenet of popullsm, equal rights
TO all and special privileges to none"
is held by the great majority of popu-
lists to be sufficient pledge to the
doctrine of equal suffrage, yet there
are, as in all parties, numbers of men
who honestly oppose the proposed
amendment because they have not
yet been able to seq the justice of the
measure, and who, while not wishing
to do an injustice to anyone, will not
support it. Therefore, one can be in
full touch with every other one in the
peoples party on the essential doc
trlnes of the party, and yet differ as
to the expedlency of voting for or
against the suffrage amendment, just