People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-01


good men as ever voted for a maxi
: mum freight bill. Senator Forney
/ was the hardest working man in The
] state senate. As secretary Of the
senate he Mr.. Brown had been able
to observe, and spoke whereof he
, knew.
de was proud to bein a town We'll.
ingtOnl that has a minister of the
gospel who is not afraid to stand up
in the pulpit Of the Holy God and pro-
claim the truth in regard TO the evils
that infest the national life.
If the church members Of the coun-
try had done one-half as much work
for humanity as hattering God, there
would be no burning necessity for re-
form. The golden rule would be the
law Of the land.
In retrospection he brought up the
time when from the country school
houses first flashed the light that
showed the tariff to be tax. Every
great reform has originated among
the common people, the farmers and
ia60rers, the producers Of all the
wealth and hnery of civilization. He
challenged any man to point out one
man who has written his name high
on the scroll OF fame, and 10 whom
history pays tribute, but who arose
from the ranks.
Moses was not prince in purple,
olt an outcast picked up among the
bulrushes.
The lOwly Nazarene-did he come
with gorgeous raiment and kingly Ger.
emOny? No! He was born in a man.
ger.
My republican friends, from whence
came Abraham Lincoln? From what
class arose General Grant?
That the populist move originated
among farmers and laborers is its
best recommendation. In this state
as candidate for governor we shall
have man who sprang from where
Abraham Lincoln sprang, while on
the other side, behold a national
banker.
He had once been republican him.
self-then it meant something besides
the offices to be a republican. They
stood for principles.
If republicans are ashamed to have
the pOpulists teach the principles OF |
Abraham Lincoln, am Just as much
ashamed of them for deserving those
principles as taught in 1860. have
stuck to the principles-and conse.
quently find myself in the peoples
party.
You, republicans talk Of redeem.
ing Kansas"-why, my friends, Kan.
sas was redeemed two years ago, and
the people are singing the glad song.
Il know that my redeemer liveth."
The outgrowth of that beacon light
of the prairies of Kansas is illuminat.
lag the dark places Of the nation-it
Is bound to- succeed-because it is
right. God who created US all mean;
that we should work out the truth /
for ourselues--and that is the object ,
Of the peoples party.
have a friend in England who
8Pitcs that the eyes of reforners look /!
'po" Kansas from across the waters
md pray for our success, 1--WE do not
lnOw,n he says, 'ieyeFy state of your
Jnion-but we do know Kansas
Tor there we kpCw j. the center Of
,.HHat gioIiols nght Tor freedom and !
Justice which interests every laboring
nan in the world"
/ want to lay down proposition,
in6 if / am wrong, | hope somebody {
will correct PIE. Whenever you 90
INTO any branch of industry, the !
amount of money invested is entitled q
to as much interest In any one thing
IS any other. Isn't this fact? The
banker is entitled to no more interest
on his bond investment than you in
your farm investment. Il
He gave figures showing how New
York made money: / have no hatred
Of New York. Twas bOrh there, My
old gray-haired mother lives there,
and IN that state are the graves of
two loved sisters. | cannot wish
those people any harm. God knows
the farmers and laborers of New York
have trouble enough. There are
more foreclosures there than even in
Kansas.
Wealth, you will all admit, consists
first, in land; second, labor; third,
capital. Well; let us see: New York
with One-sixteenth as much land, 81
to SO; and only one man to work where
thirteen OF the leading states had
four-made more In ten years than
all OF these thirteen states. This is
shown by the government report-and
if that lied it would be on the other
side, for obvious reasons.
The railroads in ten years are cred
tied with an increase of wealth equal
to one-ffteenth OF all the wealth pro-
duced in this entire country in that
time. s,
In ten leading cities Of the country
in one year the manufacturers made |
an average Of q per cent; the meat |
packers made 30 per cent; the sugar
refneries made As per cent.
You are entitled TO as much inter- /
est as they. What have you made?
Here you are in as good an agricult-
ural county as there is in the United |
States. Are you making, or losing?
Here is an estimate taken from the
agricultural report, showing the cost
Of producing 10 acres OF wheat and 10
acres Of corn in Maryland, assuming
that the yield OF wheat was 2O' BUSH
els to the acre and sold at Is
cents, the loss would be s45; loss on
corn, $40.
Another estimate on the same re-