The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-12-14
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Rapalee In the Chicago Free Trader.
Government ownership of railroads
would squeeze the water out of stocks
on which the people are forced to pay
dividends through higher freight and
passenger rates; it would lessen the
number of high-priced officials, thus
efecting an immense saving; it would
lessen the number of depot and other
buildings; it would cut off the dead
heads, and every man would have to
pay his own fare; it would prevent the
system of rebates to favored shippers;
it would prevent the tearing down Of
one town to build up another; there
would be no paid lobbyists around our
legislative halls in the interest of cor
porations. There would be no strikes;
the men would be well paid and there
would be no occasion for strikes Peo-
pie would have cheaper rates for
freight; getting their crops to market
at an immense saving, and also getting
the goods they consume much cheaper.
Just now the republicans are blam-
ing the democrats for the hard times.
But we havn't heard or seen them
blaming the democracy for the hard
times of 1873. Both old parties are cor
rupt as hades. And even the devil him.
self is pretty good sort of fellow
alongside such imps as John Sherman.
This is not entirely original with us.
Some years ago, Rev. P. P. Ingalls,,
late of Iowa, but then of Grand Island,
Neb.. a Methodist minister and a re-
former from away back, made the re-
mark to us: Rap, I've come to the
conclusion that all the HI is not in
the future world; that we have some of
it right here on earth; and that the
devil himself is pretty good sort of
fellow compared with some of the
fellows that we have right here on
earth" The John Shermanizing of our
currency has sent more people to hades
in the last twenty years than the devil
has been able to coax there in that
time.
ing combine and will shut down for
awhile. This will force up the price
of flour, and yet lessen the price Of
wheat by lessening the demand for it.
The farmers will suffer, and so will
the consumer. It is an Infamous out
rage, but what are the people going to
do about it? If laws cannot be passed
which will restrain such doings, then
we are emphatically in favor of gov
eminent ownership or control of every
thing subject to monopoly. That will
Fix" the combines and trusts, and it
seems as if nothing else would. In the
case of this milling trust, it is clear
that if the government was in control
of the mills the farmers would get
more for their wheat and the people
would get cheaper flour. We hope the
plutes will keep right on turning down
day when we will have a government
of and for the people, and means will
be found to restrain these heartless
plunderers of the people.
There are some poor devils in the
country who are without an overcoat.
shivering around in a summer-before-
last suit of clothes, whose shoes have
long ago outworn their usefulness, who
can'C buy a quarter of a ton of coal at
a time to save their necks, and who new
er know where the next meal is coming
from, and who have been throwing up
their old sieve of hat and yelling
themselves hOarSe over the results of
the last election, and who sheer at the
populists as cranlzs of the first water.
They think that the country is now
redeemed" and that we are to have
prosperity. Along in the future they
will wonder why in the world prosper
ity does not return, and that why are
no better off than when the democrat
ic wreckers were in full charge. Some
times we pity such cattle and some
times we say it serves them just right
but it is too bad that they will do
nothing for themselves nor allow 9TH
ers to do anything for them. Not only
that, but they aid the plutes in grind
ing down q great majority of all the
other people.
AS step toward government loans
to the people our populist legislatures
might pass laws authorizing the loan
ing of state and county funds in li1n.
tied amounts, on good security and at
low rate of interest. There is no
reason why the peoples money should
not be drawing interest and lessening
taxation that much. AS things now are
it is to the interest of bankers and
treasurers to have as large a surplus in
the state and county treasures as pos.
sible. The treasurers deposit their
funds with bankers, receiving a COM
mission for doing so, and the bankers
loan the money to the people at the
regular rates of interest. Practically.
we have repositories for state and
county funds, the same as we have de-
positories for national funds. Taxa
ton is kept up by those in power for
the purpose of providing the ring"
with funds to loan to the people, or to
speculate with. We are not advocating
that the state and counties make their
tax levies SO as to create surplus for
the purpose of going into the money
loaning business, but we simply sug-
gest that those states and counties
that do have surplus funds should loan
them at a low rate of interest, in small
amounts, and that the interest should
go into the treasury and cut taxation
down that much.
A Pointer for the Church.
Gen. Black, of Georgia, lately in COM
test with Populist Tom Watson for a
seat in the house, has made an offer to
call tho elacfiOn a draw and NAV IL all