People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-17

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DO you know why you are compelled
to invest your money in these things?
They tell you the iron industry would
be ruined unless the government gave
them some such wOrk-the iron in
duStry-Carnegie, Bath Iron Works,
Phillips \ Co. But they tell you We
don't mean the prOprietOrS but the
labUrers must be protected and given
employment. Then we read the list
Of Homestead strikers-nearly all
names that no native born American
could pronounce.
The theory OF protection is all
right-the only fault is that it don't
protect.
| remember once while in Tifin,
Ohio, seeing little boys going home
at a. m. from their work in the pro-
tected glass works Of that city-and |
thought that the best protective sys-
TEN would be one that protected those
little boys rather than the great,
greedy corporation that owned the
glass works. would have liked to
see those little boys at home
in protected bed, un der protected
roof, gaining strength to attend a
protected school the next day.
Any system that does not protect
the children and the home is a sham
and fraud.
When we women consider these
things we feel that something is lack
ing.
Your system is finely fathered,
but it is not properly mOthered. 1t is
time to make this government more
hOmelike.
Il bring today good cheer from all
quarters.
stand here to say that | believe
never before in all history were there
so many good elements at work, so
much awakened conscience and ear
nest effort.
The human race in its progress has
come to the time. | believe you men
with the ballot can accomplish all we
seek, if you will.
Don't yOn believe that these work
men in the east are all anarchists
and that the men out Of employment
are all drunken and worthless. 1t
isn't so. You have all one common
oppOrtunity-the ballOt-use it wisely
and work together.
You know what the Peoples party
demands-yOu know that we want an
American system Of anance-behind
every dollar the wealth Of all the ma
tiOn and the patriotism Of all the PEG.
pie.
"We want system Of banking such
that 100 able-bOdied liars cannot
shake down as they did the bank al
Wichita. We want lots OF things-we
want the earth. Who has a better
right to it than all the people who
will use ii. We don't want a dizzy,
as the hoot-Owls will tell you. We
want an opportunity to earn an hon
est living. We don't want to pay
$500, 900, 900 year for the use Of Eng.
lish credit, when we have a grand
rich country and industrious prOduc.
ing people at home.
Seems to me If / were you,
wouldn't do these things.
We want new land system-n.t
enc that will rob any American OF
what he honestly Owns-but one that
will prevent alien ownerships of our
lands-that will prevent such men as
Lord Skully from fencing the Ameri.
can people away from millions OF
acres Of American land.
II perhaps sighted the protective
tariff. Yes; it does protect some peO-
pie. I've seen the people it protects
have been in their gorgeous homes,
passed through the portals OF the
$4,000 front doors Of their great pal.
aces their summer homes and winter
quarters-men who could give their
listleSs daughters 81, 900 for an after.
noon shopping expedition as easily as
the merchant Of Wellington could
give his daughter S-men whose sons
carry an umbrella on the streets OF
New York because it was raining in
London.
| have also been In the homes OF
the men who laid the blocks in the
magnificent paved streets over which
their blOoded horses pulled yellow
wheeled carriages; have been in the
houses Of men who built these palaces,
and l have been in the homes Of the
women who made the luxurious car
pets that covered the floors that
other labOrers built. And among all
these have never seen the man who
laid the pavement able to own home
on that street. Ihaye never seen one
NJ tha yvOman yuho tnrlad (, 81.