People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-14

D build new ship.
/ We are called sentimental.
, Sentiment is the most holy thinl
in the world.
Love of God is sentiment.
Love OF humanity is sentiment.
To protect the weak, bind up the
brOken-hearted, raise the fallen, free
the SlaveS-that is all sentiment.
Women have died in hospitals. meu
have periShed on battle fields, heroes
burned dt the stake, and as the flames
licked their faces, sang songs of con-
SecratiOn to sentiment.
Sentiment is the handspring of
morality, and very essence of all Gods
teachings.
Love of home and country is all
sentiment.
Without sentiment we should have
anarchy and pandemOnium on earth.
In suffering there is always more
feeling than mathematics.
Man may philOsOphize until the
day of doom, and one days heartache
will Shatter all his philosophy.
The fellows who have wisdom and
everything else cOrnered, say that
labOrers are insane. No wonder.
They see their wives and children
starved, turned out in the streets and
murdered-they hear talk Of "arbi-
tration" at the muZzle of a gatling
gun-they dare not even express their
thoughts without being hOOted at.
dubbed and impriSOned-itS wonder
there are not more Of them insane.
Oppression makes powerful orators
and writerS-and if they, must resist
armed force TO express themselves.
their minds are crowded with surging
thoughts and feelings that make
their very hearts bleed.
Never was boy trained specially
for OratOry, but when he blOOmed he
turned out to be a peacock with more
tail feathers than top knot.
The writers and speakers Of the
common people may not be Superbly
polished, bIt they are in earnest
and nature gives them words enough.
Murder is murder, whether done by
sanction Of law, or in defiance of law.
Justice has neither past nor pres
ent. 1t is eternal and universally a
good principle.
1t certainly is not Sentimental,
imbecility" to demand justice and
equal rights-that we demand
brOtherly love and mutual respect we
hope for.
Our dreams may many Of them be
unpractlcal-but you cannot say that
they are criminal. We aim high, but
we do not expect to get all we ask all
at once.
The possibilities of progress and i'm.
prOvement are inhnite-there may
be endless yistas of dreamland far be-
yOnd the glorious ideals of the POpu-
list party-what are now dreams may
be commonplace in realization, while
restless fancy pursueS the end of the
rainbow through unsuSpected envi-
rons of prismatic wonderland.
The dreamer will always beln ad-
vance of the world, as he always
has been. 1t is the effort To reach an
ideal that has spurred every step of
human progress.
We are tired of automatic "fnan-
cierS.' Give us men--humane con-
SideratiOn of humanity-instead of
calculating machines for gambling.
When we get such consideration
thousands Of disturbing questions
will be easily settled.
Twill not 90 into detailS-this ad-
dress was prepared principally for
POpuliSts-and you know the details.
BrOtherly love, equal rights to all
and special privileges to none, covers
the whole ground. These principle
will settle every political and social
question in the woodland settle it
right. There is no public question
too simple or complex, no human con-
ditiOn too bad or too good for sOlu-
tion by these principles.
On these we build our platform.
When we discuss land, money and
transportation, we think of them all
as the means of producing and
distributing the good things Of the
country in such manner and time and
place as to give all industrious men
and women an equal opportunity to
enjoy all they earn.
Men are surely greater than money
if not, why didn't God create mon
ey and let it make men?
Men; you must study political ques-
tiOns yourselves. Read. Read! Read
all sides, think and vote for your own
interests.
The mass of republican and demo-
cratic voters are honest. Don't
quarrel with them.
They will open their eyes some day,
and unite with you as working men
not as partisans-aHd they will help
turn down the fellows who have
usurped and abused the power that
belongs to the common people.
Patriotism comes from The heart
partisanism comes from New York.
The professional politician is only
a phOnOgraph, repeating the phrases
dictated by the money power which
now rules this nation.
The new movement, which most Of
you here tonight represent. is the
voice Of humanity thinking and talk
ing from the hearts and homes Of the
great common people of America.
The movement is taking the form
OF a party-but you will find no mil
iOnaire railroad presidents and
bondholderS in this party.
1t is the poor mans party-the Ia
boring mans party-the party Of the
home and t1reSide-Of the men who
are near to natures heart, hand in
hand with God in subduing the will
derneSS and making the desert bloom.
This smOvement took organized form
because it M st grapple with power
full organizations.
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