Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-26
questions they willhayeto answer

IopeEd Stdte journal, ApT1t 10, 1894
Why yesl9'O be sure; "They ought
TO 90 to Washington aud they ought
TO ask this pottering democratic con
gress few leading questions;" and
while they are about 1t they would do
the country q great service If they
ask the ''potterng" republicans who
are still IN congress, many of whom
have been in the national Legislature
for Lo! these many years, why it is
that bad legislation" has made con
dihons such that 'ghe land of the free
and the home Of the brave can not
furnish an honest subsistence for
these men" rlua ..v ,uuu5eal, a.l.
What Is the use for the State Jour
nal TO come before It's readers with
such hypocritical article, when it
knows that its attempt to convict. the
democratic party of the evils under
which this country ls now grooming,
will be carefully weighed and that
when the people examine carefully
they will at once see that the journal
stands for an element in politics which
has always advocated the aristocratic
ideas Of Alexander Hamilton as ops
posed to the republican views Of JEFF
ferson. t.,h,..a., ...H.g,,',...
The writer Of this believes that the
Coxey movement is an i'll advised one,
yet it is not one that the people of
this great nation dare. to treat light
ly, nor is it one which our congress
will dare to treat with disrespect, nor
the District authorities Cypress as
long as the members composing it
are within lawful bounds. Moreover,
when this army of the comnonweal
arrives IN the capital city, it will not
avail any one member Of either party
to come the baby act, and say it IS the
other fellow who is to blame.
Surely the Journal and its many
republican readers will remember
that not many months ago the great
Henry Watterson of the Louisville
Co,Nier-JournaL said when speaking
of the present administration: "The
worst of the whole matter is, he
| (Cleveland), is carrying out the policy
of the former, Harrison administers
ton" What fault has the Journal
to ind with the administration any
how, and why should it 80 severely
denounce this "pottering democratic
congress-" when the record made by
republican members is just as black
as that made by democrats2 Surely
the good sense of the voters Of the
great West and South will enable
them to get their eyes open in time to
remedy the evils under which the
country is now laboring before it is
too late,
All agree that we are now at a criti-
cal period of our history; all know
that admit it as Reluctantly as we
may, we are now drifting IN the path
of fallen empires; all know that unless
corporate greed and plutocratlc ten
denotes are checked we must be
plunged into the throes of revolution.
Why, then, should not men and wo-
men protest, while it may be done
peaceably? Why should not states
men carefully consider the great
questions which are to-day agitating
the public? Why shonld not the pub
lie press treat fully and fairly all
questions of public interest? Or, to
put it another way, why should the
public press treat with scorn every
movement for the safety of our COM
mon country, for the preservation of
the the liberties of the people and
everything in the way of a protest
against the ills which all are agreed
as actually existing? .,
This same paper, few days ago
SAID that anarchy could not flourish
on American soil, and it was right.
1t never can. But America has been
called the birth place of Liberty, and
If any one thinks that the free instinct
Of Americanism is dead, he will find
that he is much mistaken; he will
find that abuse of men or measures
has ceased to be regarded as argu-
ment; he will find that the people,
when once made to fully see their
condition, will no longer be held by
party ties, but will cast old associa-
tions to the winds and unite in
grand and irresistible, united effort
to right the wrongs of this govern
ment
If che people were united in senti-
ment and not dominated by prejudice
there would be no need of parties,
but we find that different schools of
political theory have always existed,
and as a result, different parties have
existed, and no fault has been found
with men as long as they could be
worked by the bosses, but now that
the people Of the country have broken
loose from the party bounds, all man
ner of reviling has been heaped upon
them and their enemies have attempt
ed to make their cause odious.
1t is high time for men every where
to look the facts as they exist in the
face. 1t is a common thing to hear
eminent men of the parties which are
living in the past, say that we are
having the hardest times in our his
tory, that there are men who have
plenty of money, but that they are
afraid to use it, and so have it locked