People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-28
SPIRIT OF REFORM.
Wit, HumOr and Pathos as Cleaned
From Our Exchanges.


gentleman and nominate him for an
Office, don't do like the old parties
and vote for him because he is on the
ticket. This should be an age of pro-
erosion. -Nonconformist.
The craven coward who allows him
self to be led to the polls by few
county bosses and whipped into voting
against his own interests merits moth
ing better than the lot of slave, but
his family is to be pitied for the life
they must lead which the husband
and father sanctions by his ballot
Missouri World.
When democrat tells you that
democracy is for free silver coinage,
simply tell him that his party has con-
troll of every branch of the govern
ment and ask him why the deuce we
don't have FREE silver coinage and in
the ratio of l6 to |, too Free Trader
1t will bear repeating of tenthat if
national taxes were collected as are
state and county taxes, 81, 900 families
who own three-fourlhs of the United
States would haveto pay three-fourths
of the taxes, or 1915, 100, 900 a year
Now they don't pay over two million.
You poor devil do you see the protec-
tion!-Coming Nation.
Now is the time" cries the old
party lboss, for every true democrat
Tor republican as the case may be- to
stand solid for his party" 1t seems
to us that the time has arrived for
every honest man to join hands and
stand solid for his family: the average
voter, we believe, has become tired of
voting himself down the ladder of
prosperity and sustaining the leaders
at the top.-Missouri World
Labor organizations vote to cease
work, and the president of the or
ganization proclaims the order to the
world, for which he is arrested. Sugar
kings, railroad kings, and other rob
Der kings, bride legislatures and con-
gress, form gigantic trusts to control
prices in open violation of law, and
when the people question them on
their doings they say: THE people
be damned" They are never arrested,
though they violate the law every day.
1t is such injustice as this that is lead
ing the people to dispise the Judiciary.
The Peoples Advocate.
Acknowledgement 0lney has ordered
the case against the Southern Pacific
railroad dismissed, but the case
against Debs and the A. Z. U. leaders
will be tried. The antitrust law was
made for the suppression of labor or
CARNATIONS and not for wealthy cor
porations. Olney knows how the
courts will rule, for the judges are ap.
pointed on the recommendation of the
corporations Working men must obey
the law but it don't apply to railroads
and other wealthy combines. Per-
haps the laboriug millions may yet
learn that this is just what they may
expect to receive for their loyalty to
the old parties New World.
Here is anarchy" run rampant
"All men have a natural right to a
portion of the soil, and as the soil is
indispensable to life, the right Of all
men to the soil is as sacred as the right
to life itself"
Every republican politician in the
land would call that anarchy TODAY
And vet it is only sentence from the
republican platform when the party
was honest years ago. That was at
the time when republican professions
carried banners saying, Uncle Sam
is rich enough to give us all farm.
Advance.
The school boys composition on
THE Editor" reads as follows: The
editor is one of the happiest beggar>
in the world. He can go to the circus
in afternoon and evening without pay
ing cent; also to inquests and hang
lngs He has free tickets to the thea
ter; gets wedding cakes sent him and
sometimes gets licked but not often
for he can take things back in the
next issue and generally does so.
While other folk has togo to bed early
the editor can sit up every night and
see what is going on.
Ex-Census Superintendent Porter re-
ports the average income per day of
Kansas farmers to be 81 cents; their
average yearly interest burdens on
real estate mortgages, Sll4. This
leaves net income of SO cents per
day for 300 working days and Mr..
Porter writes to Secretary Mohler o
the board OF agriculture 10 know il
the farmers find this interest charge a
burden and if it in any way reduces
their comforts. As good republican
Mr. Mohle- IS bound to answer no.
the interest is no burden, and farm
ers reve] in comfort on 81 cents per
day And lots Of ragged. half-starve6