The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-09-07

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to make the average voter mere pup
pet in the hands of the professional
politician. Party enthusiasm, aided
by ignorance. has worked to the same
end.
But these things are passing away.
The public is beginning to read and
think for itself, to see things as they
really are. It is an awakening from
an apathy that threatened the destruc-
ton of our liberties. The lack of in
terest IN political affairs by the mass
of the people gave an opportunity to
unprincipled politicians to run the
affairs of state in the channels that
proved the most lucrative to them.
That this is fact can be seen by the
accumulated millions in the Golfers OF
the few and the restitution in the
homes of the many. Men have been
perpetuated in office who would better
grace a fe1on's cell than the positions
of high honor they so long have filed.
Men, who would willingly sell the
birthright of the whole people for a
mess of potage, who have bartered the
accommodations of our producers for a
price, who have taken brides in return
for legislation that made one man a
croesus and thousands paupers, have
for years occupied seats in our national
halls of legislation.
ALI this has come about by neglect
ing to use our ballots as barrier to
such proceedings, by being led to the
ballot box and voting for party, not
men, by neglecting to attend the eau
Gus, by an Indifference to all things
political, by an idiotic belief that our
responsibility for the good government
of the land ended when we had cast a
ballot for the machine-made politician.
A retrospective glance at political
history for 20 years past, solves the
problem of the many millionaires and
the countless tramps. Look at the ar
ray of laws framed for the rich, the alb
sense of those for the poor. The voter,
and he alone, is responsible for this
sad condition of things.
The industrial classes have been
taught that they were not capable of
governing themselves, and an office
holding class was created to do it for
them. How well they did the present
condition of affairs bear witness.
They have framed laws that should
brand each participant as much a
traitor as Benedict Arnold. They have
made of the national capital resort
for thieves, usurers and money chang
ers, gathering place for the scum of
the political world, where honest labor
dare not set foot. They have made the
servant greater than the master, they
that we're sent greater than those who
sent them.
To save the republic from the hast
tening ills that threaten, men must be
elected to Office who will ''keep in the
middle of the road, who will revert to
the fundamental principles of the gov
eminent, remove the dividing lines be-
tween riches and poverty, level the
social distinctions, and make us as our
constitution intended, one people, with
equal rights.
Out of the rottenness of the older
organizations these reforms cannot
come. We must look to the organiza-
ton that is nearer the people and of
the people-the Peoples party-to
carry out these needed reforms and
rescue the masses from the thievish
greed of capital.
Let us put behind US party prejudice,
let us break from the ranks of effete
organizations, let US vote as our con-
science dictates with the people, with
justice, with humanity, with right. Let
US rescue our government from the
talons of these vultures, who have
made of public trust private snap,
who have made the temple of justice a
treadmin for the oppressed, who have
trodden rough-shod upon our most
sacred liberties, and once more put the
reins of government in the hands of
the common people by casting our bal
lots for reform and the Peoples party.