The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-19
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?

''If you do not belong to the Party
you are liar and thief" That IS the
spirit of the Populist leaders. ''lf you
do not advertise in Populist newspapers
we will tell our people to boycott you.
That is the spirit of the Populist news
papers. Come into the Popuiist party
or we will wipe you oil the
face of the earth" That Is what IS
meant every time a Populjst speaker
calls Republican or Democrat liar
and thief, as they repeatedly do.
1t is the spirit of intolerance just as
much as the spirit which burned the
martyrs at the stake was a spirit of in
tolerance. If the Populist leaders of
Kansas had the power they would dis
pose of the people who disagree with
them as quickly as The bigots of the mid
die ages disposed of the heretics. In
| fact, il a man holds an opinion con-
trary to the Populist leaders they regard
him as hereto. 1t is the Populist
leaders who call Mckinley, than whom
better, purer man never lived, dirty
liar and thievish kuave. Even the
Democrats acknowledge that Mckinley
is honest in his opinions and give him
the privilege of entertaining them. But
the PopulIst leaders give him no such
right If he has an opiuion which is
against them, he is personally a
scoundrel.
Every day in the year some PopulJst
paper declares that all men who vote the
Republican or Democratic ticket are
thieves. Those same Populist news
papers call on the Populists TO boycott
those merchants who do not advertise
with them. Tie man with a little bus
mess who can not afford a big advertise
ment or an advertisement at all should
be crushed out according to the Populist
theory. The big merchant who does
not advertise is threatened with ami
hilation. The voter who does not vote
the Populist ticket will not be treated as
good as the citizen who does not.
How far will this spirit of Populistic
intolerance GO? VIII Populist board
of county commissioners reduce the
taxes of a man who voted the POpulist
ticket and raise those of the man who
voted the Republican ticket or the Dem
ocratic ticket? Put the Populists III
power and see.
Do you as a citizen Of the United
States give every man a right to his
opinion? Do you regard William Nc
Kinley as a THIEF because he believes in
a protective tariff? Do you think that
should be boycotted because it
does not pay him to advertise in Popu-
list paper?
To the credit OF the people of Kansas
let it be said that they do not. THIS !
country is free. Every man has right |
to his opinion. The party that attempts !
10 curtail this right or to wipe it out viii |
be crushed by tornado of public pro-
test just as the Populist party in the |
state of Kansas will be dropped next
month.
Snch men as Rufe Cone, the Populist |
boss of this country, declare that man
who is Republican or a Democrat is a
thief. On the other hand they declare
as all bigots do, and parade as reformers.
Do the people of Kansas accept them as
such? Is Lewelling reformer? Is Boss
Cone, the shame of this city. a reformer?
Is Fred Close a reformer?
You know what they are. Yet Cone
and the others are the men who have
been telling you that all men who are
not Populists are thieves and liars. 1t
S well enough to banl; on the words of
a great writer who was talking of
luman nature and not politics:
'Distrust the man who tells you to
listruSt.
He takes the measure of his own
small soul, and thinks the world no
arger.
HE who pirates Of human natures
oaseness and deceit looks into the mirror
IF his own heart and sees his kind
herein reflected"