People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-02
Starving Between an Elevator and Q
Packing House.

minded, trusting voters for the use
Of capital and the divine leisure
classes of the country. The rulers
themselves, being made Of superior
mud, never Stoop to mingle with the
vulgar herd-but employ the more
willy and less conscientious politician
to farm out the voters on shares.
Glory and gold are lavishly bestowed
upon these tin trumpet servants OF
aristOcracy, the maintenance Of
which is the corner stone Of the popu-
lar national delusiOn.
Now that the more Intelligent
American voters are becoming FESTIVE
and seek a reason for all public move
ments, the mOney-monarchs find it
necessary to use extra and fOrcible
means of controlling that portion OF
the voting population which still
strives against itself in blind adher-
ence to the two names Of the one old
party-plutocracy.
The politicians find themselves be-
tween two fres-the command OF
capital and the demands of an awak-
ening people. To serve the people
means to lose the rich bounty of the
money power, while to openly serve
corporations means to lose their own
worthless official heads. The result
is that congress debates, fillibuSterS,
delays and stands undecided which
way to jump. They doubt the mean
ing of the people and fear the wrath
of capital, trembling between bluff
and thunder storm, while the tide
of public sentiment sweeps nearer
and nearer to drown them in the
waves of revolution. They are losing
their grip on one side and afraid to
grab the other.
Many plans are suggested by Eng
land and Wall Street-but the poll
ticianS know more of the strength OF
the people than these isolated idlers
reclining upon the cushions of luxury
i and excluSiveneSS. Hence capital is
compelled to come out in plain view
to force the administration 10 com
ply with its contract. 1t has thrown
off all disguise and boldly command:
the government to issue bonds anC
cancel the money Of labor and com
merce. 1t has reached the point o.
supreme contempt for the masses
and wants to establish a gold mon
archy at once. The politicians urge
discretion and practice deception
Irealizing still that votes make the Of
fetal, though money makes him go
But ShylOck don't care d-m foI
the people or the administration eth
er, so long as it gets the pound 0
flesh.
Congress is simply in ID of a fix
Every old party man in congress
knows that he is filling his pitche
for the last time at the public well
: The American people are tired of hir
ing elOCutiOnists to crate for Eng
= land-and they propose hereafter +
do their own Grating, besides man
aging their own business. They hay
learned the folly of trusting thei
great American farm to hired meI
e who try to hold down two jobs a
: once, and slight the work becaus
E they have not been watched.
The people propose to fire the Who'll
force and hire loyal Americans who's
first duty shall be to NOW the SAND
: burrs of idlenss, cut down the JIM
: sons Of plutOcracy, pillow under tn
weeds of monopoly, tear out tn
. poison-vines Of English blood-sucker:
burn the underbrush and greer
briers of technlcality, and let th
= bright sun of human Intelligent
shine upon an open field and fertil
soil. A thief will not only be Gale
8 a thief, but will be punished as
thief.
When the people spend s25, 900 da
they will know what is received
l. return and when it proves usele,
.e they will reduce the expense. Plat
= business transactions will be clothe
in plain language, will pass upo
their merits and be understood
d every stakeholder in the great fir
= of the United States mutual and C
lg operative industrial society. Go
lg and silver will sell by the ounce, an
when made into money shall pass f,
their face value in their own count,
St exceptin bullion form. Our mon,
10 will stay at home, where it belong
lie and legal Undergraduates will ser
IL the same purpose at the same pri
u as gold and silver coin. The amour
of money will be increased to at lea
One-third the total value of the e
=. tire property of the country. Whe
VI will be used for bread instead
nc serving the place of chips" for pl
VI tocracy to gamble on. All Officia