People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27

WE GET o FOR OUR EXPORTS
Coxey very wisely held his Good Roads
bill aloof from all faint of partyism.
1t is neither republican, democratic
nor Populist measure. 1t is an attempt
to initiate the Initiative. Let con-
gress pass this Good Roads bill and
the referendum" will ratify the &C
ton overwhelmingly. If once
measure so clearly for the public good
could be gotten before the country in
dependent of any party. upon its sim
pie merit and without the distraction
of hero worship" without the names
of Mckinley, Cri p, Reed, Weaver or
any other hero, why then the common
sense of the people would assert itself
and salvation would come. The peo-
pie can be trusted provided they can
be appealed to when partisan poison
is latent. If, by this entirely practi-
cal method of Mr. Coxey's, the iAeople
could be granted opportunity for
employment, republicans and demo-
Gratis might amuse themselves as long
as they choose with the tariff; they
might play with their little sand
shOvels on the shore of the great ocean
of political economy, or they might
bat their Mckinley and Wilson bills
back and forth to their hearts con-
tent; they might filibuster over Joy
and 0'Neal weeks at time. Brother
Crisp might order Brother Reed - sit
down, sir" and Brother Reed might
sass back, and say, 81 shan't sit down
till l get ready" All this nice little
byplay might 60 on and the nation
would steadily rise in the scale of uni
versal prosperity if only the people
were employed in the systematic,
steady. remunerative way proposed by
the Coxey Good Roads bill. For every
days wages paid out to men EN- ployed
on the road work there would be
wealth created each day in the en-
HANGED value of real estate, and the
revival of every legitimate business
and trade.
When Abraham Lincoln ordered the
first issue of SCI, 900, 900, of just such
money as Mr.. Coxey petitions for, this
nation was engaged in war which it
had no money to conduct The
nation is now in the midst of a war
more terrible, involving more misery,
more suffering, more hunger, more
cold, more peril to the life of the re-
public than did that fratricidal war
of 1861. In that dreadful war, broth
ers were at war with brothers; in this
war, the enemies are hunger, cold, dis
ease, suicide, homelessness, crime and
woe Of every sort, Now, as in the old
days when we had a Lincoln inste ad
of Cleveland-Sherm5n combine at
the helm, the nation has no money to
carry on the war and keep the indus
ftrial soldiers in the field This war is
greater one, its needs are larger,
therefore Mr.. Coxey is asking for more
of that good patriotic money which
once before served the Union SO 10y
ally. And when the people get this
money, as they will sooner or later, it
will never be cremated as was the
Lincoln issue at the behest of the
usurer and the gold gambler.
If all this good will follow the put
ting into operation of the Coxey good
roads bill why should it not be passed?
Assuredly it should. But it will not.
And why? Simply because the good
people of this country ale skeptical of
their own power.
If Rev. Myron Reed, Rev. Jenkins
Lloyd Jones, Rev. O. P. Clifford, Rev.
DR.. Parkhurst, Rev. DIR. Dixon, Rev.
Father Nc Flynn, Rev. Heber Newton,
Rev Dwight L. Moody, Miss Frances
Willard, Mrs. s. F. Grubb Mrs. Helen
NJ. Cougar, E. j. Wheeler, editor of
the Voice, COL Van Horn of the Kan
sas City Journal, Prof. Felix Adler,
Senator's Stewart and PETER, Repre-
sentatives Sibley and Broderick, to-
gether with all the hosts of ministers,
and the multitudes of Christians who
love their fellowmen andtheir country,
would speak out and create the public
sentiment they might, congress would
respond to the moral pressure and pass
this righteous measure Congress.
men who are not personally retained
to attend to corporate interests wouId