People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-04

imminent Danger, put tnat IL suggests
the existence of certain pernicious ele-
ments in the politics of the day that
at this advanced stage of American |
development should have no place on
the continent Stuff like this might |
be expected of a group Of imported |
anarchists sitting in judgment on re-
publican institutions, but what can
prompt a regularly constituted Aneri-
can citizen of presumably fair intelli-
gence and average educasion, to give
utterance to such nonsense Is some
thing of a mystery, and only to be
accounted for upon the theory that
his mental or moral faculties have
lost their balance.
yet there are people in Kansas, in
Colorado, and elsewhere who really
believe that the general governments
engaged in scheme to bind certain
sections of the country hand and foot
and permanently destroy their pros
perity. 1t is this class alone upon
which the declaratio of the Kansa-
Commoner could possibly exert any in
huence for mischief.
There is no danger that million. or
half million, or hundred thousand,
or any other number of Kansas rife
men can be induced to march on
Washington; no more than there
is that half a million I'M
armed men under Gen. Coxey's
leadership are about to squat
in the capitol grounds; but all these
things are in sense serious; as evil
dences of a spirit of discomfort and
unrest, for which our legislation is
slow to furnish any amelioration, and
which so long as it is governed by
prejudice, or passion, or ignorance,
rather than by sober reason, and
swayed by fanatical impulse instead
OF hard. common sense, is indicative
of unpleasant conditions of condi-
tons which sound craftsmanship
should make all possible endeavors to
eliminate"
The above is a sample of the miscon-
struction placed on everything said by
Populist, as well as a misrepresenta-
ton of facts. Yes, it is free speech
with the bark on, and if the editor of
the Post had his ear closer to the
ground he could hear more than that.
We are on the very brink of revolu-
ton. But the Post thinks there lis
no imminent danger" That is just
where it is mistaken and that is where
the danger lies. If the Post and the
masters which it serves could see the
danger it might be averted. There is
no nonsense about it. If this policy
of robbery goes on much longer there
will be more than a million men in
arms against it Our forefathers
fought against a much less evil than
is now being imposed upon the peo-
pie. There was no nonsense about it
either The editor of the Commoner
is not alone. Hundreds of thousands
of people believe as he does We are
nearing point where for
bearauce ceases to be a vir.
tue. From business stand
point the issue of bonds was suicidal,
idiotic. No business man would pur-
i, sue such a course. Besides, it was
without the semblancr Of authority.
1t was usurpation that no official
even in arlstocratic England or auto
. traffic Prussia would dare assume. II
is without excuse and wholly unnec-
essary. 1t congress was not hypno
tiled by the money power it would
have taken steps to prevent it. Sc
long as bribery rules and public Off
u Gals permit themselves TO become
tools in the hands Of corruptionists
= arrogating to themselves powers no
granted by law or precedent, there il
o danger of the Winchester. There arr
plenty of men in kansas, Colorado
U and elsewhere that not only "be
lieve' but know that there is con
|! spiracy against their interests, anC
that the prescott administration i
l. playing into the hands of the con
d spirators. But history will repea
itself Any amount Of warning vii
5. have no effect on such men as edit TIL
fost- The only reply they can maxi
" is to call man a crank.
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