People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-02
LITTLE APPLES.

name man who is lOaning money
as he was three years ago in any other
state" Says Simple Simon, "This
controversy was not started with ref
erence to other states, but simply and
purely concerning the state Of Kan
sas." This reminds us of the fellow
who took wagon load Of apples to
market. He put all the large ones on
top and when the grOceryman began
to dig toward the bottom and remark
concerning the size and condition of
the apples, the fellow said, "this con-
troversy was not started with refer
ence to the apples at the bottom of
the box, but simply and purely con-
corning those on the surface With
the permission of Bro. SimOn's con-
stituentS we choose to extend our OBJ
ServatiOnS to other states and see
how the whole body polite is af-
fected. We submit to our readers if
our point is not well taken. The
VOICE comedies that money is not be-
ing loaned now so freely as it was
few years ago, but denies that this
condition is peculiar to Kansas. The
country is in a 'fx" which has been
prOphesied by POpullStS from the
birth of the party, and because our
prophecies have come true these time
serving penny-snapperS turn around
and say you did it," and in
the next breath gain their eQuilib-
rum and ridicule cur influence. oh
consistency
We all know that Kansas is badly
affected and are full of regret that
the balance Of the country is suffer
ing from the same malady. Too
much Republican paternalism and
Democratic ''ObJect lessons" have
told tremendously on the patient
And when such standard Republican
authority as the Topeka Capital sug-
geStS that Mr.. Cleveland will make
his first mistake when he departs
from Republican doctrine and prac-
tice," it is pretty certain that we are
to have no change of medicine so long
as it is administered by either of the
! old parties. They belong to the same
school of medicine and that is the
old school of big doses.
However, the Ne,Cs denies the soft
impeachment of being a gold bug.
Says it Is lin favor Of silver for the
reason that it can be made worth in
value equal with gold" His ENG
fish" is rather mixed, but he means
he is in favor of measuring the value of
silver by gold and that is the gold
standard, pure and simple. Wheat
and corn can be made in value equal
with gold" and that is what is the
matter with the country today. In
making gold the measuring rod for
all the products of the earth too big a
task has been imposed upon it
and while gold has grown rich in
price, the products Of real intrinsic
value have been impoverished. The
trouble with the Ne1CS is that it
would like to be "all things to all
men" and it does not know how to
word its phrases quite as well as the
authors of the Republican and Dem
OcratiC platforms.
But the thing that is heaviest on
the stomach of Bro. Simons, how
ever, is that the editor of the VOICE
so far forgot his principles as to re-
ceive Democratic votes for office, and
that the present Democratic ad-
mlnlStratiOn was helped to its
present station by PopulistS vot-
ing for Weaver instead of Ben Harri-
son. Speaking for ourself we would
remind Bro. SimonS that when we
have been candidate we felt like
taking all the votes we could get
whether they were Populist, Demo-
cratic or Republican, and we are
proud to know that we received
many from all parties, and take this
opportunity to thank all Who thus IA
vored us. But so far as our princi.
pies are concerned they have been
Kept prominently before the public.
There has been no eQuivocation on
our part. Our banner has constantly
hung on the outer wall and inscribed
on it the word ''Populist" has always
been emblazOned in bold type. We
have never minced words nor com.
promised sentences in maintaining
our position. Grover Cleveland and
that sort of Democracy has been held
up to the public gaze as prominently
as Ben Hrrrison Republicanism. The
statement that POpulists helped to
elect Grover Cleveland by voting for
Weaver is the silly twaddle of ward
politicians. POpulists voted their
sentiments regardless of the election
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