The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-06-01
THE coMMoNwEAL ARMY.

| Ex1st1nS TIoeocfDcy 20 the Ideal Dem0c.
racy.
At your suggestion I offer some
thoughts on the ''commonweal army. y
During the war, the people cried ION
to Richmond" to free the black man
Now the cry is ION to Washington to
free the wage-man. A ''commonweal
army" is an anomaly in history. Its
corollary and counterpart is 'com.
monwoe army" To counteract the
! latter army, the former is organizing.
The first army is made up of the out
lawed, but not of outlaws. They are
the industrious poor; the other, the
idle rich and their snobbish following.
LOCALIZED spoliation, legalized outlaw
ry is the banner of the latter; truth,
brotherhood. industry and justice is
the banner of the former. Organized
anarchy, supplemented with legalized
brigandage. is the life-work of one;
labor, to house, to feed, to clothe, to
educate, Christianize ornament and
bless the race is the life-work OF the
other. With it, society is an organism,
wherein, if one part suffers, all suffer;
with the other, every man for himself,
the devil take the hindmost," is its
highest conception Of love, truth or
justice. 1t looks back to a barbarous
age for legal, religious and judicial
presidents. Evolution through revolu-
ton is the unfoldment of the law of
progress, peaceablc II possible, forcible
if necessary. The ''army of common
woe" is set to reverse evolution from a
democracy to plutoeraeF, What
progress has II made? We have the
bank baron, the bond lord, the mer-
chant prince, the railroad king. These
have in the combine the law factory,
to legalize its wishes; the judiciary, I'd
register its DEGREES, and the militia, to
compel submission to it's wrongs. I'm
der the control of the above untitled
nobility we have the corporation, the
combine, the syndicate, the trust,
the money factory, ct al. Look q
moment. The farmer of the west Civ
ing a half car of wheat for a car of
coal. The laborer gets so cents ton
to dig the coal, the plutocratic COM
bine gets the balance. Farmers, la
borers actually freezing for coal; coal
diggers actually starving for want of
bread, because she conspirators are
between the laboring producers. To
destroy this plutocratic combine is the
work of the ''commonweal army.a To
eliminate all this intermediate stealage
by idleness, and bring the producing
classes in touch in exchange is noble
work. Some say the commonwea1 is
for an equal divide. False, as Satan,
it is. But if it were true, how much
less internal it is than such an UNEQUAL
divide as to give few plutocrats every
thing. This is no theory, fer thirty
thousand men and Women to-day in
America have possession of half the
property of the country and are reach
ing for the balance. This gives us mil
lionaires and paupers. The Millionaire
and slave come treading on their heels.
spoliation and corporate
brigandage, with the baronial tribute
levied on industry, has built up a CO.
lossal, commercial feudalism that has
no parallel in history. Two hundred
and twenty million acres Of the peo-
pies lands given to European capital
lists in the name of corporations"
Gold bonds clandestinely issued by the
United States treasury and sold to Lon
don and Frankfort Jews through their
agents in Wall street,
headed by prostitute official trait
ors at Washington, whose tfea-
sonable hands, compared with
Benedict Arnold's, would be red as
scarlet, while his would be white as
snow. Bonds issued to buy money
with. What infamy, Silver bullion |
there by the train load; minis to coin |
it in; hands paid to do the minting;
nothing done. Silver miners out of |
because of the plutocratic |
combine to coin no more silver. Silver |
mining property falling in value every
day, yet simpletons trying to think
law has nothing to do with prosperity. |
Wait little while, till silver mine
values go down to ten cents on the dol
lar. Cheap for mining property, you
say. Goggle-eyed Jews, European
Shylocks and plutocratic American
traitors will buy the silver mines out
for song; then different music will
greet the ear. All of a sudden, the
discovery will have been made that the
world needs, and has to have, all the
silver added to the coin stock for ex-
changes. Perhaps the sharks, before
his, will buy our congress into selling
Ill the silver bullion in the treasury at
half its worth, to be afterwards coined
INTO value at double its cost. The COM
Dine composing the "commonwoe
army" have themselves law-blessed.
while industry is law-damned A
'enal and corrupt press looks on in
silence, or aids by false teaching. Sim
'letons, silly folks or misinformed peo-
Die suppose the ''cOmmonweal army"
want something for nothing. Oh, no.
hat is the work of the ''eomrnonwoe"
Enemy. They go to Washington to get
t. They get it, too, is the worst thing
bout it. The lobby has it's pockets
stuffed with Doodle. This is the ON
llpotency. The ''conamonweal" Is go
ng to Washington, too. not armed with
noodle, but armed with the dynamite
md lightning of truth and justice.
Their official servants are filled with
ear. Fear of what? The righteous
ire never fearful. Only the guilty are
He'd with fear. Those officers have
lcted under power of attorney from the
'eople. Have they abused that power?
Ah. there is the rub. Did they not get
lalf a million Bank of England gold to
silver? The fact is attested
~ oath. Look at the Pacific railroad
teal! The whole property, land and
III, in the possession of legalized high
vaymen. extortionate rate charged the
'eople for the use of their own road.
some say the ''commonweal army"