The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-06

publican Losses Claim@d-Da@a OF "a wLta-
4ion-Evils 60 Be Abolishad-Tho Pooplo'a
Eyes Opened-1ncorno TAX BsneGts.
wAsHrxcros, July 6.-lspecial d.
eve are as sure Of the state as 10 tho votes
were cast and counted IN cur favor. en- the
five Populists viii come back, and we shall
elect our governor by a good majority.
You must remember when you are talkiug
about the usual reaction against the party
IA power in the of year that there can Do
no reaction against us, and a good deal OF
what there is against the Demoornts win
be in our favor"
Views Of PopuIlst.
Thus spoke Hon. Thomas Jefferson ETud-
son. Familiarity known as JET, " az Ohio
Third Kansas district, in the course Of D.
long and rambling talk about things iu
general and the evolution Of Justice from
the murder Of Abel to the final vote in tho
senate on the income tax. Some Of his
reasons for confidence are interesting, n1
for instance:
1.-The Republicans started I'm By trying
TO dodge the live questions and fatty ra-
fused TO take ground on woman suffrage.
Our folks met that as they did other quest
tions, boldly, and all the progressive Wom-
en- of the state, and most Of those in the
country are on our side. Ia fact, the only
exception can think Of just now is Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, and the women Of our
town are SO indignant at her that they
talk all sorts Of terrible things. The silver
question is more potent In Kansas than I'D
ever was, and everybody can see that theec
late concessions on the part Of Reed and
Lodge and Cameron and that convention
of Republican clubs at Denver are only
intended to hold the western Republican
over another election
''There is much said about the labor
troubles frightening all conservative peo-
pie into support Of the old parties. What
about these strikes?"
Slow. but Sure.
st look at that in this way: Bvery at-
tempt to improve the condition of the ln-
boring class begins with blunders and
mistakes Of all kinds, and that makes
these people who cannot see d yard beyond
their noses take fright and go against ir-
But after the FIRST mistakes and trying
again and again something is accomplish
ed. Wealth and power are always slipping
away from the many to the few, and
actual slavery would finally be the result
If it were not for constant agitation. we
have to fight all the time in order to even
hold our ground, and to gain any ground
at all we must have seasons of great strun-
gle It's q slow job, tnough-oh, so awlul-
ly sioWl There was 3 time when "a few
lords and nabObs mOnopolized all the COM
forts and 90 per cent of the people lived in
misery. We have now got up 70 d point
where perhaps per cent and in some
cases 10 per cent Of the people actually eu-
Joy the full reward of their labors and the
waves rolling up the sand-it seems to roll
just as far back, and it takes long while
to wear away the bank. No Intelligent
Populist hopes that this particular form of
the movement Will be permanent It win
give way to another and another and am
other. Take slavery, for instance. To lG
a great fallacy Co say ib was abolished.
You know perfectly wei that south of
that river (pointing to the Potomac there
is not one county in 20 where the negro
no all ia arrafsa al
affect the result. What has tho negro
gaincdf Well, he has got the right 90
marry according to law, and to change hits
residence, and perhaps few other things,
but his wages do not maintain him even
in common decency, saying nothing of
comfort. Slavery is about one-third aboi-
ished-that is, society has moved mp one
peg as the result of a hundred years aGita-
ton; That's the way we go, and it's
mighty discouraging to the anxious"
well, whats your programmed
Organization of Labor.
Labor is only half organized. The drGt
thing to do is to complete the organization
of every branch and get the best possible
men at the head Of each. Some OF the or
CARNATIONS already have splendid Leaders
and there are more clear headed and warm
hearted men studying the interest of labor
now than ever before. OF course we have
cranks-I needn't mention their names,
for the papers have been fun of them late
able men we now have. Such writer's ar
Henry George, such orators as Myron Reed
and Father McGlynn, and such able or
ganizers as Gompers and Mcbride, and
but the list Of their names would stretch
into the hundreds. We must get every
branch well organized, I say, the farmers
and common laborers and coal beavers
just the same the miners, and then we
must bring them all together ia q congress
representing each according 70 Ste NUM-
bers. One really big thing we have gained
NO person Of any intelligence now denies
that there is "a very serious evil in the re-
lation Of labor to capital. Here ie the
thing that RIinds the intelligent worker
He knows that in the last 80 or 40 years
the capacity Of man to produce There
fore he ought TO be able to live equally well
with less than half the labor or more than
twice as well with the same labor, and
for awhile his condition did advance. FOR
20 years past, however it has not proved
a particle anywhere, and in great many
directions he has lost heavily. There has
been an enormous gain in wealth and in
the capacity to produce comfort, but who
has got it? That's the point that aaara-
Yates.
Now about this congress. 1T has not
been idle at all, as 80 many are saying. 10
has done an enormous amount of good
work. There is great deal Of foollshness
IN that senatorial gable, but just the same
the tariff bill is getting through. and M ia
q good beginning. A beginning is an We
can expect Of any one congress. The iu-
come tax is worth all the rest Of it. do
not kick much over the repeal of the 5her-
man LAWN fact, / begin to think I Ike
IT, for it has opened the eyes Of the people
wonderfully. The appropriation bills
have been put through the house ln good
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