People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-23
FOR RENT-THE EARTH.
avian a Gold-plated wire Fence

or the air, water, sunlight, moonlight
and starlight.
Renters will be charged extra for
fire. Soup free. The usual forms of
society will be maintained, religious
rites will be observed, and politicians
will 90 through the regular and 'le-
gal" process Of election, it being un-
derstoOd that all debates upon pub
lie measures are merely for the
amusement Of the lower classes, who
have so long been deluded that it
would be bad policy TO break the
habit.
The various industries will be each
under control of some particular mil
liOnaiIe, whose mOney-gOd given pre-
rogative shall be to turn all proceeds
of his designated section into the
common treasury at London, Eng
land. To facilitate gobbling the rich
products of the vast American CONT
nent, an agency has been established
on Wall street, New York, whence all
funds are converted into gold and
transmitted in bulk to the island of
plutOCraCy, whence it returns only in
exchange for bOndS-an ingenious
device for forcing the numerous
millions of tenants to give all they
produce to save the dignity" Of
their beloved country.
The number of people is almost in
fate; yet most of them are con-
founded fools, and can be managed
by comparatively little effort, on the
part of capital, which makes no con-
cesSiOns. They are, therefore, called
Simpletons-but are in reality slaves.
Individual tenants are entirely too
small to be seen through the mon
ocles Of monopoly, and collectively
well, they don't collect. Each fellow
fights for himself, and there is so
much division and contention among
them, that capital has only to show
itself al the proper time and be wor-
SHIPPED as a peace.maker.
A tenant occasionally through some
laxity Of the political guard, is elected
to some high Office. He then learns
the secrets Of the combination, and,
lest he prove dangerous enemy, is
taken into full membership, where,
upon a salary Of $1,000 to $1,000 per
year, he amaSSes in ten years dozen
millions Of dollars, and becomes a
dictator in the employ Of the most
high manipulators of government.
Perhaps not one in ten millions is
thus called from u lower sphere-but,
think Of it, humble toiler-iS it not
worth all the ties Of brotherhood,
conscience and hope Of eternal happi-
ness. Nothing in nature is perma-
nent, the man you injure today may
die tomorrow, the present generation
will soon die, and the next one can
take careOf itself. Tenant, think only
of the glorious possibility of becoming
yourself OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES do you
care about anybody else? you
chumpS, as long as you are against
each other you cannot prevent the
oppression of plutocracy.) As in any
substance, the intensity of cohesion
decides whether that substance takes
the form of a solid, a liquid or gas,
so the strength of brOtherly love and
cooperation, among people in com
mon cause, decides whether they
shall present a solid front, run from
the enemy in bunch, or scatter and
be wiped out, one at a time. Taffy
has great power in sticking some
things together, and the force oil
gravity holds a man to the earth
whether he wants to stay or not
which probably prevents the common
people breaking the fence Of monopoly
and emigrating to the unpeoplet
realms of space, for freedom.
The masses ('them asses'0 who till
the soil, build the houses, construct
the railroads, erect the palaces anC
delve in the mines, are expected tt
live On what is left after paying al
taxes, interest on bonds, transpOrta
ton, tariff, rent, storage, supporting
rich paupers, burying poor ones, and
feasting the glObular gluttOn, Shy
lock. As a consequence they will
wear patched clothes and eat wine
biscuits-but with the perfume O
wild glOry-nowers and the inspiration
OF gazing upon the magnificent insti
buttons of modern splendOr, the,
should swell 10 with pride like unit,
dried apples soaked in warm water.
When the great carving machin,
of creation was driven through tn
tangled Whisksis of chaos and tn,
garden of Eden was sown to blu,
grass, the Lord sat down upon tn,