People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-24


The nation could not live ten days
without them.
They cast more than half of all the
votes of the nation.
They are the best men physically,
morally and mentally in the nation.
They have an opportunity and the
power to make theirs the most indie
pendent profession in the nation.
They have power to control state
legislatures and congress.
They pay three fourths of the taxes,
and have produced nine tenths of the
wealth of the country-yet they own
but one fourth of the nations wealth,
and pour constant stream of wealth
into the Golfers of the robber corpora
lions and idle millionaires.
They are poor and in debt from ex-
cessive taxation tosupport extravagant
expenditure of public money by dis
honest officials.
The price of their products is de-
preciated by a system of contraction,
usury and extortion.
Board of trade gamblers and ex-
horbitant railroad rates, rob them of
what they produce, and double the
cost of what they consume.
The same agencies rob the factory
laborers of what they produce and
double the cost of bread.
A fair exchange and no middlemen
would benefit both the pro-
Queer of bread and the producer
Of clothes, giving both a
better price for what they produce and
reducing the cost Of what they con-
sumo.
Most of the farmers are blind par
tisians, and so are the wage workers of
the cities. They are trampled under
foot by the kings horses every four
years, and get up to brush off the
dust and join the parade that follows
the king.
Servile followers of the army of Of
fee hunters who shoot them down
after election.
Yet what might they be?
If they would unite and vote to-
gether they could wipe monopoly off
the earth, and become free men, gov
erning themselves.
They could pass laws to secure
enough legal tender governmentmoney
to do business on a cash basis.
If they needed to borrow money,
they could pass laws giving them the
privilege Of borrowing on good security
at as low a rate of interest as the
bankers pay.
They could control transportation
so that all distribution would be made
at actual cost, without paying divi-
dends to any body but the govern
ment, which government being the
whole people, would be for the benefit
of all.
They could put honest men in Office,
who would work for the general vel
fare.
They could pass law giving the
people direct vote upon all import
ant questions, and take the opportun-
ity of traitors to sell their votes to
corporations, trusts and money lend
ers.
They could abolish debt shaving and
gold bondage.
They could establish an American
system Of finance, without asking the
consent of Europe.
The could abolish landlordism aud
alien ownership of American land.
They could destroy the demand for
soup houses, establish justice and pro-
vide homes for the homeless.
They could insure domestic tranquil
ity and restore peace.
They could establish union of the
whole people and secure the blessings
of liberty and freedom from debt
slavery to themselves and their chill
dren.
They could make congress a repre-
sentative committee of the whole PEG.
pie, and the president chairman of the
peoples government.
They could provide for the distribu.
ton of taxes in proportion to wealth
and not according to numbers Of
people.
They could provide for the election
of all officials by direct vote, and take
the partisan patronage club out of the
hands of dictatorial executives.
They could punish rich thieves a,
well as poor ones. They could secur,
a free ballot and fair count.
They could make the people Judge.
of their own election and prevent {
partisan congress refusing to sea-
representatives chosen by the people
They could provide for paying repre-
sentatives for actual time spent in tn,
service of the people aad prevent fill
clustering and salary grabbing.
? They could conduct the government
r honestly and economically, and pre-
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