Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-26
"PATERNALlSM."
It's All Right for the Bankers and
Corporations.
Sugar Plums and Pie for the Lazy and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Injections,
Prisons and Soup Houses
for the Industrious.

Patcrnalism is the demagogic wall Of
the fellows who have both hands in Un'
Gle Sans inside pocket
1t is all right for the government to
nurse and cOddle corporations, trusts
and syndicates of money-lenders, OK
ploiters OF labor gamblers in produce
and makers of "bell juice" But any
thing tending to protect and benefit the
common people-oh! horrors what
madness! paternalism!!
The government was not intended for
protection of the people-and as King
Charles asserted on the scaffold, where
he was beheaded for treason, "a share
in government is nothing pertaining to
the people"
Governments are instituted among
men solely for the protection of prop
erty and to encourage the building up
of an aristocracy to manage the common
cattle whom God has called to do all
the work of the world.
The government may lend the banks
money at per cent. interest, but to
lend money to the people would be pa
ternalism.
The government may build a railroad
across tho continent make present OF
the whole thing to G. P. Huntington ct
al, and throw in twelve million acres
of land for good measure, and that is
craftsmanship and broad-minded de-
velopment of our great national re-
sources. But for the government to re-
tain the ownership Of the railroad for
the benefit of the whole people, and
give the land to the people who need 1t
for homes-why, that would DO pattern
alism.
The government may grant the power
OF issuing money to banking corpora
tions, butwhen it deals with those Same
banks cannot compel them to accept their
own money, but must pay them in gold.
The government may protect alien man
ufacturing corporations with a tariff,
but to protect American workingmen
from imported pauper labor would be
paternalism.
The government can protect the In
dams, but honest Sc ttlers must be driven
out of Nebraska with Federal bayonets,
and further West they may be butchered
with IMMUNITY by the Scotch and Eng
lish cattie kings.
The government can appointreceiVer
to build up swindling corporations and
turn them back to the stockholders
without expense, but the sheriff and
the auction block are good enough for
the mortgaged farm and household
goods OF the farmer and workingman.
The government can by contraction of
the currency enable the creditors 10
oonliscata the debtors property to the
amount Of the contraction, but TO eX-
pand the currency by free coinage Of
silver and the issue of legal-tender
ggeenbacks sufficient to restore prices
and enable the debtor to recover the
property that was conGscated would be
paternalism.
The government can store whisky,
but to provide storage for wheat and
cotton would be paternalism.
The government can operate 1j6 rail-
roads for the benefit OF English and
American money kings, but to operate
one for the benefit of the people who
/ pay the freight would be paterualism.
1 Tho government must maintain
gold reserve for the sole purpose OF ac-
commodating bankers, importers Of
foreign goods and exporters Of gold. 1t
must bank against all the money broll-
ers in the country to protect their credit
I but to Go q banking business for the
! benefit Of the whole people would be
/ paternaism.
The government can issue bonds to
! provide a safe and profitable investment
of capital, but to provide employment
for the homeless and destitute would be
paternalism.
Every franchise granted to corpora
tions is for the encouragement Of en-
terprise" OF "infant industries" but to
encourage enterprise in the common
people, or to protect their homes and
the little farm industry would be pa
ternalism.
In short all the helpful offices Of this
fatherly government are for the rich
and greedy, and the whippings which
all good fathers should sometimes be-
stow on their children are for the weak
AID poor.
Sugar plums and pie for the lazy and
Glsttonous, bayonet injections, prisons
and soup-houses for tho Industrious and
useful.