Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-13
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS. WEDNESDAY MARCH l3 1896

stoned, we have made a beginning In
all the states but eight, and If added
to the patriotic appeal all the great
leaders Of labor the reform press will
still further continue their noble work,
we can win the battle. If the 100000
voters Of the Peoples Party, with the
women and noble youth, who are our
inspiration and hope, would all meet
on q given day and join the Peoples
Legion, it would send dismay among
the money changers the world over.
think all the labor leaders are now
convinced that 1t ie folly to strike;
they do not even support each other,
and in every one that Is inaugurated
the plutocratic forces have wild-eyed
bands of anarchists to commit depreda-
tions that prejudice the masses. If Mr..
Debs had been supported by all the la
Dor organizations in the United States
he could have won; but how many
stood on cold-hearted and said to
themselves: II he wins it will disband
all Of our orders and make his the
great labor order of the world; so they
let him fail and show more sympathy
by resolutions than they did by actual
aid. When contemplate the provoca-
tion of organized labor wonder at their
patience and submission, trampled un-
der foot, robbed, shot down like mad
dogs, turned into the street, their
places taken by a horde of scum,
shipped here from of the streets and
amid the slums of Europe, hurled into
Jail by dishonest, tyrannical judges,
they submit to the majesty Of the law
though its executors degrade its holy
teachings and use their power as an
engine of oppression. The only place
to strike is at the ballot box and the
way to get there is to organize the peo-
pie into the Peoples Legion; 1t covers
every situation, it answers every pur-
pose, 1t fills every want and If the pluto
cratic agencies determine to use force
we can be ready If we are wise in the
present hour. If we do not rally now
we deserve to be enslaved, and firmly
believe that the only hope of settling
the tremendous perils that confront us
as nation is in the immediate organi-
zation of all the people who demand
emancipation from foreign rule.
The developments during the past
two years must convince the masses
that dangerous elements are at work
and that the foes of liberty are en-
trenched in the very citadels of the re-
public. They own the President, his
cabinet, the great newspapers, and con-
troll the leaders of both the old parties.
If the spirit of the men that raised
liberty poles in New York and threw
the tea in Boston harbor was not dead
in this nation the whole people would
resent the foreign influences exerted on
American soil. On the one hand, the
king of the Jews, Rothschils, dominat-
ing the financial affairs of the nation,
on the other, potentate who does not
speak the English language, ruling
with an iron hand the spiritual and
meddling with the temporal affairs of
10000 of our people, and the politi-
clans of both the old parties afraid to
murmur for fear they will lose votes.
l am opposed to foreign dictation and
will join hands with any reform force
to get rid of it at once and forever. 1
Great Britain, which from the very be-
ginning has been the open and secret
enemy of our Republic. 1 would adopt
vigorous foreign policy. Let the ma
tion cease to be cipher on the map of
the world; we can afford to be indepen-
dent. We produce 95 per cent of our
raw material, and Great Britain is
compelled to buy 80 of hers, and why
we should be chained to her chariot
wheels is because our rulers are shame
less traitors to our interests. Oh, for
the spirit of the fathers of 1776!
1t is not what we have in our plat
form that creates so much criticism,
but it Is largely what men in our party
advocate outside of it, for there is not
a vital doctrine in that platform that
does not appeal to the common sense
and patriotic instinct of the whole
American people. We stand with every
patriot that helped found the Repub-
lie and make the constitution on the
money question. We stand with Jack
son and Lincoln. We are in favor Of
the money of the constitution. The
cardinal doctrines of the graduated in
come tax, postal savings bank, and
ownership of railroad and telegraph
systems is advocated by millions out
side of our party; there is scarcely
country in the world but ours that does
not enjoy the benefits of these blessings.
To-day the European holders of our
railroad bonds are demanding that the
strietest possible federal supervision
shall be inaugurated before they will
invest another dollar or even protect
what interests they have. The leading
German and English financial papers
have declared that such must be the
case. One of the Doodle agents of the
administration, Congressman Strauss,
Of New York, declared so in a speech
In Congress short time ago, and Sen
ator Villas, another spokesman of the
administration, made a desperate fight
to have the government own and oper-
ate the mail cars, when the postof1ice
bill was pending in the Senate last
week. Recently Carroll D. Wright de-
clared in a public address that in
few years the government would oper-
ate at least the railroad systems of the
country. The National Tribune, the
organ Of the Grand Army, urges pos
tai savings bank, and that system and
a government telegraph has been advo-
Gated by the postof1ce department un-
der all administrations, ever since the
days OF John A. J. Cresswell.
The men who deprecate an income
tax cannot fly with their property to a
country in Europe where they will not
be compelled to pay one. / have no
prejudice against men who have
amassed millions honestly. l know
some who are noble in every way and
who favor this tax; but generally speak
ing, am in favor Of taxing the stolen
millions. aggregated in the hands of
insolent, shoddy aristocrats, while they
are alive, with an income tax, and after
they are dead with an inheritance tax
1t is a strange thing that the very