People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-04
WHERE ARE WE AT?"
TWO YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC
DISHoNoR CLOSED.
King Grover still On Deck. and VIII
Call a Republican Congress In special
Session to Endorse His Policy of sail
ing Fornlnst the Wind.

Well, the last democratic congress
that will ever assemble In America has
adjourned. Dissolved partnership with
the sugar trust and the bankers, and
given 1t up that democracy is hopeless
wreck. King Grover is still on deck,
and will call the new crew in special
session to take lessons in his policy Of
sailing against the wind. Grover said
he would give the people an object les
son-and he has given us lesson that
evena fool can understand-not to men
ton his magnificent gifts to the bank
ers of London and New York. Some
people think he should have given the
object lesson to the bankers and the
prosperity to the people. But let that
pass. The people have at least learned
who governs them. And that will pay
the damage. Democracy has shown its
lncompetency-at the same time 1t has
revealed the fact that ii is not more dis
honest than the republican party. The
bankers and corporations have ruled
for twenty years-but they have never
before dictated so openly as during the
past two years. While the people have
denounced President Cleveland and
Secretary Carlisle for bonding the ma
ton, it has been found that the republi-
can party had prepared the way for this
tascality by providing law for it-and
the republican god, John Sherman, en-
aorses the policy of the administration
in every case where he accedes to the
demands of the bankers and trusts.
Over 80 per cent of the republicans In
congress endorsed the President in the
special session which repealed the Sher-
man law and refused to coin the silver
seigniorage. The leaders are all in the
same boat and the bankers hold the
rudder. TIE country has been bonded
for nearly 100000 to keep up use
less gold reserve, which is one of the
pet traditions of the republican party.
The President wants the best money OF
the nation destroyed the leading
republicans and the bankers endorse
this Infamous scheme. Plutocracy IS
opposed to the income tax-and so are
the leaders Of both old parties. The
money question has come to the front,
as the Populists have proclaimed that
1t must 1t has split the democratic
party up the middle of the back, and is
rapidly ripping the republican party in
twain. The leaders of both old parties
have shown their adherence to a single
gold standard, and there is no hope Of
relief for the people from either. The
people have been paying lot of repre-
sentatives SIS each per day and per-
quisities to legislate for the bankers
and soulless corporations. Probably
their pay has been greater from the
corporations-bu that makes them
nonethe less traitors after having taken
the oath of Office and pledged them
selves to serve the whole people. Per-
hapsth influence is too strong for them
to resist-hence it would be better for
the people tn have direct vote upon all
important questions.
The republicans howl about the pres
ident's secret deal with Rothschilds,
whereby the United States is mortgaged
to a firm who hold mortgages on every
civilized and half-civilized nation on the
globe. 1t is a most high-handed crime
but the Rothschilds were the origina-
tors of the great financial conspiracy
which first demonetized silver, burned
the greenbacks and bonded the nation
for the resumption of special pay
ments"-all for the benefit Of the gold
sharks, and perpetrated by the grand
old republican party. There is no ques-
ton but democracy has made a monu-
mental failure and record OF peridy
and dishonor, but the republican record
is so much worse, that democracy ap-
pears merely as blunder in the course
of organized villalny that has managed
heretofore to conceal more or less of its
trail. The two years record of the adj
ministration is the climax to the re-
publican serial story Of taking all the
traffic will bear without causing revo-
luton. The democrats were not accus-
toned to handling republican dyna-
mite-and it exploded on their hands.
The republicans had the thing carefully
adjusted and confidently expected to
live riotously at public expense forever
but the democrats have blown up the
whole magazine and the republicans
are afraid to approach Washington.
The noise has walked the people up, and
they are watching. All the plans OF the
gold bugs are exposed and the people
are organizing to exterminate the whole
blOod-sucklng swarm. so far the bank
ers' plans have been carried out, and a
part Of the bonds have been issued, but
these can easily be repudiated, and
after '96 the people will be in a position
to govern themselves.
The prices of produce and labor are
enough to convince the people that a
gold basis is disastrous. Though all
the sound money" advocates of all
Christendom should mount the rostrum
to proclaim in thunder tones the wis
dom of international agreement"
35-cent wheat, Accent cotton and hun
ger drown their voices into a murmur
as Insignificant as the rustic Of dead
leaves compared with the myriad living
voices Of spring.
Thetree of knowledge is uniting forth