Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-11-22
vOx PoPULI, voX DEL.

par with "Polly wants cracker" The late
vote is not the voice of God, nor the voice OF
All intelligent people. 1t is the voice OF the
monopolist, banker and bond holder. 1t be-
gins to look as if free government was fail
ure. There are too many voters who vote on
blind impulse, and, voting on impulse, make
the most extraordinary Aops i'll the history OF
the human race.
There has been no change in the adninistra-
ton of our government since 1868, but we have
had two terms of Democratic president.
There has been no change in legislation through
the Democratic party, except in tariff and tree
sugar-cheapened sugar, as did free wool and
reduction of tariff on WOODEN imports cheap
en- wooden goods. A poor man can now afford
to sleep under WOODEN blankets for the first
time in almost generation.
whole lot of voters resent cheap wooden
goods. They would rather sbiver under rags
and toll in an overcoat of many colors.
A whole lot of voters want more millionaire
Carnegies. A whole lot of voters want to pay
an indirect tax, so that millionaires may have
capital enough to buy live duke for their
daughters.
This is all we can see in the late vote, unless
it is assanine stupidity.
It is claimed that the late vote was a rebuke
to Clevelandism. Maybe but the fatal defect
in the rebuke is that Clevelandism is Repub
licanism, and the vote is simply the endorse
ment of Clevelandism in another and worse
form. Cleveland and the Democratic party
have not varied hairs breadth from Repub-
licanism in their policy of dealing with mo-
nopolies, finance and labor. The government
has been administered continuously for twenty
FIVE years in the interest of the money power.
There is a grain of good in Democratic tariff
legislation, and, in choice between the two
parties, it would seem that the choice should
have been in favor of the Democratic party.
An intelligent choice should have fallen else
where than on either of the two old parties.
Democracy has become so thoroughly mixed up
with Republicansm that it is hard to draw
line, but we are fair enough 10 believe that
wing of the Democratic party is for the people.
Vox popuh, vox humbug "Polly wants
cracker" and may get crunb.
The Democratic party is downed because the
administration issued bonds and smote labor
with the strong arm of concentrated power.
Will the Republican party, under similar cir
cumstances, do the same thing3 Blind is he
who believes otherwise.
United States is another name for united mo-
nopoles; if not for worse, certainly not for
better.
Vox populi, vox monopoly!
We have fallen on troublous times The
people seem to have lost the instinct of self
preservation. Can the spirit of Washington
and Jefferson be revived2 may we'll be asked
with fear and trembling. If such spirit cannot
be revived, we will reach old-world conditions
for the masses in twenty-five years. Out of
the gloom, as yet, appeareth no leader. We
have only the unquenchable hope that some
how and in some way God will speak to the
people, and that then they will arise and smte
the greed, falsehood and rapacity of the men
who govern our nation, and that our ears may
again hear and our hearts throb with JOY to the
true 'sVox Populi, vox Dei.' But, for the
present, let us not deceive ourselves. Monopoly
is stronger to-day in the United,States than ever
in the history of any nation, and, under The
power of concentrated wealth, there is bit one
story-that of decay and death. The seed
has been sown, the plant is we'll watered, and
to root it up will call forth the energies of the
wisest and best men of the country.
MRS. MARY E. LEASE has been speaking to
A.. po1r1iets of Arkansas during the nast t,vo