People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-17

original simplicity through all the
thousand million complexities of arti
fetal systems for rendering humanity
inhuman and mechanical.
And with every step of progress old
organizations are wrecked and aban.
doned. Think of the minds welded tc
idols of custom and prejudice. The
changes of the last four years would
have revolutionized the world on the
first birthday of democracy.
Behold!-the preacher, the teach
er, the republican, the demo
crat, the farmer, the laborer, the poll,
tician and the student, the man who
has been thoughtless and the one who
has been ignorant-all intent upon
solving problems, that they had never
heard of before. The ties of party cast
aside the ''solid shot" shattered, the
people aroused.
What is this?
What does 1t mean.
'How we see through a glass dark
ly, then face to face" This nation
with its strikes, armies of unem-
ployed, homeless, uprisings, discomfort
and agitation is the reverse side of the
shield on which God writes over the
rough surface Of inequality. "Be
patient, believe We in the people, be
lieve We also in God"
ga few years"-yet a little while
we wait; meanwhile Gods plans are
being worked out, disregarding en-
pires, rulers, money and custom. Re
CARELESS of pomp and powers-all
shall be made subsequent to his pur
pose, and in death is new life born t
a new body.
At the burial ground of parties we
realize that the destiny of the nation
is in the hands of the people, who car
dissolve parties or organize new ones
as they please, caring naught for the
woes of politicians.
The people live to-day, and soon for
get what is past-yet the dissolution
of the past has quickened and fortified
the present, and has an effect even OF
the future.
Through mistakes we learn the
truth.
Nobody knows the grave of an eff
fort-new thoughts occupy the mind
yet all things work together for good
Regrets should be buried with the
funeral casl1et, and flowers of new de
termination planted upon the grave.
No party can say that it shall live
that it cannot sin and let's lifC
must determine its death. If the righ
seed is sown we expect the perfec
plant, but the time of harvest shows
the yield.
The democratic party, which nov
lies in the solemn silence of death
was one of bright promises. 1t wa
born of the people, but ambition car
ried it into evil associations WI
should not say evil of the dead. LIE
it sleep in its own folly 1t has sui
fered the full penalty.
The people will not cry over thi
failure. 1t was their own fault, ant
they will try to Duild better hence
forth.
The democratic party was like al
old landmark standing on the highwa.
of American progress. War and peacI
have passed back and forth, and as tn
highway broadened the old Landmark
became useless-it may be used TO fill
gutter. Let the procession go on.
Has it existed in vain?
Perhaps not.
1t once had a high purpose. Tn
principles of its founders live on. Tn
spirit has not died, but passed int
another and and stronger body.
1t has won honor and lost it-bu
that honor is not lost to the world
Who knows the mysteries of tn
course of wisdom
If democracy has taught us anything
let us cleave to that and let the dea'
rest