Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-12
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NO. 8;

tending to debauch our fellow men and making
our government co-partner in the receipts of
traffic that annually murders and pauperizes
thousands. M e3r7c,fst so sI.ler 5di o.
While this party has passed to the Unisn
Labor party, and then to the Peoples party, it
has never grasped this moral side of the great
est financial question which so materially af-
fects the day laborer and the farmer. No party
can be moral party, or be in the interest of
the laboring people, and be on the side of the
rum traffic. The Peoples party has not shown
itself an enemy to the rum traffic, but, on the
other hand, it has, so far, followed the old par
ties tracks, and it can no longer be believed
that, if it should come into power, it would do
otherwise. In fact, where it has been tried it
has not shown itself an enemy. In all of its
there is naught that says where the party stands.
Thus, we are forced to judge it neutral work.
er for the most damnable trust the most power
full, pauperizing and soul-destroying "industy"
ever known-the whisky traffic. For this
reason, it has lost votes, and will lose more un-
less it comes square out against the rum traffic.
Hundreds of voters now in the party in Kansas
will be forced to leave when they see the shadow
of the dark, delnoniacal hand of intemperance
overshadowing the entire party If the party
is for prohibition, it will say so. If it is bid
der for the rum vote, it will remain as it is and
can Justly be placed along with the old parties
as party bidding for Office at the hands Of the
rum element There certainly has been enough
of this business to call halt and build upon
solid basis of morality-the only basis that any
party can stand on and be sanctioned by Gods
laws and laws not sanctioned by Gods laws,
but overrun them, have no right to be counte-
nanced by man. ....-.:..-,.
There is some talk among Populsts of affect
ing a trade with the Democrats. How foolish
and demoniacall Have they not had lessons
enough along that line? Can not the party
rise above the auction-block?
1t is necessary for the party to not only have
a party platform that states in positive terms its
policy, but it must nominate men who are in
accord with it. Platforms are as nothing if not
supported by men who will put them into effect
The liquor element is perfectly willing that
is now, and there is little doubt that if they
thought it at all probable that if their old
friends-the Demo publicans- should be de-
feated in 1896, they would rally, to man, to
the Populists support. Then, with the liquor
element and the United States supreme court
on one hand, what would the party accomplish
Ridicule and defeat. ae '' Hos" --A,i'i-,
This being an ''off political years it Is the
time for political discussion. The Populist
party of this county, in coming before the peo-
pie, should take up this question of prohibition;
likewise, means of revising the United States
supreme court. That is, let new judges be
elected by the people; or, in short, let force be
laid upon the utmost needs of national con-
stitutional convention. lAl DIS ,l1'l-)- -o o-
Put before the people an honest moral plat.
form-no mongrel, with Satan behind the
throne. Put sincere people on the ticket; then
TRUE reformers can rally to the party. Be
honest, and in all things be Cody. -
Welda, Kas. SAM JOHNSON.