People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-02-07
ITS STEADY GROWTH.
THE PRINCIPLES OF POPULISM
ARE NOT EPHEMERAL.
The Principles Il Advocates Are Firm
Enough to Build Upon rs Long as
Humanity and Civilization Exist
Figures Never Lie.

Humanity and Civilization Exist
Figures Never Lie. .....
The great plutocratic newspapers
are somewhat alarmed to see the
steady increase given the Populist
party by the official election returns
The Springfield Mass Republican,
newspaper of national reputation, an
independent supporter of Grover Cleve-
land, though republican in politics,
makes the following comment:
"This is remarkable and in many
ways disturbing demonstration of
radicalism. The Populist party was
started in a flush industrial period,
and the fact that it has held on so
long and grown no less slowly and
steadily In bad times than in prosper
GUS times is not the least significant
features of its development. We're it
based upon elements of ephemeral
strength merely we should probably
by this time have seen either the col
lapse of the organization or a sudden
bound to higher level. That neither
event has resulted would seem to offer
proof of the existence of strong basic
material AS a matter of fact the
anti-slavery party, from the time it be-
gan to put Presidential candidate in
the field in 1S4i down to the breaking
up of the wing party in 1852, never ex-
hibited more persistent and growing
strength than the Peoples party has
so far shown"
Radicalism always has basis.
And the Populist party has even a
stronger basis than had the anti
slavery party.
The slavery we oppose is that of a
class of men to whom the nation owes
its great progress in the development
of wealth, invention and all material
growth.
Opposition to wage and debt slavery
are the cardinal principles OF the Peo-
pies party.
As basis it has the religion of
Jesus Christ, the brotherhood of man
and the foundation principle of justice,
equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none.
Every man in the Peoples party has
his feet firmly on the basic principles.
1t is not buoyed up like a balloon,
with gas; nor is it a party of sorehead
politicians kicked out by the struggle
of ambition from the old parties.
The Peoples party has come to stay,
because the principles it advocates are
permanent-frm enough to build upon
for the future as long as humanity and
civilization exist.
That there was a reason for its birth
during flush times indicates very
strongly that general injustice and
not mere local discomfort was the
cause of the organization.
The Peoples party is not an organ
izatiOn of malcontents, bowling and
rending itself in the dark.
Its organization was due to broad
comprehensive study of the principles
OF the government of the people, by
the people and for the people.
When the nation and the money
loaners were prospecting, all the people
of the nation should have been pros
pering in proportion to the work they
contributed to the general prosperity.
That farmers and laborers were de.
pressed while idlers spent the summer
in Europe and the winter in dissipa-
ton, aroused the people to a study of
the eternal principles of equity.
The oppression has been felt worse
during the past two years, but the peo.
pie were not made wild and fanatical.
They had coolly reasoned out the
cause of the trouble and many of them
had prophesied the climax.
They have reached the point in rea.
son where they see that MONOPOLY
must be allowed to run its course for
the present, while the people are being
educated to take charge when the
course of the money power has become
to the whole nation.
The great trusts are testing the
principles Of corporation, and when
proven successful and all powerful the
nation will find it necessary to assume
functions that have been before dele
gated to private individuals.
The Peoples party is looking conf.
IDENTIFY forward to the consummation
Of its every demand.
Not party success, but a better ma.
tional industrial system is the object
Of this movement.