Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-14


conservative body, unaffected by pass
ing wbims and follies, while the sig
nifcant, and TO HIM the most danger
GUS feature Of the populist movement
in Kansas, lay in the fact that lis
strength was with the farmers in the
country, and not with the rabble In
the city.
"The meaning OF this movement is
not difficult to see. There was a deep
and earnest conviction that money
was becoming an uuholy master IN
social and political life, and that the
golden calf was the growing object Of
the nations worship. Its central
thought was emancipation from the
domination Of money, the elimination
from society Of classes based upon
wealth. Various were the concrete
forms in which this thought was ex-
pressed. Free coinage ofsilver, more
currency, reduction Of railroad rates,
stay laws and other like propositions
which have taken hold upon Kansas
as upon other states, all root them
selves into the idea that somehow or
other money is becoming a master
and man slave; that the creditor
has controlled the legislation Of the
land and made it operate in his be-
half, and that the full freedom of the
individual can only be secured by I'M
doing all that Legislation. 1t is man
rather than money, individual instead
OF property, which must be protected.
Love thy neighbor as myself meant
the man rather than his possessions,
n II + n r X
Doubtless there have been many
wrongs, but that does not justify with
holding praise for the noble spirit
which sought in and though them a
better day for man. Whatever may
have been the blundeFs committed in
Kansas in these various movements,
or in all her life, she is entitled to the
utmost praise for that enthusiasm for
a larger, more perfect and universal
liberty which has prompted her Of
forts"
The Judge was loudly applsuded
for the following Ethe allusior to Wall
street is very significant, considering
ito source),
"Kansas" position as o leader is
evidenced by her enemies Go where
you will throughout this land, when
ever you find one mourning over the
loss of his slaves. he will be cursing
Kansas. If you find one signing for
the times when woman lived only to
atone for the supposed lsceny of
rib, you will hear him his out Kan
sas! FGe' lrntpseller yioltes the third
commandment and fills qt the SEN
tence with Kansssr andWall street,
whenever 1t fears that tie grasp of
its 5000 duCats on the life of the ma
ton is lessening, groans put simply
Kansas "
He next took up socialim, and here
showed want OF carehl judicial
study and discrimination by con-
founding the paternalismof the pre-
sent With tAe 'idesl ,sociahm of the
reformer. A clearer and better H.
dictment OF the present sytem Of es
pionage and interference over legis.
latlon, and the overridinp& the indi-
vdual, as evinced by prsent pater-
nalism, can scarsely be lade. This
he made in the foIlowingpassages,
,"Whlle it JIG undoubte& true that
, man by entering society slinquishes
, some Of his natural unlhited free
dom OF action, and must 10 regulate
. his life as not to ipjure tn we'll being
Of those about him, it luxurious to
! notice the growing dispersion to sub
, iect all the ways of a mas life to
a such rules and restriction as com
4 mand serious considerable for illus
j.. tration take the matter o. drunken-
a ness (
|" "H@aRng with it, socla ny lrSO
@ seized the drunkard as 40 aoFlOus
4 nuisance; then it throttp 'ne saloon
n as the place of temptatil' "nu nnaiiv
d to remove the cause4p PFou'"''s
n altogether and sbsolutel 'ne MANU-
J. facture and sale of lor' n'ely
J. advancing step has coueiieu d 0io90i
watch over individual F'oh, lnoAe
complete subsection OF ne oaliy ll'e