The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-26
REGISTER YOUR KICK, NOW.

| X is said that Mark Twain having
3massed fortune by making people
| laugh has turned about in his liter
! airy harness and gone TO saying dis
agreeable things-to kicking. If an
American citizen happily married. in
! a beautiful home, famed for his brains
| and backed by a fortune is SO de-
pressed by the wrongs of his fellow
man as to have his milk of human
kindness turned into pessimistic whey.
it would seem high time for a general
kick, an individual kick, an organized
all around kick. z kick in the abstract
and kick by aggregatiGnS. The
kick seems about the only thing left
to the American citizen, and he should
unheSitatingly and vigorously kick
The things to kick at, against and
about are innumerable. They crowd
thickly upon evry hand, and stud
every phase of the industrial, politi-
cal, social and religious situation
There is a kick coming to about every
Imaginable interest and problem con-
fronting the people, and if they don't
avail themselves of this prerogative
and kick soon and kick vigorously the
chances are that they will find that
the time for directing and the oppor-
tunity for registering and reaching
their kick is past The gold con-
spiracy must be kicked back TO its
hole across the ocean, American cor
porate trusts must be kicked out of
existence, the beef combine kicked to
death and dozens of other national
monOpolistic intrigues and local blood
sucking alliances kicked off the earth.
You not only want to kick against
letting the city printing, but against
the state printing and against the
millions squandered annually in ma
tional printing; kick not only against
the rule of the little one-idead loafing
local politician and his petty steal |
ings, but kick against the greater |
statesmen who saddle us with laws |
whereby through corporate and munic- |
ipal bonds q whole race is forced to |
sweat and groan and starve to meet |
the vast sums of interest Indirectly |
wrung from labor. You, and we, and |
all, must not only kick against the |
policy of issuing national bonds in
sums of millions upon millions to meet |
outrageous current expenses and sense
less appropriations the interest on
which is squeezed from the people by
indirect taxation, the margin and
profits of the deals going to ring
IF which the president is the key
ink, but kick against the exhorbitant
charges made and collected in the way
If rates and tolls and exactions levied
~ the arrangements of every conceiv-
lble public corporation only that the
dividends on their watered stocks and
he interest On their guarantee bonds
nay be paid and paid to those who
ontrol all, and who design and will
Don own all. To kick high and often,
10 kick earnestly ana nard, seems
bout the only availably effective thing ]
eft TO nation whose honest masses
70 longer count except as their blood
nd sweat can be utilized by its cor
upt and avaricious Classes. Then
lex, for there is no longer a national ;
r a state or a municipal law that is
lot enacted wholly with reference to
segregated wealth, its interests and its
holdings. The individual man. he '
'ho should constitute the state, he for I
'hose protection and welfare govern '
lents We're instituted is no longer a
actor worthy of consideration. unless J
e be director" or as stakeholder" '