People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-19
REV. SAN JONES TALKS.
He Gives His Views Of the Present
Political Situation.

Have CUuuDduuCu OhNii
every man has been busy with his own
affairs-watchiDg his opportunities in
the business world. We have liter
ally turned the governmental machine
over to the politicians, and for years
the professional politicians and trick
sters have manipulated things to suit
themselves, and all they had to do
was to write out their platform and
write Democratic or Republican above
it, crack the party whip and the peo-
Die fell in line. As long as the old
governmental COW gave milk enough
for the family nobody cared how
many calves sucked, but when there
was not milk enough to 60 in the cof-
fee the question was raised The
people have attended to their own
personal business and have turned
governmental affairs over to pot poll
ticians and trickSterS until the gov
ernmen5 of the United States is liter
ally in the hands of set of political
stealers and government robbers.
The only question the average poll
tician of today asks is: What plank
and what man will capture the most
votes?" The vote hunter has made
appropriations wherever he could cap
ture a vote, and every fellow who got
scared at the sight of soldier or a
gun during the war, or who had bad
cold or stumped his toe, has got his
pension and gone to town to white
white pine. The question now is how
to get a public pap to suck. When
the Democratic calves are sucking the
Republican calves stand around the
lot and bawl. When the national
election opens the gates and turns out
the Democratic calves every little
Republican calf rusheS in, grabs tit,
shakes his tail and goes to sucking.
The people looking on the depleted
treasury, gazing on their property
reduced to one-half its value, putting
their grain and stock upon the market
at half-price, pouring their hard
earned money into the depleted treas
ury OF the United States, in heavy
taxes, are beginning to look square in
the face the question of the absolute
bankruptcy of the United States un-
less something is done. They have
waited four years on a wrangling COD
gress, cross lifting with each other
and the president, and bringing NJ
relief. They have stuck to old party
lines till hope has died within their
bosom and now almost every thought
full citizen in the United States has
got his ears backed and is prepared to
kick the filling out of any fellow that
cracks a party whip over him.
The old party lines are fading out
and the country is organizing on the
brains and common sense of the COM
mon people; organizing on a basis to
secure speedy legislation on the Ques-
tions that most need immediate atten-
tion. l look upon this as the most
fortunate thing that could happen to
our great commonwealth. This is a
Republican government. We need an
intelligent citizenship, To have this
we must have first free press, with
brains and craftsmanship at the head,
not bought and bribed and dominated
by a party lash, but governed by
patriotism. intelligence and sense of
right, instructing the people honestly
and impartially on the great govern
mental questions Of the day. The
common people are beginning to think
more than ever on government ques-
tions; they are beginning to doubt,
investigate and examine, and the time
is coming and'Ought quickly to come,
when the masses of the people will
cease to be driven into line by party
lash welded by corrupt, selfish and
designing politicians.
If l should make a cartoon of the
government of the United States |
would picture Uncle Sam standing
with his hands thrown up saying:
Anything you want, gentlemen" to
the liquor king with his gun presented
on the right and the money king with
his gun presented on the left. Money
and whiskey have got the politicians,
and the politicians have got the gov.
ernmenI. Ny hope has always been
in the people. have never had any
hope in apolitician exceptas he feared
the people and acted for the people.
People are reused from one end Of
this country to the other, and well
they may be, and the politicians may
look to hear thunder before long.
PartyilineS are broken; the people are
thinking independently and the time
has passed when a little pot politician
can take drink out of his flask and
yell JefferSOnian Democracy few
times and call the Democrats into line.
hitch them to his little wagon, crack