The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-16

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cOlIlDllldJ1Ou nave Qc-
feated the operation Of competition in
controlling the output, the price and the
volume Of employment given to labor.
then why not add these TO the benefi-
cent control of the government for the
benefit of the plain people" Not a
statement herein but Is the legitimate
outgrowth of Populist tendencies. The
whole burden OF their cry is the OPP
preston of the money power. of the
property class. While Populists de-
claim against class legislation, it is
evident that 1t is lack of class legisla-
ton they are complaining about 1t
trusts and combinations of capital, that
is the real burden of complaint. In
the minds of Populists competition has
been a failure. Aggregations of CAPT
tai and labor-saving machinery play
into the hands of wealth-owners, and
it is the duty of the nation to make
laws to protect the people against such
results. Antitrust laws and govern
and the next step must be AIKEN, gov
ernmen proprieborship. This is the
purpose OF the Populist party and this
purpose is revolutionary
In this program free coinage is but
an atOm-the one reform to Is revolu-
tionary measures. Free coinage has
been before the people since Kelley, q
Republican, introduced his bill in 1876.
Free coinage at the ratio Of Is to 1 has
been an issue, though not a party issue,
these twenty years. No party has in
dorSed at that ratio, save the Green
back party in 1880 and later PrOhibi-
tionistS till 1892 when the Populists
Endorsed it as an insignificant part of
their program Who does not remeIn-
Der the gloomy arraignment of our
country in 1892 at Omaha, and who
can read that indictment and for a
moment think of silver? Who has
scored the local PopulistS harder than
Silver Teller has PopulSt Waite?
Who hates Idaho Populists more than
Silver Dubois? Who struck them
harder blows in Missouri than Silver
Bland? Who has felt the crushing force
OF the silver Democrats more than
Populist Tom Watson of Georgia and
Kolb of Alabama? Why? Because
the silver Democrats and Republicans
recognize that POpulism stands for
program of such socialistic significance
and is fraught with such political dan
gers that demand the severest cOndem-
nation. Again why? Again, POpu-
liSm stands for a warfare OF classes.
1t stands for a warfare of the poor
against the rich, of the INDECENT against
the plutocrat The end of this pro-
gram Is the abolition of the private
ownership of property. The French
Jacobins demanded n constitution.
Very well. They demanded the exile
dication of the king. Very well. They
demanded the abolition of the preten
sion of the divine right of kngship.
Very evil. They demanded the exile
of king, nobility and clergy. Not so
we'll. They demanded the death Of
king and nobility, for while the king
and nobility lived kingship and nobility
might be restored. This was mad
ness. They demanded the death of all
whom a committee Of safety deemed
TO the public. This was
fury. In this inboxication in the name
of liberty, patriots became murderers,
innocent hands held the dagger that
shed innocent blood They were mad,
they knew not what they did. In the
name of liberty they paved the way to
the imperial despOtism of Napoleon.
The Populfst program can no more be
carried out in its fullneSs while private
ownership Of property remains, than
could France be a republic while the
right of kingship existed. Plutocracy
is the outgrowth of the right of the
individual to own and have dominion
over the property within this nation
The same room exists for Staying the
Plutocrats that existed for killing the
aristocrats- each the enemy of liberty,
of the wealth creators, of the common
people. But just as certain as the
POpulist program is carried out, social
izing this nation, just so certain Will
the end be Observation-Disclosures with
capitals at New York, Chicago and San
Francisco. Civilization without pri- |
waite ownership of property, without
without indiyidualism |
will be failure.
Why the haste of Populists 20 accept |
Bryan? Is it because he is a Populist! |
Is it because PopuliStS believe them |
selves able to Jacobinize the new Dem |
Whatever may be the secret |
cause of Populist talk for Bryan IL |
has terrified conservative Democracy. |
Oh horrors. The thought of BourboIrs
having become Jacobinized and hav-
ing no alternative but TO support q
Populist. The Democratic boiling in
the east and middle west from the Chi
cago nomination, has extended TO the
south. IL Bryan is nominated by the
PopuliSts at st Louis no telling what
will happen at the south Thousands
Df Democrats are asking. Why this
haste: Are we Democrats. Popocrats.
Populists or Jacobinsf'
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