The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-26
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as Il may be. I deny the existence OF
I that mutually between labor and CAPT
I tai which we hear SO constantly assert
ga AMI which is the stock urterance Of
/ politicians and cOmmercialists and leg
/ 1slat0rs and that class of claquers and
retailers Of can't phrases who catch up
Dtner peoples speech and quote 1t for
Us jingle and amusement OF the fancy.
Ny contention is that labor and capital,
OF. more accurately speaking. owner
snip and use. or sti1 more accurately
speaking, creator and created, are not
mutual and equal
The only law which the user of cap
ilal IS bound TO observe is that law
Wnlcn nuuS ITS origin end and sanction
in itself Radical utterances these are.
but I have an abiding faith that the
economic philosophy of the near future
VIII base itself upon the principles here
announced need not be reminded
thal 4 nave advanced a proposition a
variance with the age and all ages in
TACT. and am quite well aware that as
against the precOnceived notions of the
political economists it is not a se1f-con-
Vlc1lng one Stripped 10 its nakedness.
the proposition is that the owner of
property does not possess. with respect
% SUCH property, an equality of right
Win the user Of IL, and upon the truth
oI mat proposition let me say to You.
members of the Farmers and Citizens
~A-AA1ilcer ana you Peoples party men,
rests the entire fabric of your political
plal LoFEns and your demand for indus
trial reforms
~ "a A-AAA--A -AJA D- TINS new doctrine
startled many men of Kansas who own
ed property Railroad officials confer
RED, and q conference OF leading Repub-
means was held at Topeka 10 map out
programme that would surely defeat
D0ster- This fight occurred when Moth
ing put county officers were 20 be chO-
SEN II was an of year. Republicans
Qel1HNed that III they could unite with
the Democrats and defeat the legal adj
WISER Of the new P0pulist party it would
never again rise to power The result
Uas crushing defeat to Doster. The
republican state league was called to-
getner at the beginning Of the battle
ana TINS address was prepared for use
in that district:
The wandering vaga bonds VIII, have
Joined the alliance for political Dur
poses only. and who are trying to make
q living by the sweat of their Jaws in
stead of honest toll will of course fail
Up pay their debts. An epidemic of I'M
reason swept over our state last fall
ana many OF our people were inoculated
with the pestilence- Quarantine has
been established and is rigidly main
tanned The epidemic is not spreading
and many of the original victims are
conValeScent-
he new party. under the seductive
leadership of denagOgues. who magnify
the farmers misfOrtunes and belittle
sf9lr resources, obtained control of the
lower house of our last legislature Its
body filled the more sensible mem bers
Of the alliance with chagrin. and they
Will embrace the first opportunity Of I
Tered to reinstate themselves in the Re
publican party.
Kansas is marvellous in its history /
Hldtctlless IN ITS resources and magnifi-
cent IN ITS achievements. and the party /
lnag lnallgns the state and dishonOrs /
ltself IS already struck with the blight /
Of death
The judicial district committee COM
posed Of Republican and Democrats. /
charged with the conduct of the cam /
palgn against DOster, issued a stirring 4
address to the people. and Judge Dos /
Ter was defeated But the judge was !
not discouraged He bidad his time, 4
In the PopuHst state convention at A b. /
ilene in July last he was unanimously 4
nominated The state Democratic con- I
Fentl0ns then IN session at Hutchinson. /
Endorsed the nomination and at the I
recent election he was chosen chief JUS
tee or the supreme court by 5000 ma /
jority- Many of the Democrats who /
Joined the Republicans in opposing his /
election to the district bench in 1891 /
supported him, and some of them We're 4
ia the Democratic convention that in /
dorsed his candidacy along with the \
other candidates on the state Populist Z
ticket
When the recent campaign opened I
the Republicans scattered broadcast I
the extracts from Judge D0ster's speech I
in the famous judicial fight in his dis /
tricu in 1891. He paid little attention /
10 this onslaught. but prosecuted his +
campaign, dealing with the money /
question. Wrltn ne declared was the
paramount issue in this campaign A
local paper published at lie Roy, the
home Of the new PODulIst governor
elect, wrote Judge DOster early in Sep
tenn Der. asking him to explain his rad 4
zeal declarations that the rights Of I
the user of property are paramount to /
the rights of the owner. on the Bird /
OF September he addressed a letter to /
the local publisher in which he said;
To the first inquiry concerning the /
relative rights of users and owners Of
property, 1 answer that / never ex-
pressed such a view as an abstract /
proposition of social right. and never I
uttered the words quoted. singly and /
alone. to express any completed UNI 4
qualified thought I did, however, use h
such language. but in a sense and with I
a meaning limited and special, and in I
connection with other language which I
plainly showed that it was used in I
qualified and special sense. and illus
trated my meaning by reference TO in
stances which plainly showed the um- I
tied and special application made of it,
The quotation is a garbled. Isolated /
extract taken from q public address OF /
several years ago. wrested from its con- /
text perverted in meaning and de-
prived Of the benefit Of all accompany
ing explanatory language It's clHeu-
lation in the partisan press in this mu- /
riIatad form is an apt instance Of the
truth of the old prOverb that a half \
truth IS a whole lie was discussing
the claimed mutually between labor /
and capital. and had by process of \
reasoning immaterial to the purpose /
of this explanation and immaterial /
whether right or wrong) reduced the /
words labor and capital in their last
analysis. To what deemed their equiv
alant expressions. use and owner
ship.@suse' by the laborer. ownership 4
by the capitalist. I then asserted Ina
the user Of capital a right paramount \
to the owner. but in immediate con-
nection herewith I drew d distinction 4
between kinds of capital
Quoting enough OF the address to
show the distinction drawn. I said
Before passing from the subject, let