People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-12-10

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you printed that statement you
proclaimed ~ the world that you
were then an ass.
1t is true that the trusts, combines
aud unlawful conSpiratOrs organized
in violation of law, marShaled under
the banner of Mckinley and were
successful, and that those who opposed
them were overthrow, but such we're
the forces and such the result in 1856.
and yet in 1860 che latter were
successful as they will be in 1900.
Like causes produce Ike results.
and the wrongs inflicted on the masses
by the classes can have but one result.
and that as ever, the overthrow of
the latter. Had the slave drivers
been content to enjoy their usurped
authorities, buttressed by law in the
states where existing, they would
probably have their slaves to-day.
Had the English influences been
content to have their holdings in this
country paid in coin las nominated in
the bond" there would have been no
Chicago convention as was held and
Bryan nominated. AS the dominant
party surrendered to slavery in 1856.
so the dominant party in 1896 sur
rendered to British influences at st.
Louis; and as defeat will follow the
latter; and | repeat that as the revolt
was uncceSsful in 1856 so it is in 1896,
but as it was successful in 1860, so il
will be in 1900.
Shall we pursue the deadly parallel
further? If the mOuthingSOf Palmer.
Henderson, Lquterback ard Roosevelt
during the late unpleasantneSs where
in they declared for a monarchy in
this country or proposed to revolt if
Bryan was elected, was the voice of
powers behind them, we might 20
further and say that in 1901 as in
1861, the cymmOn people Of this
country will if need be, save 1t to
pOSteTity as before.
The same oppressive and un-Ameri-
can influence which tried to force
slavery upon Kansas, that prompted
the bred Scott decision and at
tempted to destroy the union later. is
the same that anLulled the income
tax law, organized the Republican
convention at st. Louis and elected
Mckinley. The former was the effort
OF the classes to maintain ineQuitable
and unjust advantages protected by
laws ignOrantly or unlawfully enacted.
The latter is like effort OF the same
classes for the same purpose and
employing the same means, de-
Structive alike to the liberty of the
citizen.
| am aware that you sneer at the
illusions TO "classes and masses" in
this country, so men OF your assOci.
atiOns sneered at such illusions made
by Lincoln, Logan, and Thad Stevens.
In fact it has becOme-with the class
with which since the ST. Louis con-
ventiOn you have atfiliated-quite
passe as it were in these latter days
to thusrefer to the rights of the people,
or to express sympathy with them in
their manifold misfOrtunes. Now,
with such rights Of men are nothing
and the rights of property everything.
When Wendell Phillips Numbered
into the ears Of Greed, the rights of
man, he was denounced as an agitator;
and when Abraham Lincoln fred the
prairies Of IllinOiswith his denuncia.
tion Of special privileges protected by
law. he was called an anarchist and a
demagogue; and when Christ dashed
the usurers from the temple at
Jerusalem he was Outlawed by her So
called respectable citizenship. And
you and |, born in poverty, are the
very last men 10 this world who should
forget that we are Of the people, and
nj amount Of prosperity should be
permitted to shade our vision from
the fact. The sneers and jeers with
which the name of Kansas is now
greeted throughout the East among
men who live from the toll OF others,
is % worse than it was In lSj6-lS6O,
from the same classes, shelterde be-
hind other wrOnss of like character,
they are now as then, reinforced by
and fortified with the inconSiderate
scribblings Of miserable political
parasites 10 that state who imagine
that to be respectable and to stand
in with the classes referred to, they
must denounce as anarchists a
majority Of their people who have
the courage to vote as they fought for
the privilege of doing, namely, IS
seemed to them for their best interest,
and that Of their kind.
While you have the right to dis
close to Others the chargrin you feel