People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-11-19

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them over TO the other side. they con-
sidered that they had been sold out
aud refused to be delivered"
The truth is that the Republicans
OF Kansas have no claim upon the
sympathy of the nation. For many
years they have sOwed the wind.
They now only reap the whirlwind
which they invited and deserve"
There are scores of editorials like
the above, some even more vindictiye,
all in what is called the 'sound mon
ey" press.
Why is Kansas alone singled out for
destruction by the evil disposed and
relentless east? Why is she made
the scapegoat? Twenty-one other
states of this union hold the belief in
free silver. Colorado, one Of the
graDdest and wealthiest states in the
union, stands almost unanimously for
it; Nebraska, the companion state of
Kansas, not only elected a POpulist
governor two years ago, but reelected
him in this election; Washington, the
magnificent commonwealth on the
Pacific coast, with two peerless cities,
Tacoma and Seattle, more splendid in
their buildings and commerce than
cities three times as large 10 more
eastern states, stands alongside OF
Kansas in the new and so-called De-
culiar doctrines that fill the east with
horror. The young states of Wyom-
ing, Idaho and Montana, likewise
joined hands with their other west
ern sisters. North and South Dokota
are with the eastern states only in
name, having but few hundred votes
to tie them to the chariot wheels of
their eastern conQuerers. Look on
the map and you will see one grand
sweep of twenty.One sovereign states
all standing shoulder to shoulder in a
common belief, right or wrong. Why
then, is Kansas alone sing led out for
destruction? Why are we to be
burned at the stake? Is it because
Kansas is the greatest, the grandest,
the most glorious of all the states?
Are we TO be selected for the scaffold
because we are considered the ring
leader, and our humiliation is to
strike terror to the hearts of tn
others? Is there a single brave, PROV
hansan who is willing that our state
should be made sacrifice? Is there
One-a single 0ne-who will meekly
acquieSce that this state shall be
hung by the neck until she is dead?"
We can never belive it. We NAV
be bound by party ties, but we are
Kansas. Is there man with soul
so dead, who never to himself has said
this is my own, my glorious Kansas?
None shall say word against her.
We make no defense of Populism.
1t has its vagaries and impracticabil-
tiles; it has its hare-brained theorists
as abolitiOnism and prohibitionism
and woman suffragism have had. No
new thought or idea is proof against
foolish advocates. They cannot be
kept from talking. But Populism is
not confined to Kansas. 1t is part of
a movement that pervades the Unit
ed States, And because it pervades
the United States Kansas people
alone, Republicans, Populists, Demo.
Gratis, ProhibitiOnists and all are to
have the life crushed out of them.
Those even who have been loyal TO
eastern financial ideas, who have
Endorsed every tenet of the Sound
money" faith, are to be slaughtered
with the other. Age, sex or previous
party affiliations are not to count.
All must be destroyed. As in the
persecution of the Albigenses, when
one of the slaughtering generals ex-
pressed doubt about indiscriminate
killing for fear he might put to the
sword some who we're not heretics, he
was told no xiii them all, God will
know hisown." So in Kansas, all, all
are to be punished, all are to beggared,
all are to be ruined and all are to be
pauperized-not one shall be left to
tell the tale. How can our partv
friends reconcile their souls to such
consummate cruelty? Will they not
resent it?
The most melancholy feature of
the stream OF vituperation and malice
that is now poured out 90 Kansas is
that it was started by Kansas people
themselves-by Kansas editors. They
have been prOclaiming for years that
they were ashamed of Kansas. They
have washed the states dirty linen in
public and whOoped bi,lingsgate at
their own mother state from house
tops and hedgerows until the attention
OF the entire union has been attracted
to Kansas. As Kansas people have be-
Titled their own state they could not
expect outsiders to set greater store
by her. They have hurled stones at
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