The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-31
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE
Without free land free men disap

pear.
"A strong government is certain to
be imposed upon a weak people.
More than at any previous time in
our national history the people now
need a party.
If bond issues are ever to be
stopped the people must stop them.
Old party politicians never will
millions of hands want acres, and
millions of acres want hands" What
is it that robs the hands of the acres?
The first object of craftsmanship
should be to see that the productive
powers of the people are fully en-
ployed.
Gold and silver. as basic metallic
money, are as Horace Greeley used to
say of slavery and polygamy, 1.-The
twin relics of barbarism."
This doubling of the purchasing
power of the dollar is a very comfort
ing thing to the workers who pay all
their dollars to monopolists-
AS long as private corporations
control the transportation of the coun.
try they will charge all the traffic will
bear, if not little more.-St. Luis
Evening Journal
Let US change our present financial
system Under it the producers have
found themselves growing poorer and
poorer. Even if a change did not ben
eft us, at least we would have variety.
St Louis Evening Journal
"A daily newspaper heads news
from London as follows: Good feel
ing in England; no fear of war" OF
course they feel good. Nothing will
make the average Englishmen feel
better than a hundred-million- dollar
bond issue, unless it is a two-hundred-
miflion-dollar bond issue.-Progressive
Farmer.
1t is always choice between so
cialism and anarchy. We are living
in a state of anarchy now, and our So
called laws, which contradict each
other, and are interpreted according
to the caprice and prejudice of judges.
living or dead, are simply dust thrown
in the eyes of the people to blind them
to the truth.-Star and Kansan.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, the head
Of the sugar trust, which so unblush.
ingly bought up the SD congress, has
purchased him title from the Aus
trian court. After next week he will
be known as Baron Havemeyer." The
Wall street motto seems to be, Save
your stealings and buy a title,"-
Pueblo (CoL) Reform Press.
1t is considered a mark of superior
ity in this highly favored Christian
civilization to live in a palace of mar
BILE, on wealth that somebody else cree
ated, and be comforta BILE, while multi.
tudes of earth's poor, who have been
stripped of the wealth they created,
SILVER and starve and die, with the
consolation urged upon them in their
last moments that ere'n be no more
sorrow "there."-Cc ing Nation.
Those faithful Watchers who are
sounding these alarms are ridicused as
calamity howlers When strong,
shrewd. grasping, covetous men devote
themselves to creating calamities, for
tunate are the people who are awak-
ened by calamity howlers- Noah was a
calamity bowler, and the bones of the
men who laughed at him have helped
to make the phosphate beds out of
which fertilizers are now dug for the
market-Henry d Lloyd.
Land of the Free" What a mis-
homer. How many people in this
country to-day can call themselves
''free?" Nine-tenths of the people will
tell you that the black man would be
better off under chattel slavery. Why?
A condition that applies to the black
slave applies equally to the white.
Stop and think a moment. Ingersoll
says: o! liberty. Without that word
liberty all other words in all languages
would be unmeaning sounds" Think
| of it.-Humanity.
How long would desirable land be
kept out of use if those who own it
were taxed on its speculative value?
The very proposal would tend to force
such land into use. And thus would
be ended that unnatural enforcement
of labor and capital from the raw ma
terial of land. This is not proposal
to tax the landlords We would not
tax them more than others We desire
equal freedom. 1t is simply proposal
to prevent the landlords taxing us
St Louis Evening Journal
There has been a wonderful awak-
ening in the populist ranks since the
advent of the new year-a realization
of the tremendous political struggle
with the vast interests to the people
Ringing on the outcome There will
be such campaign fought by the
populists this year as will carry con-
sternation to the bondholdin0, cur.
rency-contracting and $1,000 do-noth-
ing drones who own one-half of all the
wealth of nation of rs, 600, 600 of peo-
ple.-Missouri World.
The gold-bugs tell us that the farm
er has no reason to complain of the
fall in the prices of farm products,
because other things have fallen also,
and he can now buy as much with
his crop as he ever could. That looks
well on paper. But when the farmer
has to give 300 bushels of potatoes for
$50 overcoat he is rather inclined to
think that for some mysterious reason
the law of compensation has not
worked with perfect smoothness--
National Bimetallist
The six populists in the United
States senate hold the balance of
power and they acted wisely in stand
ing aside and permitting the republic
ans to organize the senate. The re-
publicans now have the organization
in both houses and if they fail to pass
measures of relief the people may
know where to place the responsible
ity. OF course they will do nothing to