The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-07
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

| TOINbS TUX Ih6 PEOPI6.
Over LOCO. 600 voters approved the
government ownership of railroads in
1892. The reasons why they did SO are
stronger to-day than ever before.
souri, World.
i'm 1892 it was Gresham. In 1896 it
would appear to be Judge Caldwell
How strange it is that some people
will persist in wanting to go outside of
the party to find a presidential candi-
date.
Every day we come in contact with
| men, and four out of five are political
| cowards-some afraid to advance an
| opinion, the others too imbecile to
form one.-Marshal (Mo) Peoples
Record.
side party lines Yet a man should
have moral courage to use his ballot
in defense of his home and family;
otherwise how can he be trusted with
a bayonet?-People's Record
The Federation of Labor has de-
clared for postal savings banks. The
only party that advocates postal saw
ings banks is the peoples party. To
be consistent, how should members of
the federation vote?-Brockton Dia.
mond.
If, as stated in the dispatches, Sem
ator Butler, of North Carolina, ad
mitted that straight populist tickets
ought not to be nominated in opposi-
ton to free coinage democratic tickets,
Senator Butler is not a straight popu-
list-St Louis Evening Journal.
Mr.. John McCulloch, the repre-
sentative of Glasgow in the British
| parliament, makes this statement: In
ten years no more taxes will be col
| lected in Glasgow, as its gas and water
works and its street railways furnish a
revenue of one million pounds sterling
1000, OOO) a year."
Our banking laws allowed pro.
| fessional to come to Des Moines, Or
ganize bank, get several thousand
dollars of the peoples money on de-
post and then close up We don't
need government banks, oh no. We
have the best banking system ever
heard of. It's a lu lu.-Iowa Farmers
| Tribune.
An Associated press dispatch from
London furnishes the interesting item
of news that the raid of the English
freebooters into the Transvaal repub-
lie was Matched by "a group of finan-
ciers in London" Bless you. there is
nothing startling about that These
| greedy fends are Matching about all
the big deviltry that is going on.-Na-
tional Advance.
They say it would be unconstitu-
tional for the government to own the
| railroads. The men who framed the
| constitution never saw a railroad, nor
| dreamed that the future had such a
thing in store. They never held their
| ear to a telephone or sent a message
over wire. Isn't it about time to
have a constitution a little more up to
date?-Maine Populist.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Daily Item outlines
the future programme of the silver
men as being to use every effort to in
| duce one or both the old parties to
nominate true and tried silver man
for president and, failing in that, to
themselves nominate democrat for
president, a republican for vice presi-
dent and make deal with the popu-
lists" Just SO.
If you would serve your country
you must do justice-justice to the
weak as we'll as to the strong; and
you must not stop to imagine what
will be popular: Therefore. unless
you are prepared to stand alone and
| be utterly independent and Indifferent
as to who approves or who disapproves,
1t will not be worth your while to
think about doing much for your
| country.-Gov. Altgeld.
One of our new allies, Senator Du-
bois, of Idaho, thus paid his gentle re-
| spects to us in a recent speech. He
said that ''while he cheerfulIy greeted
populist votes In the senate for free
silver. he could not accept the populist
leadership, that party being irrevoca-
bly, committed to fat money with I'M
limited imitation" Bah! and yet these
are the people that are talking of a
campaign upon the financial issue.
1t would he we'll to remem Der,
amid the present talk of what 1.-The
next populist national platform will
contain" that the delegates to the st.
Louis convention will officially settle
the matter. And in order that the sen.
timent of the party may be reflected in
that platform, the imperative duty of
the rank and fle-the voters-to take
an active part in the selection of ma
tional delegates must be apparent to
all.-Missouri World.
The rumor that the Sc delegates
who were selected by the Georgia pop
ulists few days ago to represent them
at the national convention are one-idea
silver men is without foundation in
fact The delegation will present q
seven-plank platform adopted by the
state convention in which silver is only
briefly mentioned in and as part of
the money plank. The delegation was
not instructed whom to support for
president Citizen.
| We observe with regret that many
proposed substitutes for the Omaha
platform omit the plank pertaining to
government ownership of railroads.
That plank is the strongest In our
whole platform, with the people of
the Pacific coast It elected the popu-
list mayors of San Francisco and Oak
land, and If it should be discarded by
| the national convention the populist
cause in California would be greatly
injured. Barbara (Cal Equity.
1t has been repeatedly stated in
these columns that whenever it be-
came necessary for the old parties to
take the wind out of the exclusive