Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-11


injustice. A Home for Every Family
fully Exposed Is Half Cured
The following extracts are from the
message of John Il. Rogers, populist
governor of Washington. Governor
Rogers imbibed the principles of popu-
liam while resident of Kansas and it
t.reedlessto say that his views on eco
nCmic questions are broad:
When our fathers formed the United
States, production and distribution
were comparatively free. Vast stretch
as of fertile soil were before them
measurably free to whoever chose to
occupy and use. Distribution, too,
was largely under the control Of the in
dividual. The iron horse did not then
compete with the farmers team. The
power of the individual man was vastly
greater over his own career than it is
today. Now, mantle average man
is constantly belittled and made to feel
his inferiority in the presence of pomp-
GUS wealth. Money is increasing in
its power, and its demands, nor is there
anything refused to it by our laws, for
whatever it's demands over production
and distribution may be they are held
to be legal and therefore just, even
though like frightful juggernnut it
brushes under its wheels countless
thousands for whom Christ wept and
prayed and died. And so debased have
become the occupants of many of our
pulpits that have forgotten the pre-
cepts of Him who proclaimed the value
of one soul as of greater worth than
the whole world of wealth: having put
behind them the rule of Him who
would have men do unto others only as
they would have others do to them
now defend the approaching car of
Mammon, telling the poor creatures
who writho under its wheels that it is
the fault of the victims themselves
that Mammon rides rough shod over
the hopes and heayen-born aspirations
Of the poor.
TRUST IN THE PEOPLE.
Such is the present 1t is a frighful
picture But that it is faithfully por-
trayed is known to all, for in his heart
of hearts even the BENEFICIARY of all this
injustice knows it to be true. Many
have held that even though true, the
best interests of society demand that
these things be not publicly pro-
claimed, But this is false. Harm
comes to us from the evil concealed.
For as modern society is constituted,
the wrong that is fully exposed is half
cured, and in this way is the remedial
force which comes from that feeling of
justice, which in the long run controls
the movements of all large bodies of
men, exerted for cure. Blackstone tells
us in his principles of law that "all
valid law is based upon that instructive
apprehension of justice which finds
universal Judgment in the hearts of
men," Upon this among an intelligent
people we may safely depend, and only
when we refuse to trust the people,
when we fail to submit vital questions
of public policy, fully and freely, to
them are in danger Let them under
stand fully the evils that confront us
and they may be relied on, not only to
face with undaunted courage the SUI
premest perils, but also act with mod
Grafton and magnanimity, to be leni-
ent and more than just to all, both
high and low, rich and poor.
HUMAN RIGHTS THE FIRST CONCERN.
To remedy the evils of the present,
to return to the purcr laws and juster
practices of the past, is our duty and
our privilege. 1t is true that new con-
ditions surround us, and yet the laws
of nature and of human nature are I'M
changed, and Interchangeable. Princip-
les undertaking all human action have
never changed, and will not change.
The evils of the present come from the
limitation of the natural rights of men
in the matter of production and distri-
button. The French national assem-
bly,, in its earlier and better days,
when composed of the best and wisest
spirits Of France, declared in that
grand declaration put forth in 1889, as
follows:
1.-THE representatives of the people
of France, formed into a national as
sembly, consider that ignorance, neg
lect or contempt of human rights are
the sole causes of public misfortunes
and corruptions of government"
jefferson, in our Declaration of indie
pendence, declares:
I'VE hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights"
EDUCATION Is ESSENTIAL.
The problem before us is the grad
ual, orderly and legal requirement by
the great unprotected people of those