Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-02
IA Expro s.datt tho Polls.

Ye prophets of Republican prosperi-
ty, where are ye now? The people
angered by your unfultilled promises
have proclaimed We false Across the
face OF many an election return is
plainly written the word srust, writ
ten by those who stayed at home no
less than by those who expressed their
dissatisfaction by giving their suf-
frages to others than Republicans
EVERYWHERE, unless it be Nebraska, the
tale told is the same Everywhere it
is disgust, impatience, dissatisfaction
with the non-fulfillmeet of Republican
promises of prosperity. Wherever the
people have voted they have recorded
the one verdict, that they are not sat-
isfied with the way the Republican
promises have materialized.
Our people long for prosperity, for
an industrial revival that will make
agriculture, manufacturing, mining
profitable, that will give to employers
work at remunerative prices that will
insure 10 employees work ut fair
wages. They have grown intolerably
tired of conditions under which agri-
culture cannot be carried on so as to
yield decent living, under which
manufacturers and miners cannot
prosper unless in dishonest league
with the managers of some transport
tation company, unless enjoying spe-
cial privileges in the marketing of
their products, lower transportation
rates than are granted their competi-
tors, Under such a state of affairs
when only such enterprises prosper rs
are consolidated into combines and
trusts, and which purchase fuvors from
the railroads by bribing the railroad
managers until said trusts are strong
enough to browbeat the railroads into
the granting of the same favors by
threats, our people have grown decid-
eddy unrestful
When a man cannot get ahead in the
world by honest industry, by legiti
mate enterprise; when to succeed, to
accumulate wealth, one must get some
unfair advantage over his follows, men
cannot be happy, contented. And this
is the condition today. Those who toll
honestly and industriously and seek to
avoid doing injury to their fellow men
grow poorer as they toll. Those who
are possessed Of that INSCRIPTIONS
ness, which goes by the name of smart
ness, who have influence or riches to
buy the favors from our transportation
companies that will enable them TO
prey upon the products of others la.
Dor, to levy tribute to others toll, add
to their riches. And when the indie
pendent producer is driven to ruin
while the clique favored, the one iu
the combine of trust propers, men can.
not be contehted. They cannot be, TO;
when the trust prospers the wage earn
err does not share in that prosperity
There is no power that can force
trust TO share its profits with wage
earners for where there is monopoly
there is no competition among EN-
ployers for hands, no competition to
force up wages When independent
producers prosper wage earners share
in that prosperity for then such pro-
ducers seek to extend production, to
extend prod they have to have
more hands aud they bid against one
another for workmeu. But when the
trust prospers it is different, and It is
alone the combine and trust prospers
today. Therefore, the disgust, the
with existing eondi.
tons that fnds expression at the polls,
that has led to the ups and downs Of
political fortunes as disgusted voters
have turned from one party 70 the 9th.
THE Americ'