The Advocate and news., 1898-01-12
EVERY WEDNESDAY,.
TWO CENTS A COPY.

plotting class, or in other words, the
spectators, to pay their full just share
Of taxes for the maintenance Of the gov
ernment which protects them.
Resolved, That we favor exemption
from taxation all the products of labor.
Mrs. Emma d. Pack read a paper on
who Should Be Held Responsible for
Our Government and the Enforcement Of
Our LawsT which was unanimously
approved by the Alliance. A resolution
was passed requesting It's publication.
Mrs. Pack said:
This being non-partlsan organlEa-
tion, have endeavored to handle this
subject from a non-partisan standpoint.
II the declaration OF our fOrefathers be
true, that this is a government OF the
people, by the people and for the people,
then the responsibility of our govern
ment, both State and National, rests
upon each and every individual, whether
they have the full and free use OF the
franchise or not. You ask, how can
this be when men are elected to fll
high offices for the purpose OF enforc-
ing our laws2 The Declaration Of Inde-
pendence tells us that the people are
the government, and IL that be true all
the people should have voice In the law
making and law governing power.
Though they have not, yet they are in
a measure responsible and the burden
weighs heavy upon the non-represented
portion.
First, let us see where the responsi-
bllity begins. How is 1t at the primaries,
that we have in every town and country
precinct, where the first steps are taken
to select the housekeepers for this great
home Of ours? At those primaries the
bidders for the suffrage of the people
have their workers begging for the priv
ilege OF serving the dear people, or TO
keep house for the rank and file, II you
please. 1t is nothing more or less--this
State is the home Of the people therein.
Does anyone at those primaries then
and there sound the keynote that all
may hear, and In words that shall go
ringing to the remotest corners of the
State say, No one but those whom we
have tried and found true will we entrust
with the management Of our loved
homer Do you go to your county con-
vention and there register your protest,
and from there to the State convention,
and say to those men asking for your
suffrage that they must be measured by
the same high standard Of morals that
you would exact of the man whom you
would entertain In your parlOr? Do you
say to those men asking for the posi-
tlOn Of presiding over your State, the
men whom you are about to hire to en-
force the laws that will protect home,
wife, mother and children, that they
must be the highest, the truest, q noble,
pure type Of integrity and honor; that
all this will be expected Of the man to
whom you trust the guidance of your
great ship Of state over the rough and
waves caused by political CHI
canery, alike in all political parties?
Do you impress upon the minds Of those
whom you select that they will be, IL
elected, simply the servants Of the peo-
pie? That the people selected them as
their standard bearers, having faith that
each and every one Of them represent
good government, sacredness Of the
home with all its purity, and take heed
that they betray not the trust and con-
fidence Of the people? Do you impress
upon their minds that they must place
no one on guard over this household Of
yours who cannot be measured by the
highest standard of manhood and wo-
manhood?
"If you have not, you, the voters, are
"a much responsible as the official who