The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-10

cooperation among miners is a crime?
In most OF the factories can be found
good times. The mill owners would
probably dispute the right of a court
of equity to interfere and plead as
defense that the operatives have an ad-
equate remedy in the ballot.
"A few days ago an association of
mill owners tried to justify a reduction
of wages by laying the blame upon the
laws passed in Massachusetts for the
protection of operatives. Their COM
plant is significant because it empha-
sizes the reactionary tendency of pres
ent conditions. If this grinding pro-
cess continues the labOring classes will
lose all of the advantages which they
have gained in the last quarter of
century. Instead of shorter hours for
adults and more education for children
we shall be asked to lengthen the hours
of labor and xtO dwarf the intellectS as
well as the SOdies of the children by
manual labor during the years when
they should be in school How many
pledges will be required to soften the
heart Of our financial Pharaoh? Does
he not know that now as of old bricks
without straw but presage the coming
of the day of deliverance?
Prescott tells that the Aztecs
were in the habit of Offering up human
victims to secure the favor of their
gods. Our opponents some time speak
in diSparaging OF those who inhabit
the land of the Aztecs. but let it be re-
memDered that the huge Sacrlhc1al
stone that once surrounded the great
TeOcaH in the capitol of the MOntezu-
mas, now harmless and unused, forms
one of the most interesting exhibits in
the Mexican natural museum, while in
the United States fresh victims in ev-
er increasing numbers are being immo-
lated on the altar erected in honor of
the gold standard.
Since the last celebration of Jack
son day thousands of political prOdi-
gals have returned to the old home,
and thousands more are growing weary
of the huSkS. The reception of those
who have returned has depended upon
the spirit which has animated the prod
tgaL Those who have come back ac-
knowledging the binding force of the
Chicago platform, and willing to work
tremendously side by side with the
brethren who went not astray, have
been taken into full fellowship and
their wanderings forgiven. But those
who have staggered back, boasting of
their intention to remodel the house
and reVoIutiOniZe the methods of agri-
culture have found neither fatted calf
nor banquet hall.
There is no humiliation in the ac-
acknowledgement of error. To a large
portion of our people the money Ques-
ton was new question in 1896 and as
we demanded affirmative action, the
timid and only half convinced arrayed
themselves against US. Since the cleo
ton there has been time for further
study, and events in rapid succession
nave been indicating the position ia
ken by the bimetallic forces in the last
toXicated by success have been dis
closing schemes which We're carefully
concealed during the contest. We may
therefore, expect continuous accessions
to our ranks.
7 cannot close without impressing
upon your minds the necessity of ex-
tending and perfecting the work of the
clubs, which are necessary to supple
ment the work of the party organiza-
ton. We must have clubs in every pre-
cinct. Through them we can keep our
forces in fighting condition, collect cam
pa1gn funds and protect the ballot box
from fraud and corruption. 1 have so
much confidence in the earnestness and
Intelligence of those who are enlisted
under the banner of Independent bimet-
aIl1Sm that am sure all things need
fuI viii be done. 1 therefore bid you
be OF good cheer, unless all political
omens fail the twentieth century will
open with the money of the constitu-
ton restored and the motto: Equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, the controlling principle in the
departments of the government. Then
VIII our people sing a new song of a
nation redeemed