Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-05

does not bother Capital at all. But
from your standpoint it is better to
say, 1.-The laborer is worthy of his pro-
duct, than "rhe lasorer ia worthy of
his hire" IL is your duty 10 work
and live for better system, a system
which the civilization of the world
plainly shows is coming, b's in the
meantime you haye got to exist, and
you ought to vote. Are you voting
this year for labor or fer capital, for
your interest or against it?
TIE woRKINaMAM's TICKET.
Have you ever been out of a lob?
Then you will admit that there is a
labor problem. Are you card man I?
Then your membership in the union
is evidence that you recognize the
labor question. A little further on
we shall run over some fundamental
points on this matter. But now let Us
consider the candidates on the two
leading tickets before you.
Mr.. Stanley, the Republican candi-
date for Governor, in an authentic in.
terview in Republican paper and
elsewhere has denied The existence of
any labor problem. He does not see
tho need, he says, for this agitation Oh
behalf of the laboring man. 1t is easy
to see why he does not. He belongs
to the other class. If he were miner.
a section hand, an engineer or fireman
or traiDmap, or a wage worker In any
line he would know better But he is
on the side of private capital. and h.
looks at labor as mere property to be-
bought and sold,
What sympathy will you get from
Mr.. Stanley2
None at all. Even now, when it is
to Lis interest to bid for your vote, he
sneers at laws enacted for the good of
labor, saying, for instance, that the
law protecting motorneers and con-
ductors by requiring vestibules on
street cars affected oDly very smsl
number of persons and did not amount
to much, If this is his atiitude now.
what would 1t be should you elect him
to ofiice7
Every other candidate on the Re-
publican ticket is the same. They are
all in line. They are all standing by
capital as against laoor, and if they
should get into tffice laboI's share of
assistance from the m would consist
only of the leaviDgs rejected by the
capitalists.
On the other hand. the Populi,t
party, both in its professions and in
its work. as we'll as in its membership.
stands for the producer as against the
the exploiter. Its principles avow the
right of the worker to what he pro.
duces, and eternally maintain the
right of the laborer to recognition as
man, a human being with SOU, a
recognition that he does not get now
by a long ways.
The Populist party recognizes the
labor problem, has studied and is
studying it, and is arriving at the so
luton. The State platfoi m this year
"favors the public ownership of all
public utilities" and demands ..the
public ownership and operation of al
monopolies." Look at The specific de-
mands for the relief of labor in tie
platform. The Republican party op-
poses them.
John w. Leedy, the Populist candl-
date for Governor, may not be the
polished and cultivated man that his
opponent is set up to be, but he has
always managed to hold his own. Ii,
his oflice hangs a testimonial from
former employer, written just after
the election of 1896, which says that
if Mr.. Leedy gives as good service as
Governor as he did as farm hand he
VIII satisfy the people of the Stale.
John Leedy rs farm hand or John
Leedy as Governor makes a plain,
straightforward worker, who is typical
OF the class he represents. He may
De plain an somewhat blunt, but So
are you, Mr.. Workingman, and it is
such men that make the common
wealth what it is. 1t is men of the
other class that would tear it down
while building up their own fortunes.
Every other candidate on the ticket
stands for Populism, for clean and
conscientious service for the whole
people of the state. If Attorney Cen
erai Boyle goes out of Office what will
you hear about the enforcement OF
the mining laws? 1t Superintend-
ent Stryker is not re elected will no.
the book trust run his Office? You
have hut to consult the records to
know where every Populist who is q
candidate for reelection stands. and
to look at the platform to know what
he Is pledged to do in the future.
WHAT THE woRkINGNAN THINKS.
LOW, let US quote little from some
ots our fellow work:ngmen. Here is