Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-06
8. Graduated Income tax.

means that every vote cast shall have
its just proportion of influence on the
result of elections; it means taxation
that shall operate justly on the people;
it means public railways and canals,
public coal mines and public manage
ment of industrial enterprises when
ever it shall be necessary to protect
the people that work; it means public
banks with safe depositors for savings;
it means government money always
good without redemption in coin; it
means public loan agencies, low rates
of interest, low rents and freer access
to land.
But the first thing to be done, the
only effective work that can be done is
to get together in one body, adopt
creed made up of such of these princi-
Piles as we can agree upon; take a new
name and organize for effective work
throughout the country in the congress
sional and state campaigns of next
year, preparatory to the greater con-
test af 1900.
So far as national politics are con-
cerned we can do nothing else effect
lively until this is done, Our friends
are not only not organized-they are
disorganized. We must get together
and be organized This can be done
only by those who are earnestly seek
ing substantial reforms in our laws
and government getting together in
one great body with one creed, one
name and one flag We should soon
have majority of voters in MAORI
ty of the states, majority in the coun'
try at large, and we could thus secure
a majority of congressman, United
States senators and presidential cleo
tors. Then, if we did not effect some
of the reforms we advocate, the fail
ure would be because we are not sim
cere.
In the meantime populists, in states
which they control, can do much to
put our theories into practice They
can inaugurate the scheme of manufac-
turing or raising supplies at the state
institutions for use among the classes
that have become public charges, 1t
is probably too early and too eXpen-
sive, without due preparation and ado
quate cause, to enter at once upon the
construction of a system of state rail-
, ways; but good beginning can be
! made by employing idle persons in i'm
proving common roads and bridging
streams, constructing city works and
erecting state and county buildings
In payment for such labor the state
might provide fund, within reason
able limit, of labor certificates redeem
able in taxes. In cases where there is
serious trouble between coal operators
and miners the state might condemn
the coal lands, pay for them and work
the mines for the public interest. Let
the same course be taken in cases of
manufacturing plants where the COM
mon good requires it.
There is one open field ready for the
representation. Here is an invit-
ing harvest. Devise u fair, honest
, method of raising public revenues and
the people will rise and bless us. 1t
, can be done. If there is will, the
way will be found,
But if we do nothing more, we can
at least take good care of what has
been placed in our keeping, and be fru-
gal and clean. w. A. PETER.
The peoples party has now the OPP
portunity to unite all those who want
reform and to conduct campaign that
will end in 1900 in victary for the peo-
pie over the oligarchy of wealth that
now directs the policy of the govern
ment If this opportunity is to be
siezed, if this responsibility is not to
be shirked, the campaign must be OPP
ened early. The peoples party is now
sadly disrupted and weakened, there
is discord that brings weakness, not
the union that brings strength To
bring about union, reform the shatter-
ed lines of the peoples party, stop
suicidal pickering, put an end to the
working without any harmony of un-
Outstanding and hence at cross pur-
poses, urged the holding of nation
al nominating convention of the peo-
Plies party next April or May. Only by
opening the campaign thus early can
there be assured ample time for edu-
cation and organization, only by SO
doing can the peoples party be re-
stored soon enough to its once high es-
tate to enable it to expound its princi
pies and recruit needed millions of
votes that must be found outside the
peoples party. Time must be given to
show that the peoples party and it
alone stands for equality, equality of
opportunity for all, and that this de-
mands the carrying out of these cardi-
nal tenets of the peoples party:
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