People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-10-06
BUTTREY'S.
TERMS CASH.
Bailey's Speech.

W. y, Ddlley, hepuDllCdu CdQuludGe
for congressman al large, spoke to an
audience of Wellington people last
Friday evening. The house was fairly
well filed, considerable portion of
the audience being composed Of ladies,
Populists and Democrats.
In the course Of his remark, the
speaker claimed that the people of
Kansas were more prosperous than
the people Of other states, and spoke
Of the large number Of mortgages
being paid off by the farmers of Kan
sas and Nebraska, and gave McKin-
ley credit for all the prosperity.
He evidently thought that McKin-
ley in distributing prosperity had
been more generous with the POpuliSt
states Of Kansas and Nebraska than
with other sections Of the country.
He overlooked the fact that Mckinley
said 1.-THE cause of the prosperity IN
the west is the bOuntiful crops and
the failures in other countries which
y gave them goud price for their
= products"
He said few years ago a number OF
farmers were elected to office, but
that they missed their calling; that
thev were intended to plOw corn.
His iGea seems to be that the farmer
should be only the beast of burden
and the politicians should run the
government.
He advised all men to join pO-
litical party and said the independent
voter was only a bushwhacker. He
said they should join the Republican
party, hut such as would not join the
Republican party might join the
Democratic party. However, if there
were any monstrosities whose minds
were so diseased that they could not
join either of those parties they still
mad haven of refuge in the POpulist
party.
He charged the Democratic and
Populist members Of the last congress
with being diSlOyal for voting against
tue Issuing of bonds, aud While he
admitted that the issuing OF bonds
was unnecessary, yet he sad the
members of congress did not know
that fact,
He then denounced the POpuliSt:
aud Democrats for favoring the free
coinage of silver and the issuing OF
treasury notes, but advocated the
gold standard and the issuing Of the
paper money by corporations.
On state issues, he denounced the
stock yards law, tue insurance law
and the school book law, passed by
PopuliStS and Democrats OF the last
legislature and said the Republicans
are in favOrof controlling the corpora
tions, while the PopuliSts desire u
destroy them. Pray, tell us, when
did the Republicans OF Kansas con-
troll the corporations? And when
did the POpuists of Kansas destroy d
4 corporation?
= Let US honestly examine those laws
that are so Objectionable to Mr.. Bailey
and determine whether he is right
or wrong in his conclusions.
| have shipped stock and though
the price OF corn might be 20 or 81
cents and hay s. or Sc per ton, yet
always had to paySl per bushel for corr
and $50 per ton for hay, and no per
SOD could get it for less as the STOCK
yards companies always charged those
prices and would not permit you tt
buy from an outside party. Theil
yardage fee was 25 cents pei
day for cattle and other stock il
proportion
The stock yards law provides fet
of Is cent, for the yardage of cattle
and other stock in proportion, ant
allows the company TO charge 100 pc
cent above the market price for feed
or in other words, if corn is worth 2
cents per buShel, the company Cal
charge 40 cents and if hay is wOrtI
81 per ton, the company can charg
$40 per ton, Mr.. Bailey denOunce
this as unjust TO the company ant
calculated to destroy it.
a test case has been before tn
United States court a, great amour
OF testimony taken, able argument
prUdlced, and the court has found tn
fees and charges to be lawful an
gust and has sustained the law in ever
Il particular.
Where is the farmer that woul
continue farming il he could bu
products one dav and sell them tn
next at an advance Of 100 per cent
Where is the business man that woul
not be satisfied with quick sales at
profit Of 100 per cen t?