Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-28
Headquarters of the Peoples Party.
TOPEKA. KANs, Sept. II, 1899


AS you are doubtless aware. trusts
and combinationsof wealth have -four
ished under the present national ad-
mInistraEion as never before. Pros
perIty for them has been fact and
not a theory; gigantic monopolles
have ridden rough shod over smaller
institutions In every state in the IN
ion. Since January L, 1899, more
trusts have been formed, involving
greater number Of dollars than was
was formed prior to that IN the his
tory of the nation. Mckinley ar
gued that it was better to open the
mills than the mints, but he did
neither, as more mills have closed by
these trust highway men, who flourish
as never before under his admins
tration, and the minis remain as they
were before, coming as few silver
dollars as the conditions will possibly
allow.
Thousands Of skilled workman have
been thrown out of employment by
these unlaW ful combinations known
as trusts Fully 100000 travelling
men have been taken off the road,
because with ali competition throttled,
and with the leading manufactures
of the country in a trust, it is not
necessary to solicit people to buy,
they are compelled to do so. Prices
have been forced up by these combi-
nations without any regard to supply
or demand, while the products Of the
farm have remained practically the
same, and in some instances even
lower More strikes have occurred,
involving greater number of man,
in the past year than for any like
period in the past, and from repub-
lican standpoint the men are always
wrong, the corportions always right +;
the trusts believe the same.
We have a republican state admin
tration in power; the most extrava-
CANT the state has seen for many ears.
Compared with the popuiist admins
tratlon which it succeeded, 1t is a
failure in every particular, and an
abominatIon Ia the sight of all fair
minded voters. The rankest and most
insulting partisanshlp ever known has
been INDUCED ia state and education
al institutions have been practically
wrecked by removal OF competent men
to make place for healers End serVIle
voters of the trust brand. The re-
publican party before the man. Our
party since its first organization stands
for the man before the dollar.
1t is to give the voters the details
of this administration OF treasury
WreckeIs, both national and state that
we make ihis appeal to you. We
have hit upon plan that we believe
we can raise sufficient funds to do
this. We have printed and is now
ready for distribution, a handsome
little button marked "A. L !" meaning
antitrust VI . ask each 10y al cItIzen
IN the state TO contribute TO this good
work by sending dollar TO our sec.
rotary, w I. Upton, 525 Everett
street, Kansas CITY, Kansas, who on
receipt of same will mail you ten of
these buttons. You can dispose of
them IN fifteen minutes at ten cents
each, and thereby have assisted your
state committee IN financial way
and been out out little time and mon
ey yourself We think 1t would be
asking little Of our voters TO contrib,
ute ten cents each to the campaign
fund, and If they should do SO 1t
would raise a greater amount of funds
than the party ever before handled
during a campaign.
Again In conclusion, we ask evevy
loyal citiz9n who loves good govern
ment better than the kind we are now
having, to send to the address above
gwen, any sum from fifty cents to one
hundred dollars, as they see fit, and
we will guarantee on our part that
the money will be spent in judicious
manner, and one calculated to further
the interests of the party and good
government.
TAYLOR RIDDLE, Chairman.
W. I. Upton, Secretary.