The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-11-02

Washington. in his farewell address es-
pecially warned his eountrymen against
win avoid the necessity o. those over
grown military establishments which un-
der any form Of government are fnauspi-
cious to liberty and which are to be re-
garded as particularly hostile to repub-
lican liberty" The whole record, the
whole history. the entire procedure of
up to the present administration is a
loud, earnest and all anxious warning
against large standing army.
NO POSSIBLE EXCUSE UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION.
So, naturally. the states also in their
constitutions and laws have declared
against standing armies. The fourth Sec
ton of the bill Of rights of the consti-
tuition of Kansas is as follows:
The people have the right to bear
dangerous to liberty and shall not be
tolerated, and the military should be in
strict subordination to the civil power"
In the face of such constitutional pro-
visions and of such a long course Of con-
struction and procedure by our govern
ments. both state and national. what
demand to increase the standing army
of the United States to 100000 men2 That
such an army Is not needed Is demon
strated by the experience of 12O years.
That the people can be relied upon to
defend and maintain their own institu-
tions against enemies either at home or
proposition that needs only to be stated
to be understood. AS such an army is
not necessary, the question at once arises,
whence comes the motive and where does
the purpose of organizing such body
originate? Has congress been petitioned
to increase the regular army? Has la
asked congress to establish large stand
Ing army? Have the farmers asked for
IT. Have the people asked for 1T? Has
And yet there are those who want it.
Who are they?
They are the same class which has
ments in every country They are the
tyrants and oppressors of our age and
the carrying out of their designs against
free institutions and upon the people and
the peoples substance who in the prose
schemes desire to be in position to sup
press summarily and despotically all OPP
position. They are the men who are to-
the law of every state by forming them
selves into gigantic combinations and con-
spiracies in restraint Of trade and to
control the markets, to plumber the peo-
pie and to degrade and enslave labor.
They want a large standing army to
shoot down strikers and to suppress the
populace in times Of excitement and trou-
BILE: If such an army shall be formed
as 1t Is no longer needed upon the frontier.
and great trade and industrial centers.
INJUNCTION WILL THEN NOT BE
NECESSARY.
Then, when trouble arises between en-
pioyer and emplOye, between capitalists
and wage earners. the ruling class al
fiance Of law. will not be under the neces-
sity even of a resort to the government
but reaf th Its END by
process of government by the bayonet,
the bullet. and when necessary. the can
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the sheriff's posse, the constable and his
deputies, and even the city police will
the federal army, which will be thence
forth employed generally as a sort of
federal police. with which to suppress
masters shall consider it necessary. This
is militarism. This is despotism.
ns day th that st aa ns rmy the a the
United States to 100000 men will mark
United States from the policy Of consti-
an imperial military establishment.
Having taken this step. having sun
dered the salnItory restraints Of the con
ditions of the past. having ignored the
lessons of history and embarked upon the
ana On
given free rein to the wild. fierce. destruc-
tive and lawles impulses Of the human
heart. further increase to 100000. $780,
900 or 100000. with a crushing increase in
the burden of taxation and every other
evil which follows in the wake Of imper-
man can foresee. Then local self-govern-
ment will be no more and the greatest
bulwark of liberty will be in the possess
sion of the greatest enemy of liberty.
Against this monstrous iniquity the
democratic party has set it's face like
flint. 1t pleads for law and liberty. for
justice and peace. and will resist militar-
ism with all it's power to the end.
PARTY OF LINCOLN THOUGHT VERY
DIFFERENT.
ham Lincoln. did not think so. He regard
ed the declaration of independence as the
chief cornerstone of the republic. The
republican platform of 1860 also declared:
pies promulgated In the declaration of in
dependence and embodied in the federal
constitution. that all men are created
equal. that they are endowed by their
that among these are life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness; that to secure
these rights governments are instituted
among men. deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed is es-
sential to the preservation of our repub-
lican institutions" And the republican
national natl platform OF lsss also declared:
laid down in the immortal declaration
of independence as the true foundation
of democratic government; and we hail
with gladness every effort toward making
these principles living reality on every
inch of American SOIL CTAis plank was
repeated by the republican party in 1861
mates. defines and declares the rule as
to the origin and sources of public powers
in this republic. That the definite ruls
e fy be- Of n
dependence is law and has been SO rec
ognized by the supreme court of the
United States in more than one instance: