People's voice., 1900-03-29

are to win In November, we must
have, the hearty and constant coop
Grafton OF every Populist in the state
In the great work of spreading our
principles among the great mass of
honest but unconverted Republicans
In times past the committee has re-
fused to bill avowed candidates for
nomination. for speeches. The COM
mittee is now ready, however, to bill
for speeches any on1 who believes in
our principles and can give his rea.
sons for the faith that is within him.
We can not afford to put on the re-
tired list all the sp.endid men who
are candidates for the nomination for
governor, or for any other Office.
Rather let US set them all at WORK
and award the palm of leader to him
who from now until the state conven-
tion shows most ability, activity and
devotion to our common cause.
Every Populist in the state should
subscribe at once for his county paper,
for Jerry Simpsons "Bayonet" and
for the Twice a Week Times" He
should then start right out after his
neighbors and get up club for the
"Bayonet" at the present nominal
price of twenty-five cents year. We
cannot have first class papers unless
we support them, and without first
class papers widely circu ated we
cannot win. Every speaker should
take subscriptions for the county and
state papers. The state committee
desires to make it exceedingly plain
that we cannot carry Kansas next
November unless the people awake
from their lethargy and laziness, put
their hands into their pocketbooks,
take off their coats and fight like
Beers for their principles Such q
fight will bring certain victory.
After We have conquered our ty-
rants at the polls, our most desperate
conflict is before us To complete
their subjugation we must face their
final stand in the halls Of Congress
and In the courts. What policy will
bring success in the strugglsP First
of all, 1t Is certain that we cannot
afford to indulge In obsolete puerile
quack palliativeA
We might as weal try to sweep back
the ocean with broom as to attempt
TO foFce business back into the old
narrow competitive ehsnas,s y re-
prsssive, restrictive or prshibitivs
legislation
A trust, not built on special privi-
leges, 'is labor saving machine "
Yes, but at present prostitutsd by
monopolies to their own base pur-
poses Mr.. Rockefeller and others
have proved that a trust is good
thing for those who are in it, and, as
Colonel Little says, 1.-THE only solu-
tion is for all the people to get in it. l"
The long, feeble, habby history of at
tempted government control or state
control of giant corporations by CON-
missions, as we'll as the history OF re-
pressive, restrictive and prohibitive
antitrust legislation, is one long, lu-
gubrious history of failure. To say
that these laws have not been pro-
perly enforced, that when they have
been, the courts have stepped in and
interfered, IS to state the truth, but
not the whole truth In the first place,
to enforce these laws, would require
statesmen so incorruptibly pure that
they could not be bribe1, so colossal
in genius that they could not be out
witted, so brave that they could not
be bulldozed, and so bullet proof that
they could not be assassinated. Hero
ism, genius aud dauntless bravery
spring up in emergencies, but laws
which are worthless without con-
slant and never failing supply of such
qualities, are impracticable. 1t is
the same old fable over again, that a
brave, self sacrificing genius as auto
crat is the best government We find
these men occasionally, but the rank
and file of the worlds autocrats and
politicians is not made up of that
kind of timber. In the second place,
if we had as statesmen nothing but
heroic geniuses, they could not, II
they would, and they would not il
they could, tie the world down to the
crude, expensive, business methods OF
the late, and by some lamented,
competitive System" Heroism has
better business than blocking the
wheels Of progress; and all the
genius we can muster is imperatively
demanded in the great work, not OF
abolishing new labor saving inven'
tions, but of utilizing those inventions
for the common good.
Many Of our trusts are the unnat
ural and unhealthy products OF special
privileges Some, for example, have
been built up By protective tariff
and can be destroyed by removing the
fostering tariff duties. Others exist
through the aid and protection OF the
gigantic money power. All these will
fall to pieces when the United States
government once more assumes her
fundamental prerogative of sovereign
ty and issues and contros the supply
OF money, gold, silver or paper, in the
interest, not of favorites, but OF the
who.e people, so that the demands oi
business and industry shall be mel
and stable price level maintained
Still others have been produced and