The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-08-01
rived at the cost of their fellow men.
would rather yield than hold them on such

rived at the cost of their fellow men.
would rather yield than hold them on such
terms.
1.-The truth remains that if ever deliver
ance is to come from the rapacious COM
binations now in real control Of the coun-
try's affairs, If the abuses OF power which
have put to shame our national principles
and traditions, are to find redress the relief
must spring from party which will unite
the people In defense of the common well
fare, in unfiinching hostility to its insid-
ious and powerful enemies.
Democracy Able to Restore Rights.
Cannot the democratic party do this
great thing? Cannot we gain from its
thorough understanding of the rights Of
man clear vision of the true source ard
handspring of these mighty evils which
have become so harmful, so menacing to
our countrymen, and enkindle the noble
love Of fierce, uncompromising fight for
noble ends which marks its history of use
fulness and glory? There stands before US
in arrogant defiance, its natural, dearest.
enemy, unmistakable, never so boldly I'M
covered, never more 1agrantly violating the
common right.
Under the false and deceitful name of
protection to industry there has arisen
such a system of combining devices of
legislation with devices of business man
agement to obtain mastery of the people as
was never before seen in this or any other
hard to find any parallel for unless in ORR
| entail despotisms.
Their fabulous gains have won to the
management of these combinations some
of the ablest minds and the best trained
skill in the American business and legal
world, men capable to draft laws that will
most cunningly extinguish competition and
pass dominion to their hands, or Qf need
be to hoodwink legislators) laws that shall
seem to enact one thing and really enact
nd To
the agencies of production and the markets
that every laborer and producer of what
ever class of goods or necessaries they
choose thus to appropriate to their monop-
oily Is forced to work within their lines
and on their allowances, while every con-
sumner must pay an unconscious excess
above all cost and fair profit whenever ne
| cessity compels him to buy.
DingIey Tariff Aids the Rich.
Experience has so refined their skill,
both in adapting legislation and with its
aid, in shaping affairs of business that
| diabolical perfection its use of congress
| was reached by the Dingley tarin enact
| ment, but the limit of ingenuity in creating
| forms of monopoly enabled by it for public
| plumber seems yet far from being found.
| Their effectiveness already is astounding.
THE ruthless conquerors of India found
| in the fabulous treasures of the nabobS they
plundered no such riches a S have been thus
unjustly taken from the producers of this
| in single hands, Won within but few years.
| such as in other lands are to be found
| only by accumulated inheritance and
growth through many generations. The
| craft of these masters has been only out
| stripped by their audacity, yet even they
must wonder at the enormities their coun-
| trymen will endure and their patience in
| the servitude.
Nothing less than the vast productive
ness of our millions Of laborerS working
| country could possibly supply such streams
| as, cunningly gathered from innumerable
| rills, now pour into the watts of these mar
velous wealth suckers. We have at last
| reached a stage in this oppre ssion where
| their exactions lie upon almost every ar
ticle of human necessity and comfort.
People Slaves to the Trusts.
1.-THE American people, boasting indie
| pendence which had its root in resistance
| to unjust taxation, now find themselves
bound hand and foot in practical slavery
| to great confeoeracies which more ex-
| actingly enforce taxation for private gain
| than ever tax collectors for public use;
! harder masters than a hereditary aristoc-
| racy, for they at least acknowledge the
maxim of noblesse oblige.
| mot a so-caled freeman in our land can
| build a house to shelter his wife and chill
dren, cover them with clothing, buy food
| for their hunger or Goals to cook 1t, can
| procure the very necessaries OF life, spar
|
| put in extra days of labor to earn this
| Ubiquitous exaction.
And the worst of it is not the money
| outrage, gross a s that has come to be. Our
entire business. social and political sys-
| TENS are, through this means, undergoing
| a menacing change. Every considerable
town now contains many who are depend
ent for livelihood on the will of the man
| ager of some great combination, salaried
| dependents and not infreQuently on ca
| fnCRnRndent
| ness enterprises have been extinguished.
Consumer ut Mercy of Iron Terms
"In many lines of trade the suppression
| of competition has become so perfect that
| the consumer finds he can no longer ne
| gotiate; he must buy on the iron terms de-
| creed him or go without. So enriching are
| these methods that more objects of need
| and use are continually being brought with
| in their compass.
| "At the pace the movement has attained
| it can be but few years, if it go unchecked,
| before substantially the entire range of
| manufacture, mining, trade and transpor
| tation will stand composed of a few mas
| tiers and millions of employees, the latter
constrained to trade Only at what may be
called practically company stores and
| all agriculture will be helplessly ensnared,
| as it already is to no small extent. Liberty
| in the pursuit of livelihood will well-nigh
| have disappeared, for with the devices of
| our modern invention 1t IS unnecessary
| longer to manacle the condemn with
| ball and chain.
| These are not pictures of speech; they
| are melancholy facts. Nor CD they half tell
| the story. This is but summary sugges-
| ton of the evil to business life, while the
| consequences entailed upon all its aspects
| as well as our social life and political
| conditions would require volumes to detail.
/ The facts are in sight of the people every
| day in some shape, but many have SEEM
| ingly become so habituated to them as to
| irertly suffer without thinking of relief,
as they who dwell by swamps accept ague
as a dispensation of Providence.
| Democracy a Foe to Paternalism.
| 1--WE have recently heard much discussion
| of trusts, learne6ly profound, sometimes,
| with phrases which mean little to the or6f-
| nary reader, possibly to no other. The
necessity for aggregating wealth to &C.
| complish great ends is also expounded and