The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-03
GOING POPUTIs.

pronounced that New OTk ana the
east is becoming Populistic. It is
becoming imbued with some Of the
same ideas that swept over Kansas
when the "craze" was in full blast IN
1891. Ickelheimer and the Great Red
Dragon are beginning to terrify the
fasteners.
These signs are becoming more and
more apparent. The immense vote
given W. r. Hearst for mayor in New
York City last year was one of these
signs. Another is the literature which
is appearing occasionally IN that sec
ton.
It win be remembered that Populist
tracts and newspapers of the early
nineties were Allied with iurid litera-
ture. That is what the east is getting
now. It's populism is not the compare
lively sane variety which characterized
the later years of the Populist party
in Kansas. but it is that rabid, Wild
eyed kind that started things in the
west
A few years ago eastern investors
who had boarded up their savings and
loaned them out, making the interest
payable in gold. were anxious to put
the country on a gold-standard basis
SO as to make their gold as valuable as
possible. The west that had to pay
the interest did not want 1t that way.
But since then the mines of the world
have poured forth such flood that
the eastern mans gold is becoming de-
preciated. It won't buy nearly as
much property as it once did. A dozen
years ago a five-dollar gold piece
would buy twelve bushels Of wheat and
a wagon load OF corn. Now it will
buy only half that much wheat and
a fourth as much corn. Neither viii
their gold buy near as much land or
Industrial securities as formerly.
In the meantime the trust and big
Industrial combinations have been
squeezing these eastern people the
same as they have everybody else. It
begins to look to them as though the
country is on the verge of financial
and moral ruin. While the west has
been prospecting Immensely, the re-
sources of the east have been abridged.
The west used to send a great amount
Of money east on its mortgages; it
keeps the interest itself now.
So the east cannot be blamed for
growing Populistic and denouncing
the Money Power. A tract recently
issued IN New York by a party going
by the name Of Morrison I. Swift
sounds like some of those which Kan
sas used to read a decade and a half
ago, only more 50. MFR SWIFT lives up
to his name when It comes to Singing
denuneiatory language. His tract is
n 7
P. Morgan, Ogden Armour. and other
plutocrat wreckers Of the nation"
.'I will name your crimes says Mr..
Swift in bold. black type, and he pro
ceeds to name. as follows:
You have condscated the nations
wealth.
Thereby you have changed a free
people into a population of serfs, wip-
ing out the achievements Of ages.
You are incarnate greed. vultures in
form Of men, arrogant shameless, IN
human. Among the worst characters Of
all time there has not lived more be-
sottedly rapacious crew.
BRUTAL as beasts Of prey, you have
pitiiessly wrecked what was highest In
America. You have trampled out Lib
erty. Opportunity. Equality, Justice, In
telligence, Manhood, Character. Who
ever would live and work IN this coun-
try now must be your groom.
you are Enemies of Law No laws
are holy to you but those you have
bought to shelter your riotous raids on
the peoples wealth. By swindle, Fraud,
Corruption, Brutality and Robbery, you
have broken or nullihed every man you
could not bribe."
/ Zoe
more s.crimes," but these will do as
samples. Farther on he says:
1T is now war with you to the end.
It snan be war without compromise.
You are utterly venonnous and deadly;
you have proved that your type. cannot
exist with safety to mankind Your
caste must go.
I'm this war you will lose. Your pre-
datory Kingdom and Slavery bar IN
dustrial Equality and Liberty. Auto
cracy of Wealth now manacles US. we
shall have Democracy of Wealth. You
wrung from the whole people, restore
your stealings to the whole people. We
cannot return to divided industry Unity
Is the modern idea. but unity under all,
not under a horde Of Vandals. Transfer
the title Of your wealth to the public
you will not? Then it shall be taken
from you. If like wild beasts you cling
to your stolen billions, they shall be
wrested back. The eternal war for free
dom viii break on your heads. who are
the last and meanest slave-makers.
For while all white men here grew in
liberty as their supreme right. you have
/ beaten them down into worse than
/ chattel jervitude. A toc-in will ring
| through the land laundering your ex-
tinction You shall be forced to dis
gorge"
Having denounced the Money Power.
Mr.. Morrison I. Swift turns to the Peo-
pie with this appeal
People. Rise and throw these extor-