The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-02-13
THE MOOSE FEEDS.

THE MOOSE FEEDS.
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1912 in the votes Of four million
Americans.
Everywhere Is Special Privilege.
There are those who profess to be-
/ Ieve that the Progressive party viii
pass. There are men In the grea'
financial centers Of the country, seat
ed around their mahogany tables. in
dolent with the fat of easy and dis
honest wealth. arrogant in the fancied
security of undisturbed immunity
who lay the f1attering JUNCTION hourly
to their souls that the Progressives
are passing as a party Ihere are
trimming, compromising, straddiine
political leaders in Washington. lead
ers who are lost in fog OF special
privilege. seeing who see not, hearing
who hear not, leaders who set their
own desires and designs against the
mighty current of the times-who
spell from every p.ssing event the
dissolution of the Progressive party.
There are little groups of conspiring
ringsters out over the country seated
around the stove in the county clerk
Office who live politically on the eter-
nally springing hope that at least once
more the people. through a partisan
habit Of thought, through indiner-
ence. or confusion. will, in forgetting
us. let them win. And everywhere
Special Privilege. its head and front
and all it's servitors-Special Privilege
poisoning the very air we breathe.
debating the terms the reactionary
in. the arch enemy of the repul lie,
sucking away the substance OF the
nation, draining it's vitality. every
where Special Privilege is fighting us
with the wishborn thought that the
Progressive party cannot last.
Forces That Are for Us.
but, lighting with US everywhere.
is the very age ITSELF its problems. its
complexities, it's perils and its injus-
tees. Less than 125 men control
business aggregating $22,0OO.0oO.ooos
which Is one-sixth Of all our wealth.
Nearly 40 per cent Of the privately
try has concentrated into the hands OF
1876 holders. Our phosphate deposits
are gone Our coal is going. Our
annual transportation payment
through sxtortion and manipulation
and exploitation has reached the
$500, 100000. These facts fight for
us. And back of US in the battle Is
labor, struggling for q fair proper
ton of the wealth it creates: back OF
US is the awful challenge to free
America in the wan face of the child
factory worker; back OF US Is the infa-
NOUS spectacle of the bent form OF
underpaid and overworked women in
the sweatshops of the land; back of
us is the crippled merchant the bur-
dened farmer, the exploited worker;
back of US Is the mighty cry for So
cial Justice; back of US the divine
passion for democracy. the radiant
Against Us.
AGAINST us, the sublimation Of or
ganized political selfishness and COM
mercial greed. For us the nobilities
and the humanities. Shall we win or
shall we perish? AS God is mighty.
and the Truth prevails. and as this
democracy which set out to establish
justice. Is sure, the Progressive party
is marching on. not to compromise.
not to amalgamatfon. not to dissolu-
ton and defeat. but. in the minds
and hearts OF the patriotic men and
women Of this land, to victory"
The Beveridge Message.
"It was in Kansas sthat Abraham
Lincoln made his great speech against
matchmaking the new party which
y
with any other party whatever. 1t
was on Kansas soil that Lincoln flung
his bold defiance in the face of those
who were willing to give up their
principles, II by doing 1t they could
get the office. The work that Lincoln
began in his new party of his day the
people now are resolving to finish
with the new party they have founded
in our day in Lincoln's spirit and for
Lincoln's purposes. Lincoln's great
fight. which overshadowed his every
other fight, was to keep the American
to make the Americans one people
again in fact as well as in name, In
political action as we'll as in political
theory.
This vast patriotic task every Re-
publican politician admits the Repub-
lican party cannot do. The Republic
can party never can break up the
tried to do so and it has failed. It
always must fail. Human nature
stands in the way. The bitter years
of the Civil war. which desolated ev-
cry southern home, the twelve long
years of carpet bag rule, far worse
than the scourge of war itself. all this
woven into the very fiber of the life
and thought of southern men and wo-
men with the name Republican party.
There are thousands of families and
even whole sections in the south
which have not yet replaced the brave
strong men killed off in battle: and
there are southern states today which
are paying interest on millions OF
public debt made by carpet bag gov
ernors and legislatures. not one dollar
of which ever went into the public
treasury. but every dollar of which
went into the private pockets of those
who made the debt.
ical part of this republic there is only
one political party. The reason OF
this is that until now only the Demo-
cratic party and the Republican party
have faced one another as the only
political parties for whom the south
ern DeODle could vote And for tha