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The Haney County Voice 9 NO. 5 vol, i. NEWTON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1892. as to what laws it will and what laws it will not obey, votes not for principles or party, but for its through this scheme the will deposit his grain with the government, draw from the government 80 per cent, of tho value and sell the grain at the proper time, pay back to the government the loan, and with it interest to the amount of 2 per cent. While the farmer has as much right to class legislation as the manufacturer, the Prohibiton party does not believe that either has a a right to such enactments, and that all class legislation in existence should be wiped out after which the farmer, tho wage-earner, and every citizen in whatever calling, will have an equal chance, none having an advantage over the other.

Under the sub-treasury scheme the farmer would have an oppor- business, and defies either of tho old parties to nominate a man openly opposed to it and elect him. This monopoly of monopolies, this great enemy of church, government, labor and all mankind. Beside it all other questions, just though they may be, sink into comparative insignificance. The People's party, it is true, has brought on an engagement with the pickets of the great army of fraud, monopoly and corruption, but it has absolutely refused to fight the main army of tho people's enemy, and my prediction is that the People's party must give place to a party that will do its duty all along the lino. farmer or the wage-earner in it.

No duty at all i3 imposod oh the pauper labor, tho diseased and the criminal classes, that land on our shores by the tens of thousands, almost every month. com in free, and American wage-earners suffer in consequence. If high "protection" would give idle labor work, and increase tho wages of those who already have work, then American wage-earners should have plenty of work and the best of wages. But this is not the case. On tho contrary, thousands are to-day without work, and other thousands are working for less than half pay.

Thoso who get wages commensurate with the work they do, owe it almost entirely to the labor organizationswhich are mabled to some extent to artificially hold up tho prices of labor instead of to "protection." On tho other hand, even were Democracy ablo to enact absolute "free trade," that would not result in relieving the glut in tho labor market giviug work to those who have none, and increas Yours for Straight-out Prohibition Work, SUMNER W. ROSE. tion of our beloved republic An increase of money, with all the present surrounding circumstances, will only result in more corruption and moro grinding of the people. To give tho peoplo a prosperity that will be healthy and lasting, them from tho ranks of unemployed labor. Tho United Slates reports show that in brewing it takes an investments of, about five times as much to give ono man emplymcct as is required in any other manufacturing enterprise.

So that instead of throwing out of work 250,000 men, wo will givo work, on the same investment of capital, to That party is the Prohibition party. You say, perhaps, that tho Prohibition party should be in favor of these other reforms. Why, bless you it is! you do not know it, it is becauso you have never studied its platform. It is and has been all tho time in favor of all tho just Issues the People's party is in favor of, and more. For twenty years tho Prohibition party has been in favor of electing president, vice-president and Uuited States senators by a direct vote of the people.

we must take away tho cause of corruption in politics, and we must givo all idle men work, and tunity for bleeding tho peoplo, With money loaned to him by the government he could live, and his wheat could bo held until it rose to fabulous prices, and the peoplo escaping from one form of financial oppression, would immediately find themselves borno down by another. And if tho farmer did not put the pressure upon the peoplo, con- binationa would bo quickly formed that would, for with tho liquor traffic in existence the mother of all corruption-there would bo small chance in tho power and will of men to oppress each other. When men become so enlightened as to refuse to take advantage of each other's misfortunes they will also bo enlightened to pronounce against this awful traffic that is morally, 1,000,000 additional men! And increaso wages to that point where absolute justice can bo secured. The Prohibition party, I believe. WHICH IS THE PARTY OF REFORM i' Note The following argument 'ds based upon a debate held by the author, Sumner W.

Rose, with Prof. Vincent, the editor of the Non-Conformist, the leading People's party paper. Some new facts have been added since the (debate, as the passage of events has adduced new truths, and the Original argument has been considerably revised and condensed 'to bring it within th limits of this space. FiiifiNDS and Fellow Citi-'fcissB To-day witnesses the gathering together of four armies, all pretending to bo fighting in the 'interests of the people, and all apparently preparing for a great struggle to wrest the palm of victory from tho other three. two of these armies the people are all familiar, and with of them many are yet to form their first acquaintance.

l-V Tho Republican army comes to Hie-' people claiming to bo their earnest champions, pointing to an Honorable record in the past, but refusing to give any promises as the future. In the face of strikes, lock-outs, the lowering of wages, vast combinations of wealth and power to oppress the people, and grind down declare that there never was so prosperous a time as how. Giving little or no credit to the inventive geuiu3 of our land, to the industrious habits of our people, or to the grand natural resources of America, they declare that our great success as a nation has been obtained as a direct result of a system which they are pleased to term "protection," although its protective features are of financial aid to only a small per oent of the people; and the vast majoiity are by it arbitrarily told that they shall purchase only In a ccitain a certain place, and that they shall also pay heavily for this "blessing" of the abridgement of their liberties. "Upon this rock" Republicans propose to stand, and claim the continued good will and confidence of the people. "Opposed" to them the army of Democracy is organized to talk tariff also, but it declares in favor of a "tariff for revenuo only." This, it claims, is the thing that will benefit the people, although it fails to say on what it will lay its "tariff for revenue." It must, however, lay the tariff on those things most used, else bow can it raise a revenue for the expenses of government! Then, from whence all those men becoming consumers and increasing the demand on every other laborer, In whatever employment, means a tremendous boom in the labor market in itself, is the only one that can thus solve tho problem.

In tho first place, the liquor For twenty years the Prohi. bition party has declarod "against any discrimination of capital against labor and to all monopoly and class legislation." For twenty years it has declared in favor of equal suffrage. traffic, at tho very lowest figures, based on government this country This vast, almost inconceivable amoant of will readily acknowledge, is "worse than wasted." and a rapid depiction in the ranks of unemployed labor. Prohibition is tho key to the solution of tho problem now to bring prosperity to the people. All other issuos, used alono, aro only palliatives.

The liquor traffic is the cause of much else of which labor com It not only takes tho clothes from men's back, the roofs from over ing the pay of thoso who aro making but meager wages. For proof of this, we have Great Britain, where trade is comparatively free, yet where thousands on thousands of men are out of Avork, and other thousands are working for less than half If neither "protection" or "tariff for reveuuo only" will solve the problems that aro now vexing the people, what willt Tho Peoplo's party tells us that an increase of tho money to at least $50 per capita, and tho establishing of sub-treasuries whero farmers and others may deposit their products and borrow rnonej at 2 per cent per annum, will relievo tho pressure now grinding down tho people, and establish prosperity. Wo shall examine these propositions a little further on. I now wish to call attention to tho fact that I have no desire to say aught that would cause a reflection to bo casit upon thoso who make up tho miss of the Peoplo's party. They are honest men, seeking to bring about just reforms for tho peoplo.

But two reform parties cannot long survive their heads, and makes bums and toughs of them, instead of sober, plains. Labor asks for anti-convict honest citizens, but it also robs labor of the demand for tho products ot labor, and cuts down the chance of the wage-earner on every side. Tho drunkard buys no shoes, and that helps make labor laws. Judge Noah Davis and olhsr eminent jurists, say that 80 to 90 per cent of tho crininals aro such as a consequence of the liquor traffic. With tho liquor stagnation in the shoe and leather business, from tho raising of cattle, to tho retailer, tho wholesaler, tho tanner, the hide merchant, and the at one and the samo timo, so "let For sixteen years it has been in favor of giving tho pablio lands to actual settlers only.

For sixteen years it has been in favor of prohibiting lotteries and all forms of gambling in gold, stocks, produce ami every form of money and property. For sixteen years it has declared in favor of tho governmeut issuing the money direct to tho people without tho intervention of banks. For ten years it has declare! in fa? or of government control of the means of transportation and communication. It has declared in favor of men and women receiving equal pay for equal work. And still somo people will tell you that the Prohibition party is a "one-idea" party Agaiu let us compare tho so-called Peoplo's party and the Prohibition party and see which has tho best interests of tho whole peoplo at heart, i Class legislation all will admit is a wrong and a blight.

Class legislation that is enacted to help one interest, must of necessity cripple somo other interest. You cannot make ono man rich by law without making some other man poor, as a natural result. If thero is ono whole, and by legislation I am enablod to tako three quartors, then there can be but ono quarter remaining, for whomsoever must shall with me, nnd the legislation that was made In my favor has worked Injury to my fellow man. us reason together" and learn which of thoso parties should receive our unswerving devotion. One time during the Franco-Prussian war, two soldiers in the French army "fell out," and one traffic gone, convict labor competition will be reduced SO per cent.

Labor complains over tho employment of women and children to take tho place of mn. Yet thousands of women and childron must live through their own efforts, because a husband-father, ruined through drink, fails to provide for them. Tho liquor business wiped out, and women and child competition would bo reduced to a minimum. The liquor traffio demoralizes tho ranks of labor. It makes good workmen into poor workmen, and these poor workmen, always on tbe verge of starvation, ar3 ready to tako tho place of good workmen at a less prlco than the latter aro receiving.

Hence tho 8calo of wages steadily tends downward, and on account of tho great army of unemployed labor, from which employers can recruit their shops, macy striko fail. Tho liquor traffio corrupts tho voter, and brings him to a conditio whero ho will sell his vote for drink, for money, or for an Office, and legislators are elected with the help of monopoly-money bringing tho votes of wronged, challenged toe other to light a duel. Tho commanding officer hearing of the matter, came Ic them and said: "You arc two of man who works in tho shoo factories of the country. Tho drunkard buys no woolen or cotton goods, and this causes stagnation in tho woolen and cotton goods lines, and sooner or later gets back to tho wage-earners in tho factories, and throws many of them out of work. 1 Tho drunkard buys no home, and the carpenters and builders are gveatly affected thereby, and all men who aro connected with the bailding trades.

The drunkard buys littlo to cat, and the former suffers in consequence. In fact, there is no decent trade or occupation that is not mado to eu3cr, becauso tho saloons of tlio country are making sober men into drunkards, and consumers into non-consumers of every manufactured article except intoxicating liquors. i The liquor traffic wiped out, and every drunkard must perforce become a sober man; and becoming a sober man, ho becomes worker and a wago-enrnwrj and becoming a worker nnd a wage enrncr, ho becomes a consumor, religiously and financially- the greatest blot upon our country and tho greatest obstruction in tho pathway to reform. It is useless to say that men wo aid not, under present circumstance, tako advantage of the opportunities to enrich themselves rat the expense of ethers. All precedent establishes this fact.

Are not our friends of tho Foople's party even trying to secure a victory by refusing to recognize the greatest reform in existence are they not seeking an advantage at the expense of 60,000 sonls annually, besides the $1,200,000,000 that is worso than wasted in this country each year. Jerry Simpson says that it Is poverty that makes drunkenness, instead of drunkenness poverty, and yet he does not inform us how many of, onr congressmen are paupers, (for whom saloons have been established in the capital at Washington. He does not explain how the many rich men and their sons who die drunkards every year came to bo so pauperized that they becamo drunkards. Even wcro this true, tho necessity ol wiping out the liquor traflio remains tho same, for the poor man is still poorer in manhood', In morals and in purse after he baa visited tho saloon than beforo, and tho drink has done him tho same amount of harm as if he had drunken it becauso ho was rich in stead of poor. If there wcro lo-day Issued to tho peoplo $50 por capita, that would only bo a matter of thre hundred and twenty-five million of dollars, ($325,000,000,) while tho bringing of prohibition would mean a direct yearly caving to tho peoplo of over twelve hundred millions of dollars, almost foni times in much, besides reclaiming, tho lost labor and manhood thai Is piling, up enormous, cost aod waste that still further, add to financial distress of the country.

Tho party, too, bo sides being pledged to wipe out the traffic, is pledged, to, the all money by tho government and to a sullieleucy per capita carry on tho business of' tho country with ouho and profit, jtolbut point my best soldiers, I cannot afford to lose you without also a loss to tho enemy. If you are determined to fight, take your guns, march toward tho enemy's camp, shoot ing as you go. Continue thus to do until one of you fall. Then lot tho other bring him back tw our camp. You will thus prove your courage and honor, nnd perhaps will rid us of somo of tho enemy." will come the revenue! From the shoulders of tho common people, of course, just as now, for a tariff "for revenuo only" is a tax on that which we consume, and not a tax On what wo are worth, and tho man who must pay the expenses of a family, even though bo owns not a dollar's worth of bonds, bank stock, railroad shares, or real estate, will have just as mucti of it to pay as a Gould or a Vun-dcrbilt.

this Is tho, way the army of Democracy expects to benefit the peoplo uid "reform" the 1 Tho People's party also claiming to bo tho earnest champion of those whoso interests have ho long suffered at tho bonds of the old parties. Its shibboleth is the question of finance, and it is very earnest In staling that it is owing to our finarHal system, Indorsed nl upheld I tho old par-tie. Ui which the peoplo owe ull their Bufferings. As to the Republican nnd Pcm- Tho officer's suggestion was car ried out, and tho novel duel fought. So let it bo between tho Pro hibition and tho People's parties.

ruined, and besotted men, and tho Interests of tho people aro not looked after; but on the contrary, laws aro passed that enable tho great corporations and the money power to still further grind tho and increases tlio demand for tho products of labor, nnd, therefore, tlio demand for labor itself. We aro sometimes told that by The Prohibition party platform declares most emphatically against nil class legislation of whatever nature, and as a result, should it bo eluded to power, tho law of suppv nnd demand, now stagnated, immed back, reeking with tho scum of Inactivity and disease, filled with the germs of financial cholera, a source of danger instead of blessings, and ull on account of legislation In favor of classes. But how is It with our friend of tho Tropin's party I Why they have made tho mistake of endorsing class legislation by proposing iDOm class legislation, and that of Let us fight tho common enemy while reasoning with each other, anil then let tho defeated party bo brought Safely back to tho reform cump by that ono which rc-nulns, ns the defense of the people. But to tho argument: An Increase of money alono cannot help the people to any appreciable extent, from tho fact that the root of tho great disease that is gnawing at tho I litis of our government II oh deeper than that. It is official wiping out tho saloons, tho brew-cries and distilleries, wo will throw a large numlxtrof men out of employment, to compete with tl ose who now have employment.

This Is a mistake; we merely change tho business they ore employed in. Wc not only will not Increase tho ranks of unemployed labor by closing the liquor facto- ocxHtio parties, we must conelndo peoplo and rob thorn of tho products of their Tho People's party fails to denounce this giant wrong that Is at the root of nil evil, and in doing so, has lost Its great opportunity, for no reform party can long hold together which Is not unalterably arrayed against this 'greut and overshadowing monopoly, this organized power that place ft lock on the utterances of the pulpit, bribe Juries, Issues its manifestos that they are deceiving tho people i as well as themselves. In tho first place, "protection" tt dangerous kind. The sub-treasury Huheini! Is the legislation I refer to. aro told that corruption, and tho corruption of I tho voter, that to day Is demoralizing and threatening the dentruo only protects those who aro abundantly able to protect themselves.

There no protection to the 1 rl-s and stores, but will give men employment by so doing, and lake I.