The New Era from Topeka, Kansas • 5

BROTHERS YOUR BATTLE'S -ARE CURS. Thousands are dependent upon public or private chanty for lood and shelter. These are neither tramps nor idlers, but self respecting and industrious citizens, to whom the Sedgwick county, the home of tho Governor, has felt the influence of the New Era and will shake off the slimy coil of fusion and put a straight bread of chanty is very buter; they are peo ple whom campaign orators are prone to call ticket in the field. the bone and sinew of the nation. Such men as those who fought ith Warren at Yes, the New Era.

is doing a noble Bunker Hill and suffered with Washington at Valley Forge, to secure for themselves and their children the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to found in this new and a 'governraet of the people, for the peo work. Secretary Osborn has felt the charm of its logic and has yielded to its invigorating influence and declared in a straight forward and manly manner in favor of "anti-fusion. A recent gathering of state house of ple and by the people, such men as those who thirty years ago rushed to arms when A revolution of thought is on. The financial pressure has struck a fatal blow at all our industries. Consternation has seized the masses.

The business and industrial situation is truly distressing. Banks business houses, and factories by the hundreds have closed their doors. The army of the unemployed have grown into the millions. Profit has been obliterated from labor. Markets are destroyed.

Debt presses heavier than ever. There is no light ahead. Every day finds us lower down than the day beforer. If help comes not quickly the chilly winds of winter will sing a sad requium over the new-made graves of thousands of the victims of the murderous system-which has been the life of the nation was threatened; such are the men who today, from enforced idle ficials declared that fusion was a fail ness, eat the hateful bread of dependence." E. L.

(J. urethey couldn't get the people to gulp it down in the face of such violent opposition aud they would TRUTH IS ENDURING. have to fall into line with the New BRIGHTER DAYS. Eva L. Corning.

Oh, for a bright and happy day To dawn once more on earth. When every living ereature may Proclaim his rights by birth; When peace and plenty flow along As glides the silver stream, And right shall overshadow wrong And joy on all shall beam. will justice rule the land With human love compltte, With brother, sister, hand in hand In liberty so sweet? When will the systems that oppress Be driven far away; The tired starving ones find rest And food to cheer each day? All, this shall come when men unite In union firm and And take away the laws that smite The many, not the few. When this they do they shall be crowned As patriots brave and true: "On history's page their names be found Amid fames deathless few. The stars shall shine with brighter hue Upon her sons that night, And glory from the realms so blue Will give you strength and might.

And in the breeze the leaves shall sway And sing your praises there, And truth will ever guide your way To always do what's fair. Then brothers, come with armor strong, The ballot for your guide. And speech and song shall lead you on To right, what e're betide. With mn of noble actions now, Pray, what have we to fear? We'll save our land fair country now. And home so sacred, dear.

This is the time of great nation Era and advocate the pure principles al danger. Wreck and ruin are upon us. The two old parties of the Omaha platform. Those in Osage County who know alike are responsible for the present condition of things. Thev us Know mat contumely, insults.

abuse and vilification serve only to built up in this country since the days of African slavery. In this hour of sorrow and des stand condemned before the bar of enlightened public opinion as the robbers of a nation's industry, the murderers of millions. nerve our arm to strike more vigorous blows in defense of our convictions of right, and that we never yet hesitated to cross swords with an pair, broken hopes and bleeding He who would fuse with either hearts, women can not sit idly of them, under the pretence of benefitting a nation of victims, is a down and perish. They can not sit in silence and see their brethren enemy. Every thing in politics is going collossal fool or a blackhearted cround in the mill even of their our way ine jnew jra leads.

knave. own making. Patriots are needed, men who Barbarity is stamped on the The Herald, after it has sucked the slimy old democratic teat dry, will follow on after. Its editor never yet sit not at the council table of the Danes of history. An infamous mill is grinding humanity, and sad led in the fields of reform thought wreckers of industry, nor walk arm in arm with the servants of plutocracy and their deluded followers.

to say the men made it. Its grist is the poverty of the masses, vice, crime, prostitution, the loss of reason, the destruction of honor, a JOHN RADFORD. The New Era will take its The Populist platform fo New York contains the following plank: stand along this line and the gates of hell shall not prevail against us. -The Daily Press, speaking of the silver meeting held in this city has "We demand the construction of wage and tenant people. This mill must be dismantled that its the following to trrinding must cease.

A new civ public works for the unemployed, including a rapid transit road for New York city, an eight-hour law rigidly enforced, state and municipal owner In the future when the history of stirring events shall be written the utterances of the New Era will glitter as diamonds upon the pages of truth. ilization must be builded based upon equity and justice, which shall recognize and guarantee the ship of railways and gas and electric lighting plants and tbe merpora rights of all. tion in the new constitution of the "City Attorney D. Tillotson was next introduced. He said there was a great con between both sides to this question and one seemed to knock the other out at every turn.

He found hard times under silver coinage. He, however, favored free coinage because it would bring the silver using countries into closer relation with the United S'ates. He apologized for the goldbugs of the east and this brought to hit feet Mr. The women of Kansas are called A DANGEROUS POWER. principle of the initiative and to engage in the work of this building.

They have responded That men should go without em nobly. The Woman's Progressive ployment and be forced to starve and suffer in a rich and productive Political League is in the right di rection. It will be planted in ev Radford, whom the audience called out to Tie up the circulating medium, and though the granaries are full to overflowing, though factory and storehouse is piled with fabrics, -yet destitution prevails; mortgages are foreclosed. Comfortable and tasteful homes, the product of years of faithful, hopeful effort, pass nto the hands of the money lender. The free-hold- answer Mr.

Tillotson's remarks. He had land is the crime of the ages. The provisions of the above plank should ery -county, township and city in the state and nation, ana soon it be put in operation, as far as possi shall be said: "The women have ble, and without delay, in every state in the union. their lights trimmed and burning." They are coming from every state The adoption of the initatiativt in the Union. The burdens they and referendum is necessary in order bear, the evils they endure, are to get reforms out of politics.

There common, ney win join in a com can be no political reform without er Decomen a wage-iaDorer, ioo crxen a beggar for work, which being denied not from choice, but from necessityhe becomes a tramp. The daily papers are full of recitals of vice and crime, the inevitable concomitants of enforced idleness, want and misery. These alternate periods of "good times" and "bad hate) for many decades, so unfailingly recurred, that they have come to be re- mon defense. The lights they first getting direct legislation from kindle will presently illumine the the sympathy of the audience and in a twenty minute's speech quoted more historical facts and apt illustrations than the average speaker could crowd into twice that length of time. His remarks were frequently interrupted by applause.

John Radford is one of our straight middle of the road boys and few men are better able to discuss the economic questions than he. He is a echolor, thoroughly posted, ripe in experience and the peer of any man along the lines of thought in the state. It is the universal opinion that our John raised the City Attorney's scalp. By the way, this is the very man whom Gov. Lewelling pushed aside, world.

1 he songs they sing wn the people. Delegated power is al ways abused. enthuse humanity. Perish the hand which would still her voice in the great struggle FOLLOWING AFTER for human rights, or hedge up her It is a waste of money for the re pathway as she pleads tor home as against the greed of mammon. oons that sweep over the desert, indeed THEY ARE THE SIMOONS that SWOep with blasting breath, over the industrial world.

Their real cause and utterly unnecessary provocation, have publicans to keep Cyrus Coming's New Era afloat to fight the People's ll 1 1 1 While the president of a great party unaer me cioax oi a inena He's too well known in Kansas. Peo nation is fishing and his" associates been so guarded by their perpetra in crime arc revcung in uicir m- tors, tnat only recently nave tneir nia-den source and baneful effects been brought to the mental vision of their victims. CoL John K. Kelso in "Gov with all his splendid backing, to commit the henious crime of filling the most important position in the state, so far as reform, the interests of our business and industrial classes, and the life of the People's party, are concerned, with the incompetent, and inexperienced and a characterless man, J. F.

Todd, that fusion might be built up and fostered in the state, and the slums have a chance to run and be glorified. gotten gains, the noble warnen of Colorado, cursed by the greed of the gold kings, met in convention and sent out to the world the following touching appeal. If men will not act to clear the way for a higher better life by undoing their work of the past women will strike the blow which shall rend the chains and bid shackled humanity go free. woman's touching plka. ernment Analyzed." The above is a clear, cut statement of a fact This people are now fully realizing it in their own experience Any effort at reform which does not aim to change the nature of our circulating medium so that it shall be completely beyond the power of any man, or set of men, to "corner," "tie ple's Herald.

The abovA is the same oli song Fowler used to sing when he was a republican. The Herald gives us the credit of being well known in Kansas. We ought to be. We have skinned tbe republicans for many years, on every proper occasion on account of their high handed outrages of the people, and we are quite sure they will never forgive or forget usfor.it. Just now we are engaged in skinning hypocrites who poss as Populists and consort with democrats.

We are highly successful in our undertaking. Shawnee countythe home of the New Era, has turned these traitorous hypocrites under, and has endorsed our position by putting an anti-fusion ticket in the field. Many other counties in the up," or "contract," will be useless. All hail Butler county that she failed and "refused to endorse this -8- Pdrtyism denies the right of criticising officials and deifies "leaders." The bad must be taken with the good Iart discord weakens, and de worthless incumbrance of hers for the position he now holds and disgraces. If the people will patiently sub "In the face of unparalleled disasters, the women of Colorado in mass meeting assembled, appeal to yonr honorable bodies.

We respectfully petition that at the special session of congress legislative measures be adopted to allow the free coinage of silver at the present ratio. The country is now in great distress from the hcVof currency. Manufactures have closed their mills, miners their mines: formers are unable to move their mit to oppressive systems the pres stroys, the party. Under such a pol-icv tbe bad rapidly ground until it is master over all If this pol sure will be applied, and with con-stantly increasing force. The spirit crop lor want of money.

Industries are every i 1 icy shall control the new party then there can be nothing gained by de a hnvA done likewise, and others of our forefathers is necessary to wnere oreaaing aown. io every urge tuy throughout our land men and women walk the street seeking work and finding none. serting the old and building the new. will follow in their footsteps Even turn back the tide of tyranny..