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If the People Rule Why Don't
They Get What They Want?"
L. S. Kirby, Chicago, 111. My an
swer to the abovo question la, be
cause the great public conscience is
dead, dishonesty and hypocrisy reign,
because the education of the great
rank and file of the voters ends with
the public school course, and because
tho public school is controlled by
some interests which havo not tho
interest of the people at heart, tho
young graduate leaves school with a
great void in his mind. In his
school reader ho found no lessons
on good morals to study, or the rea
son wo put on our coins, "In God we
trust," then begins the struggle for
oxistenco and all else is forgotten.
I have my old style school reader of
forty-five years ago and though I am
now sixty years old I can read over
those beautiful lessons with pleas
ure; they keep the moral perceptions
clear and tho conscience from becom
ing numb. Early impressions are
most lasting.
ed income tax; it was sustained by
the supremo court; a rehearing was
had and tho law declared unconsti
tutional. Laws of states aro nulli
fied by judges' injunctions. The peo
ple do not elect tho federal or su
preme judges; nor tho president or
senate or the postmasters. In legis
lation all minority parties aro vir
tually disfranchised; a very small
per cent of tho party controls its
actions. Corporations elect our pres
ident who appoints the court, the
postmasters; and vetoes all legisla
tion that does not suit his mastors.
The people must elect all officers di
rect; must havo tho initiative and
referendum; the power of recall and
minority representation. People
should vote for principle not party.
We have only a representative gov
ernment In name.
E. W. Webster, Inwood, W. Va.
Tho people do get what they want.
The people want tho dollar and they
get tho dollar. What do our candi
dates make their appeal to the people
hinge upon? The "full dinner pail"
and prosperity. They know and un
derstand that it is the "fishes and
loaves" that caused so many people
to follow Christ, and when Ho quit
feeding the people they went back
and followed Him no more. The
a largo foreign commerce In manu
factured clothing, the product of Im
migrant labor, will ensue."
Do not these facta prove that tho
Jewish immigrant in Now York un
derworks In tho manufacture of
clothing tho worker of Burope7 Is
It not clear thon that if wo had free
trade in wool, wo could havo high
grado woolen clothing and woolen
goods of all kinds, as cheap as they
aro in Europe? Certainly it Is not
tho immigrant workingman nor tho
native workingman, who Is getting a
plutocratic Income from tho wool
tariff. Neither was tho McKinley
tariff any more than tho present ono
imposed upon tho people for tho ben
efit of labor. St. Louis Post-DlB-patch.
Deacon Donham, Publisher "Don
ham's Doings," LeSueur, Minn. I
would suggest that they are deceived
by the newspapers into voting too
many men Into office who disregard
llieir party platforms, and ignore
their ante-election professions, if not
out-and-out promises to tho masses.
In other words the people elect too
manv Judas Iscariots to positions of
public trust.
HOW THEY DO IT .
Tn a hotel in Montana is tho fol
lowing notice:
Boarders aro taken by tho day,
week, or month. Thoso who do not
pay promptly aro takon by tho neck.
Lipplncott's.
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R. H. Craig, Los Angeles, Cal.
The people do not get what they want
because they vote for what they do
way to a man's heart is by his atom- not want. They vote for what they
ach. You can't get the people to see o not warn necauBu uiuy uio "iiuuu
the ethical principles upon which a
nation must build to stand. Satan
understood how to appeal to Adam
and Eve that he might lead them to
fail; it was by the "stomach." Tho
republican party re-discovered the
plan and named it "ibe full dinner
pail" and "prosperity," and the devil
went to sleep; he will not bo dis
turbed until they are defeated. Mark
you as long as the stomach rules
men's brains men will sell out and
that which is right, (the ethical)
will bo dpfcated. It is the rule of
gold that we havo and not the
"golden rule." Tho people have what
they want. They voted for it and
have it; let them suffer, let them be
tyrannized, let them be ruled, let
them bo driven, let them fill their
stomachs, let it become bitter, un
bearable. Let them be driven to the
sweat shops and the slums of tho
city. Let them toil for the task
masters until the yoke becomes un
bearable and they see their folly.
Let them groan until their groan be
comes a bitter sorrowing cry and
may it sever them from the worship
of Mammon. Let the task-master of
nredatory wealth put on the lash
until they aro awakened from their
mad rush after tho dollar and then
may they turn and repent in sack
cloth and ashes, yea in the frag
ments of a onco glorious republic.
Looking back on the path strewn
with the bleached bones of their fath
ers may they gather the smoulder
ing spirit of their fathers those who
fought for freedom from the shackles
of a crazy king, and as they breathe
this spirit, may it inspire them to
know tho worth of manhood and
womanhood and in the name of the
Prince of Peace may they set up a
banner with this motto: "Down
with the rule of gold, and up with
the golden rule, for by it we shall
have redemption; it is the only meth
od." Then may the gold of tho rich
rot In the coffers.
Perry Engle, Newton, Iowa. The
people do not nile, this is not a peo
ple's government. All parties fav
ored and congress passed a graduat-
wlth monev and nromises. There
fore it is the fault of the bribe-givers
In the first place; in tho second place
it is the fault of the bribe takers,
but it they were let alono they sure
would vote for what they want and
get it, for the balance of power is
in the hands of the bribe-takers, and
there is no one who knows it better
than the bribe-giver. This is proven
in tho Lorimer case in Illinois, and
in many other cases too numerous to
mention. This is as near as I can
get it in a nut shell.
AN OLT LIB REFUTED
Spieling forth a spellbinder's plea
for high protection, John C. McKin
ley, stand-pat candidate for senato
rial nomination, said at Springfield of
tho panic of 1893:
"All knew that our factories could
not sell their products in competition
with tho cheap labor of 'Other coun
tries, and hence tho mighty wheels
of industry shook, trembled and then
stood still under the awful convul
sions of political change. Enter
prises which had sprung up under
the happy influences of the McKinley
tariff law stopped short liko grand
father's clock."
That falsehood has been repeated
so often the habitual standpatter Is
no longer morally responsible for it.
Ho mutters it In his sleep, swears it
when he is drunk and babbles It to
his girl in tho twilight. Refutation
haB been ample in the past, and just
now is more abundant than ever.
Here, for example, is a statement
from the Jewish Year Book for the
ensuing year. It occurs In a defense
made of Jewish immigrants before
the house committee on Immigration,
last March:
"Only last month a clothing man
ufacturer returned from abroad hav
ing established agencies in London,
Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels and
other cities, for New York made
clothing. This is tho second or third
manufacturer who has recently put
American made clothing upon Euro
pean markets, and In all likelihood
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