Populists throughout the country regard with demure interest the modest strides which Kansas is taking in State-Socialism.
That Republican State is to own and operate oil refineries to the end that Rockefeller’s Trust may not swallow the earth.
Besides the Kansas State refinery, the Republican legislature favors other things which are almost new under the sun.
No trust, corporation or private partnership shall be allowed to sell cheaper in one place than in another in Kansas—freight being deducted.
All over that State the price must be the same.
Maximum freight rates have been established, oil pipe lines have been made common carriers, and the pumping of Kansas gas out of Kansas forbidden.
Is it possible that we Populists are to find ourselves reduced to a state of mere “eminent respectability” by such thoroughgoing revolutionists as the Republicans of Kansas?
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