Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-09-15

soil. went to raising rye as specially for
about ten years Each crop was fail
ure. having to buy his seed every year.
If he had not started six of his children
to teaching school the tax gatherer
would long ago have had his farm.
Here is the Chicago dressed beef monop-
oily. We thought we had gotten rid Of
it in Indiana last year. as the legislature
passed law requiring all beeves to be in
spected on foot where the meat was sold,
but the packers found willing servants
in some court judges. and the law was
declared unconstitutional. am told
that eighty-five carloads of dressed beef
enters indianapolis daily
Representatives of the four packing
houses in Chicago meet every morning
and set the price. The buying is done
by one firm. with no competition what
ever, and the days purchases assigned to
the different killing houses. 1t is then
shipped all over the United States After
they succeed IN crowding mt the local
butchers they sell II at the highest posi-
BILE price Let ny examine this beet.
which is represented as being SO healthy.
clean!y and rich III flavor Most of the
cattle slaughtered there are from four to
six days or longer IN transit They are
driven from the cars. many Keeling from
exhaustion. feverish from thirst and ia
tigue, limbs all swollen. direct to the
slaughter houses and killed. The meat
is then shipped all over the whole soun-
try. The bruised parts and other pieces
which are unstable rs fresh are put in
cans and sold in that way We were
fed Chicago dressed beef at our sessions
last year at Montgomery and New Or
leans for the low rate of 80 per day. !
do hope the hotels of Council Bluffs will
not force the remains of these tortured
animals down our throats during the
present session.
Have we not been chasing delusive
bubbles long enough Do you still wish
to swallow deceptive decoctions to see If
they will give our spirits boost! Or
shall we investigate few facts which
are supposed to be kept from us by the
gaudy veil of delusion? The spoilsmen
want those who think they are right to
encoura ye them: those who think they are
wrong to let them have their own way.
These same sophistries have been
sounded over and over again to tickle our
ears ana To have the effect of Unieting
our minds, aliay1ng our rears and have
us still longer wait for 1.-The good time
coming" promised by the protectionists.
We are asked to suffer little longer,
sharpen our appetites by self denial, walk
upon hackle teeth. sit upon fints. sleep
upon thorns. make ourselves as miserable
as possible. and keep rs uneasy as a
loose shutter so as to appreciate that
good time. when it does come. to its full
est extent.
The national congress- composed large
ly of every day hypocrites. have by their
acts shown their base treachery toward
the farmer for the last twenty-five years,
and can aptly be compared to Zebadee's
hen, which laid three rotten eggs to one
sound one.
Brother farmers. right about face, and
look to your interests in the future.
Unite with the other hardy sons of toll
and right these wrongs. Ditch this car
of Juggernaut. built in the east by fos-
tered monopolies, with their false god OF
protection mounted thereon, and which
they are attempting to roll west and
south, commanding us to fall down and
worship it as it passes by.
Put men in Office who will return to
honest legislation, giving all branches OF
industry their just share of recognition.
| Thor, tha Ana1.ican farmer will ha as