Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
The Federal Election Bill.

1n0 FeOCF0K ElCCClOM DAAAs
A Californian denounces i'm plain Ian
guage the force bill now pending in th'
United States senate. He says:
If there has been before congress il
the last twenty-five years bill more
reasonable, it has not come to my no
tice. / am northern man. l am prOu(
Of my race and proud of my country
Had been man instead ofS"a babe ir
war times, l believe l would have en-
listed in the Union army as readily al
any northern man. L would have haC
two reasons: The overthrow of con
spiracy against my country, and the res
cue of a dOwn-trOdden race from theiI
Oppressors. That man who will not re-
sent conspiracy against his government
who will not come to the aid of a people
PROSTATE beneath an OppressOr's heels tt
the extent of lifting his voice in protest
is in league with treason and endowed
with cur-like cowardice. For conscience
sake, l had rather be the victim of Op
preston than the Oppressor. had rath'
er be POlander, PROSTATE before
authority, than the petty bureaucratic
Russian official who places his heel upOi
the victims neck, | am proud of the
achievements Of the Republican party
in that day when, led by brave and true
and noble heroes it stood behind the ma
ton and rescued it from treasOn's hand
l am proud to be fellOw-countrymar
OF that great leader who, standing OF
the field of Gettysburg sent forth thai
Christ-like message of "Charity for all, >
and of that great captain who from hit
death bed at Saratoga sent forth his
message of love to the people whom ne
conquered.
blushed when I read the words OF
that uwarfed and crOoded and distorted
man, who strives TO swell himself to 8
statesman's stature, that 1.-The purifica-
ton OF politics is an iridescent dream
** The decalOgue and the golden
rule nave no place in political cam
paign." But If ! blushed after reading
this assertion which gives the lie to Lin.
coins utterance at Gettysburg, | shook
with rage when learned that the domi-
nant party of my native land proposed
to invade the south IN cold -blOOded trea
son to tear open anew the wounds which
every patriot has rejOiced to see healing
And what is the motive? Political ne
cessity! That thrice-damned treason
that would bring our nation to the verge
of disruption, that ''our party might re.
tain power.@ l am northern man.
cherish for the north all the love that
man can have for his native soil. But
know no geographical line upon one
side of which treason becomes patriot.
ism, and no sOphistry will lead me t.
uphold my own people when they place
their heels upon the neck of any living
man.
But what have the southern people
done? They have refused to turn the
government of their states over to the
control of the Negro, a race Of men un-
educated and unqualified to rule the
whites, measured by any standard of
intellect or righteousness. The white
men dominate In the south; men Of our
own race; men greater per cent. of
whom ere christians than northern men /;
men who are confessedly better ac-
quainted with the wants of the Negro
and more in touch with the ambitions
and aspirations in life than northern
men. These men are dominant in their
control of southern affairs, and they
refuse to relinquish such control to n
race of men who, whatever standard Of