Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
THE ALLIANCE.


and vote to the support Of the enemy of
his class, is worthy only of contempt.
Congress may defer financial legisla-
ton until it is everlastingly too late. II
it does, woe be unto those who are re-
sponsible for it.
If there is God who judges human
ity, he will hold the laboring man re-
sponsible for casting his vote for the
enemies of human happiness.
In the proportion that laborer gives
his support to monopoly, he lacks the
element of good citizenship. Ye can
not serve mammon and the people.
The Farmers Alliance will not fail to
accomplish it's ends because the farm
ers and laborers are a majority OF
the people and they cannot afford to
fail.
Shame on the man, who tOiling the
years away for a mere pittance, slavish-
" votes for his heartless taskmasters,
who absorb the bulk of his labOr's
product.
Manufacturers of barbed wire held
meeting in Chicago last week and
formed gigantic combine which will,
no doubt, advance the price on the
article much to the disad vantage OF the
farmers.
The Clipper of Ashland, Kansas,
tersely saws: ''Take look at the men
who are abusing the Farmers Alliance.
Generally speaking they do not pillow, or
dig, and do not work for one or two
dollars day, to support families"
Ignatius Donnelly is president of the
Minnesota State Alliance; also cham
pion parliamentarian of the State Sem
ate: also author of Caesars Column;
also in favor of the third party move
ment. There are no flies on Don
nelly.
The Alliance Boomerang of Crawford,
Neb., speaks in glowing terms of Gen.
Booths new book, I'm darkest Eng
land" The picture is awful, yet true.
When truth becomes more startling
than fiction, what may we say OF our
civilization?
Secretary Noble is hot. He persists
in standing by the rascally Indian
agents, who have driven the Indians.
to despair by their nefarious dOings,
The whole country knows that Gen.
Miles told the truth, and Mobiles thieves
will have to go.
In every part of the country organ
lied capital is applying the most des-
potic rules to the management OF its
employees. Good. The people will
never emancipate themselves until they
discover that they have no rights that.
plutocracy will respect.
If the money of the country could be
kept in the hands of the people instead
of in the bank vaults, we would be hav--
ing better times than what we are. We
need new financial system that shall
embody this idea and the people will
hail its enactment with joy.
Suppose, for change congress should
drop politics for while and adopt a
little legislation for the benefit of the
country at large. We know that this IS
an impossible sort of supposition, but
all the same it would be mighty good
thing to do, and thing that would add
much to the popularity of the individual
members who could succeed in bringing
it about.
Jay Gould is rapidly consolidating all
the railroads of the country under one
management. UnconsciOusly, he is do
ing the country great service. When
he has succeeded in robbing everybody
else, the people will have but little scru-
pie about giving him dose of his own
medicine, and confiscating the whole
railroad system under the right of emf
nent domain. -Nonconformist.
The newspaper opponents of the Jerry
Simpson, in their effort to do him injury
by silly ridicule, are giving him lot OF