Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-10
The Alliance prc.s.

lamenting the writing OF the cleveland
letter on the silver question. and some
republicans are cOrrespondingly juli-
lent. So far us this state L. con-
cerned we fail TO see that it will have
any effect whatever. Cleveland has
never been factor in Kansas politics.
Advocate.
When Commodore Vanderbilt died
he left fortune of SO million OF dollars
In eight years. in the hands OF his heirs.
it increased to 217 millions. 1t may also
be worth nothing that in those same
eight years there was created an army
of tramps over million strong.
pareil-
Congressman Kelly has introduced a
bill to pay surviving soldiers the differ
ence between the deprecated paper
they received as pay for their services
in the civil war and the value. The g. O.
p. has a majority in both houses OF con-
gress; now let them make good their
promises to the men who preserved the
nation. Alliance Herald.
Over million children under fifteen
years of age, employed in the work.
shops, mines and factories of this cOun-
try! Over million male tramps over
fifteen years of age in this country.
Children working at starvation wages;
strong men idle and tramping; women
prOstituting themselves for bread; and
the broad-cloth brigade opposing social
and political reform.
The present congress has two more
weeks. With good working majority
in both branches, and president to
sign bills, it can't point to a single
thing it has done to improve the condi-
tion of the people. Monopoly gets richer
as rapidly as ever, and the masses are
getting poorer all the time. Yet these
congressman and senators are called
statesmen Nonconformist.
Let it be observed that Kansas is the
only state in the union which made a
clear, distinct independent fight upon
the ST. Louis platform, by political
union of the Industrial forces of the
state, and it is the only state in the
union that can to-day point to decided
clean cut victory. The result affords
an object lesion worthy of careful study
by those who may be hesitating in their
decision respecting the best policy to
pursue in the future.-AdvOcate.
Political trickery will be at pre-
MUM as long as we elect professional
Office seekers to official positions on
their own recommendations of them
selves for their own interests. People
who make strong efforts to secure office
may be regarded as working for them
selves and not for the general public.
When the people are careful to nOmi-
nate and elect the very best men, men
tally and morally, political corruption
will be placed in course ofrapid extinc-
tiOn.-Industrial Age.
To-day the sheriff sold under the
hammer, nine tracts of land, aggregat-
ing LII acres, for the sum of $500.
I'VE are happy prosperous people,
says Harrison. Mr. Sheriff, please sell
another batch of Cowley county at 80
cents per acre; says the courts This
shows the necessity of an amendment to
our mortgage laws. Under this sale,
land has been taken without compensa-
ton, and leaves the former owners still
in debt thousands of dollars. No COM
pensation, no redemption, but all gone
into the greedy NAV Of the mortgage.
Winfield Tribune.
1t must be source of no little salts
faction to certain class of preachers
to describe the riches, the beauties and
glories Of the world, to the poor hard
working and suffering people while they
themselves live in costliness and SPLEEN
dor here. The means by which the
poor and humble can reach the eternal
city, must be accepted by all classes Of
people, and if accepted, will obliterste
the lines and blot out the monied dis
tinctions now existing between the poor
and rich in the professed Christian
world. Let the reader picture out to