Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-17


that it's people may retain their rights
without the most constant care and
wachfulness. In every community the
good citizens must be ever on the alert,
or the unprincipled will betray them,
and no person has ever lived who could
maintain manhood or wOmanhOOd with
out a constant struggle. Life is a bat
tie, and the only real satisfaction lies in
the consciousness of having done our
best.-Alliance Free Lance Spring
field, Ill.,
The hard lesson of the present now
being learned in interest-paying has
been studied during every age Of the
worlds history The little, common,
everyday, legal interest has absorbed
homes, land, crowns and Kingdoms
To-day capital is grasping and absorb
ing the homes and lands of free Amer
lea. To see the fruits of its work vol
have only to look at the result in youl
township and country, then bear II
mind that the same thing is transpirins
in greater part of the United States
-Concordia Alliant.
The alliance has now reached the dan
ger line of its existence. 1t is too strong
to be injured, and its principles are toe
just to be fairly and openly contested
Trickery and special pleadings on the
part of it's enemies are the only effective
weapons that can now be used. The
order should be prepared for this, anC
remember that unity of action and faith
in each other is the only defense against
such attacks. Let the membership
stand together as one man, and make
the fight for home and NATURALIZATION
al Economist.
In grading the salaries of employees
of state institutions, the Legislature
would do we'll to remember that cutting
down the wage of so-called common
laborers is neither just nor good policy
Cut out the sinecures entirely. Pay
the necessary professional people
superintendents, nurses, ETC., liberia
salaries that will compensate them fol
their responsibilities and necessar,
Then raise the wages of the common
or unskilled labOrers to living rate
Let. the state set the example of payins
labor remunerative wages.
fOrnist.
The republican senate has given fail
warning that it will not tolerate any
radical financial legislation. To then
radical financial legislation" means
any legislation that will interfere will
the business Of their constituents, the
money loaners. They have conceived ;
mania for cutting down the salaries o
county officers, ETC., now that these
have slipped from their grasp, but thu
people must have no relief from the fel
lows who have gobbled up nearly every
thing through usury. 1t would injurt
the credit at the state; see?-Non-Con
fOrmist.
All the reasons that make gold and
silver good standard OF value, make
land poorer standard. 1t varies in
value more even than staple manufac-
lures which are not dependent on the
seasons. Any particular land is not
universally desired Americans do not
desire French farms, nor Georgians
Vermont town lots. 1t is not always
desired. On the contrary real estate
sells more slowly than any other com
modify. For these reasons land is al
most the worst basis OF money. In the
absence Of gold and silver, government
taxes, pig iron, cotton, corn, wheat,
beef bacon would make better basis
for currency. Christian Patriot Nor
ristown, Tenn.
Twenty thousand men We're thrown
out OF work in Youngstown Ohio, Q few
days ago. Twenty-eight thousand III
Pittsburg, thirty-two Thousand in Gin
cinnati, fifty-five thousand in st. Louis.
Two hundred thousand idle men in shis
city who cannot get work, says the
Chicago daily, and the New York
World of last Sunday states that there
are one hundred thousand idle men in
the fnetrnnOliS man who are not nrdi.