Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-24
THE PEOPLES PRESS.

There are thousands of mon who "a
to church and pray that this earth
may be as the kingdom OF heaven" yet
they would deny the workingmen a
voice in making the laws of the couu.
try.-National Reformer.
Had the Independents been one half
as revolutionary in their actions as the
1 republicans and democrats OF Nebraska
1 there would have been an appeal to
arms, and bloodshed would have result
ed. The masses are taking dangerous
| lessons from the old party anarchists.
Beware, lest you tempt them to put
their lessons into practiee.-Ex.
The farmer members-elect to the
next congress are as wide-awake a lot
of fellows as can be found in the whole
crowd. They are actively engaged in
informing themselves as to their publio
duties and are looking out for the inter-
est5 of the people who elected them
and of the alliance party. Politicians
who pick them up for verdants will find
themselves mistaken.-Commercial
Gazette.
If the lOaning of money upon the
products of the farm and upon real
estate is class legislation of such ma
ture as to provoke the most unfriendly
criticisms from party leaders, why
have they not been as free to denounce
the system OF loaning money to national
banks, free of interest, upon govern
silver certificates on silver deposits and
warehouse certificates on whisky in
bond?-National Reformer.
The much needed reform of electing
United States senators by direct vO'e
of the people is becoming more popular
and rapidly growing in favor with the
great industrial masses. At least five
state legislatures have passed resOlu-
tions demanding such a change in the
constitution as will require such cleo
tions of United States Senators. This
is encouraging. Let the good work go
on. 1t is only aquestion OF time when
the pressure in its favor will force con-
gress to adopt such constitutional
observation-disclosures Farmer.
The bold threat now is if legislation
shall interfere with the mower of corpo-
rations to greedily sap the life blood
of the people, that the Few employed
at starvation prices, will be denied the
privilege of working even for pittance.
If it has to come to that Bet it come
now. Let the laws be just, but if favor
ing is necessary it must favor the
multitude and not the few. Then
prosperity will hail industry, and those
who now tramp the country in enforced
idleness will find remunerative en-
John, (Ks.) Capital.
A couple of Industrious feas named
Owens and Duncan that infested the
labor movement in Chicago until they
became stencil in the nostrils of
honest wOrkingmen, transferred their
base of operations to- Kansas City where
as usual, they compel everyone to
scratch who comes in contact with
them. Owens has just been expelled
form the Trades Council of that city,
and Duncan is cutting up in a style
that is quite familiar to those who knew
him in Chicago, where he was, very
generally regarded as sort of cheap
detective. We advise our friends in
Kansas City to give these two ducks a
very wide berth. Owens is little better
than scoundrel, and Duncan, well
Duncan may be a little worse than
Owens, but not much.-Rightso of Labor.
The confederation of industrial organ
izationss, lately organized for the pur-
pose Of confederating all organizations
of producers willing to cooperate in
securing the reformfin legislation now
being demanded by the necessities of
the great producing classes of this
country in making rapid progress.
President Ben Terrell extends an invi-
tation to each and every industrial
organization willing to cooperate to
secure such ends TO communicate such
facts to Secretary John w. Hayes, No.
Sl4 Broad street, Philadelphia, at as
carly q date as nOssihle in order that