Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-05-19
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paign of six months. It can be beat
| 100, 900 majority in Texas in years
campaign.-Faulkner County Wheel.
There are S,572 965 mortgages in the
| United States, so Superintendent Por-
ter says, and he ought to be good repub-
lican authority. Had it come from any
other source the republican papers
would have denounced it as falsehood.
But here it is: One mortgage for every
seven people in the nation, counting
men, women and children. There will
be shaking up of the dry bones in 1892
that will open the eyes not only OF the
nation, but of the world.-Lincoln KS
Beacon.
The most distressing of all the pain
full incidents connected with the strike
of coke workers and the riOting in the
COnnellsville religion are those in which
women figure as participants and suf-
ferers. To read of wives and sweet
hearts who spring into pitched battle
against the authorities "as If pos
sessed of demons, " as one account has it,
gives such an idea as nothing else can
OF the pitch of desperation to which the
poverty-stricken people of the region
have cOme.-N. Y. World
The members of the alliance should
constantly keep in mind that this is the
year for them to study and acquaint
themselves with the great issues that
are being discussed. This is the educa-
tional year in that respect with us, and
we must improve every opportunity to
become familiar with our principles and
demands, in order for them to avail us
anything. We can not afford to stand
STILL LET us then be up and doing"
and always employ our best efforts to
further our cause.-Farmers' Advocate,
(Tarboro, N. C.l
When the old parties tell you you are
for paternalism refer him to the law al
lowing the banker to take his millions
of dollars in gold to the mint and have
it pressed in bars at the expense of the
government to make it convenient to
ship to Europe. Now, why should the
government press the bankers gold
into bars for shipment and make the
farmer compress his own cotton when
he wants to ship it to Europe? We
want the shoe put on the other foot for
a while now. it will fit better.-Ken-
lucky Farmer (Shepherdsville, KY
Why don't Mills, Reagan, Culberson,
ct al, tell the people of Texas that the
bill loaning 81, 100, 900 to the New Or
leans exposition was paternalism I'M
constitutional! Now answer gentle
other members from the south vote for
the bill to loan 81, 000 900 to the New
Orleans exposition. Now some people
AL 6,,sf Inn
constitutional in that contest was be-
cause it was loaning money to a big
syndicate and because the money power
was in favor of that mOve.-The Vlndi-
Gator (Sulpher Springs, Tex.)
The thoughts that are workin G in the
minds of the masses of the civilized
world foretell change. This sudden
appropriation of the power possessed by
the people is so extraordinary that its
significance is beyond the realization of
the power that is going headlOng to
destruction. On the one hand there is
selfish disposition on the part of the
land lords and lend lords to sneer at
the elements of the rising storm, which
not only serves to intensity the lrrita-
ton, and aggravate the tendency to
separate from peaceful and blOOdless
settlement of the difficulty, but tends
to hurry on a destructive calamity
Mystic (Ia.) Breeze.
The farmers have awakened from
their political lethargy, and have
buckled on the full alliance armOr
The leading bosses of the democratic
party have left the old Jeffersonian
landmarks and gone off on a tangent
upon a way unknown to the democratic
masses, and the people are being
quickened with the breath of new life