Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-02
THE PEOPLES PRESS.


efforts director of the mint Leech. can
proftably set to work coming some of it
On his own account.-Albany Argus.
The wages of sin is death, says the
Good Book, but that doesn't apply to
Arkansas politics. The local interpre-
tation is ''The wages of sin is office. y
Arkansas Economist
There is vastly more smoke than fire
about this talk of division among ALI
ance men on the sub-treasury plan. The
Madison county alliance, the home of
Assistant State Lecturer McAlister,
who has attempted to stir up SO much
discOrd, has endorsed the entire Ocala
platform without reservation, sub
treasury plan and all, by vote of As
to 6.-Brookhaven Miss, Leader.
Millions of American citizens, in
their capacity as farmers, are earnestly
and anxiously awaiting legislation that
will relieve them from the depressing
conditions that surround them, In ali
the twenty-fOur years of its existence
the national grange has ever been con-
sentative, yet progressive in all it de-
mands for Legislation. The farmers OF
the country who hold allegiance to either
L.
not and do not ask special or class legis-
latiOn for themselves alone, but they
claim that the interests of agriculture
dustries, that upon prosperous and
successful agriculture depends the pros,
perity and progress Of our whole coun-
try.-Kansas Farmer.
Land labor. transportation and f.
nance are the living issues of the day.
Land is common heritage. 1t is es-,
sential to patriotism, to home. Labor
is the producer of wealth, of honest
manhood. 1t is the motive power be-
hind the mighty wheel of progress,
Transportation is the outgrOwth Of
civilization. Upon it depends the well
fare of the producer and consumer:
1t is not private concern, but public
necessity. Finance is the measure of
values. 1t is the artery of trade. 1t
places premium upon labor when UNI
Influenced by corporate greed or selfish
cunning. And now remains these four
land, finance. transportation and la
bor-but the greatest of these is labor.
The Southern Mercury.
Missouri has just finished counting her cash
and finds that she has nearly $25OO, 900 In her
treasury Yet there are some states which,
though they have shamefIlly failed to appro,
pirate money for the Worls's Fair, persist in
saying, Poor old Missouri. kansas City
Times.
Will some of the subsidized monopoly
press just tell what benefit themen who
work in the fields, shops and mines OF
Missouri, and who will have 10 pay the
greatest portion of the 100000 appro-
priated for the Worlds Fair, will get
out of it? These big 'blowomts" are all
designed for the purpose OF putting
money into the pockets of Few individ-
uals and to boom some town. The men
who pay Missouri's appropriation will
never get penny in return; the men
who voted it should be externally damn
ed" politically at least. The whole
thing is humbug and an outrage
National Economist
The devotees of the railroads and the
newspapers who are advocating their
cause have a fondness for clubbing
every one who is opposed TO their un"
just practices, fanatics" or 'cranks,"
no matter how just their course may be
as between the roads and the people.
The roads have demonstrated beyond
a doubt in every instance where an
issue is joined, that they will leave no
means untried, either fair or foul, to
gain their point They have assumed
to dictate the nominees OF all political
parties and shape the course of legis-
lation. So long as the people know
that the roads are capitalized for three,
or four times their actual cost, and
that they are endeavoring to make a
dividend on these fictitious values over
and above operating expenses, they
will clamOr for cheaner rates and will