Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-31

wooden factories there to see II tile In
dustry cannot be planted in Kansas.
We raise wool enough: why should we
not raise blankets and clOthing?"
You are reported to have still other
purposes" L suggested.
1--WE shall meet in Cincinnati in May
to see about organizing for the next
presidential campaign. After confer
epce with the Knights of Labor and
with other farmers organizations we
shall probably have a candidate in the
field for the presidency. Who? We do
not know. The movement is growing
rapidly. We in Kansas have shown
what can be done. Our party is only d
year old, but we drew $4,000 from the
republicans, 80, 600 from the democrats
and 33, 600 from the union labor party
and swept the state"
''As to your political PLATFORM"
''There are four subjects which we
think include the whole of the politics
finance, transportation, labor and
land. AS to what results should be
sought, we,agree; as to the methods OF
arriving at them we are somewhat at
variance so far.
LAS to finance, we are agreed that
the national banks must go and that
the people must get their money in a
cheaper way and get il direct from the
government. These banks have for a
whole generation now obtained their
money from the government at | per
cent and loaned it at or 6 or 7 or 8 per
cent. We believe that the farmers can
dispense with these expensive gO-be-
tweens and get their money direct from
the government at per cent The de-
tails of the method are yet to be de-
vised.
'As to transportation, we believe that
the government is going to assume
charge OF the railroads and run them or
superintend them"
''By confiscating them?"
"NO: we wish to cOntiscate nothing.
We believe in property, and do not in
tend either to despoil it or steal it, The
peoples party is for preserving rights,
not for destroying them.
"As to land, we are interested in two
directions toward the land owned by
private parties and toward the land
owned by the government. Concerning
the latter we favor the comprehensive
plan of irrigation that has already been
marked out, and for the present the
segregation of the arid lands and the
available reservoir sites, we believe that
money can not be more profitably spent
than in that DIRECTION. Concerning pri-
vate land we hold that vast tracts should
not be mOnopolized and kept idle, for
every man who comes into the world
has right to a home and to land
10 fofa mil
probably have to be diminished.
GAS to labor, we believe that every
industrious man has right to chance
to work. We believe that every ma
chine and invention ought to benefit the
workman as much as his employer.
Now each machine displaces workers
and they get little or no benefit"
THE settling of these questions is all
you aim at, senator?"
Yes, but they involve some other
neutrality-suspicious., woman's suf-
trage, the apprentice question, the
eight hour question, etc. We in Kan
sas are generally in favor of woman's
suffrage"
THAT would no doubt work if you
always had the right sort of women"
well, in Kansas we always have that
sort"
How about the tariff, senator?"
I'VE favor reducing the tariff on the
necessities of life and increasing it on
luxuries. But we shall move slowly
here. In fact we are not dangerous in
any directions; we do not wish to de-
stroy, but to build up, to preserve. to
FOSTER and especially to protect all mems
rights"
Thus it will be seen that Judge PEI
fer talked well. shall send him no
bill.
| called on Jerry Simpson at the Ken