Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-11-10
THE PEOPLES PRESS.

A non-partisan paper is nothing
That and nothing mOre.-New Era, Bra
I'll, Ind
'We are the prosperous nation" but
whom does the we refer tO?-PeOples
Ensign.
The Chicago Herald, in its issue OF
October s, admits that the peoples par
ty will hold the balance OF power in the
Ohio legislature.
The calamity makers" are the fell
lows who begat the calamity howlers"
and they don't want to forget it as they
go along. -Tarkio Mo. Independent.
Do you know that the national debt
has been paid six times already, and Is
now being paid the seventh? Compute
the interest and the original pincipal
and see.-The Arena.
The more the Topeka Capital howls
against the alliance the stronger it
grows. The Capital is one of those
journals that strengthens whatever 1t
opposes. -Atchison Champion.
When you hear republican or demo-
crat talking about an eighty-cent silver
dollar, just offer him IS cents for it and
see how quick he will pinch at it and
put it back in his pocket.-Ralph Beau
mont.
The triumphant plutocracy which by
craft and corruption usurped the gov
eminent of this republic would cease
its robberies and agressions tomorrow
if the middle class gave the word
Farmers Voice.
The gold in gold dollar is worth a
dollar because there is free coinage OF
gold. When q person can take Ger
tain amount of bullion and get it coined
into dollar free, he will not take less
than dollar for his bullion.-Missouri
World.
When you see man holding up his
hands in holy horror at ''the very idea"
of the government loaning money on
real estate security, at 2 Der cent, you
can safely put him down as usurist OF
the shylock sort.-Mills county ia. J
Journal.
The politicians are promising the
farmers and laborers the earth and
every thing upon it if they will get
down on their knees and worship them
lust once more. The devil tempted
Christ the same way once, but 1t didn't
work. -IndianapOlis Globe.
THE average republican orator is well
loaded with campaign condemnation,
vilifcation, straight-out falsehood and
wilful misrepresentation OF what the
peoples party demands; and what is
true in the matter is, they each and ev-
eryone know it while they are doing so,
Torch OF Liberty.
The little earthquake which did bust
ness throughout the Mississippi valley
a week ago don't seem to have had the
least bit Of effect on the amount of mis-
representations INDUCED in by the old
party press. Noah told the people there
would be a food, but they did not be-
lieve him until after they were drowned.
Mills World.
A Virginia negro woman OF good
character, unable to obtain work and
seeing her child starving to death,
drowned it to end its suffe"ings. and the
state has just hanged the woman as a
punishment for her poverty. Is this
part of the splendid Christian civilizar
ton of the age which the preachers
st?-Jeffersonian.
The democrats don't want the world
to know how small a vote they would
carry in this state this fall, 80 their
candidate for supreme Judge has de-
clined to run, and there is talk Of hav-
ing the candidates for regents with
draw and then mix the vote with the
Independents and then claim the vic
tory.-Defender Arlington, Neb.
The old party press beats loudly the
gong when little sub-alliance down in
Mississippi surrenders its charter on
account OF too much sub-treasury fool
| ishness." A buzzard will pass over
vast fields of golden grain to scent out a