Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-11-03
THE PEOPLES PRES.

country. 1t was not an act OF folly: III
was crime, deep, dark and damnable.
Farm Record.
AS long as the bum element controls
the city elections, just so long Will the
gambling hells exist and prosper. run
and backed as they are by politicians
with pull. Baltimore, Nd, Farm
erS' Alliance.
The republican state convention like
its partner in sin-DemOcratic state
convention, had not the courage to say
anything for or against the Newberry
bill. They go before the people with.
out even their hollow promise OF relief
for taxpayers. -WahoO, Neb, New
Era.
If the alliance is so near dead as its
opponents would have us believe, why
do said opponents make so much fuss
about it? If dead whose funeral would
it be anyway? But that organization is
such an extremely lively corpse that
the gentlemen can't hold it. That's
what's the matter neutrality-suspicious.,
Mo-, Gazette.
Why don't some of those men who
are kicking out of the alliance because
of subtreasury, land loan. and govern
ment control of railroads, kick them
selves out of their old party on account
of its support of the national banking
system. election of milliOnaires to con-
gress, Wall street worship and dozen
other monopolistic principles? Some
people kick in an awfully One-sided
fashion, don't they?--Lucius Goss.
Excessive rent is eating the life out
OF the business man and the laborer
wherever civilization extends. The
percentage of our people living in tene
ment houses is yearly increasing. The
mortgage foreclosures are daily wrench
ing from Woodworking, honest farmers
the homes in which they we're born.
There are over 100000 tenement
farmers in the United States, and yet
people say there is no cause fori alarm"
-Meadville, Pa, Truth.
The pretentious old debauchers. the
Dem-Reps, have fused aad come to-
gether us man and wife in Kansas.
Which is the man or which is the wO-
man it matters very little, as they are
both old hays from which no prOgency
is expected. The marriage for revenue
to Office holders and for protection
against the peoples party. Soon as the
malgamationists get the offices back
from the farmers alliance, then they
propose to Divorce themselves and go
back to the tweedle-de and tweedle DUN
racket News Reporter, Three Rivers,
Mich.
The Kansas City Times prevaricates
when it states that ''the alliance takes
position that Judges should lean to-
| al 20 -, Ia;
alliance makes no such claim and the
Times ought to know it, What the al
lance docs claim is that judges should
not lean in the opposite direction. as
they do in too many cases. Money and
the position attained by it are not with
out influence even in judicial proceed
! ings. The Times does the alliance q
great injustice by the above statement
for which it has no warrant whatever.
The Advocate.
In spite of the efforts of the daily
press to popularize the infamous lie
that the sub-treasury plan is being re-
pudiated by the alliance movement, the
truth is that the idea is making its way
against all difficulties, and bids fair to
become the slogan of all reform move
ments. Fourteen states have already
held their annual alliance conventions
and in all Of Thorn but three persons
were found who could not be induced to
vote against the proposed measure.
Men of the alliance, press forward. We
are crowding and surrounding the en-
my.-Paci6c California; Union.
The Independent (People's) party Of
South Dakota met at Huron, September
! 30, TO nominate candidate to fill the
vacancy in congress caused by the death
OF John r. Gamble. The trains were
late. necessitating a night meeting. and
at a. m. on the third ballot Henry w.