Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-06-23
LISTEN, LIVINGSTON!
fOiJ MAY Hear SOMETHING DROP
DOWN IN YOUR GEORGIA HOME.

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70 i4eolldas E. Livingston:
DEAR 5IR AID BitOTHER--It is hard to
Kick against the pi'iclls; and why do you
persist IL y.>Ilr mistaken course? If You
have ears to hear. why not hear; ii
eyes to see. Why not see? Surely you
have not reached the point that the light
" of reason cannot reach you. Surely the
lalgNi;i1s around Washington have not
eutwliled themselves around about YOU
SO us to totally obscure the light that once
shonr upon you and which radiated and
caus,ng them. yea. your fellow country
men. to plac, their trust in you. relying
implicitly on your integrity. and pray
ing to God to give you the ability and
direction whereby they might be led out
from Under the bondage Of the money
changers and Inonopolists.
Now my misguided brother. omen
your ears. please. for one moment. You
know as long rs fellow lives in the
country he believes there are town
cligues and rings which manipulate and
run the county politics. but if be moves
to town and lives there little while he
is made to believe that rings and cliques
are nothing but creatures of the mag
nation. Yes he is soon captured by the
town ring, is made to believe us they do;
IN reality be becomes one among them.
Then it is that he tells you there is no
such thing as Il town ring; he once
thought there was, etc.
Oh. deception! What a potential in
tluence! Yea. strip the devil of his de.
ception means and Christ's kingdom
would soon cover the earth as the waters
cover the bosom of the great deep!
My dear brother, are you beginning
to believe that there are no such things
us monopOlies. trusts, combines, ETC.?
Are you beginning to think, Well,
know told my people when l was can
vassing for congress that there were
such things, but | was just mistaken
about it? It is just so lovely up here in
and around the Capitol. The people are
all so genial and hopeful, happy and in
telligent, that to insist on the demands
upon which was elected would expose
me to ridicule as well as shock the finer
sensibilities of those around the Capitol
Really, think my constituency are do
ing well. think theyar happy if they
only knew it. Yes. in fact this is
grand and glorious republic.
My dear brother, have any of these
thoughts been passing through your
mind? If so, in the language of our
blessed Saviour rise and say. "Get thee
behind me, Satan" Let your mind
revert to the old red hills of Georgia.
Commence with the humble people
around their rude dwellings, let your
heart pulsate from their breathings,
enter as it were from their feelings Do
this. and the entertainments that sur
round thee will be rendered and you
can then see as you are now seen. List
en- not to the fiatterer, forget not your
weaknesses, yea, trust not to the flesh;
human wisdom is but of today-tomor-
row it vanisheth away.
Now. believe me, my brother, you
have not purpose in your heart to do
those things which you should not have
done that your people might remain in
the wilderness. Nay. but thou hast been
carried upon high mountain and hast
been promised the possession of the
beautiful valleys, and thy pride hath let
thee fall. Your perception is far behind
now. He knoweth not the advancement
of the people; his end is near at hand.
While his methods were success on his