Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-05-26
IN THE GRAND MARCH
A DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT C!lA!il...t
JOINS THE PEOPLES PARTY.

Colonel Sidney Harper, of TEXAS. Si-A
There Is No Difference Bet '9ecn ~
Two Old Parties and He Wants to -
IN the Struggle for Liberty.
Patriots are quitting the cid hulks ana
Joining the new party of the people. One
Of the latest acquisitions is that OF Colo
mel Sidney Harper, of Texas, who has
heretofore occupied the prominent posi-
ton Of chairman of the Fourth congress
sional district committee. His letter,
resigning his Craftsmanship and declar-
ing his purpose to ''join the grand march
in the struggle for liberty, y speaks in no
uncertain language. 1t has the ring of
the true metal. 1t is as follows:
To the people Of the Fourth congressional dis
trict:
hereby tender my resignation as chairman
of the Democratic party for this congressional
district. My reasons for SO doing are that go
to party more democratic in principle, more
patriotic in practice and less proscrptive in
management. JI der the name Democracy the
great mass of common pespleOf the south have
been lured step by step, each year being led
farther away from the old landmarks of its
founders, until today there is no perceptible
difference between the leaders and the vilest
Republicans. The age of corporations, trusts
and combines IN which we live is debauching
our politics, corrupting our laws and destroy
ing our government, and making a wreck of
our liberties and paupers of our people.
During this era of corruption the people
have been kept divided while the leaders OF
the two parties have been in partnership,
amassing millions of dollars out of the very
corporations and fraud which they by law
have foisted upon the people. The land, the
bank, the transportation, the mining and man.
ufacturing monopolies are jointly owned and
controlled by the leaders of the two old par
ties. The press, the great political dailies
being largely under the great telegraph news
combine, must of necessity depend on the
enemies of the people the. trusts and COM
bines) for classification and transmission OF
political news. BY these methods the people
were kept deceived until they were educated
otherwise through their industrial organiza-
lions.
Looking back for thirty years over this era
of corruption and fraud coming out and per-
petuating itself in the passions and prejudices
of the late war, we find as the production of
modern Democracy and Republicanism over
1000 millionaires and 100000 paupers each year.
Over half the wealth of the Union is owned
and controlled by 5000 people, whose corpora
ton managers have power in the assessment
and collection of freights, tolls and tariffs I'M
rivaled by the royal blood Of Russia. States
rights, individual rights and the liberties OF
our people have been usurped by corporate
greed.
What does the cry states rights signify when
half dozen corporation managers in the state
of New York, by the stroke of a pen, can col
lect over S5,00O,O00 q year out Of the people OF
Texas on fictitious or watered stock in trans
portation companies or let the salary of COR
poration officer at five times the highest paid
state officer, and make the people pay it, with
no power in the modern states rights to pre-
vent it. What does the cry of individualrights
signify when few chartered classes have
monopoly of the governmental power to make,
coin, issue and control the money which prices
every individuals labor and product, and that,
too, without legal power OF redress or preven-
ton. The very men who have carried our pol
itics to a system of spoliation, pillage and
plumber are now and have been about equally
divided among the managers and leaders OF
the two old parties, thus proving their Joint re-
sponsibiity for the wrongs which exist.
In this condition of matters it is folly to ex-
pect reform in either of the old parties, and
for the good of myself, my family, my poster
ity and my country l expect to take part in
house ON Saturday, and join the grand march.
and struggle for liberty To those who know
me have no explanation to offer, but to those
born and raised in the south and have taken
this step after due deliberationa
SIDNEY HARPER.
A solemn Hour.