Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-05-19
SAVE THE REPUBLIC.
Jsrsrns DOnneIly's Warning and E!o-
auent Appeal to the People.

we are ABOUT 70 enCer upon the great
est political conflict this country or this
world has ever known. have tried to
show in my book. Caesars Column.
the Overwhelming dangers which threat
en- civilization. The man who in snch-
crisis will refuse to study the condi-
lions and think for himself is unworthy
of life. The men who are small enough
to be hustled along and driven in body
by outridiug politicians as wesee droves
of bewildered sheep driven through the
streets of a great city. hemmed in and
turned aside at every pathway OF indie
pendent thought, deserve themselves.
and at once, the hell which their ig-
norance and Indifference are assuredly
preparing for posterity.
The newspaper editors who refuse to
tell the truth about public affairs. and
who try to occupy the minds Of their
readers with whole pages devoted to
fist fights, bali games and horse races,
are worse than the emperors who OF cid
kept the masses of Rome from thinking
of their lost liberties by free feeds and
gladiator murders That man is in
deed binder than bat in the full glare
of MONDAY who does not perceive the
steady march of plutOcratic selhshness
and greed over the privileges Of the
people: who does not know that that
march has been going on in the old
world for centuries until it has squeezed
it's wretched victims out in millions to
all parts of the earth. That vast army
of cunning and injustice crossed the
sea amid the uproar and confusion Of
our civil war and has ever since moved
westward, until now its desolating pres
ence is felt in the remotest regions of
our country.
Combinations, rings, trusts; the dem
onetization of silver; the abridgment of
the volume of currency; the control of
the press: the interference of the money
power in popular elections: the manage
ment of legislative bodies by corpora
tions: the domination of the two great
political parties by Wall street: the
ownership Of even some Of the courts;
the United States senate chamber
turned into a clubroom Of the tools Of
the capitalists: the impossibility Of any
poor man nowadays obtaining any high
Office: the gradual rise of the sea of debt
until it is up to the lips and ears of the
most laborious; the concentration of all
Industries in the hands Of syndicates;
the decadence of farming and the I'M
natural growth in numbers of city popu-
lation; the constantly increasing strug-
giles of the masses to live; the increased
taxation; the steadily swelling volume
of crime and the loosening of family
ties-all these things indicate that the
civilization of the world is on the down
grade and moving rapidly to destruc-
ton.
What is the remedy
Is not movement, rising up from the
body Of the whole people, necessary to
save the republic and society? Does any
intelligent man doubt it? Is there purity
enough and sense enough left in the
multitude to redeem the nation? If not.
then are we lost indeed.
The remedy must come from the peo-
pie themselves. It must originate in
individual brains and hearts. 1t must
be born of suffering and of a great, pas
sionate love for right and virtue and
country. In the presence of the dread
dangers which encompass us all petty
ambitions and differences should be for
gotten. Miner questions should be lost
sight of. and the whole people move for
ward together in the grandest effort
for human rights known since man ap
pearetl oD the planet
We should rejoice that this great task
and responsibility is thrown upon us
while &e have still enough of the results
of old battletields for liberty left III