Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-05-12
GET YOUR BEARINGS.
DECIDE NOW IN THE INTEREST or
NOLLTE AND THE BABIES.
The Only Way Out Is Through Voting
for Your Own lnterests-F Farmers ami
City TOilers Must Pull TOgether-Th"
MOaxback Awaiting Orders


Moa shack Awaiting Orders.
II Is now III order for the farmer, ht
ne Republican or Democrat, to get hi.
political quadrant ut work and ascertain
mis- wherea bouts The silver bill is laiG
OH the shelf-it is thing of the grea'
past. and with 1t ought to be placed the
traitors who put it there. and if the Re
publican or Democrat were as patriotic
rs he is partisan. the walls of the house
of representatives would no more echo
to the internal treason of the peoples
enemies
If Jefferson and jackson are cogni
zant of the dOings of Democracy today
how they would blush! If Phillips
Wade. Thad Stevens and the immortal
Lincoln are gazing back over the i'm
passable gulf how their spirits yearn
for some Lazarus to warn these renegade
Republicans CT the danger they are
rushing to win all the canvas they can
muster
Poor MOssback! See him as he stands
waiting for the convention at Chicago OF
Minneapolis to meet, so that he may
near the shibboeth of his party. Oh
now he longs to know what he must be-
lieve during this campaign!
1t makes him tired No time now to
think of the trip to the county seat to
visit the treasurers office next fall. or
to dream of the sheriff's sale he may be
interested in more directly than he
wonld relish, no The darling of his
lean soul and idol of his heart. his party
Is in danger of being blotted out by the
fool Alliance folks. socialists. cranks
and fiat Iunatics.
The wife and little ones are forgotten
in this mad surge TO save his party.
What to him the perpetuity of the
Union? What tc him that his neighbor
wakes poorer and poorer? What if the
mortgage is maturing-if the taxes are
piling mp and his resources are drying
mp? Let it I'LL go: the party must be
saved. He is so blinded by partyism that
were heaven to be won or lost by his
act. hell would he his portion.
My farmer friend. do you realize that
yon and your farmer friends pay for So
per cent. Of all the expenses. no matter
if you have only 32 per cent. of the
wealth of this nationy
Know you that the capitalist owns 6S
per cent. of the property of this nation
and pays less than 81 per- cent. of its ex-
penses?
Do you not know that nearly all the
silver money of the United States costs
you and me from AZ to 5 per cent. per
annnm to put it in the channels of trade?
This is the 'nub. and why the son of
Abraham opposes free coinage of silver;
should it be coined free, there would is
sue no bonds upon which to draw inter-
est, and so HoOknOse of Lombard and
Wall streets would lose his power to tax
you and me--see?
Say. brother toiler. do you remember
the promise you made yourself and me
last winter year ago? If you renem-
Der. we petitiOned the Legislature of In
diana to revise the tax list and place all
property and wealth on an equal foot
ing for taxation We got IN answer in
having our taxes dOubledl
King George Lii of England answered
our forefathers that way. Result: Loss
Of North American colonies!
What shall Shylock lose: Answer at
the polls next November We petit
tloned for reduction of fees and salaries
The whole fixed salary horde. with
scarcely an exception. stormed the leg
Islative halls, and down we went again.
Did you not promise To smoke some
Legislators scalp, did! Now Is the
time To start said smoke mill Keep il
mp and see that no man who so coolly