Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-11-02
THE TWO PARTIES.
Devoted to the interests of
TIL E M Is b E 3.

Some one has said that the Democratic party
is out-and-out-spoken for what it wants, but
that the Republican party is as sanctimonious
as clergyman, but can give the Devil points,
and beat him at his own game.
It is we'll said Democracy has said that the
Negro ought to be slave because he has not
snap enough to maintain his freedom that the
manlwho cannot be temperate ought to be
drunkard; in brief, that the human race ought
to be put on the dead run, and let the "Devil
take the hindmost' with idiotic righteousness
On the other hand, the Republican party
has always claimed to be the poor mans friend
and the friend of liberty but it has done more
to impoverish the masses i'll thirty years than
the feudal barons accomplished in that direction
in FIVE hundred years, all things considered.
It is the boast of Republicans, that it freed the
African slave, which is true only in name, for
that race is worse off to-day than when in
slavery, so far as the comforts of life are con-
cerned and to prove Republican hypocricy, at
the time it howled the loudest against slavery,
It was weaving net to ensnare white people IN
wage slavery.
The Republican patty pledged the lands OF
the govirnment to homesteaders, and gave away
to corporations over two hundred millions of
acres of the best lands on the American CONT
nent and, besides, distressed thousands OF
homesteaders in not protecting them against
such steals as Morrill, engaged in so successfully
in Washington county, this state.
The Republican party promised steady EN-
ployment and high wages to American work
men, and to-day the American workmen are in
as desperate straits as any civilized people
on earth yet, during all these years OF
promises, few men have become so immensely
.wealthyas to defy the government, and have
as to constitute a reigning power of absolute
and unlimited Jurisdiction. The state of af-
fairs that is plain to all people is, by Republic
ans, passed over in silence, apologized for or
defended, proving that Republican leaders have
promised one thing and worked for another
thing directly the opposite, proving, too, the
utter lack of patriotism or love of humanity.
Tor twenty years, the Republican party has
been dominated by a gang of constituencies
thieves, but in all those years it has posed as
the God-and-morality party, standing on the
street corners and loudly thanking God that it
was better than the Democratic party, better
than the Prohibition party, better than the Pop
ulist party. 1t is unmasked and, in its naked
ness, it stands revealed "whited sepulchre
fair without, but within full of dead mems
bones full of broken promises-broken faith !;
full of blasted hopes, for what voter who pinned
his faith to Sherman, Mckinley, Reed or In
gals, if he was laboring man, but has been
sold out to greedy corporations, or the gold
power ?-sold out in his every interest, and all
that is dear to an American; sold into an in
terninable serfdoni, unless, indeed, he exert all
the power now left, namely, that of voting out
of existence the conditions that bind him to a
homeless and hopeless poverty, with its dread
full concomitants of ignorance, vice and degra-
dation.