Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-08-30
GARNETT, KANSAS, AUGUST 80, 1894

LAST week, we received copy of The Rail
wayTimes, of Chicago (organ of the A. R. U.)
with Lester c. Hubbard's name at the mast
head-but for that week only. Well, when we
saw Bro. Hubbards name, we just sat dowr
and devoured that paper, for all who have read
after him know there wasn't dull line in the
whole paper. Indeed, it was so good that when
we undertook to clip some of the good things
we were unable to decide what was the best, and
we are unable to reproduce the whole paper, SO
we are still wondering what to do about it. Be-
low we give one SMALL solid chunk of wisdom
"The members of the American Railway Union,
in aligning themselves with the Populists in
politics, of course accept and endorse the de-
mand for government ownership of railroads.
But-and this is vital-we must first have a
government owned by the people, and not the
kind we now have, run by and for the trusts
and corporations. The more power we vest i'll
the government, when government means
the Cevelands, the Olneys, the Mortons, the
worse for the people. Public utilities and nat
ural monopolies must be owned by the people
and managed for them by directors of their own
choosing. So long as Wall street selects the
candidates of the two parties, and we are fools
enough to vote them into power, we know that
power will be used for our undoing. This les
son has just been bitterly brought home to rail-
way men. Therefore, we offer, as the corollary
of government ownership of railways" "a
peoples ownership Ct the government.
IN
years ago, M. w. Levy of Wichita, was mil
lionaire and much talken about now he is
broken. Two years ago the people were just
beginning to talk about butter and egg dealer
in the same town. Now he is governor and
known everywhere. World.
Some men descend to wonderful depth of
infamy with rapdity that fairly makes the
head swim. A few months ago. we looked upon
the World as one of the Republican sheets that
was disposed to deal reasonably just with its
political adversaries, but it has fallen into the
political wake of all the blackguards of the par
ty, and is bending every energy to keep up with
the procession, going so far as to refer, with a
hidden slur, to the honorable business of buy
ing and selling butter and eggs. The exigen-
cies of the times demand from all the &. o. p.
stem-winders they adopt any course of action i'll
which there is the remotest hope of success );
hence such dirty slurs as the above from the
World. Brady! Brady !! Evil associations are
showing their degrading effects.
He who seeks to weaken respect for law and
his governments but building fire under his
own doorstep.-Wiufeld Courier.
Here is a great truth condensed into few
lines 1t is the closing sentence of honly on
the Populists' teaching that this has become
country of "millionaires and slaves" and that
the courts have become "engines of oppression"
The whole homily is of the proverbial "stop-
thief effort. 1t is a fact the expressions and
usurpations of the courts are creating disre-
spect for law-law administered with an iron
hand in the interest of the favored few, and
they are the fellows who are building fires un-
der their own doorsteps.
We are in the beginning of revolution that
will strain all existing religious and political in
stitutions, and test the wisdom and heroism of
earth's purest and bravest souls. 1t will not do
to say that the revolution is not coming or pro-,
nounce it of the devil. Revolutions even in
the widest forms, are the impulseso of God mov-
ing in tides of fire through the life of man.
Rev, Geo, d, Heron,
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