Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-03


whole money question.
Industrial Advocate:
Perhaps Governor Morrill, would favor an in
ternational convention, to ask Europe about the
prohibition question.
There is too much difference in the wages of
the men who work an hour occasionally to get
an appetite for dinner and those who work all
day to get dinner for their appetites.
Remember, taxpayers, that you must foot
the bills for the so-called investigations now 60
ing on. You pay the campaign expenses of
the Redeemers. The whole thing is for ''grand
old party'' campaign purposes.
During the war and some time afterwards the
Democrats were accustomed to speak of the
greenback as "Lincoln's rag baby" This al
ways threw the Republicans into frenzy of
rage, and they swore by the great horn spoons
that the greenback was the greatest money in
the world and that it had saved the nation.
This was true then and is still true, but the Re-
publicans swear that it is not money at all.
Star and Kansan:
The sugar trust has ordered all brokers and
JOOOSlo W sup luPOltSu SuSdIS lis
is free country-for the trusts.
At the recent city election in Madison, Wis
consin, it took the Republicans and Democrats
together to beat the Populists and then they
did it by only sixty-six votes.
Governor Morrill, is something of all anar-
chist himself, if we can believe the preachers
who are now roasting him because he is substi-
tuting local option for prohibition.
In the cities the small merchant is sharing
the fate of the small farmer in the country.
The big department stores are destroying his
business. "Where combidation is possible COM
petition is impossible.
That one man should have hundred millions
and another should never have hundred dol
lars though the latter does more useful work
than the former, is.'unjust, undemocratic and UNI
Christian. There is no system of ethics that
will sanction it.
At the parliamentary elections in Denmark
on the ninth, the Socialist-Labor party had nine
candidates in the capital city of Copenhagen
Eight of them were elected. The world is NOV
ing and moving fast. Better join the procession
than to be run over by it.
Back in Fayette county, Kentucky, the conf
missioners have just bought county road for
$4,000. Seems funny, don't it? Very few
of the present generation have ever seen toll
gate road A private railroad will be as great
rarity to the next generation.
In an address on "The Perils of the Church,"
at Baltimore, the other day, Bishop John H.
Vincent named as one of these, the power of
the rich men in influencing pulpit appoint
ments. Wealth must control both the pulpit
and the press, or its iniquities will be exposed.
1t looks now as if one or both the old parties
might be forced to declare for free silver. In
that case what do Populists like Taubeneck and
Weaver and the National Waterman propose to
do ? Would they disband Is cheaper money
the only object the reform party has in view?
Here is one sentence in Coins Financial
School that you will do well to paste in your
hat. 1t is an argument that no gold-bug ever
has answered or ever will: "When you reduce
wheat to 50 cents and all other property accord
inely, YOU don't reduce debts at all. You only
make it harder 10 pay them"
ga bushel of ffty-cent wheat" says the
Kansas city Star, twill exchange for more
sugar, more coal oil, more COAL 100 per cent.
more nails and other iron aud steel products,
and more of almost every other product, than
bushel of dollar wheat would exchange for in
1874" I believe this is untrue in some of the
items but even if it were true, how does it
help the man who has to raise ffty-cent wheat
to pay debts with For that purpose fifty-cent
wheat will only go half as far as dollar wheat;
and the profits on ffty-cent wheat won't go one
quarter as far.