Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-10-11

The report includes the work done between
January and August 20, 1895. 1t will be in
teresting for reformers to know that the "othe1
fellows work.
On the matter of meetings and speakers, the
report says:
Soon after our former report the advancing
season closed the irregular series of sound cur
rency meetings for which the committee was
then furnishing speakers; and the engrossment
of our funds in other urgent work made it i'm
possible for us to meet peculiarly-invtlng op
portunties that were offered for sound currency
meetings in several of the western states. In
one, however-Indiana-t expense involved
was so moderate and easily limited, and the call
so urgent, that it was decided to cooperate with
friends there in defraying the expenses of meet
ings to be held at different points to be approved
by the committee. Under this arrangement, a
series of some thirty meetings was arranged, of
which twenty have already been held, and ten
more have been arranged, all addressed, or to
be addressed by Hon. Wm D. Bynum to
whom the cause and the committee is thus pc
culiarly indebted. In spite of the time of year,
and the lack of such complete local organiza-
ton as would have been desirable the program,
as a whole, has proved al astonishing success;
that nothing but the lack of funds has pre-
vented its further extension, and the inaugural
ton of similar campaigns i'll Michigan and
Missouri. In the latter state, especially, there
seems no question either of need, of opportu
nifty, or of abundant local cooperation.
This gives all interesting insight into the
methods by which the late "wonderful revival
of interest i'll a sound currency and an honest
dollar" have been worked up. Our frierds i'll
Missouri and Michigan may be the lookout
The funds needed will be forthcoming. The
men engineering this business have plenty of
it, and don't have to work for it, either. We
may shortly expect to hear of 'great awaken
ing' in Missouri and Michigan, and of "spon
taneous uprising against free silver and fiat
money!" and of tremendous demand for
speakers to enlighten the people OH these ques
tons"
But the committee had not been unmindfu
of the importance of literature i'll campaign
of education" and, since the first of January,
has printed and distributed nineteen different
numbers of its "Sound Currency Series" The
total number of books and pamphlets distribut-
eu Ill tHlS peIlOu-lOI tHc purpose Vi MlS-Suu-
eating the people-was ONE MILLION, FIVE
HUNDRED AND THIrTY-TWO THOUSAND. These
are not cheap tracts or leaflets but pamphlets
ranging i'll size from IL to 4S pages each, many
of them illustrated, and prepared by the ablest
writer's that money would hire.
Think of that ye reformers who imagine you
are "sowing the country knee-deep with litera-
ture" if you scatter few hundred cheap tracts,
or even good papers, over county,
But this was not all that was done in the lit
erature line. The press was looked after.
'Brains' of golden hue were to be furnished
editors of local papers. People have noticed
the wonderful swinging over of local papers to
the "sound money" idea. During this period,
three hundred and thirty-nine local papers were
furnished with ''sound currency supplements"
to be folded in with the regular edition of the
papers, and so sent out to all subscribers. The
committee estimates that the circulation reach
ed in this way was 288, ,2Io-more than the
probable circulation of all the Prohibition pa
pers combined. The committee remarks
"Nothing but lack of means has prevented this
work from being at least doubled in extent"
The readiness of papers to sell out exceeded
the liberal provision of funds made by the plu-
tocratic managers of the purchase bureau.
But this was not near all the work done, i'll
the way Of furnishing 'brains" for local papers.