Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-31

armorics have been erected at the
principal points, near large masses
of toilers-one built by private cap
ital for the famous New York sew
enth regiment, which is Differed by
the sons of rich men. Why should
the RICH prepare for war? Why
did Chauncy Depew say, ~ do not
want to be around when the hungry
fellows break loose?"
Over the door of the Brooklyn
armory is inscribed the words "peace
on earth and good will to men,"
What a travesty on our Christian
civilization !! We manifest our
good will to men by preparing to
shoot them instead of feed them
when they get hungry. Military
training schools are being establish
ed all over the land, and religious
universities are training their stu
dents in the art of slaugbtering
their fellow beings. What does it
mean and what of the future !!
Ancient Babylon, with neteoric
splendor, fell in one day. How will
our modern Babylon fall?
The change may not come in the
manner we wish. No man can tell
what the result may be. What de-
fence does the law offer when more
lives are lost at street crossings
than Great Britain lost in some of
her wars? The car of Juggernant
falls into insignificance when COM
pared with it. Forty-two thousand
persons are killed annually on our
roads-more than was lost in the
bloodiest battles of the great Re-
bellion. In Europe, where govern
ment controls the roads, only about
one-fourth as many are killed. In
peace we have the greatest carnage.
Men starve for want of bread while
our granaries are bursting with
grain. The disinherited millions
are told to inovo on ! move on and
hunt work. Whittier shall they
go2 They have no comfortable
barracks, and are not even to re-
pose on the stony pillows of our
streets.
Did you never stop to think that
there are no woman tramps? 1t is
because that, instead of tramping in
search of employment as men do,
they sell their souls for bread.
Why do we sit calmly down, fold
ing our arms
| If there were as many human be-
ings slaughtered by some pitiless
foreign foe, we should be Mortified
and ready to spring to arms. In
the recent railroad strike, | think
that about one hundred were report
| ed killed and wounded, and but
one.third of the railroads were in
volved. Yet the average estimate of
the loss of life in the ordinary OPP
Grafton is about 500 for the same
length of time-about two weeks.
Why do the papers make more fuss
over one hundred lost in strike
than we do over the loss of five
hundred as the result of the neglect
of precautionary measures by the
railroad companies
The woman question and the Ia
Dor question are one. When each
shall labor for all, then slavery, vice
and crime will disappear. This
will come by securing freedom to
the mothers. When they are free,
their sons will be free. | am glad
that you have kept up this organic
alton. l believe that you will find
that wiser hand is moulding your
destinies. The Republicans are to-
day responsible, and they find it i'm
possible to redeem their pledges.
The hard times will still go on and
the people will still be oppressed.
Just as sure as the Populists con-
tinue to advocate reform and put a
clean tichet in the field, you will
win in 100. If were prophet,
and the party falls into line and
meets the moral questions fairly,
Won will have all the Prohibitionists
with you, and host of the lovers
of right will come as a reinforce
s.or, the Republican party.