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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
THE TREASURY SIEVE.

There's wonderful sieve, in the treasury set
To catch the gold eagles that fly to Our net.
But the six-inch mesh won't hold the swag,
And the sieve connects with the bankers bag.
Now this is the way the sieve game works,
Like the farmers mule-team "stiddy by Jerks"
The banker swaps his gold for bond,
The gold drops into the sieve beyond
Through the six-inch mesh and into the bag
The banker gets both the bond and the swag.
Now the chump the inconceiva able jay,
That allows himself to be ''sniped' that way,
Is bloomin idiot, dwelling dolt,
And bigger fool than Thompson's colt
Unless-he gets part of the swag,
And holds "cinch' on the bankers bag
And the courts are awful sorry to say
The American people are "that there" jay !
The thimbe-rig and the old shel-game
Are intricate puzzles beside this same
Transparent jay-bird game of the sieve
And the nation doesn't deserve to live
That won't turn jack-ass fnanciers'
Out, where people can see their ears.
H. w. TAYLOR in Nonconformist
Anderson, Ind.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
Anderson, Ind.

ABOUT thousand settlers in the counties of
Dickinson, Ellsworth and Saline counties, Kan
sas, have been subpenaed to appear in the
United States circuit court and defend the titles
to their hones-hoines made upon land decided
by the general government to the Union Pacific
railroad, and afterwards sold to the settlers.
Now, after the lapse of the fourth of century,
the government cites the occupants of these
lands to appear in court and resist suit of
custer, and that, too on the cowardly plea that,
by clerical error, the grant of the lands to the
railroad was invalid. Now the prime question
is, should this 900 farmers, 900 citizens of
Kansas-be robbed of their homes in the after
noon of life, on account of the incompetence of
some old party healer ? Millions of acres to
corporations for speculation, but not acre to
the tillers of the soil-even after having been
redeemed from a wilderness vast. The land
thieves are at work, and so the farmers must de-
fend their homes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
o, sayl did you hear that calamity howl
bTbot fell from, the line of old GrOyer2


That fell from the lips of old Grover?
Bonds he must have, by means fair or foul.
The slaves he has sold must all be sold over.
That calamity shrek! was the like ever heard?
Cramp pains and belly-ache all afflict Grover.
If bonds don't come soon, why, it is feared
The biggest of devil-fsh will have to keel over.
I've heard Indian war-whoop and lions fierce
growl,
But nothing before made my blood run so chill
AS that wild, weird shrek-Grover's calamity
howl
For bonds and for gold the bankers strong
box to fill.
1t is the same old story of authority overgrown
Grover is not different from thetyrants of yore.
We are reaping the crop of the seeds that were
sown
Thirty years ago. or year or SO more.
OF chattel slavery the men who raised such
howl
Their necks to the yoke of bond slavery now
bend.
The worst invention of tyrants or scoundrels
most foul
It's horrors can't be surpassed by man, devil
or hend.
Bond slavery My countrymen, do you know
you are slaves,
Sold and delivered by gold-worshiping fends3
Shall we wear letters and chains to our graves?
Or, like men, defend justice, freedom and
friends? VIM. ]. TABER.
Essex, Iowa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
DAMNABLE!


We are in receipt of copy of the New York
World of the 18th inst, which contains matter
which will make the blood of every true Amer
lean citizen boil with indignation. This par
ticular matter is a report of the Brooklyn coro-
ner's inquest over the body of Thomas Carney,
an innocent, inoffensive man who was shot by
one of the soldiers (Plutocracy's hirelings), tor
no other reason than that Carney was watching
the soldiers, and they (the soldiers), according
to testimony, were drunk.
The circumstances of the case were about as
follows-it was during the street-rallway strike:
Carney and another man were putting coat
of tar on the roof of building, when they
heard the soldiers in the street below, and Car
ney stepped to the edge of the roof and looked
down. Immediately, soldier shouted, Get
off that roof ~ at the same time pointing his
gun at Carney. The words were scarcely out
of his mouth when he fred and Carney fell.
Parties who saw the deed went to the root OF
the building and found Carney lying in pool
of his own blood, dead.
The Jury after being out four hours, brought in
a verdict generating the soldiers from all re-
sponsibilty, civil or military, and deciding that
Carney met his death as the result OF bullet
wound, inflicted by the militia while in the
strict discharge of its duty. Assistant District
Attorney Callahan asked the coroner to charge
the jury that the soldier who shot Carney was
accountable to the civil authorities if the jury
believed the shooting was done recklessly, but
the coroner replied that the jury could Judge
l.. 81 10 f1a It1rx
coroner said "The troops were called out ac-
cording to law. The mayor had the undoubted
right to call upon the militia if he deemed it
necessary. The shooting was done by soldier
in the exercise of his duty. The statutes say
that soldiers shall not be held ciYilly or crimi-
nally liable for any act done while in the per-
Torrance of duty" -
What is this country Coming to when SOL
der ESQ. called9 can, with impunity, and with
out excuse, murder inoffensive citizens! Is
anybody safe?
The fact is, these soldiers CD are simply
hirelings of the moneyed men, and officers are
ickspittles, lackeys and funkies for the same
class of people.
These moneyed men and their hirelings and
Aunkies are playing with fire, and they are
going to get badly burnt. The worm will turn
These fellows will learn lesson in the near
future that will not have to be taught to their
children and grandchildren. They will learn
that long-sufering people have reached the
point where patience has ceased to be virtue.
Of all the damnable farces we have heard OF,
the above caps the climax.
Let the music continue!
On with the dance!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22

THE Kansas senate passed bill making the
prohibitory law more rigid in that the possession
of government license shall be prina facie
evidence that the possessor is violating the state
prohibitory law. In the meantime, the house.
which is Republican, is wrestling with the re-
submission question, with fair show of pass
ing it. The Populist senate will defeat that
scheme however.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
DO YE TRADE?

(SMerchandise stocks of all kinds for ex-
change without publicity. If you have one to
exchange, or want one, and have good, clear
farm in eastern Kansas or Missouri, write fully
first letter, giving legal numbers and full de-
scription. Our commissions are only 2H%.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Mention this paper
and address Don A. Pool. & Co.,
327 N. Y. Life Bldg,
Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22

THE re-submissionists are hard at work in the
legislature. Tuesday, Col. G. Washington
Veale (Rep.) presented petition signed by
nearly 10000 persons, asking for the result
mission of the prohibitory question Col. Veale
said there were 900 petitioners in all, but
the balance hadn't got there yet. When the
page dragged the roll forward, the speaker
asked what should be done with the petition.
Representative Johnson, of Anderson, arose
and moved that it be referred to the committee
on irrigation. This is the first definite explain
alton we have seen of the irrigation plank in
the Republican platform,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
Proprietor Tins Place.

On the margin of the letter was written
"Major Hackbush is going to do all he can to
abolish the commissioners"
Major Hackbush is Republican member OF
the Legislature.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
How He Was Defeated.

The New York Mail and Express re-
Gently related an incident that should
be published in every paper in the land.
Out in the great western state of
Wyoming where the women have en-
joyed political equality for twenty-six
years, a man was nominated for office.
who was known to indulge quite freely
in the flowing bowl. The day and even
ing following his nomination he took a
number of boon companions out and in
dulged in great bibulous jollifcation.
One of the men on returning home from
the caucus was asked by his wife, who
had been unavoidably detained at
home, who had been nominated On
learning his name she promptly said:
THAT man cannot be elected" Hold
ing no further parley with her husband
she kept her own counsel for the time
being, but on the next day she put
on her sunbonnet and went and had a
next door neighbor. The neighbor in
her turn put on her sunbonnet and held
a caucus of two with her neighbor, and
before the women of that town got
through with these star chamber ses-
sions of two, every back fence in the
community was the recipient of conf
Dental political information. Time
went on and election day came. This
candidate was overwhelmingly de-
feated. Knowing that he had not
offended his party; he could not under
stand it. Six weeks later he found
out when little woman OF his ac-
quaintance said to him: 1--WE could
not let you be elected, Mr.. b., because
you would set bad example to our
boys"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
Western Illustration.

Whatever else may be said OF noun
taineers, they usually have an acute
sense of justice, and will own up when
fairly beaten. A missionary journal re-
lates the following dialogue which oc-
Cured among a group of young men
who were assembled near where there
had been preaching one Sabbath:
See here, John, why didn't We bring
up my rifle when ye come to preach
ing?"
well, Sam, | lowed 'twan't right to
bring it up on Sabbath. l mought see
a varmint on the road and git shoot
in and forgit it was Sabbath"
Huh! there's no use being so aw-
fully particular as all that. think it'S
all right to do little turns of Sab
bath; even a little shootin' won't hurt,
If we happen to see game"
The discussion was joined in on
either side by those around, and it was
finally decided to leave it to the preach
err He was called and the case stated.
Look yer, boys" said he, "s'posin' a
man comes along here with seven hand
some gray horses, a-ridin' one and the
others a-follerin'. You all like pretty
beast. and you look EN- all over. You
can't see that one is better than an
other. They are all as pretty critters
as ever were seen among these mount
aims, though there will be differences in
horses, boys. Well, that man says,
Here. boys. I'll jest give we six Of these
beasts for your own and he gifts on
the other and rides off. l spose now,
you'd mount your horses and ride after
him, and make him give we the other
horse, or at least make him let you keep
it till yer craps was all in"
No; we amt so ornary mean as all
that, preacher"
well, thar, can't ye let the Lords
day alone?"
A blank look at the preacher and at
each other then Sam spoke out:
You've freed us, preacher. John,
I'm right glad you didn't bring that
gun"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
Rams Horns

Keep your heart full of good Will, and
God will keep 1t full of love.
Knowing the Bible well is the best
preparation for knowing God.
The best place in this world for q
Christian, is the one God picks out.
The better Gods people please him,
the more peculiar they VIII look.
The best views are sometimes right
at the end of the longest tunnels.
1t is a mistake to believe that the
devil keeps the busiest in the slums.
The right cross for the Christian is
the one he isn't willing to take up.
Christ can sometimes tell us more In
an hour of sadness than in one of joy.
Every warning in the Bible is as full
Of Gods love as the sweetest promise.
The man who hates the Bible has
something ugly in his heart that it has
shown him.
The devil hates a shining face.
To live an aimless life is to lose life.
The inventor of soap was friend of
the gospel.
No matter how safe sin may look, its
end is death
1t doesn't take much money to make
a good man rich.
To have money often means to have
the devil for a master.
No prayer ever hurts a prayer meet
ing by being too short.
Wherever Christianity goes, it finds
that the devil got there first.
Wherever there is sin, God wants us
to know that there is danger.
There would be more joy in the world
II men knew the Bible better.
The more we are willing to do. the
more God will make us able to do.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13

Helen Keller, the brilliant deaf
dumb and blind girl, is an expert oper-
ator on the typewriter. The keys OF the
machine have the letters in has relief
upon the buttons. Recently she received
$3.50 for an article written for maya
zine.
Mr.. Stead's latest enterprise is bring
ing out an edition of English poets. and
each volume, complete in itself, Is to
cost only a penny. He has begun with
Macaulay's Lays" and the little book
is excelently printed and got up--for
the price.
Baron Hirsch has thus far sent about
1000 Russian Hebrews to tha Argen-
tine Republic and hopes to have a He
brew community there of 100, 900 within
ten years. lie sends them out in COM
panies of fifty families, each provided
with rabbi and doctor.
The Lassell School for Girls takes up
a new line of study this year called
physiological psychology. 1t aims to
give them thorough training for the
duties of motherhood. This is the most
important branch of study. Ignorant
parents do infinite harm.
Again there is very decided move
ment on the part of the news agents OF
London to enlist active public sympa-
thy, including the Christian press. in
favor of the abolition of the Sunday
morning newspapers. Their sugSes-
ton is that Saturday night issue take
the place of the Sunday paper. The
Weekly Dispatch has already re-
sponded.
Great progress was made in Uganda
by the Church Missionary Society in
1894. The churches now number 200,
and on Sundays 10000 persons assemble
in them. About 500 were baptize dur
ing the year. An urgent call is made
for European missionaries, one of whom
now is considered equal to ten five years
hence. Ten agents, of whom five are
ladies, are about to set out.
Rev. DIR. Joseph Parker, pastor of the
City Temple, London, recently an
nounced to his congregation that hence
forth he would not hold his people re-
sponsible for any fixed sum of salary,
but would take what they were willing
TO give. This follows an arrangement
lately made by which DIR. Parker is to
receive an annuity of $1,000 for life
after he retires from the ministry.
The National Temperance Advocate
says: The problem Of hard times will
solved when the workingmen OF Amer
lea boycott the saloon and stop drink
ing liquor. About 100000, 900 a year
go into the saloon from the hard-eanaed
wages Of workingmen. This money,
turned into the channels of industry
and commerce, would bring comfort.
end happiness. and plenty to millians
OF households"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
What About Your Light,

Let your light so shine before men,
Matt. SIG. If We have light IL will
shine, even though we hide it under a
bushel, but If we have no light IL Will
not do any good to get up on the house
top. The first thing that concerns MS.
therefore, is to know whether we have q
light. Have we been born again? Do
we know that we are converted? Do we
know that our names have been written
in the Lambs Book of Life? IL we do
not, we have no testimony for Christ,
and can only bring shame and reproach
upon his cause by protesting to be His
followers. We may be very bright can
dlesticks, but the man who is lost in
the dark doesn't care about a candle
stick. What he wants is light. A
hundred eandIesticks of the brightest
gold wouldn't help a man out of Man,
moth Cave IL he were there alone. We
may be very moral and well-behaved
people, but unless the Spirit of Christ
dwells in US there Is nothing about us
that can shine for God. Morality alone
is simply the polish on the candlesrick.
The Ugh; OF Christ in the heart. And
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13

ropean banks Is phenomenally large
according to the treasury experts at
Washington. On the first week OF
April the Bank of England had S1SS.-
Gs1,273 in coin and bullion, and the
Bank OF France In the same week car
ried $4O6, 347 1884 in gold alone. The
Imperial Bank OF Germany carried
S251 ,807 $40 in coin and bullion. the
Austro-Hungarian bank $50 1874, Sol I'M
gold and the Bank of Russia $310,427.-
400 in gold. 1t is the opinion of the
well-known banker, Mr.. Charles c..
Johnson of Boston, that this excess OF
foreign capital will drift 10 the United
States for profitable investment. Such
a gold current would solve all doubts
about our gold reserve, and would, in
Mr.. Jackson's opinion, have a striking
effect upon prices in the United States.
How important it is to business, then.
that no foolish fanfaronade about sill
yer should control the action OF our
government in any way and again pro-
duce European distrust as to its ability
or disposition TO pay all demands upon
IL in gold.
In plain words the paper in question:
would simply borrow the gold by issu-
ing longtime securities at a reasonable
rate of interest. This is precisely the
way Grover Cleveland proposes to pro-
tect the gold reserve, and If the print
ing presses hold out he will, in time
draw all the gold from Europe to this
country, but by that time he will have
a chattel mortgage not only on every
man. woman and child in the United
States, but on Old Glory as well.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
The Richest Nation.

And now il is a French economist in
the person Of Professor Francois who
comes out in a magazine in Paris, and
informs the world that the United
States is the richest nation on earth,
and possesses 25 per cent of the wealth
OF civilized humanity. In his computa-
lions the professor takes into account
the resources of no less than nineteen
nations. He delves into the question
with all the enthusiasm of a true scien-
fist. He appears to reach his conclu-
sions in a perfectly fair and impartial
sort of way, and being a Frenchman
born and bred, no one can justly accuse
him of undue Partially for the United
States. The order in which the ma
lions are classed in the professors
summary makes the United States
first as aforesaid England second,
France third, and Germany fourth.
Russia and Austria come next in the
order named. and the balance do not, in
combined wealth, equal the American
Republic. There is just one little point
in his very interesting economic COM
pNt'tiOh NhdI ldiiS
TO fully elucidate. That one point is
how it happens that the United States.
being first in wealth, is the only one Of
the four leaders to be obliged to borrow
money at ruinous rates in times of
peace, from her less wealthy neigh
bors. 1t is not doubted that there is
more wealth on this side of the Allan,
tic Ocean, and under the flag of one
government than there is under any
other ensign on earth. But in full
view of this seemingly we'll fortified
fact, it still remains to be explained on
other than free coinage basis how the
wealthiest nation is the borrower, the
less wealthy, the home of the only in
terest" that has money to loan in i'm
mense quantities. When Professor
Francois thinks he has time he might
earn dollar or two by discovering an
answer to this problem, provided, of
course, his answer favors the "1nter-
ests" spoken of by Professor Lawrence
Laughlin, as the only institution from
whom President Cleveland could Dor
row gold.-Ex.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
Coming Home.

y London correspondent of the New
York Evening Post Is authority for the
statement that most of the bonds sold
abroad by the syndicate are coming
back to the United States to be sold for
American gold for export. He esti-
mates that about sS,0OO,000 will be re-
turned during the month of September.
Here is what he says about the situa-
ton:
The most unfavorable point in the
situation, as regarded by financiers
here, is the enormous amount of ac-
cOmmodation bills which 1t is believed
have been already drawn to effect ex-
change. These, it is feared. have al
ready been so large as to materially dis
count any future effect likely to be pro-
duced by the bills yet TO be drawn in
connection with the usual harvest
crops. Reassuring statements on this
aspect of the question would have q
good effect here.
This statement from what is consid-
cred one of the best informed authori-
ties and confirmed by dealers in ex-
characteristic OF the syndicate-is
anything but reassuring. There Is
well-grounded belief in banking circles
that the syndicate cannot meet its obli-
cations with commercial bills and will.
ere long. be compelled to ship gold In
stead.-Ex.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
Worth Remembering.

The plainest features become hand
some unawares, when associated only
with kind feelings; and the loveliest
face disagreeable when linked with Ill
humor or caprice. People should re-
memeber this when they are selecting
a face which they are to see every
morning across the breakfast table for
the remainder of their lives.-N. p.
Willis.
II we work upon marble, 1t will
perish; If We work upon brass. time
will efface 1t; if we rear temples. they
will crumble into dust; but If we work
upon immortal minds, IL we Undue
them with principles, with the just fear
of God and love of our fellow men, we
engrave on those tablets something
which will brighten to all eternity
Daniel Webster.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13

Statistics showing the amount of the
government receipts and expenditures
per head OF population over period Of
a decade and half are given in the
last report of the treasury department.
According to the figures compiled by
him, the receipts for the year 1894 show
the lowest amount per capita for the
entire period, being only SASS. The
highest figures were reached in 1882,
when the amount was $7,S64. The ex-
penditures per capita, on the other
hand, reached high figure last year,
viz, s5.346, the largest amount for any
year with the exception of 1891 and
1893, the latter year furnishing the
larger amount, namely, $5.659. The
low-water mark was reached in 1886,
when the expenditures were S4.210 per
capita. The expenditures on account
of pensions reached the highest amount
per capita in 1893, but with the excep-
ton of that year, the year 1894 fur
nished the highest amount per capita
under that head.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
The Christian LIE.

A cross is something that the flesh
don't like, because it is an instrument
of death.
Many a one has been made a Bible
reader and Christian by hearing some
infidel talk against 1t.
The bowling Of wolf always makes
the sheep get closer to the shepherd.
The preacher who is truly called for
God. is always learning something new
about now to preach Christ.
Many preachers are trying to give
the Lord some other man. The one
they are initiating.
God didn't need very much Of an
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
K.,s risla.s Hawaiian Mission.

The announcement that Miss Kate
Field will go to Hawaii in the interest
of a Chicago paper will be of exceeding
interest to the admirers OF that bril-
liant woman journalist. Miss Field is
an exceedingly bright and graphic writ
er. She is a shrewd observer of human
nature, and her extended experience
will peculiarly qualify her to write in
telligently and interestingly of Hawaii,
its people and its institutions. There is
nothing Of visionary character about
Miss Field. She is the victim of no fads
and is welded to no isms, save that she
is an enthusiastic advocate of woman's
right to earn her living in her own
proper way. She can write, moreover,
and is not afraid to speak her mind.