Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-06-14
REFORM PRESS.

used by the Wichita Republican flamoeau 0."I A..
keeps them burning in his orchard az nisn. i
destroy the moths that usually destroy Mo "pF'
crop.-Welngton Mail.
Wiley Cook, assistant state auditor, says 10. ~
Bristow. Governor Morrills private secretary asked
that the vouchers issued by the governor DC ae'
stroyed before the public became fully informed as 10
their effect This was only fair sample OF the man
who had the gall to ask for the congressional hoil
nation in the Fifth district, and then accept peI'y
clerkship.-Col. A. G. Stacy (Rep.) in Parsons III
dependent.
Star and Kaasan Independence, Kas -;
Plutocrats rob the people because the people are
willing to be robbed If they were not, they would
abolish plutocracy.
When man who has the ballot uses it in the IN
terest of those who are robbng him rather than IN
his own, what do you think OF him
When we get a cooperative commonwealth snort
crops won't make anybody rich. Nor Will anybody
starve on account of an overproductlon Ell Dreao.
Ben Glover has been rewarded for his apostacy by
the Republicans. They have given him place that
pays about 500 month. This is nearer his worm
than the IS, 900 year he got as congressman.
Whatever profits there may be in the use OF
money. which is the creation of the people IN their
sovereign capacity, should go to the people. The
power Of the whole people ought never to DC useo
to enrich few.
Southern business men" IN convention at AT,
Ianta Georgia, expressed themselves In favor OF
making Cleveland president for life at salary OF
400 600 year. That is the Legitimate outcome OF
The campaign the business interests" are making IN
favor of gold standard. When you rob the pow
erty and toll of nation to enrich Its wealtn anu
;dle.ess YOU need strong government. Republican
;nst;tutions cannot survive in this country unless
democracy in government is backed by democracy
in business. When you permit one-tenth OF the
neope to own three.fourths of the property OF the
country, you render a monarchy inevltapie.
nresdent for life is one of the things many OF my
readers will live to see, unless the people
the despotism of wealth that now Expresses 'nen'
and uproot and destroy system which permts III
terest. rent and profits. We must have economic
freedom or we can't retain political freedom. The
shadow of equal rights will follow the substance I'M
less the workers insist on enjoying the fruits OF ther
labor The ballot will not be long left In the nanos
of the men who have been robbed OF their earnings
1t wouldn't be safe.
Coming Nation:
For robbing thousands of poor people who depos'
tied their money in his savings bank j. j. Koettng'
of Milwaukee pleaded guilty and was sent to prison
for five years. poor man stealing food to save MS
family from starving gets ten years. ana poor PEG,
ple vote to perpetuate this kind OF a government
Some awfuly queer things in this world.
Several months ago l read an interview in the
dailv press in which millionaire, l think it was
Huntington, said that if the people elected legsia.
lures adverse to railroad monopolies they (the rch)
would fall back on the judicial arm of the govern
maut-that is, they owned the courts United states
Judges are life postions and would knock out eglS
Iation. It has already commenced. Inc income
tax shows the power of the court against the will Of
the people.
Coed times are returning Higher prices for all
articles the wage slaves have to buy is recorded.
Aer wheat and cotton is out of the farmers hands
the price is raised Flour is higher rent is high.
or meat is higher oil is higher shoes are higherl
Rut wages is lower that ever known--the raise III
ner cent in a few places for advertising purposes to
Hind the voting slaves to keep them in the old par
ties on hope and soup. Great country Will the
workngmen be caught by such false pretenses
again? expect 30.
The combining into one company OF the street car
lines of all cities is being rapidly consumma.eo'
Combination and monopoly is the order OF the day
ONLY the working people refuse to unite and con-
amer. They stand glaring at each other, part Dem
dcrot and part Republican, because the combines
have them 80 trained, while they are being ieeced
and reduced to mere machine tenders IN mo-
nonoly's national mill. Let the combines continue
The more the sooner the poverty they cause Will
30 ,he,r bypnotized victims, who will unite at
the nols in self defense and demand public owner
ship of all monopolies"
The raise in wages is explained. The steel and a
fsw other firms raised wages 10 per cent and com
YELLED men to do double work o, yes capital ID
cute Sounds nice to say wages are raised, is big
noI;tical club to swing, and the poor devils tied
down to twice as much work as before are unable to
tell the world that their wages have actually been re
duced because of increased burdens laid upon them
What Haunting lies.
Edward Edwards, former empoye OF the Union
Lat 4
s,r;te and returned to England. He writes that
when he applied for position there he was informed
that he could not get work the railroads Of Eng
Ia because he had been placed the blacklist for