Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-06-14
MRS. LEASE AND HER NEW BOOK.

The Wichita Beacon says OF her:
"Mrs. Mary E. Lease will soon have another
book completed, which will be Immediately put
upon the market. She is not only writing
book, but is also preparing several series of lee
lures for delivery in towns in Texas Iowa, Ne
braska and Minnesota, writing special articles
for newspapers and magazines and attending to
a voluminous correspondence. Incidentally,
Mrs. Lease dabbles in dough as we'll as ink,
takes hand at household drudgery, and she is
never too busy to take an active interest in the
studies and arnusements of her promising chill
dren.
"The title of Mrs. Leases new book will prob
ably be, THE Conflict Historically Considered
1t will treat of the conflict between labor and
the money power from historical and philo-
sophical standpoint and will place new inter-
pretations upon many important fact of history.
Sin the initial chapter the author says: "A
tidal wave of unrest is upon us, and portentious
mutterings are heard that may presage a storm.
The laborer and the capitalist stand to-day,
throughout the civilized world, face to face in
grim antagonism, as of old-capital alert, wary,
strongly equipped, thoroughly organized; labor
intelligent, suspicious, hungry, homeless The
most peaceful relation anywhere is one of armed
truce. Rolling back the dark and tear-stained
curtain of the worlds histories, and looking
down the vista of years that connects the past
with the present, it becomes manifest that two
great agents or factors have ever controlled the
hive of labor. These two factors have been,
first the titled nobility or arstocracy of royalty;
and seconly, the aristocracy Of wealth, or the
money power
Mrs. Leases name has been placed on the
formers which meets in Prohibition Park, NY,
June 90, and she has been asked to deliver an
address on that occasion.
"She will lecture in South Dakota the last of
this month, in Texas during July and in Ne
braska in August. She has received, on an av
erage, four letters a day inviting her to deliver
Fourth-of- July addresses, and has accepted that
of the Fort Madison, Mimi, Veterans Associa-
ton. Four senators and three governors speak
there on that day."
SENATOR PETER ON SILVER PARTY
The following, relative to Senator Pefer's
views on the new silver party, we clip from the
Topeka State Journal:
"Senator PETER has no faith in the free-coin-
age party which some people are talking of or
ganizing.
"'There is nothing in it, he said to Jour
nal reporter. i do not think much about it,
because know it will not amount to anything.
These men like Captain P. H. Coney, ex-Lieu-
tenant-G Governor Felt and the rest of the free
coinage Republicans will all fall into line after
the Republican national convention.
"'I am satisfied that the Republican conven-
ton will slobber all over the money question
at their next convention, just as they did the
last time, but believe that the Democrats will
adopt free-silver plank, for there is no dis
guising the fact that great majority of the
Democrats are for free silver.
"'Of course, the Populists are the original
free-coinage people, but there is great deal
more to the free-coinage question than free sill
yer, and we realize that fact"
WHILE prohibition is now, and has been for
years past, in our judgment, the most import
ant issue in politics, it is not now, and never
has been, the dominant" issue. Our party
tried to make it such by declaration in its
platform, but it has found out that dominant"
issues are not made in that way. 1t requires at
least plurality of all the votes cast to make
any question dominant" issue. In 1892,
prohibition received about 40, 900 votes out of
an aggregate vote of IL ,ooo, 900. We tried to
make prohibition dominant" by platform
declaration, but lacked nearly six million votes
of accomplishing that end. In 1892, the tariff
was the dominant" issue. In 1896, the money