Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-10-04

Chicago is using 300 barrels of beer every
day.-Champon of Liberty and Right. But chicago
has no school room for III 900 children.
WEEK before last, we asked why the Meth
odists did not turn out and hear Rev. ]. d.
Botkin when he spoke here. Last week, Poll
Parrot Trigg, of the Eagle, took it upon him
self to answer for the Methodists, though by
what authority he does not state. He says, in
reply to our query:
Several good reasons, dear boy. In the first
place, the Rev. was to speak about the unem-
ployed, and the Methodist people are too busy
attending to their own business to listen to po-
litical preachers. In the next place. Rev. Bot
kin has given up his pulpit, quit his sacred
calling to engage i'll the meanest kind of poll
tics, and the Methodists won't follow into that
camp. Personally, Botkin is all right, but po-
lticaly, he is awfully wrong
If, as Trigg says, the Methodists are all so
busy attending to their own business that they
can devote no time to the aneloration of the
condition of the many thousands of their un-
employed brethren throughout the country,
they are certainly possessed of very poor sort
of religion and we would advise them to read
the extract from a sermon by Governor Waite,
to be found in another column-t has the ring
of true religion. 1t would be useless for Trigg
to read it, however, for he wouldn't understand
it. We are glad to say that some of our Meth
odist friends did hear Rev. Botkin, and one of
thenl-a true Christian, friend of humanity
grasped him by the hand and said, "God bless
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word you uttered" Now a word to Rev.
Botkin's present occupation. He did not give
up the pulpit and abandon his sacred calling.
On the contrary, he breaches every Sunday,
and OH every other possible occasion. He is a
member of conference, in good standing, and
10 charges have ever been preferred against
him. If talking and working for the good of
humanity is "the meanest kind of politics., he
is guilty of that charge. He is not only all
right personally, but politically as well.
From our exchanges we take following latest
news:
Populists-We are making a grand cam
paign. Never were the people so willing to
listen before.
Prohibitionists. are making great
fight Vast audiences greet our speakers.
Never were the people so willing to listen be-
fore.
Socialists The people are reading and
listening, and the ranks of the socialists are
increasing at lively rate.
Single Taxers.-The Single Tax campaign
is cutting great swath. Just watch us con-
vert the people.
Suppose, dear readers, that all these reform
elements would combine, then there WOULD be
great and winning campaign fought wouldn't
there?-and don't you think they had better
ombine?-Grander Age.
WE clip the following suggestive item from
the Review, of Ogden, Utah. Comment is en-
tirely unnecessary:
AS a proof that milionaires are up to date,
we give dispatch of P. D. Armour to H. P
Lacey
"H. P. LACEY, Friedlaud, Pa: We cannot
allow Schwabe to continue killing live cattle.
"P ID. ARMOUR"
GEN. VIM. MALONE, of Virginia, is suffering
from paraytic stroke, and his life is despaired
of. He is one of the confederates who became
"good Republicans" after the war.
IT costs one-third more to ship bushel of
grain from here to Galveston, Texas, than to
Scotland. If Uncle Sam owned and operated
the railroads, it would be different.