Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-01-18
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGES

set up in type, and in its stead, we received
Governor Morrill's message At first we were
a little "hot under the collar" and felt disposed
to "fre'' the stuff back, instanter. However,
after perusing the message, we concluded that
we could do the Populist cause more good by
publishing Morrills stuff than by not publish
ing it, for the whole burden of his song is"Help
the poor down-trodden capitalist who has
been scared out of the state by the anarchlstlc,
repudiating Pops Just give us gold-pugs an
other chance, and we'll flood the state with
money from Wall street and from England, and
YOU can increase your mortgage Indebtedness.
In the meantime, we'll repeal all stay laws ana
remove every vestige of law that was enacted
to help the poor man to keep his home, ana
then the down-trodden capitalist CAN force the
law, lousy, anarchistic repudiating debtor who
has borrowed five hundred dollars on three
thousand-dolar farm to step down and Out AFTER
his home has been sold for two hundred and
fifty dollars at sheriff's sale, and the poor capt.
talist will be able to get even with the dirty,
repudiating anarchist by securing Judgment
AGAINST him for the balance of the amount called
for in the mortgage"
Yes: Morrill's message, boiled down, means
Just that Of course, he had to touch 1ew
other points in order to fool the people ana
make them think he meant something else
Governor dwellings, message was very dit
ferent. All the way through his message, the
poor man can discern the hand of friend-a
man with heart larger than his big body. We
greatly regret the mistake by which we received
the type for the wrong message, but, by the
time we could get it here, it would be stale
news; besides, majority of our Kansas readers
have already seen the message IN other papers.
Governor Lewelling advises economy in all
state affairs; says the Legislature must provide
for the payment of $685., 500 of bonds which
will mature within the next fonr years; quotes
the recommendation of the state treasurer that
small tax be levied to create sinking-tund
to redeem all bonds coming due during the
present century He thinks the state board OF
charities should be abolished, and that each
charitable institution be governed by board OF
trustees. It is recommended that money be
kept in the state by patronizing home insurance
companies In the matter of assessments and
taxation, he recommends that all property be
assessed at its actual value, and that the leg1s-
lature make the law so certain that no county
can impose upon another by fixing lower than
actual value Fee-grabbing is strongly con-
demned The creation of bureau is recon-
mended, whose duty it should be to correct the
MANY things from which the farmers now suffer
The Kansas City stock yards get rap for ex-
cessive charges, and the Governor recommends
IL remedy
A large appropriation for irrigation experiments
is opposed. Theappropriation should be small,
and the plans should provide for more than the
location of the underfow, and experimentation
with it. There is no necessity for new board,
but the work inaugurated by the board OF re-
gents of the agricultural college is sufficient
The tramp" or the man who is invountarily
idle, or out of work. is not forgotten but is ably
defended by Governor who has, heretofore,
proven himself the friend of the poor.
Governor Lewelling reviews the legislative
war of two years ago, and declares that the
Populists elected majority of both houses OF
the legislature, as we'll as the state ticket, but
the state convassing board, by frauds, gave the
lower house to the Republicans.
AS great fight was made upon him because
of certain appointments, and because it has been
charged, repeatedly, that he sold out to the
ioint-keepers, gamblers, ETC., we give our read
ers the greater part of what he says on that
subject:
"The old notions as to dealing with the liquor
traffic are not applicable to the prevailing state
of things The people have no longer the iso-
lated saloon to combat, but must grapple with
gigantic whisky trust. Nor is this all. The