Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-22

everything else, by means whereof enterpris
has been stopped, trade and commerce stranglet
and labor pauperized. The mistakes of the pas
are irremediable and the voters of America ar,
in no way responsible therefor, because the
crime which made our degradation possible
had its inception in foreign villaing and Amer
lean cupidity. Every time Republican editor
asserts his willingness to have silver as money
when England consents, right then and there
the traitorous villain ought to be branded.
Tom Reed and John Sherman, Grover Cleve-
land and John G. Carlisle are all of kind, and
they lead the hosts of Democracy and Repub-
lcanism to-day. If they are Republicans, and
their conduct means Republican principles,
then neither you nor I, nor men who think as
we do, have and business in the Republican
party. And where in the thunder are we to go
We believe in protection, and Democracy and
Populism do not, and the goldbugs of London
and their emmissaries here, through the control
of parties by such leadership, prevent the ANAL
gamaton thus far of the opponents Of gold
mono-metallisn, and as they, each in turn,
grind us little harder under the gold press,
Republicans howl for higher protection and
their opponents for lower, and thus the friends
of bi-metallism are kept apart, to the everlast-
ing shame, disgrace and dishonor of their coun-
try.
Oh Lord, how long will Republicans who
think as you and do, and Democrats and Pop
ulists who think as we do, continue to be sep
arated and kept apart on minor questions to the
injury of all?
Remember me to my old friends who have
the interest to inquire concerning me, and be-
lieve me loyal Kansan always. The ablest,
brightest and purest politicians are always
found on its sunny plains. More average intel
ligence, keener criticism and clearer conception
dominates the minds of those people than are
found elsewhere, measured by population. AS
she was the leader for the freedom of the slave
and throwing off from American politics the
donineerng and infamous oligarchy-the slave
barons of the south-so she must be the leader
in freeing this country from white slavery, and
the clutch of the corporate and capitalistic
barons, the modern feudalism which has sprung
from the yarmouth college case.
1t would be amusing, if it was not so ever
everlastingly disgusting, to see Republican
newspapers and politicians jumping up and
down and shouting themselves hoarse over the
recent action of the British House of Commons
and German Chancellor, in reference to silver
a proposition, by the way, that don't mean an.
thing, because there is such thing as inter-
notional money. Verify, the cringing, coward
ly, sycophantic toadyism evidenced by the con-
duct of modern Americanism, and the avidity
with which they, poll-parrot-like, watch for and
enunciate foreign ideas, as guide for our con-
duct, is enough to make Washington and JEFF
ferson and Jackson and Lincoln rise from their
graves as protest. What has become of that
Americanism that threw off the English yoke
in '76, asserted nationalism in IL and saved us
a nation in '61? Verify, the leaders of Ameri-
can politics to-day can be ikened only to hy-
enas, who tore the flesh, and the thieves who
robbed the dead on our battle-helds. Eneryat-
ed by luxury, debauched by greed, and dominat-
ed by English monarchical and financial inhu-
ences, they are the fit representatives of venal
age, that follow the heroism and self-sacrifce,
that tramped the continent and watered one-half
of our Union with their blood in the late war
for self-preservation. 1t is enough to make an
old soldier who survived that horrible ordeal
go out behind barn and coax mule to kick