Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-08
TABER TALKS.
CAL AMITY.


TABER TALKS.
EDITORS -AGITAToR: &c. no! our blessed
and beautiful fraud school system has reached
maturity and is beginning to bear fruit after its
kind. No, indeed; ain not surprised. have
only wondered why the damnable fraud has
been SO long in developing itself, for I knew
before I was big enough to hop over tow
string that the powers that be-church and
state-would prevent, if possible, the common
people from getting any education whatever;
but that not being possible, their next insolent
effort was to get and keep control of the educa-
ton of the people, and so they invented what
they called the free school. Was there ever
more transparent falsehood that thing is free
that costs ten times as much as the same thing
would cost if got in a natural, proper and hon
est way? And it is worth just next to nothing,
for child may attend these free, or fraud,
schools from the time it is five years old until
twenty-one, and it has smattering of every
thing and knowledge of nothing
But now we come to the ripe and juicy fruit
of this blighting tree. Our Free or fraud,
schools are to be turned into murder factories,
to teach the young men of the country the art
of professional murder to make them destroyers
of their kind; hence, the greatly great, highly
distinguished tax-eaters of the country got
themselves together at Carnegie hall, N. Y,
twas there ever anything more appropriate than
that this cabal or clique of fat tax-eating scoun-
dres should meet at Carnegie hall?) and re-
solved to make military, or murder, education
compulsory in Our public, or fraud, schools
They say it will make the young men patriotic
and loyal, which, in plain English, means that
they will be docile, obedient non-ressting, abb
ject groveling slaves.
Words get their meaning from application
and use, hence, what may have been good
word once may now contain deadly poison.
We have right to rip words up and examine
them. 1t is their use and meaning now that
we are interested in. Patriotism now means an
unreasoning, selfish love of country, with
corresponding unreasoning murderous hate OF
all surrounding humanity Such feeling may
have been necessary among savage, barbara
tribes, but it is not necessary now, in our pres
ent half-civilized condition, when there is hope
for us to become better instead of worse.
The word "loyal'' don't need much ripping,
for it means now what it always meant 10y
atty is the attribute of slave, or of dog.
There must be master before there can be
loyal, cringing subject-a loyal, groveling slave,
or loyal, sneakihg cur, and of the three var
minis, have the most respect for the cur, for
nature made the distinction of superiority that
the cur acknowledges. do wish that could
only say that the distinction was greater than it
really is We owe to the spirit of resistance or
rebellion every particle Of progress that human
itv has ever made. / am aware that this is
bitter truth to usurping masters and loyal
slaves, but am conscientiously working for the
benefit of both master and slave. Both are in
unnatural conditions, and there can be no rest,
no peace, no love and no brotherhood in the
human family as long as master and slave exist.
1t is fearful, consuming, destroying disease,
but is not incurable. That blessed trinity,
Truth, Love and Justice, can and will cure it,
and hope that the vile cancer may be eradi-
Gated without the use of the knife, for that
would leave wound to be healed
I have not said one-hundredth part of what |
would like to, and ought to, say in this already
too long letter. WIN. J. TABER.