Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-12-27
GARNETT, KANSAS, DECEMBER 27, 1895.

both. So far, Cleveland has exhibited yer,
little political wisdom, and will rank in history
as the most stupid president the United State
has vet had. He and Olney have aimed t.
strike a popular chord, and, it seems, have
succeeded; but, all the same, they have made {
mess of it, They sent Great Britain all ult
matum, and then backed down to commits
sion, which, if authorized by congress, will
proceed to Venezuela, at a cost not exceeding
Sroo, 900, and find out all about the trouble.
Senator Hill says it is back-down and hzzle,
and that is about the size of it. Why not
have sent commission i'll the first place, and
had that commission hear both sides of the
controversy? and if it had found that England
was performing the part of brutal bully, it
would then have been time to interfere-but
not with ultimatuns.
Cleveland proposed arbitration, which was
all right, but was rejected by England; then, a
mediator, but he could not be a mediator with
out the consent of both parties. There his eff
forts should have ceased, but Cleveland must
be dictator, and, as Prof. Wolsey, of Harvard,
says, ''the president has gone cunning without
a gun license" Cleveland should go duck
should go home and plead law i'll ustice-of-
peace courts until we find out Just whether or
not Venezuela is entitled to our aid or sympa-
thy
War, when engaged i'll for long periods, eX-
terminates civilization, and should never be re-
sorted to butinextreme cases, if ever; and both
wisdom and humanity, say nothing about
Christianity, forbid war III this case
If Cleveland and congress OH our side,
and Lord Salisbury and the ruling class in
England, had to do the fighting, their mangled
bodies to lie on the battle-hele, their wives to
weep as widows, and their children to be de-
prived of the care and protection of fathers,
we should probably say that they ought to
have dose of war, to find out what war means.
Bit there is no fear of their doing the fighting,
shouting for war expect to reap rich harvest
OF gold, or 90 down into history, their names
engrossed on the rolls of fame. Somebody
else than they will march in the ranks, suffer
with hunger, WEAKNESS and exposure to incem-
ent weather. Somebody ese's body will lie
mangled in the battlefield, or be carried home
deformed and crippled for life. Other widows
than their own will weep for absent husbands,
and other than their children will cry for bread
and the mass of the people-combatants and
innocent and guilty--wll be
taxed to foot the bills.
Our plea is for the ilapless, helpless, unwil-
ling victims of the pastime of kings, rulers
and devils--and not only Americans, but Eng
lshmen as we'll.
1'le laboring man OF America has 10 quarrel,
in any event, with the mass of the people of
Great Britain; neither have the mass of the
people of Great Britain any quarrel with Amer
leans. Why should friends butcher one an
other to crafty the avarce or passion of ruling
classes? Why should our rulers take our
choice young men and kill, main and deforn
them?
Let every man who reads this bow to high
Heaven, if our nation is needlessly plunged into
war, refusal for slaughter Of the able bodied
men and the men who are engaged in useful
If war there must be, let the
idle, the useless, the hobos and the Eugenes
Wares do the fighting.