Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-06-28
REFORM PRESS.
The Star and Kansan:

be brought down off their perches
Sibley is right. The contest next
wear will be between the producers
and the absorbers. But it will take
something more than free silver tc
secure the rights of the producers
Carlisle says the gold would all
leave the country if we should coin
silver free. Even if we should, how
much less gold would you see and
handle than you do now? Locked
ND in the banks, the gold don't do
us any more good than if it was it
Europe.
Congressman Kirkpatrick, Of this
district, pictures his party in Kan
sas as ring.ridden. He says he has
no doubt the Republican voters OF
Kansas would elect Ingalls, senator
If thew had the chance, but that the
nleadersn don't want him and will
make "his nomination difficult"
When l see single-taxers dcvot
inc whole columns to the defense oil
usury and socialists making attacks
on free silver, wonder how long 1t
will be before reformers learn to
stop fighting among themselves and
turn their guns on the common
enemy. The money power never
makes such mistakes.
It can never be repeated too often
that the main question isn't the
money question, but the labor ques'
tion. The only Importance the
money question has is that money
manipulation enables idleness to rob
labor So that at the bottom the
money question is labor question
but only one of many questlans,
as the land question, the railroad
question, the income tax question:
and other economic questions. They
all resolve themselves into the labor
uuestion in the final analysis.
The business OF supplying the
leather for shoes and harness needed
by the American people is IN the
hands of a trust with capital OF
1920, 900, 900. These rich men are
not in the trust for their health.
Before spring they will rob you OF
from twenty-five cents to one dollar
on every pair of shoes you buy, to
enrich themselves. And every bal
lot cast for the old party tickets
next fall will be an Endorsement OF
the political and economic system
under which such robbery is possl'
bic. The people are becoming the
slayos of the trusts, but they are
not smart enough to get together
and take the business of all the
trusts into their own hands. Until
they do they will be skinned and
fleeced by the sharpers who think 1t
is Cuisines" to steal.
Humanity, Kansas City, Mo-:
Many people with less judgment
than brains often argue that labor
ers are poor because they spend so
much money for liquor. How much
money can the Sweater slaves" IN
New York spend for liquor out OF
their % to 35 cents a day! How
much do their heartless drivers get
out of their profits to spend for
champagne? Bah2 Let's look at
facts.
Every person who realizes the In.
Justice of present conditions ana
who does not do something to help
improve them is bequeathing to pos
terity a legacy of slavery. Those
who know that something is wrong
and are afraid to protest against II
are the ones the next generation
will class as towards"
The government 1.-THE people,
once owned some land in Kansas
The people sold it to individuals
who found deposits of coal when
nature placed there. These indi'
viduals sold or leased the land to
corporations who have been hiring
the people to dig the coal for then
and taking the profits because they