Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-01
NO. 81.

the words, ooh, we'll, but you can't make
things different" Is it not declared from lips
divine, "trhe poor ye have always with you"
And almost never in the pulpit, or out OF it, is
the text referred to, "Let him that has two
coats give to him that has none"
The temperance reform, the labor reform, the
woman movement, the purity question, all close
in like the fingers of hand on the determil-
alton to cause this and every commonwealth Il
quote again the message of the governor) ITO
be controlled by laws, not men." We want laws
that embody the Golden Rule; we want the self
ish and thoughtless employer obliged to give
the EMPLOYED the benefit of the eight-hour law;
we want the living wage not to depend on men,
but to be the enactment of the statute book we
want the corporations to have no alternative eX-
cept to seek the greatest numbers good, because
they have become the property of that greatest
number. Indeed, will go further and say, we
want all the means of production and exchange
to be so controlled and conducted by majority
of the people that the Golden Rule shall be car
ried out whether some people will or no that
it shall be for the interest of all concerned with
these great enterprises so to conduct them that
the maximum amount of benefit shall accrue to
all the people in the state, and later ON in the
nation, and later OH in the whole world.
AS temperance reformers, we see that the
liquor system is the concentration of selhshness,
and we would give to the people themselves the
right, the power, the process ofOputtlng 1t away,
and we would back up that power by giving it
two votes to the home where it now has but one.
For we believe that what is true now has been
true from the beginning, and will be to the end;
the mother heart is the home of altruism; it is
the fountain head of the Golden Rule on earth;
it always seeks the best interests of those COM
mited to its care, and for this reason we would
let loose upon those vile institutions OF our
towns and cities that threaten to undermine our
civilization the tidal wave of purity and afec-
ton that wells up from the heart of women
We believe there is no way out of the laby-
rinth of misery and sin in which the masses OF
the people wallow except by opening the suce-
ways of the law and pouring in the pure and
steady current of Golden-Rule legislation until
the classes built OH artificial distinction shall
be blotted out and the masses shall rise to the
utmost that their inherent powers OF brain and
heart and hand can work out under cooper
ative rather than competitive system of indus
try finance and law.
Because she holds to all these principles, be-
cause she has bravery to declare them, because
she suffers the ostracism Of the aristocratic class
from which she sprang, as the penalty OF that
great free-hearted nature that has led her to e5-
pouse the cause of the people rather than the
cause of the peer, Isabel Somerset has become
the most-trusted and the best-loved woman OF her
nation, and next to John Burns she is the rising
hope of that rising party of the people, whose
motto is, each for the other, and God for us
ALL"
Themistocles, the Grecian general, once
brought unwelcome tidings to his superior offi-
Ger. and was beaten for his pains with many
stripes, but only said the blows fell thick and
fast, "Strike, but hear meW So, to-day, with
an earnest heart, she says, as l do to you and
all who thiAk us wrong, brothers, sisters,
eStrike, but hear me ~ and the futures vic
tory shall justify these words.
THE Grander Age, of Handsboro, Miss, very