Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-11-08
GARNETvr, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 8, 1895.

and equipped with arms scientifically designed
and fendishly perfect, with chaplain i'll eacl
regiment, ready at all times to march to the
field of slaughter. Look further, and see three
Christian nations on their missions of conquest
in Africa, Algeria and other places, under the
guise of establishing Christian governments,
the chief agencies of "reforin" being rum, to-
bacco and money-the root of all evil.
Our whole social system is based OH the
rights of the individual to own the lands, tools
of production and the means of distribution,
thereby creating class conditions, class interest,
class legislation and frst-class scoundrels in
general Or, to put it another way, it is a sys-
TEN in which every fellow is for himself, and
the most INSCRIPTIONS scoundrel gets all
The oil, glass, cracker, sugar, leather, tobac-
CO, whisky, milling, cordage and beef trusts
are examples, with hundreds more.
do not say these conditions were created by
direct legislation, but the logical outcome of
individual ownership.
Now, here is another picture: The sweat
shops of our cities, where thousands of poor,
helpless womer and innocent children are
doomed to a most degraded life and premature
DEATH Take congressional committee reports
for detail on sweat-shops, and read where chill
dren "asketh for bread, and no man breaketh
it unto them" Then take the book of Lament
ations, sit down and read that, then tell me
what YOU think about it. One occurs under
stress of siege in war, and the other i'll what is
called Christian civilization.
Now, these things have said are facts, and
are not the fault of the church, nor do they
exist by direct legislation, but are the logical
result of your individualistic system. You all
deplore this, know, but are you going TO sit
quiet and not temove the cause of complaint
and refuse to adopt the ethics of Christianity
as your laws?
Now, if Christ did not expect to displace all
our laws and practices by divine laws and prac-
tices, why did He demand compliance with
divine law
now offer extracts from a circular which
details practices of the church in general. The
call was for a conference i'll Chicago, October
22-23 to organize a non-sectarian Christian
alliance federation or brotherhood. Here it is:
"For over fifty years the church has stood
with eyes and ears wide open to the ravages of
the liquor traffic. The greater part of this
time she has condemned the business i'll the
most unsparing terms, always being careful not
to attack the citadel of its strength-the polit-
ical acts of her members. She has permitted
the unwritten laws of custom and tradition to
set aside the plainest teachings of the Word of
God, until, unbushingly, she heralds to the
world her shameful surrend>r of her God
ordained disciplinary prerogatives. Listen to
this high-water mark of church resolutions,
this shield for four million license-voting muir
derersl 1T is not in the province of the church
to dictate the moral conduct of her members.
"Under the pretense of guarding civil liberty
she grants unrestricted license to do (vote)
wrong. She justly hurs her anathemss at the
Church of Rome fer selling indulgences to few
thousand in the sixteenth century, and then
condones the sin of four millions of her mem
bers who vote to grant indulgence (licensel to
two hundred and forty thousand saloons to
murder flor price, one hundred thousand
annually. She holds up her bloody hands in
holy CD horror at the ghastly work of the
legalized saloon, and then embraces, with open
arms, men, measures, and parties that give it
legal life and protection. With ecclesiastical
mouth she declares lit (the liquor business jean