Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-11-29
GARNErT, KANSAS, NOVEMBER ae, 1895.

to greed and rapacity. 'In God We Trust,
as motto, is hollow mockery. The wealth
owners have no god but Mammon-no limit t.
greed bit the limit of inability. Homes TO
the homeless have, seemingly, vanished i'll THU
air. Rapacity of railroad companies; rapacit,
of coal companies; rapacity of manufacturing
companies; rapadity of the Rothschilds or gole
combine; rapacity of bankers; rapacity OF com
bined capital in all the necessaries of life; ano
last, but not least, rapacity of the landlords!
There is but one of two endings to this inor
dinate greed One is revolution and the Other
a degraded and ignorant populace, with a
standing army and monarchy in the back
ground.
History, reason and nature point to all inev-
table change, for worse or better.
The end for which our republic was estab-
lished was that the common people might have
homes and happiness. We sound no false
alarm The wealth-producer is not paid fair
equivalent for his service on the farm, in the
mine or factory. We have a republic for few
men and wage slavery for the many. We hrve
wealth for the rapacious few and poverty for
the many We have an overAowing abundance
of everything for the few and scant provision
for the many. Conditions are wrong-abso-
lutely wrong-and it is the combined power OF
capital that makes the wrong.
We envy no man his wealth. We care
nought for the splendid equipage of the rich OF
lavish display of the millionaire. 1t is the
power of concentrated wealth which we dread,
and our battle is for a nobler manhood and a
farer womanhood for the toiling millions. We
do battle for the ideal republic, i'll which every
man and woman may have sufhciency OF
physical comforts and moral and mental cul-
ture The ideal of our fathers is an mpossi-
blity unless wealth remains in the hands OF
the wealth-producer Why have republic if
few men own its wealth, control its politics,
shape its legislation and dictate its court decis-
ions2
Our republic is roaring farce. We hrve
liberty to trampt and die, without let or him
drance, but in other things rapacity is the
royal road to liberty.
Starting at the bottom, with a multitude
scrambling and frantically clutching at your
skirts, dragging you back into the mre, and
still succeeding, sounds we'll in poetry and 6c-
ton, but, under present conditions, it is
damnable delusion that becomes more evident
as the years pass by--as our civilization moves
on to certain destruction.
To-day, in every profession and occupation,
competition is cutting the throat of the indi
vidua and crushing to death our civilization.
That our condition cannot be bettered is lie,
hatcbed in He'll, nurtIred by monopoly and
circulated by politicians and hireling press.
There is no limit to human achievement or
happiness, and no bounds to our civilization
under the inspiration OF the God who breathed
into man the breath of an immortal life.
THERE'S fine family row i'll the Republic
all ranks A lot of jealous redeemers have it
in for Boss Leland and are trying to down him.
Cy is a "stayer," however, and will hold OIL
like "grm death" The Topeka Capital,
which is now J. Rats Burton's mouth piece, is
opposing Leland, and, as the Mulvanes, who
now own the Capital, are fighters from way
back, there is likely to be lively war in the
redeemer camp. Let 'em fght-its all in the
family.
THE Eupora, Mississippi, Sun remarks:
"The only sensible reason why the Democrats
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