Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-08
TRUSTS, LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Some one put an addition on PotterS nelu,
please.
Some United States senators declare for free
silver, subject to international agreement Why
not make it interplanetary2 1t is only 1885,
ooo 900 miles to Neptune. good runner
could make the trip in about $4,000 years. BY
all means, put it off till old Nep is heard from.
The poor can wait.
Garrett is now a city of the second class.
Her mayor and aldermen will get yearly sal
airy of one dollar each, hereafter. Now, by all
the powers of darkness, let chickens roost high
and ducks take to deep water. The joints will
be all the resource left the city fathers. If
they should close, it would be 'root, hog, or
die"
Grover Cleveland's name will go down in
hifory as the greatest blunderer in this centu-
ry.-AGITAToR.
Grover Cleveland's will go into history
as an Infamous scoundrel, who never blundered
without filling his own pockets. If we were to
get him for the naming, we would call him
Traitor, and turn him over free gift to the
hangman.
Isn't the discipline in onr city schools some
thing like that of the drill sergeant who got so
disguised with his squad that he exclaimed,
"Do as you burned please. I'll be minded,
anyway?
Money is pretty flush in Kansas, judging by
the appropriations for the soldiers home, which
was all right in its original purposes, but which
has, under present management, become black
spot on our civilization. Wealthy and able
bodied men stay thcre at public expense and
drunkenness is too common to excite comment
Such an institution should be reformed or abol-
ished.
Wouldn't it be startling change if some of
Our ministers would preach of modern scientific
discoveries as evidencing the wisdom and power
of an infinite God, as eternal as endless dura-
ton and as omnipresent as linitless space?
Wouldn't a sermon of this kind once in two or
three weeks. do more to bring souls to God than
endless reiteration of the doctrine of a personal
Deity who puts in time counting sparrows and
numbering the hairs on the heads of Albinos?
Quite per cent. of our voters doubtless think
it proof positive of insanity to propose two
per cent government loan to the people, but
they never raise protest when our commits
sioners loan banker thousands OF dollars OF
county money at nearly the same rate. The
banker loans it back to the people for ten to
twenty-five per cent Why is it that any Kan
san is willing to pay for being humbugged!
That is YOUR OWN money, taken out OF YOUR
OWN pockets by taxation, and yet, you pay from
S8 to $22 out of every 500 for the precious
humbug of having banker hand YOUR money
from YOUR county agents to YOUR hands, to
hold few days and hand back again. If the
Populist theory of cheap interest is vagary,
what is the above policy? o, yes! financiering
run mad.
When it was announced that Anna Gould
and her foreign fortune-hunter would attend a
New York theatre, the house was damned, and
the overflow had to be dubbed by the police.
Wonder the poor devils didn't lie down and let
her walk in on them. Are such people mt tor
self-qovernment? The fact that Anna came in
only after the third act began looks like she was
nosinp to the gallery gods. Now let John l..
90 into retirement. When young woman
with nothing to recommend her but the fact that
she's daughter of the most INSCRIPTIONS land
nitrate since the days of Murrell can draw
b;ooer crowd of fools than the ex-champion,
it's time for sackcloth and ashes.
Cotton, wheat, iron, silver and horses are
lower than ever before known, and, with hogs
and cattle, have continued to decline steadily
from the day confidence was restored ( y by
last falls Republican victory to the present
time.
What's the matter with old Mother Conf
dence. anyway? Everything has been done to
restore her. Mckinley bill was the Republican