Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-01-25
Devoted to the interests of
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ans are all at sea when the query, "Where IS
vour boasted prosperity under protection = Is
propounded.
THE article headed "Mental Dynamite, " on
the opposite page, is not fresh matter, out 1t -
too good to lose. 1t has been crowded out Oh
Off columns for several weeks.
In California the Republican and in Tenn
essee the Democratic bull was badly goreo by
the people, but the ms are holding to the OFFICES
nv overriding law. The next thing the usurpers
l., both states will do will be to issue homlly
on the sacredness of law.
WE boast great deal of personal liberty-of
the privileges the individual citizen enjoys but
that liberty is only tangible so long as the IN
dividual does not resist the endorsements Vi
capital. Resist, and subservient judges, WITH
drap net iniunctions, will show you liberty tor
the poor is a myth, and that license tor the itch
to do almost as they please is as tangable as
life.
WE have fought one great war-tought II
with arms and shot and shell-one IN winch
the blood of brave men flowed without stint.
There is another war OLA war of ballots ana
intelligence against avarice and greed against
courts and ambition. Labor must be thorough
" aroused and put upon the watch-tower, for
creed knows no law of justice. If intelligence
and the ballot do not win, then Will coh'e
the clash of arms, for freemen will not Dc ell
shaved.
CLOUDS are gathering over the land now as
thew gathered prior to 1861, and from the same
cause.-The enthronement OF despotism-aha
will deluge the country as did the bursting
of those clouds, and from the same cause.-The
rapacity of the wage owning money power for
the IGNORANT partisan will continue to ignorant
" vote away his liberty until he wakes up 10
find himself the vassal of some purse-proud
lord. and then will be born the demand 1or
yenpence. History repeats itself.
WE see by the Wool-Hat, of Augusta, Ca,
that they have some brave, fearless preachers
in the South-one, especially-Rev M. j.
Golfer. who, in recent sermon, denounced the
election frauds in that state. There are SO
many whited sepulchres among the members Oh
othe cloth' that when we learn OF one VINO
does his duty, we feel impelled to call him by
name and give him the credit due him. When
the preachers and their CLOCKS" get right,
there will be no trouble to bring about needed
reforms.
Ir is already evident that the next senate
will have lot of good people in it. There
will be Bill Chandler, Matt Quay and Steve
Elkins. All that is now needed to make a
of he
election of Addicks, from Delaware.
worth Standard.
What pity Bawdy-house Burton didn't sue
coed in capturing Martins seat This, with
the addition of Guerilla Mosby and Bill Cook,
the outlaw, would have put the veneering on
the beautiful body of thieves and political pros
titutes God pity the few honest men that
compose the salt that saves that body from the
wrath of patient but just God, who are COM
PEELED, by force of circumstances, to associate
with that corrupt gang
DID the majority of the great dailies but tell
the truth in presenting and discussing the ques-
lions of prime significance confronting the peo-
ple-did they tell one-half the truth, i'll one
wear, both the old political parties would be
swept out Ol cAlSlCuSC, III "A lH~ PNNPAN "NAN
properly informed about the schemes to enslave
them, they would not fail to rebuke the robbers,
regardless of name. But few of the great city
dailies are owned individually. Great moneyed
generations own them, and have editors hired
by the year to lie for them and misead the peo-
ple. Whitelaw Reid told the truth for once
when we told that association of editors that
he was paid $50 per week to keep the truth
ont of his paper The common herd will get
orer after vchile-perhaps when il is