Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-11-08
NO. as.
TOO TRUE.
You are a Populist, are you?

TOO TRUE.
You are Populist, are you?
Yes; you bet am. f,
Well, l am glad to hear it. What we want
is men devoted to the reform cause. What
Peoples party paper do you take?
None. You see, am very poor, and
What's that paper you have in your pocket?
Oh, that's our county paper. You see,
want the county news, and
What's its politics?
Democratic. You see
How many subscribers have you got for Pop
ulist papers in the past year?
Nyt any.
How many reople have you tried to convertl
Not any, l have to work too hard, and
How many Populist books have you bought
and loaned the past year?
None, eh--
How many people have you trien to get out
to Populist meetings?
Oh, I never have time to run around after
people, and
What have you done to support Populist
speakers, or 10 encourage the movement?
Well-you see-that isl have got to look
after my wife and children-well-I am not in
terested in politics, anyhow.
Now, my dear fellow, don't plead poverty.
There are not over dozen Populist editors in
the whole country but what make sacrifices
every year that would discount your sacrifices
for whole lifetime. A man who will take an
old-party paper and not take one of his own
party has reason to blush with shame. 3H
The man who does nothing to support and
encourage those who are fighting his battles
shouldn't talk about caring for his wife and
children. The.man who in these trying times
for humanity, sees the light clearly enough to
say 81 am a Popuist," and yet is doing moth
ing to help the cause, is devilish sight meaner
than any old-party man of whom know any
thing.
The most blameworthy man know is neither
a Republican or Democrat, but Populist who
lays back like baky mule and lets some one
else do all the pulling. Wake up
and take fall out of yourself.-M. w. Wilkins
in the New Charter, San Jose, Cal.
WE clip the following terse, pointed items
from The Rights of Man, of Kanses City:
The Republican party talks loud and long
about giving employment to American labor
but when Jacob S. Coxey proposed plan that
would put every man in the country to work
and enrich the nation, every leader in the Re-
publican party yelled anarchy"
The Peoples party demands that the govern
ment should issue all the currency and stamp
the silver into dollars. The Republican and
Democratic parties demand that corporations
should issue all the currency, and that silver
dollars should not be coined Which do you
want?
Nine men in black gowns hold the power to
defeat the will of the majority of the people
who claim to be free and who fatter themselves
that they are citizens of popular government
Verify, this so-called republic is the greatest
buresque of the age, but calling these nine
men i'll black gowns the supreme court" rep
resents solid fact. They are supreme.
Where do you get your dollarsl Buy them,
don't you1 Well, what is your object in want
ing them scarce and high-priced2 Is it be-
cause you enjoy sweating to produce grain,
pigs, pumpkins and onions, and like to give
lots of your stuff for the other fellows dollar?
II you don't like to sweat to do that, why do
vote to make that which you have to buy dear,
and that which you hava to sell cheap2