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

HOw do you like it, GnyhOWY
SAM Jones truly says, "More than 100000
Young men, to-day, have both boot-heels on
their mothers hearts"
AND now the insurance companies have en-
tered into a gigantic combine, and insurance
rates are to be advanced.
THE tchison Champion mournfully remarks
GAS the smoke of battle clears away, there are
decidedly too many Populist county officers
crawling out from under the ruins"
Nor week passes, now, that does not see
millions of dollars worth of our gold shipped
TO Europe. Over four millions went out last
Friday. Another bond issue, in the near fu-
ture, is the inevitable result.
The steamship companies have combined,
and those who cross the big pond will have to
nav an advanced rate. STEERAGE rates will
advance first, and the poor emigrant will not
be allowed to ride in the fast ships.
How DID it happen, anyhow, that Governor
Morrill, appointed Charley Holiday, such
rank re-submissionst, as a member of his To-
peka board of police commissioners, to enforce
the prohibitory law? Bro. Trigg, please tell u.s.
THE Shawnee Independent, of Topeka, says
John G. Otis will be the next congressman
from the Fourth district. The Fourth district
never was so ably represented as when John u.
Otis was in congress, and he should again be
elected, by all means.
THE Girard World says that fully 800 Popu'
lists of Crawford county stayed at home and
refused to vote the Democratic ticket. That's
all right. Some time, we will learn that the
Pepulists who came from the Republican party
didn't do it so they could vote the Democratic
ticket.
CHIEF JUSTICE MARTINS majority over c.
X. Holiday, the re-submission candidate, and
Governor Morrill, police commissioner, is near
" 80, 900, and yet, the Republicans, including
Governor and ex-Justice Horton, tell us con-
stantly that the vote at the last election goes tc
show that re-submission is demanded by the
people. How do you make it out, Bro. Trigg
THE Kansas Reform Press Association meets
at Lawrence, Dec. 9th and 9TH. This promises
to be very important meeting, from bust
ness standpoint. The city authorities have
arranged to show the editors all points of inter-
est about the historic city, and TO make the
visit as pleasant as possible Every reform
editor should attend this meeting, and join in
the discussion of topics of interest to the asso-
clan and the Peoples party.
THE good times of which we are given a
weekly account have not materialized anywhere
but in the columns of plutocratic and cuckoo
papers. The commercial agencies report just
as many failures; strikes among mechanics and
lsborers are of daily Importance; the army Of
tramps is daily augmented; taxes and fixed sal
aries continue at the same old figures, and corn
is selling on the market at II cents. The
wave of prosperity has not rolled over any but
the usurers. They are always just where it
will strike them.
THERE is no danger to the government from
what plutocracy is pleased to style the lower
class. The real danger to good government
comes from those who override the laws through
the courts. There is greater danger to liberty
being snuffed out through such rulings as the
one which sent Debs and his associates to Jail
than through any other cause. When consti-
,ut;oual rights are trampled upon at the behest
AZ the purse-proud, the people are not far from
d.s,otism or a revolution. In the evening of
IN. nineteenth century, we are not far from one
=, The other, and if the spirit of our fathers is
vt alive among their sons, it will not be des-
pOtism.