Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-10-04

WRITE for our liberal club rates.
SENATOR PETER has Our thanks for NUM-
Der of valuable public documents.
One of the first and foremost duties of the
present day citizen is to abolish child-labor.
Tom WATSON has again been beaten by J..
c. c. Black for congress, by I,o4I majority.
PopUL1sTs i'll many counties of the state
have fused with the Democrats. They will rue
it. Fusion will gain us nothing in the end
/ It is well-established fact that the more en-
lightened the people become, the wider they
open the doors of privilege to wonen.-Reform
Press.
There never was time when dollar would
buy so much as now, and there never was
time when man had so few chances to get the
dollar. Dear dollars and cheap men.-Civic
Review
DID any one ever hear of business man
going deeper into debt in order to preserve his
credit? Well, that is just what Uncle Sam is
doing to-day. Looks like Uncle Sam is an old
fool-don't it?
DIR. PILCHER's successor at the imbecile asy-
lun at Winfield is 'mutilating" the boys at the
ASYLUM lust as Dr. Pitcher did, and Lawyer
Dawes, who works his jaws, hasn't word to
say about it. Funny-ain't it?
A MAJORITY of the Republican conventions
this year have failed to mention the silver
question, and some of them have even forgot
tenn to appoint committees on resolutions. Just
watch 'em straddle, next year.
SENATOR PETER, in his speech at the Salina
reunion, advocated service pension for old
soldiers. Dick Blue, in his speech, opposed a
service pension and declared himself i'll favor of
the old disability and dependent pension.
eyes" said big strong fellow yesterday,
"hard times busted up my house keeping; my
wife had to 60 out to service; my children were
put in an orpanage and l had to go on the
tramp" That is how tramps are made. Easy,
amt it?-Civic Review.
KAFFIR corn is most excellent material from
which to make bread lady near Medicine
Lodge tested it, recently, and succeeded in
making bread equal to that made from wheat
nOur. hdIllI COIH Will SiOW III oSoSOhS "iiNh
wheat and corn will fail.
THE Republicans are again trying to revive
the american tin-plate" fake. They haven't
learned that the wholesalers at Kansas City
alone recently paid $4,000 duty on twenty-six
cars of the imported article. Wholesale deal
ers in other cities have doubtless paid much
larger sum.
SAY YOU farmer or laborer who is following
the teachings of your gold-bug masters in the
old parties, when have you had your fingers on
a fve-dollar gold-piece-or one-dollar gold
piece either, for that matter? Don't you think
it would be Just as we'll to continue silver and
greenbacks as money?
A DEEp-wATER convention has been in ses-
sion at Topeka this week. The Texas delega-
ton promised to bring a carload of oysters,
but, for some reason, they changed their mind,
and it was decided that ''suthin' to drink"
would be good substitute; consequently, a lib
eral supply of 'red-eye" was on tap.
THE Populsts who talked of holding con-
vention at Kansas City, Kas., to nominate
candidate for chief justice failed to convene,
which leaves the Populists of the state in all
awkward dilemma: They must either vote for
Judge Martin or not vote for chief justice. No
true Populist will vote for Martin.
TEXAS has governor with lots of "sand."
He called an extra session of the legislature to
prevent prize fight. An effort was made to
work up partisan feeling in the matter, and
those who favored the fight tried to array the
Populist members against the Democratic gov
srror but. to their honor be it said every Pop