Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-08-16
OUR MASTERS.

In all matters pertaining TO nnance, conSles
consults the BANKERS only. Bankers make OH
laws affecting money. Railroad attorneys frame
our railroad bills, and Legislators give then
the sanction of lawmaking body. Manufac
turers influence tariff legislation. Anti-com
bnation laws catch only organized labor Th'
courts head off income taxes. Who make 'ou
laws? Certainly not the people, nor the mel
whom they choose to make laws. The money
power is the power behind the throne. There
are ten. corporations i'll the United States thai
have more influence in shaping legislation than
all the voters in Kansas.
Under the present regime, an election is
farce in that the voter believes that his is the
influence and interest represented, and trage-
dy in that every time he votes, he votes away
his power and influence, and destroys his best
interests.
Ours has ceased to be a government of the
people and for the people.
campaign is scramble for office, in which
the rival parties lose sight of everything but
beating the other fellows. There may be a
great show Of patriotism and ud.professions of
friendship IOr the HaSSeS, Dul ny tHSh h"ilS "
shall know them.
1t is not for the people who make laws laws,
and neither are laws administered in the peo-
ple's interest.
Wealth rules this country. We have no God
but Mammon, and politicians of both old par
ties bow at no other shrine.
These things cannot go on forever. The
spirit of liberty dies hard when once aroused
and, sooner or later, the masses will awake
from troubled slumber, and then, Mammon
will be dethroned. But, why wait? Is mil
lionaire, like king of olden time the Lords
annointed? Are parties dearer than our child
rem? Is the shadow greater than the substance?
Is partisanship above liberty2
THE Colorado conference of the NJ. E. church
has cited the Reverend F. F. Passmore to ap-
pear for trial for unminsterial conduct-said
unministera conduct being an unanswerable
arraienment of certain members of the con-
ference and way-up laymen for gross unchris-
tan practices. The Scribes and Pharisees are
still having their innings. The Reverend Pass
more's trial. will be upon the same plan as that
of Eugene V. Debs, his accusers being both
court and Jury, and he will fare 1st the same,
with this redeeming fcature-the conference
cannot order him to prison otherwise the iron
doors of some Colorado Jail would close OH the
Reverend Passmore. Despotism and Pharisee-
ism are twin brothers. Watch the Colorado
conference Watch the Reverend Passnore
WATCH for another raid OH the United States
treasury about the time congress meets. Capt.
tai is losing confidence again, and nothing will
set it right but another batch of interest-beafhg
bonds for its insatiate nav. All this could be
stopped by paying silver for government debts;
but possibly the Cleveland larder is little low,
and Carlisle desires to turn an "honest penny"
hence the ''rake-off."
Thou OK with yoke on thy shoulder;
Thou ass meath the burden and throng;
Thy insolent masters grow bolder,
While ye struggle blindly along.
Dare We think-dare ye hope as ye stumble?
oh, God for Moses to lead
The stupid, the starving, the humble
Away from their bondage to Greedl
DIR. WEBB's New York residence cost S3o,-
600, 1000. Less than one mile away, mother
poisoned herself and her two children to escape
.ha 4a-rorS "a death hv starvation