Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-04-19

GEO. B. SWIFT, the great hog and cattle man,
has been elected mayor of Chicago. Mr. Swift
is one of four great meat kings and the hom-
age done him in electing him mayor is probably
the grateful outpouring of hearts fed on Swift's
bacon Mr.. Swift and the other three meat
kings recently combined and advanced the price
of dressed beef 80 per cent. The advance to
feeders was only IS per cent. Most OF the
people of Chicago are beef-eaters-when they
can get it-and are probably not so rich as to
afford to voluntarily fill the Big Four's already
overAowing Golfers, but they admire man who
can get money. In fact, they adore Gall but
the anarchists) money king, and they would
rather 90 hungry than fail to show their adora-
ton. Swift is first in combination, first in high
prices, first in the size of his pocket-book, first
in the hearts of his fellow Chicagoans.
DICK CHAsE's term of Office has been pecu-
liarly stormy. Assailed by men who professed
to be Populists, and bombarded all along the
line by the heavy artillery of the "redeemers, !"
it would be very strange if the warden had not
made blunders Chase has not had time be-
tween the attacks of his enemies to become
familiar with the duties of his Office 1t is like
irving to pow corn in an open field with hull
CRY herd of cattle on the borders What corn
is not eaten is not properly plowed, and there IS
a short crop. What is true of the warden IS
true of all the Populist officials, FROM Lewellng
down. Hundreds of the charges against Popu-
list officials have been bought with ''redeen-
ers'" money. 1t was, and is, part OF the
"redeemers' campaign to break down Popu-
lism by wholesale lying.
THERE is a crack farmers club in New York
CITY. Its members farm the farmers. Chauncy
M. Depew belongs to the club. He is part
owner of the Union stock-yards of Chicago.
Recently, he was in Chicago, and, in speech,
criticised Governor Altgeld. Altgeld replies,
through reporter, and, among other things,
says Depew does not know on which end of a
steer the horns grow. Depew, in an interview,
lodged all answer as to his knowledge on this
all-important intelligence in a member OF a
farmers club and the reader is left to infer that
Altgeld knew what he was talking about. His
Majesty Depew charges Altgeld with being an
anarchist Evidently, Depew is as Ignorant of
~ NAA~
exact location of steers horns.
WE have overcome slavery, we have eXtir-
pated polygamy and our only remaining enemy
is MISUNDERSTANDING M. Depew.
And is that so, Chauncy? Is Ignorance your
''only remaining enemy? Come to think the
matter over, we think you are half right but
not in the way you suggest. If the people
were not so ignorant of the cause of hard times,
you and your kind would not be given another
day in which to rob labor. When they attain
to the proper dagree of intelligence, you will
be peremptorily ordered to vacate. Ignorance,
Mr.. Depew, is your friend. An intelligent
voter you do not want; you can't use him; he
will not serve your purpose-vote to rob and
enslave his fellow man. Ignorance your slave,
indeed! 1t is your bulwark.
MANY Democrats, in speaking of the unla-
mented Fifty-third congress, are saying if the
elections were held now, their party would be
beaten worse than it was last November. Prob
ably they are right. The Republican wave
seems to be still rising.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
Rising2 Yes; like tidal wave-where there
are houses of prostitution, saloons and gambling
dens-instance the recent municipal elections
"The virtues are residuary with the rural popu-
lation." o yesl rising where inebriety, sensu-
ality and dishonesty prevail.