Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-04-12

The PlutOCrat1C nook WITH SllVSI Ddil ID
lust as dangerous as when baited with gold
bug. So says the Topeka Advocate.
SENATOR HOUSEHOLDER is to be removed
from the board of charities because, it is al
legged, he kissed pretty woman. Lesson: Pop
uist officials should never kiss pretty women-
it is contrary to Republican redemption
THE Topeka State Journal (Rep.) remarks
that cit does not seem to occur to the gentle
men connected with the present state admins
tration that the appointment of relatives of Of
fce-holders to places of emolument was one OF
the things from which Kansas was to be Gre
= deemed"
THEredeeimers should establish a government
similar to Orpheus c. Kerr's army, which was
composed exclusively of officers, none ranking
lower than captain The happy redeemers are
the ones who have Office, and if all the redeem
ers had offices, there would be no privates and
no growing.
THE ''redeemer' house of representatives
took five thousand free railroad passes. No
wonder that body refused to pass an act prohib-
iting discrimination, or maximum freight-rate
bill. The "redeemers were bought dirt cheap,
and still cost great deal more than they were
worth to anybody but the railroads.
MARCHING on to despotism. The Legislature
of Indiana which recently adjourned in muir
derous riot, passed law placing the military
above the civil law. Only few turns of the
crank, the plotting out of just few more priv
ileges with such laws, and then-anarchy,
wild and terrible-and all the outgrowth of class
laws.
SENATOR ROGERS is accused of drinking,
and, therefore, the office he holds must iminedi-
ately be redeemed although drunkenness is
common complaint of redeemers, and their
great governor was present at Bacchus blow
out. A Pop has no right to drink anything
stronger than water. Strong drink is the bev-
erage of the ''redeerners.
We wish to call special attention to the adj
vertisement of Vox Populi, the great illustrated
Populist paper, advertised on another page.
Vox Populi is the Puck of the Peoples party.
Its cartoons and caricatures are second to none,
and are the work of Charles Chanpe rising
young artist, who is rapidly gaining name in
his line We want this paper to have wide cir
cuation, and offer Our readers splendid terms.
See the cad"
THE opinion that the supreme court will
knock out the income tax is gaining strength.
Let it come. We don't expect anything else
from court of arstocrats and, besides, it will
open the eyes of lot of dunderheads to the
tomfoolery they have been guilty of all their
lives in voting 'er straight Keep up the farce,
boys. When you have to take off your hat to
stand before some of the law-rnade rich, you
will realize what consumnate asses you are.
AS MIGHT have been expected, the courts
have interpreted the income-tax law in the in
terest of the rich. The holders of bonds, for
instance, are not affected by the law. 1t is
high time that this country had Cromwell to
call down those corrupt judges from the bench.
If Cromwell cannot be found, the people (the
1masses) will yet arise in their majesty, as one
man, and call those tools of the money power
down from their high perch and tear the ermine
from their unworthy shoulders. God hasten
the day when the people may see.
You lunatics who are looking to the old par
ties to redeem the country from the present ap-
palling business wrecking and bank breaking
now troubling us, just keep in the line you are
following now, and, instead of prosperity ris-
ing and wages increasing, you will see slump
in both so sudden, far-reaching and destructive
to all values as to set your heads to swimming
and your hearts to aching with pain that will
be momentarily intensified by the conviction
that your senseless prejudice made it possible.
Just keep voting 'er straight, and you'll get
there-beooarv and all