Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-02
THE ADVANTAGE OF FREE SILVER.


currency and rising prices In place of the fall
ing market that has SO long depressed us. AL
though the immediate effect of free silver may
be to lessen the volume of currency by driving
our gold away, yet very soon the influx OF sill
yer will more than make good the loss of the
gold and the volume will rapidly expand. The
consequence will be that prices will rise, COM
nerce and manufactures will be encouraged,
labor will be in demand, many who are unem-
ployed will get work, competition for employ
ment will become less severe, wages will rise,
and in the end, workingmen will be benefited
well as the merchants and manufacturers.
Debtors who have been wronged by shrink
age of prices will secure at least partial just
ice and be able to pay off their notes and NOR
cages with something like a fair equivalent for
what they got when they borrowed. Professor
Frank Parsons, of Boston University, in the
Arena for October.
Mark Hanna's irritable Ignorance OF Political
Economy.
On the Goth of August Mark Hanna spent
the day in Boston, seeing the head of the West
End Octopus, the presidents of the banks and
the leading spirits of various great corporations
from whom he doubtless expected to "fry fat. ="
In the afternoon he was interviewed by repre-
sentative of the press. In the course of this
interview lie is reported to have said:
",The American people will not permit the
element which believes in socialism and anar-
chy to get control of this government Their
purpose is to tear down and not to build up
1t is those repulsive features of the Chicago
platform that have largely tended to new
alignment of political forces in this country"
1t is quite possible that Mark Hanna has been
so engrossed in fighting labor and acquiring
millions that he is entirely ignorant of the fun
danenta facts of political economy, else he
has deliberately joined in the cry of certain
disrepuable eastern journals in insulting the in
tellieence of millions of the American people
by intlnating two things first, presuming on
the ignorance of the people in supposing they
imagine that anarchy and socialism are the
same, and second, that the Democratic plat
form is either an expression of socialism or an
anarchy. Every intelligent student of social
science knows that socialism and anarchy
the very zenith and nadir in social economy.
The latter believes in no laws, while the theory
of government held by socialists resembles the
Capitalization of which the Republican party
is the best exponent, with the important eXcep-
ton that socialists believe ill making laws for
the benefit of ALL the people, and the Repub-
Lean party stands for multiplication of laws
for special classes, and under its fostering care
and that of the Wall street administration
of the past four years, trusts, nonopoies, and
the gold ring have oppressed the people as never
before.--Arena
Ex-GovERNoR ST. JOHN is making hundreds
of converts to free silver wherever he speaks.
III small Pennsylvania town, last week, he
addressed 1000 people. There process
sion two miles long, including 225 farmers on
horseback. One of the banners carried i'll the
procession bore these words "We don't pro-
pose to let John Bull bulldoze our bullion"
As a lady remarked, "that was bully banner"
The president and thirty vice presidents of the
day were all Republicans until the adoption of
the gold standard at st. Louis
A FARMERof Franklin courty Ga Republican,
by the way made sale the other day, and
among the effects sold was span of handsome
young mares, for which he paid 500 when they
were colts At the sale, they brought $50, on
nine months time. Everything else sold at
corresponding figures. After the sale, he turn
ed to ali old Populist and said: 81 have heard
that if you have anything to sell, you can get
the money for it. I've always voted the Re-