Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25
NO. 19.

wise the means that this may be done without
money will give to the world the greatest solu-
ton that has ever been wrought We know
we'll that ignorance breeds superstition and
crime hence, lack of means-of money-;n
the hands of fathers and mothers is responsible
for large portion of the crime in the world.
Yet, we are told that the financial question is
not moral question: God forbid that our
children should be bound down with shackes
of gold-shackles that are in the control of a
few who can twist them tighter at their own
will and pleasure, even as the money kings of
England have twisted and frightened them upon
the SONS and daughters of that kingdom.
A man said, the other day. 81 did not know
we needed an Englishman to tell American
people how to VOTE" All! dear reader, you
will find that experience is the very best of all
teachers. The burnt child breads the fire.
tremble lest in future years my wife and chill
dren may be bound by the same fetters that
to-day bind my dear old mother and my sisters
in far-of England. Thank God, they have
means sufficient to keep them in comfort; but
it is not to the financial policy of England that
praise is due, for that policy virtually robs my
mother and youngest sister of over half their
pensions as the widow and daughter of sur
geon-g general of the Indian civil service, and
who was late principal medical officer for Ire
land.
The financial question moral question?
Yes, verify, and indeed 1t comes to our door;
it invades the home; it presses down upon our
hearts. 1t causes strong men to tren1ble; it
makes stout hearts to fail with fear
Slavery moral question, involved the
emancipation and liberty to four million human
beings; yet, they were clothed and we'll fed,
that their bodily strength might be preserved,
that they might labor. How much more far
reaching and important is the question of
financial system that involves t.'e freedom,
welfare, happiness and prosperity of over sew
enty millions of the human family The two
greatest of all questions fo1 every nations pros
perity are: (a) The suppression and roofing
out of that great evil that destroys those who
otherwise would be noble and virtuous-that
evil that has brought crowned heads down to
the dust a spectacle for God and men, cover
ing their infamous lives with shame and dis
grace; the evil that has despoiled happy
homes and led fair women and men, created in
the Divine Image to the portals of the grave,
and doomed them to eternal despair; that
evil that has robbed millions of minds of the
power to rise to that exalted position God de-
sired man to attain; that point of elevation
that is above the angelic spirits of Heaven-a
high vantage ground from which they might
Judge the angels of God as their interiors Oh,
that curse, that evil, that demon-drink!
(b) The promulgating and establishing of
system that will give to all an equal
and enable the day-laborer as
we'll as the capitalist, the mechanic as we'll as
the manufacturer, the man, and also the wo-
man, to receive just recompense and reward
for labor; system that will enable the high
and the low, the rich and the poor, to live in
happiness and contentment; that none may
dread the morrow, but that each day of toll as
it passes by, may bring with it the means to
meet all daily necessities, and leave sufficient
that when the back bends and the
head is frosted over with many winters, when
he eyes have grown dim, and the strong limbs
begin to trembe, that then, in the sunset of
life, we can thank the good God of Heaven
and live out Our days in peace.
You say, "Poor fellow what an imagination
he has!' Is it imagination? Is such condi-
ton impossible e-impracticable? l firmly be-
lieve that when these two great questions are
solved Alright, the millennium will have arrived,
and truth and righteousness justice and equity,
joy and peace, will be the heritage of man.
HENRY J. HAssARD,
Pastor Baptist Church. Garnett.