Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-22

history to repeat itself even to that
much-to-be-deplored extreme? And dc
so-called owners of nearly half Of these
alleged vested rights realize that they
merely hold titles to that which was
originally stolen and under the moral
law are guilty in the sight of God Of all
the robbery and oppression that follow
in the trail of the crime? Will they
rebel against the result of an election
that means mo further extension" OF
the money power, and thereby invite
the emancipation Of the people from
the bondage into which they have been
stolen?"
Declarations in favor of information
al bimetallism are all very we'll as the
expression Of wish that is generally
entertained; but practically speaking.
they mean nothing because interna-
tional bimetallism under present con-
ditions is simply an iridescent dream.
-Globe-Democrat.
vi S-o-u-i-o-c, anu tuc Solt-ucduS
who can't see it, and the demagogues
who are lying about 1t ought to be
belted over the head with dead cat.
Says recent dispatch from Wash
ington: Congressman Hall is practi-
cally out Of the race for Congress. Yes
terday he received telegram from the
Chairman Of the District Committee in
effect as follows:
will you accept denomination to
Congress with instructions to vote for
bill for the unlimited coinage of sill
yer at 16 to 1? You can state that, al
though these are not your views, you
must yield to the wishes of your con-
stituents.'
ITO which Mr.. Hall. in substance,
replied:
"'Will not accept denomination on
conditions you name. Free silver is
raising hell and damnation with the
Democratic party. Will accept re-
nomination only on sound money plat
FORM"
II anybody is raising more hell than
this same identical Riley Hall 1t must
be behind the screen doors of some of
the dives or saloons in Washington.
The other day he got into an alterca-
ton with Congressman Money, of Mis-
sissippi, who, by the way, is another
Democrat of the flexible type, and
struck him on the head with a glass
sponge top, cutting deep and painful
cash in his scalp. We suppose he was
testing Money to see il he was sound"
Then both men went to throwing ink
wells at each other until parted by
their friends.
This row happened in the room of
the Navy Committee in the capitol
building. Both men were members Of
the Navy Committee and the row was
the direct result of some differences of
opinion regarding question before the
committee, although it is thought there
is something back of that. Mr.. Money
was led bleeding out of the room and
porter was called in to pick up the
broken pieces of glass and wipe up the
blood and ink stains. 1t threatened to
be pretty serious affair; but neither
of the men seemed to be good marks
men and the result was there was more
ink SMILED than hlood
Banker Belmont, mouthpiece of
Eastern capitalism, has spoken. New
York." says Belmont, authoritatively,
will not consent that there shall be a
condition of things in which a new
Congress and President may be chosen
on the theory that Congress can make
full legal tender dollars out of anything
1t chooses to use."
There is good deal of the defiance of
the old slave power in these words,
and we are led to believe that Con-
gresham Howard was correct when he
said, "the more imminent the danger
the more arrogant do the capitalists
become" and cites as proof the over
bearing attitude of the British aristoc-
racy before the revolution OF '76, the
behavior Of the French nobil-
ty previous to Robespierre's rule, and
The haughtiness of the slave power le-
lore the upheaval of 1861.
arrested for Teaching Bla cks and Whites.
Nine teachers in normal school at
Orange Park, Fla, have been arrested
'or teaching white and black pupils in
he same school, against the provisions
Of the Sheat's law, passed about year
Ego.