Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-29
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Snap shots at Prom inent Features Oh
the Political Parade.

sn.p Shots at Prom inent Features oil
tho Political Parade.
Western republican papers are try
ing to make their readers believe tha'
Mckinley is in favor Of free silver
But the following extract from let
ter of John Sherman to the brookiyn
Young Mems Republican club tells a
different story. There can be no doup'
as to the opinion OF Major Mckinney
on the money question. He is COM
mitted in every form, every speech
and otherwise, to the republican policy
of maintaining the present gold coin
of the United States as the standard OF
value He. in common with myself
and others believes that silver should
be employed as money, always, how
ever, to be maintained at par with
gold. The convenience Of silver CONS
for the minor transactions OF lie Is SO
manifest that no sound money man
would desire it's discontinuance; put
upon the primary condition that lts
coinage should be limited and Its pur-
chasing power maintained by the nat
of the government at par with gold'
He believes, as do, that tariff should
be adopted that will impartially pro-
tect all American industries from I'M
due competition with foreign produc-
lions that can be and ought to be
produced in the United States"
John Sherman's endorsement makes
him solid in the east, and his own
silence appears to makes him solid IN
the west. What towards and dis
semblers ambition doth make of Ma
poleons in time of peace!
The Chicago Express remarks that
the Gould family have won on their
plea of non-residence and are released
from paying taxes on ten and hall
million dollars which was assessed
against them last year. The case never
came to trial. A states attorney mere
ly dismissed the matter and abandoned
the case. Five suits have been filed
against the estate of Jay Gould and his
sons and daughters, to enforce the
finding of the commissioners Of taxes
and assessments. The defendants
pleaded non-residence. When the case
of George Gould came up for hearing
before Judge Pryor, in the special term
of the superior court, the corporation
counsel announced it had been de-
termined to abandon the suits. Judge
Pryor thereupon gave a judgment va
eating the assessments. II 1t had been
some poor chap hauled up for not pay
ing his dog tax or some poor girl ar
rested on trumped-up charge by some
ue-coated- brass-buttou policeman, II
would certainly not have been SO mag
unanimously dropped.
The Montana republicans say that
they are in favor of free silver, but that
they care a great deal more for the
success Of their party, and will not
leave it under any circumstances. :"
Isn't that patriotism and loyalty for
you? They would rather go to hell
with their party than to heaven with
out it.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
Federation of Labor, makes the follow
ing comment on Senator Tillman's
speech: His defense of tho farmer was
masterful, and the ringing warning OF
coming events as startling as they may
be truthful. =. Another great light
had appeared. He had spoken for a
very large constituency, 1t is true, but
for those who have to bear the severest
burdens resulting from the conditions
of which he so justly complains-alas!
not word.
"The men and women in the facto-
ries, shops, mills and mines, the young
and innocent children whose tender
years are spent in the modern hell
holes, the great army Of the unem-
ployed as we'll as those who work on,
not boss, the farm, are factors which
Senator Tillman seemed to either over
look or ignore.
THE new force in industry which
displaces labor faster than new indus
tries are founded, which renders a
:srge portion of our fellow men and
women 'superfiuous,' is theme SO
fraught with the question of human
existence that he who essays to speak
In the name of the oppressed and the
wronged and fails to appreciate these
great factors lays himself open to the