Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
JOIN IN A STEAL.
The Popullsts Alone Solidiy Voted
Against the Recent Salary Grab
Cleveland Will Vote for Mckinley
The Threatend Panic.

well, congress Hndlly duJOurHCu,
and the history it left behind may be
summed up in foot-note by some flu
ture historian. 1t proposed to do
nothing-and did it. However, the
republican congress is responsible to
the people for some things the demo-
cratic executive did-and which 1t re-
fused to pass bill to prevent.
The populists in congress declared
by voice and vote that issuing bonds
was wrong and robbery-the re-
publlcans Endorsed the robbery by do
ing nothing to prevent it.
The populst party urged by both
voice and vote some measures of re-
lief. They have proposed both finan-
cial measures and measures restricting
the corporations and combines that are
robbing the people yet these measures
failed to pass because the members Of
the other party refused to support the
populists in their efforts to secure re-
lief.
The republican party passed a steal
known as the Clerk Hire bill which in
creased each congressman salary 800
per month.
The democratic party gave its con-
sent and meekly with its minority
whined in me too" and voted for it.
The populist party solidly opposed 1t.
Which do you prefer?
The republicans and democrats have
not passed single distinctively party
act (unless it was the Clerk Hire steaD
with their vast majority Of the men,
bers composing the body.
The populists have secured the pas
sage Of resolution to investigate the
bond deals that increased the peoples
burdens by 1882, 100000.
The populists forced through the
senate a bill to prohibit the further is
use of bonds and placed the republican
house on record as being in favor of
bonds and bondage.
The pNpulists by Offering to assist
the republicans in tariff measure If
they would in return assist in the pas
sage Of free coinage measure showed
the utter hypocrisy Of the republicans
in their pretended friendship for each.
! Which party's record meets with
your approval?
President Cleveland gives it out that
he and his cabinet will vote for Nc
Kinley in case the silver men win in
the Chicago convention. He doesn't
wish to see the gold-bug vote divided.
He evidently considers the democratic
party merely a Cleveland club. He is
the head of the party, and the cabinet
its hind legs.
Speaking of the advantageous stu
ton of the populists in the coming
campaign, the Twentieth Century says:
The party has very little money and
that is fortunate thing. Nothing
Injuries political organization more
ture Of funds on liberal scale. Such
pecuniary resources are sure to create
swarming band of needy adventures
who prey upon the organism and desert
1t the moment their own selfish ends
are attained. Another good thing for
the populists is the fact that the ap-
preaching campaign is to be an educa-
tional one in the strictest sense of the
expression. We cannot have too much
discussion. 1t looks as If many VEN
cradle delusion in the world of politics
is destined to be exploded in short or
der. We hear very little Of the pauper
labor of England nowadays. What
has become of that ancient and conse-
Grated bugaboo? The only resource of
the monopolists is to threaten to bring
about panic and this threat has been
held over the heads of the people like
a club for months. 1t does not seem
to have much effect. The people are
quietly and surely turning down the
gold monopolists. That by no means
implies the exclusive attention of the
people to silver There are many
other things than silver in the world
and the voters are expecting declara-
lions upon other subjects. The peo-
pies party platform will be broad
enough for all reformers to stand up
on.
Congress refused to restrain the is
sue of bonds-and as the gold reserve
is going to Europe at the rate of nearly
ten millions month, Grover will prob
ably have another chance to make a
stake" upon which to retire from Of
fee. Shipping gold back and forth to
Europe is very profitable to the dealers
In gold. There are charges on both |
sides for the use of the gold-and in
both places it lies stored up, useless as
far as the people who pay the freight
are concerned. 1t is great game of |
now you see it and now you DON'T
and the manipulators draw interest all
he time whether you do, or whether
you don't see it.
Even the goldbugs sometimes get
taught in their own trap. In presum-
ng on the interest of the people they
sometimes succeed in convincing them
90 thoroughly. For instance, a re-
cent dispatch from Ashland, KY, says: