Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

gained to us by the Biblc-the word of God
We call America Christian land because he
laws are supposed to be founded on this wort
of God. Who will dare to say that Gods wort
is insufficient and not perfect as the rule o
faith and practice? If founding laws upon
and in accordance with Gods word is wha
will make us a prosperous nation (and whc
will dare deny it?), ask who is better quail
fed to present arguments before and to the
people than those who have made the Bible
their study and are skilled in its teachings
Who are better qualified to Judge all existing
law as to whether it is i'll accordance with
Gods word and as to whether it will bring
suffering prosperity to the masses of the
people, than the gospel ministry? Who are
better qualified to consider and fathom pro-
posed law, as to whether it will result in good
or evil, than the gospel ministry? Are the
preachers a set of numbskuls and nonentities,
on such questions as liquor and finance? And
if they are not, is it right for them to keep 81
lent and withhold their influence and knowl-
edge from the world?
Letting liquor loose among the people breeds
crime and drunkards, murderers, etc. Minis
ters in bygone days did not hesitate to denounce
liquor as terrible evil They preached it;
they talked it; they voted against it, and they
won. We got prohibition to protect our homes,
Our sons and daughters. l said in bygone days,
and it is true. Ministers in those days were
prohibitionists, and were not afraid to own it..
To-day, many OF them are not "prohibitonists, "
but temperance" men, and call themselves by
the name of Republican or Democrat, etc. In
deed, so strong have they become in party
ties that principle has been cast to the winds,
and God, looking down in sorrow, will see
ministers of the gospel and protesting Christ
ans standing ide-by-side, shouder-to-s shoulder,
with the Mystic Brotherhood and other anti
prohibitionists, and casting party vote.
heard one minister Genounc1ng the Mystic
Brotherhood | heard him tell how he deposed
brother from responsible position of official
trust and power in his church because he had
Joined the O. NJ. b. How his virtuors indig-
nation was aroused Yet, he told me how he
was going to vote, and on that part of it, he
stood exactly with the brother he deposed!
Consistency, thou art a jewel, but thou art
rarely found! have no compromise to make
with vii. Neither by silence, through fear of
bread and butter, or the SCOTS and sneers of
hypocritcal relormers. Strong language, You
may say. Yes, and mean it just as it is writ
ten. Put OH the shoe, dear reader. If it does
not hult you, you don't come under the head
ing. If it pinches you are just the one Pm
after.
In conclusion, let me state the moral side of
the financial question.
Money is the circulating medium of the ma
ton. 1t is the blood to the human body. AS
no human body can can exist without sufficient
blood in circulation, no nation can exist
without sufficient money in circulation. Now,
if man have plenty of blood and it is all
driven back upon his heart, the limbs become
paralyzed and death follows. Therefore, if
the circulating medium-the money of the ma
tion--be driven into a small compass the giant
limbs of labor ard industry become parayzed,
and it is only question of small time that
death of the nation must occur Control and
contract the currency, and the nation must die.
The question for the voter to decide is which
party is the one which desires contraction of
the life-giving medium the party that has de-
clared for single gold standard (gold alone),
or the party that has declared for gold and sill
yer (both free and unlimited coinage of the
same at ratio of 10 to /? There is no mid
die ground to occupy. A single gold standard
is lnonometalism A gold-and- standard
is bimetalism. Here is the issue fairly and
squarely put. One of these only can be right.
Gold and silver, both, in past years, have been