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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

of gold and silver money, to say moth
ing about the volume of paper money
which might be based upon, and le-
deemable in, these deprecated money
units. The law which declares that
twenty-five and eight-tenths grains OF
standard gold shall constitute dollar,
might as easily declare for any other
number less than that and it would be
just as effective if it declared for the
hundredth part of a grain as it is now.
Then is it not correct to say that the
redemption theory is clumsy" one?
And does it not depend entirely upon
the well-known adherence of the peo-
pie, or their lazy Discrimination, for the
investigation of economic questions
for its continuance?
But can anybody give good reason
why the accidents of nature, or any
other power, should be invoked to limit
the supply of money in any other way
than that in which the supply Of post
age stamps is? Postage stamps are
creatures of the government and are
provided in amounts limited only by
the demand by the government direct
to the people for their express benefit.
Money is creature of the government
that is as essential to the welfare of
the people as postage stamps are, but
instead Of the government providing
money direct to the people 1t only pro-
vides it to those who are fortunate
enough to be the possessors of a GER
tain kind Of metal, or to bankers who
can put up evidences of its own in
debtedness, and the consequence is
that 100000 people are absolutely de-
pendent upon a few metal and bond
owners for their supply of money.
This condition is not only wrong, but
it is largely responsible for the hard
times" universally complained Of. The
same money ideas obtain in this ma
ton as prevail all over the world and
while change in the plan Of providing
this nation with money will not, of IT.
self, bring entire relief, it is safe to as
sumo, since otner nations provided as
this one is are even in a worse condi-
ton than 1t is that change is neces-
sary. The fact that w. ]. Bryan has
publicly proclaimed the doctrine that
money is a creature of law" inspires
all intelligent, thoughtful reformers
with renewed confidence in his ability,
courage and honesty.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

Public regulation of private enter
prise is a disappointment and failure,
The United States today with all the
reverence it has for constitution
which empowers congress to regulate
commerce" stands convicted before the
whole world with failing to do it. This
government has tried to regulate CON-
merce" by granting special privileges
to corporations and then allowing itself
to be swindled by it's proteges. 1t has
given millions of public money and
loaned other millions to private rail"
road schemes to regulate commerce.
and then looked on while the railroad
properties have been wrecked and the
wreckers have become millionaires. II
has tried TO regulate commerce with
every agency Of commerce monopDlized
--private telephone, private railroads,
private telegraph, private express, pri-
yate coal mines, private shipping, pri-
vate patents-with this result, that in
tead of government regulating COM
merce. commerce regulates government
and the most skillfUl robbers have the
greatest influence and are the noblest
PATRIOTS. Coming Nation
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The power of congress to regulate
railroads was a live question IN the
seventies, made so by the Grange, then
in its zenith.
In 1874 the United States senate APP
pointed a special committee on trans
portation routes to the seaboard, con-
sisting of Senators Window (rep) OF
Minnesota, John Sherman rep) OF
Ohio. Roscoe Conkling (rep) OF New
York, H. G. Davis (dem.) OF west VIZ
ginia. T. NJ. Norwood (dem) OF
Georgia, ]. w. Johnson (dem) OF V'r-
ginia. John H. Mitchell Qep) OF Ore-
gon and S. B. Conover( rep) OF FLORIDA
This committee devoted several months
RI an examination of the subject, and
in their report may be found the fol-
lowing regarding the power OF con-
gress to regulate:
First. That the powers Of congress,
whatever it may be, are derived direct
" from the people Of the several states
and not from the states themselves.
Second. That every important word
in the clauses which confer the power
to regulate commerce among the sew
eral states" and "to make all the laws
valid necessary for carrying it into
execution, has received legislative
executive and judicial construction,
and under such construction the
mower of congress to regulate inter-
STATE TRANSFORMATION by railroads, and
IN aid and facilitate commerce, Is easily.
established.
Third. That in the exercise Of this
power congress is authorized under the
grant of auxiliary power, to employ
such means as are appropriate and
MAINLY adapted to their execution.
Fourth. That in the selection OF
means by which interstate commerce
shall be regulated, congress may
1. Prescribe the rule by which in
struments. vehicles and agents engaged
in transporting commodities from one
state into or through another shall be
governed; whether said transportation
is by land or water.
2. That it may appropriate money for
the construction of railways or canals.
when the same shall be necessary for
regulation of commerce.
3. That it may incorporate COM
pany with authority to construct them.
A. That it may exercise the right OF
eminent domain within state in order
to provide for the construction of such
railways or canals, or
5. 1t may in the exercise Of the right
of eminent domain, take for the pub
lie use, paying just compensation there
for. any existing railway or canal
owned by private persons or corpora,
lions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

Gold is the king of kings, the mon
arch of money, the emperor of specula'
ton the unmoved spectator of Turk
ish atrocities, the General Gomez oil
revolution. the w. G. p. Breckenridge Of
morals. the managing editor of the
daily press, the fashion-plate Of society
the god of greed, the mascot Of supersti'
ton, the greatgrandfather of aristoc'
racy, the chief slave-driver Of human
servitude, and sole manager of the
millionaire's campaign for Sound
money"
More blood has been shed to crafty
the greed for gold than for all Other
causes on earth combined.
Kings are but mud without thu
power of gold to back them.
Speculation is but boys game Of
mumble-peg without the expanding and
contracting properties of gold.
Turkish atrocities are only danger
GUS" as they threaten the stability Of
English gold investments.
Morals are but dross compared with
the gorgeous raiment that adorns the
front pews Of the great churches thai
are dedicated to oratory and hired
music.
The daily press is but a jumping
Jack on two twisted strings between
the thumbs Of gold-owners.
Society is but butterfly dance over
a field of new-mown clover, when gold
ceases to be king.
Greed becomes a hog trying to swal-
low a barrel of slop, when the shining
treasure 1t boards and gloats upon be-
comes worthless.
Superstition becomes a fairy story Of
ancient dark ages, when people behold
that the golden god they have wor-
shipped is deaf, dumb, blind and
powerless in the light of wisdom.
Aristocracy pulls off its coat and
goes to work when it can AZ longer
juggle with gold.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30
THOUGHTS ABOUT MONEY


The poor man who takes property by
force is called thief, but the creditor
who can by legislation make a debtor
pay dollar twice as large as he Dor =
rowed is lauded as a friend of sound
currency.-William j. Bryan
Banks are more dangerous to the lib
critics of the people than standing ar
mics. Jefferson.
If the Americans adopt our banking
and funding system, their liberties are
gone.-Sir VIM. Pitt.
By the eternal, we will see which is
to rule--the money power or the peo-
ple!-Andrew Jackson.
Gold is the most useless metal in the
world. Fit only for plugging teeth
and ornamenting fools.-Dr. Franklin.
have met and conquered all the al
lied armies of Europe, but Englands
paper money sent me to st. Helena
Napoleon /.
The theory of intrinsic value OF
money has been abandoned by the
best writers and speakers.-Encyclope-
dia Britannica.
Whoever controls the volume OF
money Of any country is absolute mas
ter of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield.
Avarice says: 81 will Cypress the
weak and devour the fruits of his Ia
bors and l will say it is fate that has
so ordained. "-Volney.
Bank paper must be suppressed, and
the circulating medium must be re-
stored to the nation, to whom 1t be-
longs.-Thomas Jefferson.
The bank is the union of the govern
ment and the money power-a union
far more dangerous than church and
state.-John G. Calhoun.
The present system of finance robs
labor, gorges capital, makes the rich
richer and the poor poorer, and turns
a republic into an aristocracy of CAPT
tal.-Wendell Phillips in 1870.
Anything upon which the govern
ment places its stamp and declares it
a legal tender in payment Of all debts
and taxes is money, no matter what
the material may be.-Henry Clay.
I believe the struggle now going on
in this country and in other countries
for a single gold standard will if sue
cessful produce widespread disaster in
the end throughout the world.-James
G. Blaine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30
If a government contract a debt with

If government contract a debt with
a certain amount of money in circula-
ton, and then contracts the money vol
ume before the debt is paid is the most
heinous crime that government can
commit against the people.--Abraham
Lincoln.
Man is the only animal on earth that
will quietly suffer for food among plen-
ty. He is the only one whose brain 10
so small that he will see his tender OIL
spring suffer with cold where there Is
plenty of material to keep him warm
Inter Mountain Advocate.
My friends unless our children have
more patience and courage than saved
this country from slavery, republican
institutions will go down before
moneyed corporations. Rich men die,
but corporations are immortal. They
are never afflicted with disease. In
the long run they are bound to win
with legislatures.-Wen Phillips.
Place the money power in the hands
of combination Of few individuals
and they, by expanding or contracting
the currency, may raise or sink prices
at pleasure, and by purchasing when at
the greatest depression, and selling
when at the greatest elevation, may
command the whole property and In
dustry of the community. The bank
ing system concentrates and places this
power in the hands of those who con-
troll it. Never was an engine 1nyented
better calculated to place the destinies
of the many in the hands of the few
John C. Calhoun.
Eyes, we may all congratulate our
selves that this cruel war is nearing a
close. 1t has cost vast amount OF
treasure and blood. The best blood OF
the flower Of American youth has been
freely offered upon our country's altar
that the nation might live. 1t has
been, indeed, a trying hour for the re-
public, but l see in the near future a
crisis approaching that unnerves me
and causes me to tremble for the safe
ty of my country. AS a result of the
war. corporations have been enthroneq
and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power OF the
country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the prejudices
of the people until all wealth is aggre-
gated in a few hands and the republic
is destroyed. I feel at this moment
more anxiety for the safety of my
country than ever before, even in the
midst of the war. God grant that my
suspicious may prove groundless.
Abraham Lincoln.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30
a word is heard against It from tho

q word is heard against It from tho
pulpits.
They spend their time searching the
Bible for the tracks of the devil, whom
they claim to be fighting, while right
in their own door-yard the devils
tracks are yet so plain and warm that
a blind Christian could easily follow
them, II he felt like doing so.
All, these Christian warriors seldom
fight any national wrongs. Almost
anything is right in their eyes, so long
as it pays a revenue. They can see
no harm in cornering wheat, or pork,
Or oil, or land. or money, even though
thousands of the miserable poor suffer
and die of want, and all around the
church door reigns a hell Of hopeless
hunger. These Christian warriors can
see no harm in it, so long as the church
gets rake-off.
These Christian warriors can see no
sin or crime among those whom God(D
has blessed with wealth. Among those
whose hearts are as hard as the gran
tie walls of an orthodox hell, and who
live to accumulate dollars squeezed
from the hands of the toiling poor
They do all their searching for sin
among those whom the rich have rob-
bed. Those whom God has blessed
with poverty and want God does 1t
alb. The crimes and sins of the miser-
able poor are searched out and laid bare
before the world. The Christian news
papers are full of their sins every day,
and the police go down among them
| to club them about for the glory OF
| God and the eternal salvation of their
souls.
At times some good souls go down
! among them to distribute tracts, IN
which the story of Gods love Is
told them, for the purpose of max
ing them feel still more miserable,
and to look up to the rich as
| the people who have divine right
to build slums where the robbed and
outraged poor can be hidden from the
sight of Gods elect, and hope can
never never come. All, the dear
| Christian nations! Standing ready to
rush their miserable poor into bloody
conflict in order that the victorious
rich may glut themselves with plumber.
England has a Christian army whose
| business is to butcher the heather ana
| take possession of their land, and even
butcher some other Christian army II
they interfere.
Russia has a Christian army to rule
over the government hell at home, and
| to gobble a little plumber from the,
heathens when chance offers.
The whole of Europe is but living
hell for the toiling poor, walled In by
the so-called Christian armies, who
force the poor to throw up their hands
while the rotten royalty rob them of all
but bare existence.
And Is it any better in our own coun-
try? Oh, God, these pinched and fur
rowed faces of the wandering poor who
knock at my door and ask for a crust
Of bread! What is the church and the
| Christian warriors doing for them!
| Nothing! And the echo of this cry
goes up to God and rattles against the
frame Of high heaven, and the day OF
wrath draws nearer at every rising OF
| the sun.
All, you Christian warriors, you are
but camp followers, and plunderers OF
the miserable poor; you never fight on
the side of the weak and lowly, but are
led by the political butchers who live
but to plumber and fatten on the blood
of the toiling poor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

So tender-hearted are the editors
who shed scalding tears over the pros
pect of the workingman being paid in
cheap dollars that should the fiction de-
partment of the Heavenly Messenger
be placed in their charge heaven would
probably be flooded with angels tears.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The real aristocracy of America is
composed of those men who consider
h greater to be an Independent Amer
can citizen, than to wear a crown of
slood-bought gold gorgeous with bau-
bles of oyster-shell and carbon.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

When our forefathers wrote the
declaration of independence they for
over declared that America was able
TO take care of herself without asking
the consent of Europe. Shall we dis
grace the memory of our fathers?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The railroads are owned by corpora
lions and the postofiices are owned by
he government, but the railroads seem
10 be more in politics than the post
masters. Thus falls one objection to
government ownership.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

There is an old English recipe for
cooking hare, which begins with,
first catch the hare" Bryan doesn't
propose to make any patronage pie I'M
til he is duly presented with the cap
and apron of chief cook, and investi-
gates the condition of the canned fruit
and other things in the cellar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The present national banking system
Is a greater curse than the single gold
standard, in that it has the power to
expand and contract the currency re-
yardless of what is the standard.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The gold bugs not only call the sill
yer men idiots-but from the kind of
arguments they present they appear to
actually believe that the people are
ldiotic enough to accept any kind of
proposition they make.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The workingman only asks the right
10 earn his living. The Spectator
wants license to steal what somebody
Else earns. Which is the more worthy
II consideration?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

Populist papers must be true leaders
If the people, and have courage
Enough to stand up for principle in
stead of pottering along behind the
.ommissary wagon waiting for some
hing to tumble off to eat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

AS Garfield said, the men who control
the money of country control Its
government and trade. England cou'
trolls the gold of the world, hence she
oan control the government and trade
of every country on the globe that has
a single-geld standard financial sys-
tenn
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

If we have been under a gold stand
ird for twenty years and gold stand
ard is a good thing, where is the good
hing, please?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The laboring man who votes for a
single gold standard does so through
ignorance, prejudice or coercion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The peoples party is the backbone
Of the silver movement, as well as
,ther great reforms.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

When Grover looks out upon the
present political situation he no doubt
has tired feeling"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The campaign of education goes on.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

AS long as the banks control the vol
1me of money there will be danger of
panics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

There is danger in sleeping on
guard, even though a vast army is be-
hind you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The principles of populism are the
laws of the kingdom Of heaven on
earth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30
CANDIDATE BRYAN.
TELLS MARTINSBURG FARMERS
THAT MONEY is A CREA-
TURE OF LAW"

A Truthful Declaration Boldly and I'm
equivocally Made, the Significance OF
Which Is Comprehended by Thought
full Reformers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The silver men marched through
Georgia"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

It Is muscle and brains against
money and paunch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

Cheap money is better than no
money at all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

That dollar is best which gives the
greatest prosperity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The banks are the power behind the
throne.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

Direct legislation would soon settle
the silver question.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

This election settles nothing unless
It is settled right.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

Free silver does not mean free men
but it is a step in that direction.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30
The band plays for sound money.

Ard now for the grand round up.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

It is the big dollar Of debt that is
Weighing the producer down.
The evening times., 1896-05-28
MAKING A GOOD BEGINNING

MAKING A GOOD BEGINNING.
Nicholas II, Gar OF all the Russias, has
not signaliZed either his accession to the
throne OF his coronation by any govern
mental reforms, or by concessions in the di-
rection of more popular form Of govern
ment. He is welded as firmly to the auto
cratic idea as was Peter the Great, though
be is more humane. There will be no con-
stitutional government in the Russian en-
pire If he can help it. He has not, however,
permitted his great day to pass without
sho wing clemency and kindness in various
ways, and ne has done this upon a scale
which eclpses all that any of his predeces-
sors accomplished in this line. Political
prisoners are 10 be released, political refu-
gees are not to be prosecuted if fifteen
years have elapsed since the commission
of their offenses; land taxes have been re-
nlitted for a number of years, great boon
to the Impoverished peasants in the districts
where crops failed several years in sue
ccsson, resulting at last in the great
famine. IN several other ways the young
ruler has sho own that he is swayed by gentle
AhfuiSCo anu bHtltiolS, De
said to be begun with promising auguries
How long will 1t be before events harden
his heart. Nihilism is ever wakcful, unre-
lenting, pitiless. 1t wages war not against
Nicholas, but against the system of gov
ernment which he personifies. Its activ-
ity can be lessened only by the granting OF
governmental reforms. such as the Gar un-
alterably opposes and refuses to grant. II
the Nihilists pursue the course they did
under former rulers, Nicholas can hardly
fail to have recourse to the policy of re-
preston that marked the reign of his pre-
decessors. 1t will be steel against steel.
Meanwhile, however. there is cause for re-
joicIng that the czar has done as much as
he did, and the hope may be expressed that
the irresistible advance of civilization and
the progress of liberalizing thought may
touch some hidden spring and call into
action forces within him that will make for
| the greater freedom of his subjects.
The evening times., 1896-05-28

Unusual Preparations are heing made to
entertain large crowd at Marshall Han
and Mount Vernon on Decoration day Be-
make three trips as usual, at 10 n. m. o:20
and 80 mr. the fast steamer River Queen
viii leave MIcalester'S wharf at 9:45 d. M
and p m, stopping ut river landin gs and
running on tp Giymoat and Indian Head,
returning To the city at 2:45 and 10 D. m.
She VIII carry both freight and passengers.
PatHotc music viii he rendered ON the boa Is
day aud evening. The Ferris Wheel, merry
go round. baseball. bowling and other
sports will lie enjoyed. A fine Table ID Hote
grounds. and u good cafe oil, steamer ' at
regular prices. The management reserves
the hight TO reject objectionable parties.