Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-24


only gambling in the worst form OF
that word, but is confidence game
Yet the men who control Wall
street controls congress and nation
al government. In other words
the government is operated by the
worst character of gamblers. But
for Gods sake do not make any
fight against private property-that
would destroy this gambling and
the thieves would have to go to
work. That would be awfully aw'
full, so it would.
As l predicted, the courts OF
New York have decided that the
new liquor law does not affect the
the clubs where rich robbers roost.
It only reaches where the poor have
been wont to get a glass of beer
and free lunch. If there was ever
a country where Jaws were made
and interpreted for classes, where
the poor were imprisoned for what
the rich were given license to DO
where the judges give decisions to
their social friends, where money is
the power and men are merely slaves
that country is the United States
at the present time. A country
where theft by the poor is punished
and theft by the rich is honored.
Where offices and judges decisions
are sold to the highest bidder. But
the people do not deserve better
treatment. They have the highest
condition of society they are cap
able of approaching. Men capable
of knowing right and liberty would
not submit to tyranny. Brutes &C.
cept brute treatment. Lay on the
lash and when the stripes are deep
enough on the backs the victims
will wake up and overthrow asoclal
svstem which has brutalized them.
The prince of Wales draws $7oo'-
600 a wear from the British people,
for which he gives them nothing
That is, he is given food, clothing
shelter, entertainment and service
created by the laboring people to
that amount. As these things are
not crea ed or produced by the rich
people. he does not get 1t from
them. and as he creates nothing
himself he cannot give any equiva-
lent. Some of my Republican and
Democratic readers will say the
English people are foolish to give
him this uselessly large sum. They
can see the mote in the eyes OF the
neople over there for sustaining
svstem that takes away the sub.
stance of the people and showers 1t
on the royal family, who are abso-
lutely useless. But these same
freedom-loving Americans cannot
see how cheaply the English people
pet off. compared with the $751; Oo,-
600 year income the Americans
nav a Rockefeller-a greater sum
than the whole royal family draws
from England. And a Rockefeller
and $1,000 lesser parasites are just
"a useless and more harmful to the
Americans, who are forced to sup
mort them, than is the royal family
of England. Americans are not
foolish to sustain a system OF 80
crety that produces Rockefei'ers.
q, no!
OF all the damnable acts of gov
ernr,eut that ! ever read, surely
that of the government exactlng a
promise from the new steel trust not
co increase the price of armor for
murder ships, and letting the pub
lie get squeezed or cozened to the
fuu extent of the trusts ability is
surely the worst. The trust is a
public enemy, its existence Il vlo-
lation of national law, and yet the
government goes into partnership
10 aid it to rob the people who COM
nose the nation Think of gov
eminent conniving, breaking it's
own law. to enable few robbers to