Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-03

Through complications, developments and in-
creased dangers, the nerve-cels of society have
developed touch. We feel, we sympathizes
not only for ourselves, but for others. We are
exploring the domain OF sociology; we are
protesting against capital punishment; against
all OF any punishment that is not reformatory.
We are building almsfouses, hospitals, homes
for the aged, asylums of refuge for the depend
ent, the defective and delinquent classes. The
world is being permeatad with sympathy and
an almost universal desire animates.the race to
tighten the burden, lessen the sorrow and ameli-
orate the distressed conditions of distressed hui
manity The sense of touch is developing into
the sense of sight; and, in that better day that
even now is dawning, our sociological condi-
tions will be improved by methods of preven-
ton rather than restriction and punishment.
The awakened sympathies shall remove the
pitfalls from the feet of the stumbling. Under
the influence of the religion of Christ, the
state shall recognize in the uncared-for, home
less waits upon the street its future citizens;
and without waiting for the stigma of law or
the brand of crime, we shall place integrity on
one side the busy citizen, intelligence on the
other, and, with the Christ-1ight, guide it to
become the apostle of glorious future.
'Shall it be Christ, or Cesar? Shall the
spectre of want devastate our homes, the vam-
pre of bonds suck the blood of our dead and
enslave our children to debt? Shall cowardly
lip patriots incite our children to deeds of muir
der and teach our boys to put the knife to the
throat of brother? Or shall we, as followers of
Christ, turn our faces toward the Promised
Land, where the ripening grain shall not be
crushed by cannon-wheel, torn by bursting
shell or watered by the blood of brothers slain?
Shall we, under the inhence of the Christian
religion, purpose to do the right, believing that
the right shall triumph? The methods of
brute force and violence by which man subject
ed to his fellow men to servitude are disappear
ing The world is better, wiser than it has
ever been. Humanity stands on the boundary
land of spiritual era. Henceforth, the real
ego shall be developed. Under the revivifying
influence of the religion of Christ, the thoughts
of the soul shall be newly-fashioned. Our
heroes shall strive in arts productive; no bel
lowing cannon shall strew our fields with death;
but sheaves of wheat and rustling corn shall
WOO the breath of summer. Here in our land
shall the warnings of the soul be realized, the
prayers of men answered, the dreams and as
pirations of the human heart satisfied. Here
shall the vision of the seer be verified, the
prophecy fulfilled: They shall beat their
swords into plowshares; their spears into prun-
ing hooks. Nation shall not war against ma
ton; neither shall they learn war any more'"
The above is only portion of Mrs Leases
lecture. We hope to be able to secure date
for her at Garnett in the near future, so that
our people may receive the benefit of the COM
plete lecture, delivered in her forcible and in
inlitable style.-EDITOR.
We demand the free and unlimited coinage