Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-22
EXISTING EVILS.
OOLESBY DISCUSSES THEIR
CAUSE AND REMEDY.
The Remedy for Any Evil Il to Remove
It. And the Only Way to Good
Government Is to Render Justice to
All People.

Everybody ought to understand the
great problem that Is being solved by
our government, and every other gov
eminent in the world at this momen-
tous period. say, being solved. Yes,
the books are up for settlement, and
settlement must be made, and made
right, and made soon, whether the unit
Of society or the million understand
these questions.
The problem that agitates society In
every fiber in the civilized world is as
simple as the weaver's shuttle. 1t is
simply and only 1.-The irrepressible
conflict" between good and evil, right
and wrong, justice and injustice. That
Is all, no more, no less.
If the principle embodied in these
terms, good, right, justice, were applied
to civil governments or civil laws, all
this turmoil, all this wrangling, all this
social war, nearly all poverty, crime,
vice and degradation in society would
gently disappear as snow under sum-
mer sun. But evil, wrong and injustice,
constitute the web and wool of civil
law.
Take the laws of finance Of the gov
ernments of the world. They are SO
arranged and so manipulated as to en-
slave the wealth producers of the
world. The ingenuity Of men and
devils combined could not invent any
thing more effectual in enslaving labor
than system of money based on in
trinsic value, property money, a
money that breeds debt and usury.
Yet strange to see, our sO-called great
statesmen, not only of our nation, but
of all don't seem to understand the sit
uation at all. They all want peace,
quietude and prosperity in the nations,
and are worrying and wrangling try
ing to calm the troubled waters, blind
to the fact that the system of money so
dear to them, like the worm at the root
Of Jonahs gourd, is eating the life and
vitality out Of the tree of liberty. 1t
would be as reasonable to expect that
in mining acids and alkalies no agita-
ton would be produced, as to expect
quietude in society under the operation
of the present system of finance in the
world.
The remedy for doing wrong is to do
right.
The remedy for injustice is to do
Justly.
The remedy for any evil is to remove
1t.
How is it that some men can revel in
luxury, having more money than they
can spend and never labor at all?
How is 1t that some men secure titles
to millions of acres Of land, and never
plowed a furrow or raised a hill of
beans?
How do some men own and control
railroads that never did half as much
labor as the section hand who gets a
dollar day?
It is the result of vicious system Of
money that allows men to secure the
fruits Of other mems labor without CIV
Ing any equivalent.
Now look at it. There are men In
our country who have incomes Of mill
lions of dollars. With out doing
days work, at the end Of the year they
are richer by millions from interest
and rents. A large mill standing
among the red wood of Oregon, receives
81 900 to stand idle so that other
mills can sell lumber twice as high.
An iron foundry or distillery receives
hundreds of thousands to stand idle.
The coal barons wait until winter
comes, and then increase the price of
coal. Trusts, syndicates, monopolies
and combines rob the toilers Of the
world until society boils like the tenn
pest-tossed sea. Can society be made
to quiet down and not complain under |
this pressure? Our bogus statesmen
seem to think so. One class of them |
thinks that tariff for protection is the
Another elias thinks that a
tariff for revenue is the remedy. What |
nonsense. Can tariff relieve the pres
sure on the poor tenants from which
Astor draws $5,000,OO0 Of rent yearly.
Can tax pay debt for the man who
pays the tax? This wrangle about a
tariff as a remedy for our woes Is puer-
lie. When l hear the Shermans, Nc
Kinleys, Culloms' Reeds, Quays, etc.,
arguing that the tariff is the remedy it
makes me think Of the man in the in
sane asylum. Some one was reading
about great storm at sea, and great
destruction of vessels. That was the
day l whistled so loud, he said. He
thought his whistling caused the storm.
AS tor the remedies offered by the old
parties, they might as well organize
congress into whistling society. The
evils that vex and agitate society now,
could be removed as soon by whistling,
IS by the methods our so-called states
men advocate. No evil can be removed
removing the cause of the evil.
The burden of debts, drawing more in
.erest every year than all the money in
he United States, every dollar coming
,ut of labor; how can the tariff lift this
Dad from the backs of the toilers?
The remedy for all our woes is JUS
ice.
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