Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-17
does not cut off the supply.


If my communication seems lengthy, my
apology is that have been thus explicit that
yourselves and your readers may strike hands
with the "anti-tramp" movement and not i'm
itate the example of the Spanish soldiers il
Cuba, lately, of firing into their friends. l
have been panied over so much of this among
the various factions of reformers that some
time in the near future, must come together TO
overthrow common enemy. Each have their
method l say, God speed them all
]. r. TALLMADGE.
Mr.. Tallmadges letter proves the utter I'M
reliability of the Associated Press reports, from
which we CLEANED our knowledge CD of the
Fond du Lac anti-tramp meetings. From these
reports one would suppose that the people of
Wisconsin are set of barbarans. The whip
ping Of tranips and rubbing salt in the wounds
is barbarous--and that is one of the plans of
this anti-tramp association, according to those
press reports. We are glad to know those re-
ports were untrue.
The AGITAToR is an antitramp paper-not
an enemy of the tramp, but it is doing all in
its power to bring about such change in con-
ditions that men will not be forced to tramp
the country over i'll vain search for work.
There is only one way to accomplish this re-
suit, and that is to quit voting for a set of men
whose only object in life is to secure the spoils
that are by many, supposed to go with public
cial positions. We must place men in Office
who have the welfare of the people at heart
men who will not sell their official influence to
corporations trusts and combines. When we
cease to vote for corporation tools, and place
honest men in Office, there will be no necessity
for antitramp associations, for there will be no
tramps.
We would be glad to hear from Brother Tall
madge again, and also from Rev. Cornell.
THE Washington correspondent OF the Chi
cago Tribune makes known the fact that the
treasury officials, i'll effort to still further re-
strict the use of coined silver or the demand
for it, have adopted the policy of making the
new silver certificates of small denominations.
In this way, the requirements Of business for
"change" is supplied withou. the necessity of
drawing silver dollars from the treasury. The
demand for coined dollars i'll exchange for
Sherman notes has caused the starting of TIE
minis ard turning out of 5000 900 white dol
lars in the past two months, for the purpose of
keeping up supply to meet such demands. 1t
is thought that the snall-denomlnation certif-
cate will obviate the necessity of a continue
ton of this, to Mr.. Carlisle, very undesirable
proceeding. No stone is being left unturned
to keep silver down.-Topeka State Journal.
AT a meeting of the oratorical association of
Chicago University, it was decided to invite
Eugene V. Debs to speak during the next quar-
ter, but the thick-skulled, thn-skinned, mar
row-pated faculty Immediately sat down on the
project. They said Debs belongs 10 danger
Gus element, and his appearance at the universe
ty would endanger the standing OF the institu-
ton among the orthodox. The reason for the
kick that the faculty feared that if Debs
was invited to speak Mr. Rockefeller would
get mad and refuse to make any more donations
to the university.
EVERYBODY should read ''The Workingnans
Tariff the most famous short story ever writ