Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08
GARNETT, KANSAS, MAY s, 1896.

we will have one of the fercest civil wars. -
Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, rep.
To show how in the time of the civil war
they prepared to swap chattel slavery for wage
slavery, and by control of the money, control
labor, and make it subject to itself, quote an
extract from Hazards circular, a copy of which
was sent from England and circulated amongst
American bankers in 1862, as follows:
"Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war
power, and CHATrEL slavery destroyed. This
| and my European friends are i'll favor of, for
slavery is but the owning of labor, and carries
with it the care of the laborcr, while the Euro
pean plan, led on by England, is capital control
of labor by controlling wages. THIS CAN BE
DONE BY CONTROLLING THE MONEY"
For cold-blooded declaration of purpose you
are commended to the above. What could be
more brutally frank? With these declarations
staring us in the face, don't ask us to trim. We
are going III the other direction.
The money power is wise, cunning and far
seeing. 1t does It's work in a cold-blooded,
practical way. It never takes decisive action
without careful preparation. 1t has organized
i'll this country large military force, composed
almost entirely OF its sympathizers. 1t has
built up and established large bands of hired
spoilers and cut-throats, srch as the Pinkertons,
etc, etc. The police force throughout the
nation is organized in its interest. 1t has built
great forts, commanding all the large cities of
the land. 1t undt rstands the absolute necessity
of having in this country large and compact
political force, that under one preteXt or
another can be e2pl'e4d i'll its service, and i'll
an emergency can be usedto recruit its military
operations. For several years past it has been
organizing and discipning just such force
the soil of the United States. Strange as it
may seem to Americans, this force, from top to
bottom, is largely oiliceied or directed by men
who were born subject to crowned head, and
who have taken an oath, :he first clause of
which commits them to perpetual allegiance to
said crowned head. Americans would be startled
to know what large number of subjects of this
foreign power appear i'll the official roster of this
political force In the last year or two this
force has become INTERNATIONAL, and it
proceeds on the theory that the nations wherein
it is organized are net to FIGHT EACH
OTHER. TO make it more comprehensive to
the average reader, those belonging to this force
are to FIGHT on the SAME SIDE. The
foreign power, above referred to, has twice
tried TO destroy the United States by force Of
arms, and failed. Later, when this nation was
in the throes of civil war, it tried again to de-
stroy it by granting belligerent rights and
;cl,; oiJ 0ur
and after the civil wlr it succeed ed in putting
its financial method, i'll operation i'll this coun-
try as outlined in the Hazard circular. In 80
years this has resulted in concentrating the
nations wealth into a few hands, and the peo
pie are becoming more and more distressed and
and threatening riot and revolu
ton; they must be divided and distracted under
some specious preteXt another, and drrayed
against each other, and in the midst Of the tur-
moil and strife that will ensue the man OH
horseback is to step i'll, and declare for an i'm
pera form Of government. The next two
years is the time set for this work.
For several years have been carefully watch
ing this force which The money power has been
building up for its service. ! have analyzed its
makeup and its motives. 1t can be used in the
service of the mo icy power only so far as it is
deceived. The great bulk of its rank and file
are American by birth and ancestry and thor
ouphly loyal at heart. Let it once see through
the game that is being played and it can be re-
lied upon to be among the first to drive the
knife to the hilt beneath the fifth rib OF the
money power. The latter knows this. It
realizes that it is PLAYING with 6re-with force