Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-05
JOE CLARK'S LETTER.
M'KINLEYISM MEANS BONDAGE
FOR THE PEOPLE.
This Does Not Refer to tho Tariff Rec.
ord of the Ohioan but to His Money
Record-Has Been seduced Already
by the Wall Street Crowd.

VentlOn, 10 De nelu at OF. LOUIS III
June, 1896, the colored members yelled,
shouted, cut, slashed and voted for Nc
kinley and Sound Money" Mckinley,
the goldbug pirate, who would put these
same colored men back into the slav-
cry from which they were emancipated
thirty-fve years ago.
Not only will Mckinley place you
there, but any goldbug nominated and
elected will force you into a bondage
worse than that of any coolie slave Of
China, who works for 10 cents a day.
He is already the slave of the gold
bugs.
According to the treasury department
statistics for the year ending June,
1895, the United States consumed in
one year 2,06S,755 tons of sugar.
We imported 1,7S7,755 tons, for which
We paid s76,462, 1886. This sugar cost
81. 49, 100 per ton. or a fraction over z
cents per pound.
The United States purchased 1880
tons. a fraction over a seventh part
of our consumption. Excepting from
Germany, the sugar imported is all
from silver countries. The Hawaiian
Islands alone produce nearly as much
as the United States. Here Is where
the vast Sugar King Claus Spreckles
gets his work in. Aside from the vast
amount produced by himself, he con-
trolls the balance. His work is all done
with Chinese and Japanese contract Ia
Dor, paid at the rate Of $12 per month
in Mexican and trade dollars (and
board themselves), which cost him but
80 cents each in gold. His sugar is en-
ported to the United States, duty free.
He owns his own ships, he has his own
refineries in the United States.
mean what 1 say. We have mil
lions of acres of arid lands lying idle
to-day, which can be made most pro-
ductive and, if properly handled, would
give employment to thousands OF idle,
starving people.
China, Japan, Siam, Mexico and many
of the silver currency countries are
sugar producers.
We can produce our own sugar very
easily. We have the soil, the climate
and the water to irrigate with. The
people will do the work.
We must squelch the goldbugs, who
are making silver nations more pros
porous by robbing us of two hundred
million dollars each year by taking it
to them, Vote for the bond issue OF
one hundred million dollars to be used
for storing the vast bodies of water
which come from our snow-capped
mountain states. Give employment to
idle men and build reservoirs. The
water caught by these reservoirs would
soon reclaim 100000 acres of desert
land, now lying idle. This land re-
deemed, happy homes would be found
for ten millions Of people. This land
redeemed could produce enough beet
sugar to supply 100000 people.
Again, this system of water storage
would prevent the destruction OF So
OOO, 900 worth of property in the lower
Mississippi valley every year. The hot
sun. warm wind and rains resolve the
SHOWS of our mountains into water
very quickly every spring; the smaller
streams are swollen, the larger ones
become rivers and these rivers rush
into the Mississippi and carry destruc-
ton in its course to the sea. II these
waters were held back by system OF
artificial lakes and reservoirs it could
be used on these desert lands. The
money expended by the government
would soon be returned by popula-
ton of tax-paying people, who would
occupy the ground.
As have a personal knowledge OF
this entire western country will map
out what think is the natural sugar
beet belt between the Missouri river
and the Pacific coast. The territory
includes Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada
and California. The country mentioned
has an area of 84S,94s square miles, an
area four times greater than the Ger
man empire, which produces 1,350,OOO
metric tons Of beet sugar.
This belt has more square miles than
the republic of Mexico. There are
millions of acres of arid land, parched
by the hot sun, that is perfectly worth
less as it is. With sufficient water,
which can be had from the mountain
SHOWS and springs, it can easily be
made to produce from III to 20 tons OF
sugar beets to the acre. Not only beets
but fruits and vegetables of the
finest variety. In Utah the finest fruits
and grapes and almonds are raised with
but little work to tend the trees and
vines. None imported are better.
1t would be impossible for me to give
even a. brief idea of the wonderful re-
sources of this magnificent belts pos
sibilities. In detail it would make
book of one thousand pages. The great
mineral wealth and the rich valleys
with a proper supply of water would
sustain a population greater than that
of Mexico. The southern portion is
adapted to sugar cane growing, and
this, with the beet growth, would pro-
duce sufficient sugar to supply the
United States. The sugar beet will
grow anywhere in the United States
They wiz grow in the lower valleys
of Montans, but as yet no one has tried