Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-02
FREE AMERICA.


not confined to the United State
alone. From Russia's starving ant
oppressed millions, robbed to sus
tain an Imperial anarch and hit
standing army whose number il
like the leaves of the forest wher
summer is green; from Germany
where the first wave of revolution
has already tapped at the door o
the Imperial palace; from France
where the anarchist boldly walks
by daylight and damns the govern
ment to its face; from Italy, Aus.
tria and Spain, comes the rumble 81
discomfort that grows louder and
louder. Whence comes this gen
eral commotion? What is the
cause of this worldwide upheaval?
Because men have so legislated and
declared by statute, and enforced
the declaration by the bayonet, that
property is superior to human life;
that laws to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer are first and
patriotic. The world mean man
kind in general has been so blind
ed through greed and passion for
boarding up gain for themselves,
they have lost sight of God, and
have builded for themselves false
god of silver and gold, which they
continue to worship, until to-day.
we behold wives and daughters
struggling for the means of life I'M
til they grew unsexed, unwomanly,
in the hard and cruel strife, while
we are compelled to see the naughty
spoiler dwelling in sumptuous ease,
Shall l tell you more?.-tell you
the system we are living under
which starves a man while hunting
for work, so long as he is honest and
commits no crime; but the moment
he steals or breaks a window, he is
furnished food. 1t is "a crime by /
statute to beg for food, but once
commit the crime, and food is at
once furnished the criminal in Jail.
Men out of employment, either vol
or enforced, are told by
our chiefs of police or city mar
shals to move on; or, in other words,
go on to the next town and let the
citizens there feed them. Thus (
does society teach the doctrine of '
love thy neighbor as myself" l
This system teaches men and wo-
men to be free and honest, and
orces men to steal and women to
,ell their bodies to keep them from
0, yes! an administra- |
ion given over to political ohican- t
Try, and whose energies are entire {
y devoted to the perpetuation of {
elf and party in power, and Judi h
iary whose ermine is spotted with c
tains of unfair and Infamous con- c
tructions of law The political |
in the land amazes the a
'atriot. Prostituted courts that s
make all righteous laws of no ef- a
ect and all unjust laws binding, Il
,hen gold is heaped high in sight! y
But change is coming, boys;
,ait little longer.
Before our civil war, the aristo-
ratio shareholders were warned
y the tongues of a thousand proph- G
is, but they stoned them and 2
aughed them to scorn They MUIR f'
cred Lovejoy on the banks of the I
Mississippi, dragged Garrison thro' A
ne streets of Boston and broke up p
nti slavery meetings. Yet, slavery b
,as wiped out in blood and flame h
nd murky smoke of battle.
Yea, verify; Good is not mock N
d." for whatever nation sows, "
hat shall it also reap. G.
Again: Those VINO oppose every re
Lep in human progress say that the
eformers spring from the ranks of
,e disconnected. If there was no 81
iscontent, there would be no occa. vi
on for this uprising. The people p
Great Britain were discontinued c.
hen thew threw off the woke of re