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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17

1t is getting to be difficult, however,
to bride voters owing to the great i'm
provement of late years in our election
laws. Consequently most of the money
goes to individuals who control voters,
to saloon keepers. to stump orators and
to the general run of shady characters
so numerous during presidential year.
The papers are heavy subsidies. This
money is never paid out openly as a
bride. 1t takes the form of payment
for advertisements, of purchasing stock,
of purchases Of whole campaign edi-
tons and of the bills contracted in COL
Letting Campaign material" The won
der is that many newspapers have any
influence at all upon voters, but for
some unfathomable reason they do.
In round numbers the political par
ties spend about twenty million dollars.
directly or indirectly, in electing the
president. That is little more than a
dollar and half for each voter in the
land. When the campaign is over we
poor. idiotic citizens of the United
States wonder why the country seems
to belong to the plutocrats. The coun-
try belongs to the plutocrats because
they have bought it and paid for it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17

Promoters of strikes argue to their
comrades that unsuccessful efforts are
nevertheless ultimately beneficial; but
study of the subject has led me to
take the opposite view, viz: that all
strikes of skilled workmen are. in the
end, harmful to the participants. No
one single cause has done more, in my
opinion, to hasten the introduction OF
entirely automatic machinery in opera
lions where certain degree of skilled
labor was considered indispensable
than strikes on the part of such skill
ed employees. Numerous instances
might be recalled where large manu-
cheerfully expended immense sums OF
money in perfecting automatic machin-
cry, not primarily to effect economy in
wages, but as an assurance against
future danger from such causes. A
notable instance of this nature oc-
Cured few years ago at one of the
largest iron and steel works in the
world. In certain department speci-
ally skilled men were able to make
wages which now seem incredible.
They were, however, paid percentage
upon the tonnage and, owing to enorm-
Gus output, the profits of these opera
tives exceeded in some years that OF
many successful manufacturers having
large capital at stake. These men con-
sidered themselves indispensable and
struck, not for higher wages or shorter
hours, but at the dictation of outsiders.
When work was resumed they found
their occupations gone forever. Auto
matte machinery had supplanted the
former skilled labor.-Popular Science
Monthly
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17

Before the French revolution 10000
men owned all the land of France.
Now she numbers 1929, 900 free hold
ers. In England 100000 persons own
all the land, and the proportion of pau
pers is % for England to one in
France. If our people desire to save
themselves from the fate of English
pauperism they will have to begin the
work of salvation by adopting the
New Zealand graduated land tax laws,
which will speedily emancipate them
from extortionate land rents, and give
every Industrious prudent man a
chance to secure holding somewhat
larger than a cemetery lot-a home
the great incentive to patriotism.-The
Call.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17

The Hartford Courant says: Con.
necticut capitalists have one hundred
million dollars loaned in the west,
and don't propose to have it paid back
in 53c dollars" and then it threatens,
for said capitalists, that it won't lend
any more. Is the Courant aware that
according to the republican platform
of 1880 1.-THE dollars" these same CAPT.
talsts loaned were only 1850 dollars?"
Is it not also aware that the purchas-
ing power of the dollar these capital
lists have been getting in interest on
this hundred million is more than
double the dollar they loaned? They
demand dollar with 200 cents in it
in pay for the Soc dollar they loaned,
and then console themselves with the
idea that they are honest" and that
these wicked farmers out west are try
ing to cheat them.-Daily Citizen,
Naugatuck, Conn.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17
A Village Rising Bell.

For more than twenty years Bow.
mansville Pa, has had what is known
as village bell. 1t is swung between
two high upright poles and was paid for
by public subscription. Every day the
bell is rung three times-at $50 o'clock
a. m, II o'clock a. M, and o'clock in
the afternoon. The leading object of
it's ringing is to announce to farmers
and other working people the time of
day. The first bell in the morning
at Bowmansville is the signal for the
people to arise and in the summer most
Of the residents are out that early.
The II o'clock bell announces that it
is time to leave the fields and prepare
for dinner. At o'clock in the after
noon they prepare for supper.-CorYe-
spondence Philadelphia Record
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17
STEALING OUR CURRENCY.
Col. Cherry Wants the Democrats to
Skinny on Their Own Side.


Shiny on Their Own Side.
Hi there! You democrats! Skinny on
your own side! Keep off of our pop
ulist isms! You said Tariff" was
what was the matter. Why don't
you keep on believing about the Tar
iff?" What's got the matter with you
anyway? Up to two years ago you
wildly denounced our Items" said
that they were worthless.
We once heard of boy who wore
out his pockets by stealing things out
of one pocket and hiding them in the
other. He was called natural born
thief. But ne didn't steal what he
considered worthless isms'-things
he didn't want. You do. You tried to
steal our graduated income tax, but
didn't get away with it. You are now
trying to steal our convict road build
ing ism, which has been our property
for eighteen years, and our election oil
United States senators by direct vote
of the people. And you think you
have already got away with our free
silver isms. "Ah," you say 1.-The DEM
ocracy have always been in favor OF
free silver" The - Moses you have.
What party was it that voted down
free silver eleven times in the past ten
years?
While initiating a member into the
Sons of Malta, the Recording Scribe
writes in the record these words: THE
candidate will both lie and steal"
You all seem to belong to the Sons OF
Malta.
If you are not arrested you will soon
be trying to steal our other isms, limi-
ted land ownership and graduated land
tax, eXempting homesteads from tax,
public ownership of railroads, tele-
graphs and telephones. Then you will
lie like Jot of hoodlums about whose
isms they are.
We've been watching the popularity
of your thievery. You will denounce.
ridicule, misrepresent and lie about
one of our isms until you happen to
find out that majority of the people
want it; then you set about trying to
steal it. Didn't you steal our green
back platform bodily in 1878? And
were you ever greenbackers after you
got through that election? l once read
of dog that slipped into front yards
and stole morning papers, which he
hid in lumber yard. He had evident
ly been attending democratic caucuc-
es. That's where he learned it.
You'd better go back to your tar
iff," boys. That is yours. Take your
tariff bill before the farmers and show
them the beauties Of admitting free OF
duty, diamonds, paintings, statuary
and the material for making silk plug
hats, and then putting a tax of 40
cents on the dollar on sugar to make
up for it. Show them the benefit of
striking off the 81 per thousand from
lumber and letting in Canada lumber
free to supply the prairie states; show
them how that enriches Arkansas.
But we are not debating how you
shall shiny, only that you shiny on
your own side, and let our isms alone.
If you don't we'll expose you before
all the people. This is only private
hint. John H. Cherry.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17
The National Game.

The game of baseball was fifty years
old last week, the first match game
having been played at Hoboken, N. j.,
on June 10, 1916, between the Knicker-
booker and New York clubs Previous
to that time townball had been the
great game, but some of the devotees
got their heads together and evolved a
series of rules which changed the
sport so materially that they decided to
call it baseball. The first team was or
ganized on Sept. %, 1S45, but it was not
until the following June that match
game was played.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17
"stone- wall" before the assaults Of all

"stone-wall" before the assaults OF all
who seek to destroy us.
I again appeal to you to organize
legion in every precinct; and IL the
hosts desiring reform are gathered in
and put to work at once we can yet
succeed. You must sustain your news
papers, and stand by each other
though the whole world assail u.s."
have issued this circular as sacred
duty to warn the rank and file, who
have right to know, that wholesale
attempt is being made to deliver us,
bound hand and foot, to our bitterest
enemies.
We warn all honest, sincere men, in
all parties, who earnestly desire free
coinage and other reforms and hope
for an honorable union, that the action
proposed would prevent any union
whatever. There is no hope Of gain
ing any reform at the hands Of either
of the old parties, and we cordially in
vite, as we always have, all true men
and women to unite with us to save
the nation. Our doors have always
been open, and We stand for principle.
Fusion or entangling alliances with the
debauched or corrupt democrat or re-
publican parties would ruin us.
We would lose our organization; our
voters would be disheartened and de-
jected, AID many of our papers would
be compelled to suspend. The gold
standard democrats would go to the
republicans and their nominee would
be elected.
We have constantly gained ever
since our birth, and by our united
stand we have divided and disinte-
grated both the old parties, until to-
day republicans in the west and demo-
Gratis in the south have to pretend to
be populists in order to maintain their
organization. There is no party in the
nation that is so dominated by foreign
influence as the democratic party, and
their vote largely come from the
saloons, dives and slums, and vicious
and criminal classes. and it would be
suicide for us to unite with them.
We are in the supreme crisis of our
history, and, if we all prove faithful,
we will save our nation from destruc-
ton and gain a government Of the
people, for the people, and by the peo-
ple."
Our motto should be, Organize and
Educate" and our best men and
women must give their time to the
work.
Send at once for the papers, and
don't delay day. Attend your pri-
maries and conventions, and see to
your delegates.
1 earnestly request all our editors,
speakers and writer's, men and women,
each legion and club, each delegate al
ready elected, and the glorious rank
and file, to write me what they think of
the proposed union, and what would be
the result.
refer the whole question to our
party for their opinion and decision.
PAUL VAN DERVOORT.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17
TREASON OF 1896.

Section Of the United States Constitution Congress
shall have the coin and regulate the value No.
that the constitution all and that cannot and shall
value Of Nowadays must be done by inter-
national only Shades Of Washington Jefferson jackson and
fruits Yorktown and New Orleans Behold deadly
baptized by the blood of countless heroes and
the blood martyrs behold the realization William Pitts
prophecy the English parliament 1903 that America would be
profitable financial dependency than political dependency
people going reasonable platform? The
other than reasonable light must be idiot If
November
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17
SURRENDER TO ENGLAND.

The Republican national platform endvors tire the reader with
lot of tariff reciprocity and then shows the dominating
influence behind the party Of Abraham Lincoln when
substance THE Republican party unreservedy in favor English
money and against American caused the establishment the
get English dollar We unaaby opposed
every effort to the silver American mines into money we pre-
England We therefore opposed to free coinage except
England All must be good gold not
whandg the fact that that form of has given to the world
among nations Turkey Persia Arabia Egypt and
have long since been enaved and notwithstanding
that Italy Austria Germany Russia England France and the
United marching toward the destiny In short
currency system that will make by the millions and mil
ionares by the score"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-17


all candor, with all earnestness, and
with patriotic devotion which l do
not believe any senator will doubt,
that there was no other demand upon
the treasury at the time wAen the
bond issues were made, except alone,
from the spectators in Wall street,
New York, and their confreres in the
city of London, on the other side of
the Atlantic. have asserted again
and again that the United States gov
eminent has been forced into partner
ship with these men, that we are in
fact the silent partner. We are ex-
pected only to tax the people and raise
the money that these men want.
"The only need that the government
has for money is to pay it's debts. We
promised to pay our debts in coin, and
I have shown by the figures that we
had an abundance of coin to do it.
"The only trouble-and the presi-
lent of the United States is right about
It-comes from the demand for gold,
and it is not because the people Of the
United States demand gold-I mean
The great body of the people of the
They are not asking for
gold. They care nothing about gold
coin. Probably ninety-nine out of
every hundred would be unable to dis
inguish at first sight between quar-
er eagle and a half eagle in gold coin.
The demand for gold comes from one
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05

waters edge. Mr.. Waller lives in IN
old-fashloned hginia farmhouse, with a
wide hall running through II, and par
lor and dining-room on either Side. the
place suggests comfort and quiet, and its
good people live up TO its spirit.
waller himself is a born sportsman.
and knows every duck along the Atlan'
tic coast by his habits and haunts Ho
has a seiue five miles long. and hires six.
~ men to haul II about this time OF year,
when the shad and herring begin TO run
m the Potomac About 10 o'clock in the
morning we went out 10 the blinds, an
eighth OF a mile off shore / should say
and I'm easy call OF his house.
.T feed eight or ten bushels OF corn
every night to the ducks he said, TO my
intense astonishment, and they eat here
from early evening well into the next
morning Then they go OF down the riv-
er and collect In great blocks at a safe
distance. When the boats come along
these flocks break up into punches, and
ALI day long these punches Of birds fly in
here and feed
"There were ten decoys I'm us,,' and We
had all the shooting we wanted We saw
no canvas backs and shot no malards.
the ducks which came TO our stools being
black-heads and bay shutters. The pay
shuffer is a Kind Of broadbill, Dig. rat
duck not inferior when properly cooker
~ tho canvas-back itself. The hay shut
fers seem to have succeeded the canvas
back on the Wide Water grounds. rhey
are not found / believe, on the Potomac
except at wide Water and Havre de
Grace. Their scientific name Is Aythya
nnarlla neartica The river shu 1ler Ay-
thya afinis. is smaller than tho bay
sbufIler. and the creek shufiler. Aythy0
collaris. is smaller still.
.Tm a Democrat; bet didn't know our
President had been shooting corn-fed
ducksw
DIR. Howard Is vice-president OF the
Fourteenth Street Bank, and lives az o.
west seventy-hfst street. HIS friends ana
associates have been eating ouHks III
quantities
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05
MR.. CLEYELAyD'S Duck SHOOTING.
Two New York sportsmen Informed that
He Has Been Killing Handled Birds.

DR.. Frederick l. Howard anu ]. Ralph
Burnett have just returned from a duck
ing trip TO Wide Water. Va. where Pres
ident, Cleveland has been shooting. DIR.
Howard Is the inventor OF tine Howard
trout-hy and a well-known amateur with
gun and rod. Mr.. Burnett il a lawyer
i'm Ex-Governor Flowers office. Both are
good judges OF sport. and they brought
back with them forty ducks. bigger
bag than Mr.. Cleveland and Fighting
Bob" Evans were able 10 make.
I'VE left New York" said Or. Howard
yesterday, "at o in the evening by the
Pennsylvania railroad, and reached Wide
Water without change at the next
morning. The ducking grounds are some
forty miles below Washington. and six
miles this side Of Acquia creek. Old man
Waller, the owner or fine farm aiong
the Potomac, which Is four and n half
miles wide at this point. met us at the
station, and took US to breakfast ~ bis
house. not more than 300 feet from the
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05
HARRISON'S WEDDING CAKE.
Stands Almost as High as The Groom Him.
self and Has a Sugar Bell Upon It.
GREAT ClKGS FOR EASTER WEDDINGS.
Harrison's, Baked Last Fall, Is So spicy
Now that Each Lump OF Dough Tastes
Like n PIum-Cakes that Come from
Paris and vienna-What the
Merry Sugar Bells Cost.

The little bird that flies over the
steenles. chirping tidings down the hre-
places. tells with loud notes of the mar
veIIous wedding cake ordered for the Har-
rlson nuptials, to take place tomorrow
in church. There will be a gathering OF
friends. few and great, before or AFTER
and there will figure the wedding cake
that is causing the bird of gossip so much
noisy comment.
This cake. runs the tale. was mace
last autumn. 1t was part OF the Iail
baking" which wedding-cake makers Keep
always on hand. After being MADE u
was wrapped up and put away TO wait
for the order Of a good customer IL
takes several months 10 season Eoou
cake after 1t is baked, hence 1t Is that
the baking OF the autumn is prime now'
HARRIsON's PYRAMID.
This cake is made into a pyramid. The
pvramid is accomplished by piling one
cake on top of another until the top layer
"a a little cake the size of dinner plate.
The bottom one I'm this case Is as big as
A cart wheel. Icing ia then put over tho
pvramid until 1t looks like a large white
round mound Of snow drifted 10 the top
OF a hillock.
The cost OF a cake like this Is either
sixty or seventy cents a pound. II you
want 10 pay the latter price you can.
Nothing is made any better than the
best wedding cake and though YOU be
king or queen, ex-President or alderman,
Won can get no better. There are raisins
currants, -four and spces, and plenty OF
citron and plums. and further than that
IL is impossible to 80. IL you put other
things into cake II ceases TO be wed
ding cake 1t may be Offset with angel
food or served with nut and cream cakes
thanking IT,. but a wedding cake IS the
same the world over.
The bird that does the talking about
the Harrison wedding cake says it cost
about $3.50, and that il is surmounted with
wedding bell. and is profusely trimmed
with scrolls and flowers done in paste.
The flowers are not 10 eat. but the scroll
work is. and the good caterer who places
the cake i'm the box, after the bride has
stuck a carving knife into II, knows that
each box must have a corner OF the
sugared rim or scroll to be complete.
The wedding cake industry is one that
wages unnaggingly all the year. 1t is
apparently busiest in the autumn when
the cakes are baked Then great pans,
ranging in size from a cart wheel down
TO a lish-pan and size smaller, are
filled with the dough and slid into big
ovens to bake and bake until the trad-
tional straw that is run into them comes
up as hot and as dry as burnt broom
corn Then the cakes are done.
They are taken out of the oven, wrapped
up in tissue and cloth. and set away by
men and maids TO get spicy. This is
when the spices get all through the -four
ard frfif ca that all tastes alike "a bothar
II be a bit of dough or the choicest morsel
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05

very peculiar one TO those who have
never seen 1t that they find IL hard to
believe that intelligent children can find
sport for whole day rolling an egg
ecross the grass when they could not
,amuse themselves a minute at home
with an egg upon the front lawn. But
those who reason thus show how very
uncducated they are In the science OF
egg-rolling.
The game as played annually in Wash
fngton runs like this. Each child climbs
TO the top OF tho grounds of the White
House with a basket OF colorod eggs
hanging proudly upon a sturdy arm. A
good steep spot Is selected and the eggs
are set rolling An egg that gets TO the
foot OF the hill. whole and quickest. Is
brought back and rolled again. Ii is a
race egg" and is coveted by others
whose eggs wobble and break and have
10 be eaten at once.
EGG COMEDIANS.
The comedians Of the day are the little
colored children who come without eggs
and who must win their gains by hard
work. They can also do so by entertain
ment. Many of the little dark-skins 20
beautifully dressed, and carrying bas-
kets OF eggs so Respondent i'm color and
sparke-many OF them being sllvered
over-that they are the envy Of all
neighbors. But the poor little picca-
minnes are the ones that make the fun.
In rows you see them standing at the
foot Of the hill. As the eggs come bound
ing down they pick them up and carry
them back up the hill 10 the rollers. II
an egg gets cracked the little girl or
boy who has rolled it, and whose stom-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05
Conservative

The garden beds / wanderth py
one bright and cheerful morn'
when I found a new-ledged butterfly
A-sitting on a thorn,
A black and crimson butterfly
All doleful and forlorn.
! thought that life could nave no s'ihs
To infant butterflies.
So I gazed on this unhappy thtng
with wonder and surprise,
While sadly with his waving wing
He wiped his weeping eyes,
Said I: What can the matter BET
WHY weepest thou so sore:
With gardens fair and sunlight free
And flowers I'm goodly store2"
But he only turned away from me
And burst into a roar. y
Cried he: MY legs are thin and few
Where once had swarm!
Soft fuzzy fur, a JOY TO view,
once kept my body warm.
Before these Tapping wing-things grew,
To hamper and deform."
At that outrageous bug shot
The fury OF mine eye
Said l. I'm scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high:
"You ignOminious idiot.
Those wings are made 70 ny@'
-~ETv'
81 do not want 10 n.y." said he:
II only want 10 sGuirmv
And he dropped his wings dejectedly.
But still his voice was firm;
II do not want to be fly.
I want to be a worm,
sfD
G Yesterday OF unknown lack,
To-day of unknown bliss
left my fool I'm red and black;
The last ! saw was Iris;
The creature madly climbing back
Into his chrysalis.
Saturday Review.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05
Fair Warning From Copperas Cove

COPPERAs COVE. TEN. March 21.-
The Peoples party Of Copperas Cove met
to-day in convention, and the following
resolution was adopted
1--WE, the Peoples party Of Copperas
Cove, in convention assembled. re-endorse
the principles enunciated in the Omaha
platform, and while we recognize the
financial question as the paramount
issue by force Of circumstances, and here
by invite all believing IN the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver to Join US as the
only national party advocating the same,
we shah nevertheless not relinquish but
hereby announce our determination never
10 cease our efforts until every monopoly
and trust is either made subject 10
law. nationallzed or destroyed. Calves
ton News.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05

scription. AS an actor. he gave promise
OF being the equal. If not the superior. of
his elder brother. and, If his own state
ments are to be credited. his income from
his profession alone amounted TO twenty
thousand dollars a year. Up TO the date
OF the failure of the plot TO poison. he
had played quite regularly, invariably
before large audiences. with whom he en-
joycd much favor. He appears now to
have devoted all his energies TO the fur
therance OF the matter nearest his heart
the plots against the President.-April
Century.