Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-04

same organs that the English, Italians
and Professionals do. They have wise
patriots and demagogues, truthful men
and liars, strong men and weak men
in their ranks, just as all other creeds
and nationalities have in theirs, and
ner writes himself down an ass or dem
agogue when he assumes, as he evil
IDENTIFY does, that little superficial fiat
terry, deftly applied, is all that is neces-
sary to array them in solid mass on
the side of the gold standard.
But let us look at Mr.. Warmers argu-
ment closely, and divine, if possible,
what he means. He has no doubt that
the success of the silver agitation
would lead to revolution and riot"
Who would instigate the riot and who
would revolt in the event of the success
of the silver agitation? Would the sill
yer agitators revolt against the very
conditions which they were the means
of bringing about? Certainly not. Mr.
Warner tries to explain his position,
which is palpably that of the rule or
ruin" class, by saying that about his
fear" that when the workingmen find
that the political and social conditions
have not been bettered by free silver
they will at once engage in rioting and
revolution in our great cities. But
the sentence in which he expresses this
"foar ~ 10 fo1Inuad ~, ad 10 taIx, b,y <b q
declaration that: "In any event the sill
yer movement is the forerunner of dis
organization. 1t is aimed at the de-
struction Of property values"
In any event, heb? the silver move
ment is the forerunner Of disorganiza-
ton. If this is the case doesn't Mr..
Warner cut very poor figure in stand
ing around with his hands in his pock
cts talking about his fear" of some
thing which is bound to happen in any
event?Wouldn't he be better and more
intelligently employed If he were put
ting his affairs in shape to meet what
must come in any event? The Gin any
event" includes the election of Mr.. Nc
Kinley, does it not? Certainly it does.
and If Mr.. Warner is right concerning
existing conditions and the effect of sill
yer agitation, he Is right in including
even the election of Mr.. Mckinley
among the events which will not pre-
vent "disorganization." Every posted
man knows that the silver question is
up for settlement, and that the Repub-
lican senators from the western states,
without whose help the Mckinley
forces even If successful beyond their
most sanguine expectations in the
present campaign, have laid down the
ultimatum to their party, demanding
silver legislation as the price Of their
assistance on tariff legislation. So 1t
seems that the destruction of property
values" is bound to come in any event.
But as the only property values"
threatened by the "silver movement"
are those artificially conferred upon
manufacturers and gold and gold bonds
by class legislation, the people may rest
serenely assured that their destruction,
since they are enjoyed at the expense Of
all other real property values" will
prove of lasting benefit to legitimate
values.
Mr.. Warner is a gold bug of gold
bugs, and what he lacks in ability to
prove the gold standard remedy for
wrong existing conditions he makes up
in recklessness Of assertion and i'm
pudent attempts to cajole and fatter,
hoping by this means to create a dis
cord among the people which will re-
suit in benefit to the power at whose
throne he worships. He is laboring I'M
der misconception as to the degree
of real intelligence existing in this