Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-03
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.


POINTS FROM THE PRESS.
J. Pierpont Morgan controls twenty
six railroads, and is Hanna's las
he was Cleveland's) most intimate
friend. "-San Francisco Star.
"a fair days wages for fair day 5
work is as just demand as governed
men ever made of governing" said
Thomas Carlyle, and in this republic
where all men are Free" we have seen
such demand ignored repeatedly
Coming Nation.
Bismarck doesn't like the Monroe
doctrine. We fear Bismarck has been
taking TIE New York Evening Post
too seriously.--Silver Knight-Watch-
man.
The working people have nothing for
all their years Of hard labor, moth
ing for all their self-denial, but the
free and unlimited right to get OIL the
earth by starvation or suicide, wheh
| they are just in the prime OF lie
Johnston, r. l., Beacon.
And the Indianapolis gold commits
sion still holds forth in secret sessions
at the Arlington in Washington. It's
Nominations on finance will represent
fully the Sound business methods"
of the bankers and gold gamblers, VINO
put up the money to meet the wine ana
dine bills.-Silver Knight-Watchman.
The $4,000 900 that was expended
| to elect Mckinley president would have
saved all the bank failures in ILLINOIS
and Wisconsin, and fed all the hun
cry and clothed the unclad this Win
ter. 1t cost money to defeat VIM. >.
Bryan.-S Bee.
The number of statutes of a state
are appalling. None but lawyer
knows anything about them, and he
only enough to keep himself out CT
the penitentiary and get other people
| in. The constitution is good maui 10
retard progression, used as it is, by
few. Look at the power vested in
the United States Supreme court! NO
appeal, and they are only men, subject
| to temptation, personal influence, ana
some of them in their dotage, never
stepping down and out unless re
tired" by death or the president. Ihe
laws. like the clothes of the revolution
airy fathers, don't suit or fit present
generations, no more than EnglandS
suited them.-Council Bluffs Mail.
There are women in the fax mills
of Paterson, N. j., who work ten hours
a day ankle deep in dirty water, and
breathe an atmosphere like that of a
| Turkish bath. They receive $50
week. There are other women who
work ten hours a day, and at every
breath take into their lungs fine
dust that breeds early death as surely
as do germs. They receive $3.50 week.
Meanwhile the house of Barbour has
accumulated millions CT dollars, and
has established it's trade mark every
re.-Chicago Social Democrat.
Henry George died the most heroic
of deaths. He fell as the greatest
heroes of the world have fallen-at
the post of duty. In spite of the terri
BILE shock of his death, it may be per-
ceived, in time, when the great grief
of his taking off is lessened, that he
| Ia, hox
more beautiful and more appropriate.
1t was as if destiny had fashioned the
details with the most exact nicely to
give point to the adage that death loves
shining mark. And all the world is
now thinking of this great man. Had
he died a few weeks ago or a few
weeks hence, even as the mayor Of the
greater city itself, there would have
been wanting that element of might
ness which makes his fate so brilliant.
These are the considerations which
may be of most weight in all con-
| temptation of the end of the greatest
economic thinker of any age or coun-
| try, the first man to rouse the masses
of all the world from the lethargy of
their hopelessness and to teach them
that the earth was made for them.
Others had taken up this truth, but he
made it mighty.-Twentieth Century.
A dispatch from st. Louis gives the
account of failure of a queensware
merchant and gives his assets at twice
his liabilities. Such is the prosper
GUS condition of the country that a
man with twice as much goods as he
owes cannot raise money to meet his
obligations. Is it because all the PEG.
pie have all the china they want? is
it because the man bought goods that
nobody wanted? Is it because men
with money will not take two for one
for security? 1t is pretty state OF
affairs when a man has twice what
he owes and still must lose all he
has. If bankers had to have twice
what they owed there would not be a
solvent bank in the nation.-Appeal tc
Reason.
Definitions from Puck.