Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-24

1873. During the twenty-four years Of
! silver's degradation John Bull has add
ed millions to his wealth, while the
United States has been forced to vote
bonds to keep her head above water.
It Is to be hoped that the people will
come to their senses sufficiently in 1900
| to vote silver back to its lawful posi-
| ton as basic money.-Fort Collins
Argus.
Let the law call 1t what it may, the
forfeiture by the Pennsylvania coal
| companies of the earned but unpaid
wages of the striking miners is
species of theft in comparison with
which the holding up of railroad trains
IS high-grade industry, and the men
who do 1t are thieves with whom a
sneak thief should be ashamed to asso-
ciate-Cleveland Recorder.
Don't say it Is human nature to
monopolize land while thousands are
denied the right Of homes. There Is
nothing human about it; it is inhuman.
1t Is hog nature, not yet civilized or
Christianized out of humanity or its
laws and institutions-New DISPENSE
ton.
Prosperity which is haunted by the
ghosts of starved millions in other
lands is not the kind of prosperity that
the American people desire. Moreover,
such prosperity is bound to be temper
airy, for even gold champion, great
though he be in promising, can scarce
ly give us the assurance that there will
always be general crop failures in In
Europe. But, even now, with famine
abroad and plenty of tariff at home, We
have nothing like genuine prosperity.
Merely temporary rise of wheat and a
furry of speculation in Wall street.
National Bimetallist, Washington, D.
G.
Direct legislation is the only hope
Of escape from legislation that is as OBJ
jectionable as a monarchy-Chicago
Express.
The finding of so much gold in
Alaska will have the effect of loosening
the grip of the Money Devil, but if
the people support continuance of the
system of mortgaging and bonding the
soil it will tighten again.-East Ore
gonian.
"All men are equal in the sight of the
law" used to be at least an ordinarily
faced alsehood.-Duluth Labor World
There was time when they gold
standard papers) fiercely contended
that the value of gold was invariable,
or, as they choose to put it, "a gold
dollar is always worth a gold dollar"
but some day it will dawn upon them
that gold dollar which will only pur-
chase bushel of wheat is not so near
valuable as a gold dollar which will
purchase two bushels In short, when
they admit that the Klondyke finds
may have an effect on prices they aban-
don the contention that gold has fixity
of value and accept the quantitative
theory to which all the great econo-
mists have adhered.-Mendocin Bea-
con.
Poverty is curse which aggravates
every affection which visits mankind.
In sickness, its presence makes home
a den of wretchedness; In death,
chamber of CHASTITY horror; in sorrow,
waste Of utter desolation. 1t robs
love of its sweetness, and tears asunder
the dearest ties of humanity. 1t blights
warm, young, joyous life, withers youth
and mocks old age. In storm and cold,
in heat and draught, they with whom
poverty dwells must suffer hundred
fold. When torrid flood poured over
poor who gasped away their lives in
agony, the mothers who faltered and
fell at their duties the fathers who
went mad and died, all were victims of
poverty Yet it is so useless, so I'M
necessary. The bounteous earth never
babe it come; it is but a hideous spec
tire, conjured up by a mans inhumanity
to man.-Industria Advocate.
A railroad detective who travels al
most constantly between Chicago and
Cleveland reports that the number of
tramps now on the road exceeds any
thing he has ever seen. He says that
it is not fair to call them tramps, for
they appear to be mechanics and labor
ers out of employment. The detective
in question makes the almost incredi-
BILE statement that he counted 1877
tramps on one freight train as it left
Grand Crossing last Tuesday night.
Pueblo Courier.
The Omaha Labor Bulletin has some
valuable figures as to the vast COM
mercial mortality of business men by
comparing the directories Of that city
for 1887 and 1897. In 1887 there were
$50 business firms in operation in eigh-
Il It