Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-11
PIONEERS.

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Pull back for Times old ways;
Strong men are they who hold their own
On the outposts of the new,
Till the world hath to their stature grown
And seen the false was true.
Hopeful were men who cast their lot
In the heart of wilderness,
-homesick-in their toll forgot
An old homes blessedness.
Great faith had those of an endless quest
Who marched till the years were done
Then lifted their eyes to the golden west
And died in the setting sun.
Brave men--great souls--Gods sons-.and ia II
Full swift and passing strong
They have taken the lands and are lords of all
They have chanted their deeds in song;
They have told theirtale with sounding tongue,
Have painted their hopes and fears
Yet when hath word or note been sung
OF the bravest pioneers
How strong were these on the weary road
How brave in the silent land
What smiles bestowed to tighten the load
That could never a tear-drop stand
What hopes saw they through drouth and food?
Did they look in the future wide,
When their Threats were parched and their fever
ed blood
Ebbed fast with the final tide?
Thus did they-yea these silent ones
The women of the west!
Lord! let that heart beat in their sons
Which counted patience best
God gave them courage measuerless,
From Heaven came their faith;
White was their hope in the wilderness,
And their great love conquered DEATH
Harry Walker in the Oklahoma ANIMAL.
No living man outside of the asylum deniej
that the Kansas roads have right to charge
rates that will pay the cost of doing the business
and yield fair return on the capital invested.
Kansas City Journal.
have heard a man outside a lunatc asylum
make such declaration He wasn't a Popu
list or pauper, either; but one of the leading
capitalists of the state. He told me that he
paid $40 per ton for the iron TO lay the Santa
Fe tracks from Emporia to Newton, laid down
in St. Louis. Now that rails cost less than $40
ton, he thought there was no more sense in
demanding interest the "capital invested"
than there was in his expecting to get the rem
tails he used to on building which cost him
$4,000 and wouldn't sell now for more than
$4,000 What the railroads cost ism 1.-THE ques-
ton. The people who raise stuff for them to
ship have rights, too. They could with
as much reason demand that railroad rates be
made low enough to enable them to sell corn
and wheat at figure that will net them sixper
cent, on boom prices for their farms, as the
roads can demand that they be permitted to
maintain rates that will yield them six per cent
dividends OH ''the capital invested" The rail-
roads want to have all the say themselves, and
to allow the farmers none, in fixing the toll
they shall take out of their crops for carrying
them to market. What if the roads are not
paving them the same big dividends they used
to! There is no reason why their bond-holders
should fat.en while the rest of the people are
being impoverished. Cut the indebtedness on
the roads down to what they could be built for
now, and there will be less kicking about rates
that will pay interest. No man or set OF men,
on earth are entitled to interest if somebody else
has to be robbed and impoverished to give it to
them Money don't breed money; and if bus
mess can't pay big interest without holding up
the wealth producers it should be content with
a small interest Star and Kansan.
Send the AGITAToR to your friends who live
sdown" East.