Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-15

Anu dll Ol our yesterdays, nave uSulCu
fools
The way to dusty DEATH
The epic of gold and silver--1596 to
1896.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my
song,
For forms of government let fools CON
test,
And ever since the conquest, have been
fools.
Quoth she, I've heard old cunning
stagers
Say, fools, for argument, use wagers.
Gold and silver, twin relics of barbar-
ism.
The paradise of fools is whore con-
cert, is used
To enact upright into law-and open
a daisy,
To suckle fools and chronicle small
beer"
This is the day that revives the
chivalric, and untombs the knight of
300 years ago, Saaredra Miguel De Ger
gantes, known as wide as earth. Don
Quixote First, who represented the
fools" of his age. as fully as "Furios"
does the "Knaves" of the present.
Don, away back there, seated on his
war horse, Rosinante, followed by his
faithful Sancho, on his ass-charged
the wind mills, for the space of a
day" and the mills" withstood the
charge and smiled. And now, in the
Knight errantry for the precious
metals" Don QuiXote Second, mount
ed on BALKAN Hone" cap-a-pie, from
head to foot, shouting-"S Silver the is
sue"-followed by his faithful Sancho.
lBunco) on his ass, the twain below
ing, Subordinate everything to re-
monetizing' silver. Fallere.
They assault the Gold bug wind mill"
the other half Of the false bases.
And the mill" as in the case of
first Don, withstood the assault and
laughed at the push on gold, which is
Sound" wind.
And as the scattered, scar.worn VIC
tins, of the SILVER alone ISSUE" gath
cred their spoils from the ensanguined
field and possessed themselves of the
wealth, wrested from the enemy-it
was found they had the tissues" and
the enemy had the Offices" and with
them, much goods laid up for many
years. Selah.
And the wall comes up from the
three-headed headquarters:
"The harvest is passed and the sum-
mer is ended and we are not saved"
All, hah.
And lie entced Ahab, and he was
slain at Ramoth Gilead (Which is Wall
street, with Single issue"-a lie. Il =
We drop the satire and the song and
come to the plain We must all stand on
for we can do nothing against the
truth.
False Glamour is falsehood."
Put the fight on ground where truth
and justice, and God can support it.
Paper money is to be the money of
the future; absolute paper money
Moran.
Let Paper Money VS.. Metal Money"
be the war cry, as the 10Th century
goes out and the Goth century is born
to the new life.
With Bible, a constitution and
money, all stamped on paper-all re-
fleXes from the heart. A flag stamped
on silk the emblem of country-all
standing on the earth; Gods footstool
and mans home.
Mankind can have enough paper
money. 1t cannot have enough of the
two metals.
Truth against the world."( Motto of
the Kumree)
From this level of Gods engineering
let us call to the rich, not alone in
warning, but in love, also to them as
a brother man.
Note:-For nearly five months no eff
fort that l could put forth, has been
spared in the cause of justice and hui
mainly | worked in season and out
of season, with all my intellectual,
moral and physical powers, to secure
the election of VIM ]. Bryan-seeing
ali lue IlHic luc idlLt lSSue lUuJ III
hered to our cause-metal money
Throw them both to the moles and
bats" and turn to the Peoples party
platform adopted at st. Louis, at the
national convention, July 90, 1885,
which is the first born political child
of the Declaration of Indert ndence;
and when utilized, life, liberty and hap
piness will be verify.
Turn from the miss-rule of political
despotism, because the trend of the
struggle is:
Ist-The class against the mass.
2nd-The greed against the want.
Srd-Tyranny against humanity.
4th-Monarchy against the Repub-
lic-as the laws now stand.
The Divine ruler, His voice.
"Come now, you rich, weep and la
ment over these miseries OF r~-irs
which are approaching.
"Your rich stores have decayec. and
your garments have become moth
eaten.
"Your gold and silver have become
rusted, and the rust of them will be
for a testimony against you, and con-
sumo your bodies like fire. You have