Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-22

tunes Of those who own it and own
bonds payable in dollars, and has con-
fiscated the property Of the masses.
It's value as compared with property
has changed every day, always in one
direction, ever since silver was de-
monetized. - Silver Knight
man.
Yes, a dollar a bushel is pretty
good price for wheat, but it is none too
high. Under proper conditions, with
no famines in foreign countries, wheat
should never bring less than dollar
and, with famines abroad, it should
never bring less than 81. Any SEN
sible person knows this. If every per-
son who is willing to work had en-
ployment, at fair wages, wheat would
never drop below the dollar mark
Kansas Agitator.
What do you think Of giving to rail-
roads more than 179,O00,00O acres OF
the public lands-enough to make q
dozen states-besides guaranteeing
500 1000, 900 of railroad bonds? What
is crowding this country-immigra-
ton or land stealing?vCincinnati
Common Cause.
We often hear the remark made
that popular government is a failure.
We should want to see it tried before
saying this, for up to the present hour
the government has been run by po-
litical machines as corrupt as ever
debauched the courts of Rome or any
monarchy on EARTH With a govern
ment by the people it might be differ
ent.-Chicago Express.
Prosperity has struck the machin-
lists of the c. & A. shops in this city
They now work ten hours per day
and receive $210 per day. Before pros
perity struck here on the first of the
month they received $3.50 for the
same work.-Bloomingt Trades Re-
view.
The Chicago Record is again hol-
lering for free bath houses for Chi
cago. It's a good idea. With free
bath houses the unemployed of Chi
cago could employ themselves bath
ing.-Helena (Mont.) Independent.
Why do the goldbugs shout good
times when prices rise, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they insist that con-
traction and falling prices are the sum
of human happiness and progress?
Because they know the people feel
good when prices go up, and they
want to make the masses believe that
they will put prices up for their ben
efit.-Silver Knight-Watchman
If the gold finds in Alaska continue
as fabulous as reported, in another
year or two we will be getting enough
gold from Alaska to pay from one
fourth to one-half of the interest on
our bonds.-West Plains Quill.
What will the farmers do with all
this money they are getting for their
wheat? Why, they'll take it to the
banks and pay their debts with it.
That'll make their credit good again,
and the banks will loan them back
their money on new set of mort
cages, and then-prosperity will be
here, and business" will boom like
a house afire!-Chicago Social Benz
ocrat.
Klondike gold may relieve, in some
measure, the financial stringency
but under our present financial sys-
tenn it will not prevent the stock gam
blers from making another stringency
when they find it will be profitable
to them to do so.-Equity.
AS a result of land monopoly and
the rent system there are 210 families
1900 people-living in one tenement
house in the city of New York. Think
of bringing up children in such a pen
as that must be and then decide
whether you are friend of the pres
ent system of land tenure. This ten
ement house belongs to one of the
large estates of New York city and
descends from generation to genera
ton, without regard to the production
Of wealth or the industry of those who