Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25
POLITICAL POINTS.


recent address at Republican gath
ering in Cleveland, Ohio, Charles II.
Krause in the Indianapolis News, May
IS, Says: II, too, am an optimist.
have faith in the future Of America.
but this faith will not be realized BY
crying Peace! peace! when there Is
no peace We must look the facts
sQrarely in the face, and portray the
evil as it exists. 1t is not true that
we give to manhood the freedom TO
develop its powers and satisfy its am
bition.' The system we are under
does not guarantee to all equal OPP
portunities, while it gives to some
civil privileges The fact Is that
man in democratic America has the
same freedom that exists in king-rid-
den Europe. He has the right to look
for employment; failing in this, be has
the right to starve II too sensitive to
beg or too honest to steal. What
must this lead to? Already we have
thousands of tramps so plentiful IN
some places as to be menace to lie
and property. II man Is endowed
with inalienable rights to life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness then
any system which interferes with these
rights must go. II we keep on in the
present way, what kind of men will the
country turn out? Will our civiliza-
ton stand the test?"
The National Republican League has
served notice upon the league in the
Western silver states that delegates to
the National Republican League con-
vcntion in Detroit in July must be in
accord with the party platform.
A bill was introduced Thursday BY
M. Maddox, of Georgia, to exclude
from the mails all matter emanating
from commercial agencies, which pub
lish business ratings and carry on col
lections. Such a law is not needed.
Under the existing gold standard" the
time will soon come when only the
heads of trusts and syndicates will
have any financial standing, and COM
mercial agencies will cease to ex-
list.
The Republicans and gold Democrats
are not going to have it all their own
way in the contest for the mayorship
of the Greater New York, says the
Twentieth Century. So far only gold
standard man has been considered by
the different organizations, but those
who supported Mr. Bryan in the last
campaign have determined that, I'M
less a silver man is named by the DEM
ocratic party, an Independent candi-
date will be nominated, and supported
by the labor element and other reform
organizations. The timidity shown by
some Of the political leaders in regard
to inviting Mr.. Bryan to speak here
on the Fourth Of July is very con-
temptible. In the light of passing
events the principles embodied in the
Chicago platform appear quite tame,
and it is certain that the party who
would lead to victory in the next ma
tional contest must formulate a plat
form far more radical than was that
one. The politicians, who try to put
aside the issues which aroused such
intense feelings in the hearts OF the
people read but dimly the signs OF the
times.
We asked John Ames, Democratic
gcldbug lawyer, what effect would 1t
have upon the price of property to
gather in all the greenbacks, treasury
notes and silver certificates, by the is
sue of bonds, and burn them, says H.
w. Hardy, in the Nebraska Indepen-
dent. The answer was property
would go still lower" We asked r. E.
Moore, a Republican goldbug money
loaner, and the answer was the same.
Less money, lower prices for property
and labor are the very things the rul-
ing powers Of America want, and there
are a few Nebraskans who want to
stand with the ruling money govern
ing class.
II John Wanamaker really wants to
join a new party, the latchstring is
out.
The following, from Harper's Mag
azine for May, is significant. "Prophe-
sying in politics is hazardous en-
ployment of expectation, but as one
reads the political platforms of the
century he finds here and there
prophetic passages. At the close of the
eighteenth century reformers were still
talking of the rights of man, and meant
by that phrase equal civil and political
rights. At the close Of the nineteenth
century reformers are interpreting the
same phrase, but it now signifies eco
nomic equality. In the last presiden-
tial campaign the idea was freely advo-
Gated by the friends Of the laboring
man who are unusually numerous al