Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

1t Is a rare. day in American history
when some Republican oflcial ID not
arrested. -Independe Era
The readjustment Of wages which
was promised to follow the election OF
Mckinley, has taken place in many in
dustries, but in not single instance
has the Reimbursement" been satisfac-
tory to the wage Garner. The tenden-
cy Is evsr downwarl.-Stockton Mail.
We hope to live to see an industrial
system under which the destruction OF
property won't be a godsend to the
workingmen who are employed to re-
place it-Star and Kansan.
The idea Of holding meetings to de-
wise some means to prevent people dy-
ing from hunger in a land fabulously
rich in every resource necessary to the
wants of mankind! Oh, the irony Of
it!-Los Angeles Picayune.
Mckinley and his partners are the
ossified fossil remnants Of once grand
political party, but they have outlived
their usefulness.-American Noncon-
formist.
When will present-day Americans
quit Dragging about the herOism Of
their forefathers and take good
square look at the enslaved condition
Of themselves ?-Grander Age.
1t Is sincerely to be hoped that the
near approach of the state elections will
stimulate all believers in the rights Of
labor, in the equality of rich and poor
before the law, and in the promotion
of the idea of universal brotherhood, to
combine, and to incur no more mex
cusable risks of being beaten by the
forces of monopoly and tyranny
Commonwealth.
Senator Butler in a speech in the
United States senate said Railway mo-
nopolies were the most powerful and
effective allies of the gold trust in the
last campaign. The transportation
monopoly and the money monopoly are
the twin parents of all other combines
and trusts" We agree. And the on
ly political party that proposes an ade-
quate remedy is ours.-Nebraska indie
pendent.
When a safe deposit and savings
bank bursted at Kansas City it owed
eighty thousand depositors $4,000, 900,
and had only s11 900 cash on hand. OF
course we need no government savings
banks.-Commonwealth.
Lord Chatham said "You cannot in
dict a whole nation" A very few
men who believe the world is
theirs because they have the most of
the money in it, should remember the
people are necessary to keep 1t running,
and some day they may take notion
to all violate the law at the same time.
Ottawa Journal.
Government by injunction means that
a judge may at will crowd the people
either slaves or enthusiastically
Critic.
"All men are equal in the sight Of the
law" used to be at least an ordinarily
maxim. Today 1t is a bare
faced alsehood-Duluth Labor World.
The Labor Exchange entering our
present dry rot industrial system is like
a fresh stream or shower entering a
stagnant pool, yet it arouses and
awakens all the latent energy, genius
and ingenuity in man. The lady with
a natural tact for painting will find
place for her product at the exchange
at all times, the blacksmith or carpen-
ter can make something useful all the
year round and find a place for his
product. The natural tendency of our
competitive system built up the La
Dor Exchange. The small fry" man
ufacturer who is driven out can at
once fall in with the Labor Exchange
and all the syndicates on earth cannot
drive him out. as he and his laborers
produce, for what they consume to
live and use in raw material. being in
dependent of the large corporations.
When any article Of commodities ac-
cumulate at a certain branch. that
branch will advertise in the monthly,
what that branch. has to dispose Of and
what Il, needs All'branches are num-
bered,-Herald, Oberlin, Kan.
Wages and Farm Products.
c;noe the beginning of the year the