Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-13

In the country, and half million dol
lar sugar refinery is also to be located
there. And this in defiance of the fact
that Bryan carried four-flfths Of the
counties In the state and that all of the
state officials are Populists.
The Cleveland Leader sits on
fence with stiff wind blowing and
whistles the following ode:
A croaker sat upon a box
And croaked the whole day long;
prosperity has not returned"
Was the burden Of his song.
And so he croaked and croaked and
And never worked a stroke,
For had he worked he'd had no time
To sit up there and croak.
The Cleveland Recorder also owns a
poetry machine and grinds out this
lyrical reply:
The reason that he did not work.
I'll make quite plain to you;
The advent of prosperity"
Has left no work to do.
Charles A. Towne writes in the
Arena:
Under such disquieting conditions is
1t not as criminal as 1t is unscientific
for men to go about prating Of the
system that has occasioned these
things as honest money" and Sound
money! and denouncing its opponents
as regulators and anarchists"
United States Senator Pettigrew has
specially studied the reasons for the
adoption of the gold standard by ia
pan, and, in a statement to the senate,
says the change was made entirely In
the interest Of the creditor classes,
whose influence has been greatly in
creased by the war debt. Manufac-
turers have been made to believe 1t
would increase their exports, but,
while farming is the paramount indus
try in Japan, farmers have not been
considered or appealed to. He believes
that if China continues on a silver
basis, Japans wonderful industrial
prosperity" will be checked and her in
dustries transferred to China. So
would much British industry and trade
be transferred to this country, II We
had the silver standard.
Mr.. Pulitzer has a delicate job on his
hands in swinging the st. Louis Post
Dispatch around for sound money, af-
ter all its rabid utterances for free
silver coinage, says the Indianapolis
News. The task has been begun by
studied silence on finance and editorial
illusions to the state of the weather,
north pole expeditions, and the prob
abilities Of the canals Of Mars being
controlled by syndicates. P.S.-The
News tried goldbugism for a while but
had to quit it.
Nebraska Populists, Democrats and
silver Republicans will hold their state
conventions at Lincoln, September 1.
A mass convention will be held In the
evening. says the Advocate, and Bryan,
General Weaver and ex-Congressman
Towne will be invited to make ad-
dresses.
1t is amusing to observe the dodg-
ing and squirmlng of the corporation
attorneys in the senate when urged to
put themselves on record as regards
the strike. The proposition has been
made to have the government exercise
its undoubted prerOgative and compel
the warning factions to settle their diff
ferences by means Of arbitrator ap-
pointed under national laws. Secretary
Of State Sherman has come to the aid
OF these corporation attorneys in an
interview He does not believe in any
governmental interference in disputes
between employers and employees.
The parties to such conflict ought to
be left to settle it between themselves.
It does not occur to the secretary of
state, says the Twentieth Century, that
every great strike is settled by the gov
eminent which sends troops to the
aid of the capitalists. The theory of
arbitration under governmental au-
thority, he remarks, Is good, but the
execution would be difficult, If not i'm
possible He does not say that the
theory of governmental aid by means
of military power to enforce the con-
ditions of the capitalists is bad, but
the execution thereof neither difficult
nor impossible. Arbitration with Eng
land is very good thing, but arbitra-
ton between employer and employed
is something the government can take
no cognizance Of. The bishops and col
lege professors who were such enthus-
iastic friends of arbitration a little
while ago, when the arbitration treaty
was in the senate, have not word to
say at present when hundreds of thous-
ands of men are pleading for arbitra-
ton. There is now nothing to arbi-
trate. Meanwhile the strike Is spread
ing in all directions. The men seem
to be very we'll organized and their
leaders report that the prospect of sue
cess is encouraging. 1t Is likely that
the troops will be sent to the front If
no other way OF giving victory to the
capitalists can be found.