Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
FARMERS. PROBLEMS.
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combine itself was designed to profit, and may
have profted $40, 900, 900 the first year of its
existence.
The great Standard oil king, it is said, made
$5o, 1000, 900 out of the great combine outside of
dividends upon the stock.
The lawyer who promoted the brewery syn
dictate received $3.50, 900 fee from the English
capitalists who were back of the enterprise.
Even the little sash and door trust organizer
made three fourths of million dollars. OF the
three hundred othertrusts that have been formed
i'll the United States, many of them foreigners,
the mind is dazed and paralyzed in contempla-
ton of the fees paid to lawyers and promoters
to say nothing of the booty seized by the chief
railroad wreckers.
Just how many millions of dollars the pro-
moters of the great international money trust
made not able to say, but do know
that the benefciaries of that extraordinary
scheme have profted many billions of dollars.
This grand combine of foreign usurers, in
league with all the monarches of Europe, is
the wicked and prolific father of most of the
other trusts, and the chief source of the farm
ers' woes, the fruitful cause of the present dis
content and misery that abounds in this country
and throughout the world.
"The appreciation of the currency" said
John Sherman, in the United States Senate,
els far more distressing operation than Senators
suppose Our own ard other nations have gone
through that process before. 1t is not possible
to take this voyage without the sorest distress.
To every person except capitalist, out of debt,
or a salaried officer, annuitant, it is pc
Rod Of loss, danger, assitude of trade, fall of
wages, suspension of enterprise, bankruptcy
and disaster. 1t means the ruin of all dealers
whose debts are twice their business capital,
though one-third less than theiractual property.
1t means the fall of agricultural productions
without any reduction of taxes. When that
day comes every man. as the sailor says, will be
close reefed; all enterprise will be suspended;
every bank will have contracted its currency to
the lowest limit and the debtor compelled to
meet in coin, debt contracted i'll currency -his
property shrunk not only to the extent OF the
appreciation of the currency, but still more, by
the artificial currency, made by the hoarders OF
gold To attempt this task by surprise upon
our people, by arresting them in their lawful
business, and applying a new standard of value
to their property, without any reduction of their
debts or giving them an opportunity to compound
it with their creditors, or to distribute the losses,
would be all act of folly without an example in
evil in modern tines
In reply to letter to VIM /. Bryan, asking
him if he is socialist, he replied very emphat-
icaly, "no" We constrained to believe,
however, that he will be socialist before the
campaign Of 1900 arrives Socialism is true
democracy, true republicanism and true popu-
lism 1t is true Christianity. Furthermore,
socialism is forging to the front. There are
many socialists in all political parties, and it is
only matter of time when all will unite and
demand its incorporation in our governmental
affairs. In order to keep up with the procession,
Mr. BRYAN must make study of socialism, and
when he fully understands it, he will adopt it.
lack Duncan Drowned.
lack Duncan, a young colored man who takes
care of John Haney's horse, was out exercising the