Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
J. BULLS NEW DREAM.
SEES A REVOLUTION DEVAS-
TATLNC THE REPUBLIC.
Expects to Step In at the Proper Time
and Seize Everything In Sight-The
Presence OF Prosperity Would ne
Sure to Foil His Purpose.

Perhaps the wish is the father to the
thought with the writer of the follow
ing editorial from our ra-oonserva-
tive English paper. England, nOtwith-
standing her protestations Of peace,
would like to see this republic disrupt
ed. 1t is not to be wondered at that
the press of England Is sometimes car
ried away with enthusiasm when writ
ing over the misfortunes that are be-
setting this people. England hates us.
We are her commercial rivals and will
drive her ships from every port in the
world If peace and unity prevail here.
The continued hard times here gives
Englishmen great encouragement.
They want to see a revolution in the
United States. Then at the proper time
England would step in and protect her
interests. The editorial referred to
times indicate that before the sun rises
on January /, 1900, the great American
nation will groan and write in agony Of
revolution, and the streets of her great
cities will be slippery with blood-a
hundred drops of blood for each gem
that flashes on the necks of the rich
and pampered women, and ten drops
of blood for each tear that has washed
the face Of the poor. America is no
longer a republic. 1t is a plutocracy.
The president is merely the creation Of
bank directors railroad kings and coal
barrons, and it is the same with some
of the governors Of the states. The
poor whine about their poverty and
gnaw their crusts of bread but can al
ways be relied upon to vote for the
rich, and nine-tenths of them would
shoulder their muskets and lay down
their lives in defense of the rich to
rob them. A nation such as this, In
which one million plutocrats tyrannize
over sixty million slaves, will be either
overthrow by foreign foe or die Of
gangrene. The various labor organiza-
tons never think together. vote to-
gether, nor work together, and they
have no money to buy votes, lawyers
and judges Soldiers and police shoot
down the laboring people and are
cheered on in their bloody work by
monopolists and the clergy. But the
day will soon come when there will be
horrible dance to death, lighted up
by burning houses and the music Of
cries and groans and dynamite bombs.
Rich idlers amuse themselves at New
port and Tuxedo; poor workers toll
ceaselessly in the darkness of the
mine and din of the mill. Young men
and women dwaddle over iced cham
payne and oyster parties, old men and
women pick rotten food out of gar
bage cans. Lap dogs are driven
through Central park to take the air;
children die of overwork in filthy gar
rets. Piety in the White House enjoy
ing the fruits Of bribery-infdelity in
the tenement house enduring the pun
ishment of uprighteousness. These are
the signs of the times in America to-
day-signs that point to calamity too
dreadful to imagine, but which nothing
can avert. London Echo.
1t must be confessed that there Is
a certain amount of truth in the above.
Conditions are shaping themselves in
that direction. If it cannot be averted
this republic may be destroyed. A
great responsibility rests upon the adj
ministration The people are looking
toward Washington for succor II pros
perity comes soon they will not see the
Man on Horseback"