Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-11
TOTTERING TO IT'S DOWNFALL.

TOTTERING TO IT'S DOWNFALL.
Last fall our Republican friends from the
press and rostrum promised the people that i
Mckinley should be elected prosperity woult
be the immediate result, as that alone would
restore confidence, and confidence was all we
needed After the election the promise remain
ed unfuhlled as they knew it would
We were then told to wait until the inaug
uration after which the genuine article would
be ready for delivery.
The goods were not turned over
Then we were told to be patient until an ex-
ira session of congress convened. That would
surely bring the promised relief.
The people lnurmured, but have waited hop
ing but doubling yet fearing the result
Over two months of extra session have been
dawdled away. Banks are breaking, factories
closing, mines are shutting down, the army of
the unemployed is receiving daily accessions,
wages are being cut on every hand, prices of
manufactured articles and farm products decline
and the general trend of real estate is down
ward The people indignant and despairng,
realizing that they have been tricked and deud-
ed are hurting anathemas at the powers that be.
In Pennsylvania Republican league of six
hundred men tear McKinley's picture from
their lodge room walls, gather their campaign
flags and uniforms, and burn rhem in the
streets with eers and executions.
AT Pullman, Americans, starving and ont of
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Italians who have usurped their places. The
authorities interfere, the Americans dispursed
and the triumphant Italians go on with their
labors at seventy cents day.
Between Chicago and New York, close along
the line of the Lake Shore railroad, million
unemployed men, ninety per cent. of whom
want work, are camping or tramping. So nl1-
merous are these unfortunate creatures that at
one small town 100 of them board freight
train, unresisted by the crew because of num-
hers, and possibly touch of pity for the suf-
ferers.
Wanncmaker and Butterworth, disappointed,
perhaps by the impossibility of political pro-
motion, and seeing no further inducement for
bolstering up decayed organization with lying
laudation, come out truthfully and denounce
old party methods as triAng, corrupt and Grim
ual, and the the leaders as demagogues.
These the apples of Sodom turning to
ashes on the the lips of millions who accepted
in good faith Republican campaign promises
and expected honest and satisfactory results
These are actual conditions, hu1niliating and
exasperating, yet conditions that mustbe recog-
nized and remedied. Will the great majority-the
laboring, wealth-producing, thinking, voting,
greed cursed 1najoritylrealize the full import of
the appalling situation, and, dropping iactional
differences move together as one mighty av-
alanche on the enemy? Or will they still listen
to the siren, and hug political delusions until
the only remedy is revolution?
Oppressors are few. If the many
Arise and unite,
The strength of the flood and the whirwind
Is with them to sinite
The logic of the shop and farmers supper
table is often more convincing than the elo-
quence of a senate because it is sincere, and is
the outgrowth of actual contact with stubborn
facts.
The vote of mechanic is as potent as that
of millionaire and comparatively its name is
legion.
Give this great majority thorough compre-
hension of conditions, indissoluble union and
concerted action, and they will discover and APP
ply the remedy.
The common people when thoroughly in