Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-30
VOLUME OF MONEY.
NOTHING. BUT ITS INCREASE
WILL BRING PROSPERITY.
ucKinley's Delusory Scheme to Relieve
the Peoples Burdens by Increasing
Taxation-Prosperitya as Yet No Nearer
Than 1t Was November 3.


Taxation-Prosperitya as Yet No Nearer
Than 1t Was November 3.
ITO, the Congress Of the United
States: Regretting the necessity which
| has required me to call you together,
feel that your assembling in extraordl-
nary session is indispensable, because
Of the condition in which we find the
revenues of the government. 1t Is con-
ceded that its current expenditures are
greater than its receipts, and that such
condition has existed for more than
three years. With unlimited means at
our command we are presenting the
remarkable spectacle Of increasing our
public debt by borrowing money to
meet the ordinary OUTLAWS incident up
on even an economical and prudent
administration of the government. An
examination of the subject discloses
this fact in every detail and leads In
evitably to the conclusion that the
condition Of the revenue which allows
1t is unjustifiable and should be cor
rected."
So readeth the first verses Of the hrst
chapter of the New Dispensation OF
Messages. Let all Republicans lift up
their hands and eyes and-crow.
Well. it is the same old bankruptcy
lingo that we heard in the early part
OF 1893, by McKinley's fat (if not Illus
trious) predecessor; with the difference
that In 1898, bankruptcy was upon the
business of the country while now 1t
has worked its way up to the United
States treasury which has been bank
rupt "for more than three years" With
the conspiracy of the bankers with the
administration in April, 1893. for the
purpose of contracting the currency, in
order to bring on panic. and make 1t
an excuse to repeal the only remaining
law for the purchase Of silver as money,
and thus create a greater contraction
of the currency-with all of this before
McKinley's eyes, Is he honest IN ignor-
ing all of these things as If they never
had happened? Could a sensible, hon
est and patriotic man close his eyes to
the want, misery and crime, that has
grown out Of that conspiracy?
Cleveland's plan was to prevent the
people from having any more money
! to get, and it is now McKinley's plan
to pick from the pockets of the wealth
producer, with high tariff, what little
| money We have got. Fellow toiler, Is
there any difference in the character OF
the two men, when one prevents you
from getting anything, and the other
robs you of what you have got? Eel
low-toiler, in either case you are left
a bankrupt slave, just as the money
power has planned to make you.
It is we'll remembered that in $685.
such papers as the New York Tribune
said that the cause Of the $4,000 fall
ures in that year, was because of fear
, of Clevelands free trade legislation.
Since the third of last November there
have been failures at the rate Of over
10000 per year! 1t is because Of
fear of high tariff legislation? Stand
up, you lying Republican, and explain
this thing.
with unlimited means at our COM
mand." All! There lies the
whole trouble! The idea has crept into
the oppressors' heads that the amount
that can be robbed from the wealth
producer is simply incalculable and
unlimited" Those that have so long
fattened upon that which they never
Earned will learn ere long that flesh
and blood will not submit to every in
Justice. Unlimited meansw God of
the universe, what lie! The whole
land is pocked all over with business
failures, and a large per cent of the
wealth producing masses are idle, and
all that toll deeply engulfed in squalid
poverty, and bankrupt condition Of
the United States treasury has EXISTED
for more than three years.
With this universal lack of money
among the wealth-producing people,
where is the unlimited means" to
come from?
The UNLIMITED means will not come
from the wealth absorbing class, for
that gang of devilish hogs never did
pay anything toward supporting the
government, and never will, so long
as money can make scoundrel of
| Judge.
Did robbing Peter to pay Paul, or
skinning a beggar to patch the hide of
a landlord, or the plundering of a toiler
to enrich a knave, ever produce gen.
eral prosperity?
Does increasing the taxes on the peo-
pie increase the volume of currency,
and thus produce prosperity? Some
political idiots imagine that prosper
; ity is produced in that way. God pity
the people when such knaves or fools
run the government! This idiocy and
knavery, under Cleveland, killed the
Cleveland party dead as door nail;
! and the same foreign and financial pol
icy will kill the Republican party too
dead to skin in less than two years.