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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

I can understand every crime in the
calendar but the crime of greed, sand
every lust Of the flesh but the lust of
gain, every sin that ever damned a
soul but the sin Of selfishness. BY all
the sacred bugs and beasts of Egypt,
I'd rather be witch's Gator even a
politician-and howl in sympathy with
my tribe; I'd rather be a tramp, and
divide my handouts with one more
hungry; I'd rather be a NANCY dog,
without master, and keep company of
my kind, than to be a multi-milion-
aire. with the blood Of a snake, the
heart Of beast, and carry my soul
like Pedro Garcia, in my pocket.
When l think of the three thousand
children in the City of Chicago with
out rags to shield their nakedness from
the cold north wind; Of the ten thou
sand innocents, such as Christ blessed
who die every year Of the world for
lack of food; of the millions every year
whose cry goes up every day and
night to Gods throne-not for saliva
tion, but for soup; not for the robe Of
righteousness, but for secondhand
pair of pants-and then contemplate
those beside whose boarded wealth the
riches Of Lydia's ancient kings were
but a beggar's patrimony, praying to
him who reversed the law of nature to
feed the poor, long for the mystic
power to coin sentences that scar like
sulphur flames from hot hell, and
weave of words whip Of scorpions to
lash the rascals naked through the
world.-Brann's Iconoclast.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

Keep it before the people:
That the earth was made for man,
That the flowers were strewn,
And the fruits were grown
BY the great Creators hand;
That the sun and rain,
And the corn and grain
Are yours and mine, my brother
Free gifts from heaven,
And as freely given
To one as we'll as another.
Keep it before the people:
That man is the image Of God;
Whose limbs or soul
Ye may not control
With shackle or shame or rod
We may not be sold
For silver or gold,
Neither you nor 1, my brother
For the land was given
Like the life from heaven
To one as we'll as another.
Keep it before the people:
That famine, and crime, and woe,
Forever abide
Still side by side
With luxury's dazzling show;
That Lazarus crawls
From Dives halls
And starves at his gate, my
brother
Yet the land was given
To man from heaven,
To one as well as another.
Keep it before the people:
That the laborer claims his need:
The right of all soil,
And the right to toll,
From spurs and bride freed;
The right to bear,
And the right to share
With you and me, my brother,
Whatever is given
By God in heaven
TO one as we'll as another.
"A. J. H. Duganne.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25
PRESSURE FOR GOLD.
THE LEGITIMAT E PARENT OF
THE DEPRESSION.
It Has Caused Failing Prices aid Has
Left Ruin and Oscillation In Its
Trail Judge Miller Quotes the
Constitution.
(By Judge Henry G. Mlller.)

(By Judge f61Ty ". MlltoV.)
What are we to understand by the
expression, Money is the standard OF
value?"
The Constitution-article l, section
8, paragraph 5-makes it the duty OF
congress Ito coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coin, and
fix the standards of weights and meas
ures." We know that "to fix the stand
ard Of weights and measures" is to pro-
vide q scale in which the various
weights and dimensions Of articles
shall be expressed. AS the value OF
money is its. relation to commodities,
'"to regulate the value of money" Is to
provide scale Of valuation, in which
the values Of other forms OF property
shall be expressed, and in this sense
alone money is the standard OF value.
Accordingly, by the twentieth section
of the act Of 1892, preserved in section
1868 of the Revised Statutes, 1t is pro-
vided: "The money of account of the
United States shall be expressed In
dollars or units dimes or tenths, cents
or hundredths, and mills or thousanths;
a dime being the tenth part of dol
lar cent the hundredth part Of dol
rar, mill the thousandth part Of dol
lar; and all accounts in public offices
and all proceedings in the courts OF
the United States shall be kept and had
Ia conformity to this regulation" The
dollar is simply the unit of this scale.
and in the keeping Of accounts all val
ues are expressed in the multiples and
fractions of this unit. M. Cernuschi, in
"Nomisma," page T. gives this def1ni-
tion Of money: money is value Gre
ated by law to be scale Of valuation
and valid tender for payments"
Money standard being scale of val
uation, to talk Of 50-cent dollar or
unit is as illogical and senseless as to
talk OF six-inch foot measure. To
raise this standard Is to increase the
purchasing power Of this unit 1t fol-
lows that to give to bankers or dealers
in money a control Of the currency,
would be like giving to dealers in COM
modities the control Of the standard
by which they are measured, for the
dealers in money, by expanding or con-
tracing the volume of money diminish
or increase the purchasing power Of
this unit Of valuation, and hold at their
mercy the property of the country.
Manifestly falling prices are the
cause of our commercial and Industrial
depression, and there can be no pros
lperity while this cause continues
What has brought about this fall Of
prices? l answer, it is the legitimate
and necessary result Of our having
made gold the money standard or
scale of the valuation of property. AS
the pressure for gold increases the dol
lar or unit of value enlarges, or in
'creases, and there is corresponding
fall in the price Of property. We must,
therefore, diminish the purchasing
power Of the dollar, or unit of this
scale, and this can only be done by
putting silver in competition with gold
as money metal. No reform of our
banking system or change in our tar
III laws can accomplish it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

The Chicago Tribune, Hanna or
gan, asks, under flaming headline to
its Washington correspondence, did
Hanna promise a pooling bill?" The
Tribune then answers its own question
by saying that the effort to force con-
sideration and passage Of the railway
pooling bill in advance Of the tarih
bill in the senate is the result OF
"strong pressure from powerful
sources" and relates story current
In Washington, and mot Denied to
the effect that Mark Hanna promised
the great railroad interests a pooling
law in exchange for their support in
the last campaign. The Tribune's sto-
ry runs thus:
"The big railroad corporations OF the
East apparently by some preconcerted
move declined to contribute at all I'M
less they could make terms. These
terms were said to be the passage OF a
pooling bill on the lines Of that orig
inally passed by the house and which
failed In the senate. A member OF the
interstate commerce commission made
the charge directly at meeting OF the
senate committee on interstate COM
merce, and it was not denied"
Readers will remember that fire.
quently during the last campaign the
Post-Dispatch charged that the only
explanation of the attitude of the rail-
roads was the existence Of a bargain
between them and the Republicans for
the passage of the pooling law, which
they had twice carried through the
house, and which had been defeated
In the senate. The Post-Dispatch
called attention more than once to the
fact that such a bargain was clearly
disclosed in the Mckinley platform,
which was entirely silent as to inter-
state commerce, while the Chicago
platform demanded the enlargement OF
the powers of the interstate commerce
commission to protect shippers against
extortion.
The truth was as clearly to be seen
then as it is now. Once understood,
1t explained the silence of the Mckinley
platform, the heavy railroad contribu-
tions to the Hanna campaign fund,
and the coercion of railroad employees
to vote for a candidate and policy
the majority of them did not approve
Of.
Little by little the inside history Of
the gold campaign of 1896 is coming
out. And the evidence, as 1t accumu-
lates, reveals the monstrous character
and extent of that conspiracy against
the people.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

The balance Of one cent, due Gro
YER Cleveland from the government, he
holds untouched as an investment. He
thinks that II the gold standard can
DO fully set up by the year 1900, the ap-
probation of money will make that
cent worth twelve dollars, and it will
pay for another reform club dinner, with
wine. Grover has big head, and his
very bay-window is a financial OBJ
servatory.-Silver Knight Waterman.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25
A. Rockefeller's University

the University of Chicago when the
announcement had been made that
President Harper intended to edify the
classes with his views of the growth
of the irresponsible educated element.
The students of the University of Chi
cago have the greatest love for Presi-
dent Harper, and every time he opens
his mouth on the subject Of sociology
they come running from all directions
to listen to him. So it was on this par
ticular morning. Mr.. John D. Rookie
feller, who was present, felt profoundly
moved.
What wonderful things" he said to
himself, "are oil and education"
BY this time President Harper had
assembled the rostrum.
"The irresponsible educated class"
he began. sis very dangerous thing"
The assertion was greeted with tre-
medous cheers, and everybody present
began to feel a sense of great respon-
sibility.
Nothing" continued President Har-
per. "conduces to the responsibility
more than the possession Of interest
bearing bonds"
Everybody Joined in the applause
that followed this remark
LET me illustrate" went on Presi-
dent Harper. "A man, we will say.
possesses education without interest,"
bearing bonds. Another man pos
sesses interest-bearing bonds with ed
ucation. I need not say who of them
both is Irresponsible
NO" cried the professor Of ethics.
At this moment one Of the students
put in word.
"In this temple of learning" he cried,
1T acquire education, but l acquire no
interest bearing bonds"
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller gazed upon
the youth attentively.
Now" continued the enthusiastic
student, "why not inaugurate system
of distribution of interest-bearing
bonds among the educated classes?"
"Hurrah!" cried the professor Of
ethics. Interest bearing bonds for
ever"
The enthusiasm mounted to fever
heat. and then died away into dead
silence. Every pair of eyes were rlv-
eted upon the man whose interest-bear-
ing bonds come to him from God.
Slowly Mr.. Rockefeller arose and be-
gan to address the assembled classes.
1T is a most excellent suggestion
that has been made here this morning.
he declared. at cannot be too speedily
acted upon"
The stiffness succeeding this remark
was profound. Mr.. Rockefeller drew
from his coat-tail pocket bulky mass
of documents. The professor Of ethics
began to cheer.
Now, President Harper" said Mr..
Rockefeller, here is a wad OF interest
bearing bonds. Will you kindly make
distribution of them among the edu-
Gated class?"
President Harper Immediately hand
ed the securities about among the STU
dents.
Young gentlemen" said Mr. Rookie
Teller, you are now all bondholders,
and you will draw interest at the rate
Of 6 per cent year"
How much will that amount to per
annum?" asked the professor OF
ethics.
give hundred dollars a year." re-
piled Mr.. Rockefeller
And when will we get it?"
"As soon as you pay your annual as
sessment of a thousand dollars. The
first one is due now."-Twentieth Gen.
fury.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

William j. Bryan is reported to have
said in recent speeches In New York
and Dover, Del, that taxes on ability
or necessity are indirect larceny, and
that no tax except tax on special ae-
vantage was just. Here you have the
main plank" of the political platform
of the future.-Pendleton East Ore
goniar
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

If the people abandon one party be-
cause it fails to work the miracles it
has promised only to join themselves
to another party promising to work
still greater miracles Aey will merely
go from bad superstilssh to worse and
from deep to still deeper disappoint-
ment.-Chicago Chronicle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

He that gathers wealth to give to the
poor, his memory shall be fragrant as
roses; but he that tolls with the poor
SO that there be no poor, all the flowers
of the garden cannot measure his
sweetness.-B. H.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

A people can be enslaved just as ef-
fectually by making property of their
lands and labor as by making prop
erty Of their bodies.-Fort Scott Lam
tern
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

John Bull is arranging to loan John
Chlnaman $SO,OOO,OO0. The date OF
British occupancy Of the Celestial EN-
pire is not made ACCOMPLISHMENTS
World-Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

Prosperity cannot be inflated too
much. To initiate prosperity we must
first initiate the money Of the land
Longmont Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

The country will go to the dogs
soon. Mark Hanna is down with ner-
vous prostration and William Is get
ting rattl9xe -Pittsburg (Kas.) Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

party, Dut Is lt!-RluSWdy HoPuiioS-
Prosperity cannot be inflated too
much. To initiate prosperity we must
first initiate the money of the land
Longmont Times.
A people can be enslaved just as ef-
fectually by making property OF their
lands and labor as by making prop
erty of their bodies.-Fort Scott Lam
tern
John Bull is arranging to loan John
Chlnaman $S0,0OO,OOO. The date OF
British occupancy Of the Celestial EN-
pire is not made known.-Omaha
World-Herald
Switzerland is considering a propo-
sition to buy all its principal railways.
The price set is 964.34S,769 francs. 1t Is
proposed to raise the funds for this pur-
pose by a loan redeemable in sixty
ears.-Pittsburg Kansan.
John ]. ingalls, says: "The people are
aroused to the menace OF money IN
politics" Good news. 1t is time.-Su-
yer Knight Watchman.
Secretary Alger says that hard times
are due to the fact that the people are
practicing too rigid economy. We'll.
that is too bad. II there is any way
that they can exist without such prac-
tees they would be glad to have Nc
Kinley Alger or anybody else tell
them about it right away.-Topeka
Advocate.
When the creditor class enhances the
purchasing power Of money so that
$4,000 loan has a $4,000 value at ma
turity, it plucks $1,000 out OF the
debtor by its dishonest scheme; and
not only is the debtor defrauded OF his
money, but language is defrauded OF
its proper meaning by calling such
money honest.-Free Coinage Journal.
It cost $1.91 per head to run the Fed
eral government in 1860, and $5.4S last
year, and nothing to show for the diff
ference but officeholders drawing sal
aries from the whole people for cam
paign work to the public injury; In
other words, making the people pay for
being robbed. 1t is similar with this
state; the necessary OUTLAWS could be
reduced three-fourths with positive ad-
vantage. besides the saving of taxes.
But it cannot be done under any sort OF
party rule or an electoral system
adopted thereto.-San Francisco Star.
1t is quite the fashion in Washing
ton to make and retire major general
each week. With proper care and a
slight acceleration of speed, every Of
ficer in the army can become major
general before he is retired. AS each
will draw the pay of his rank at re-
firing, If death spares the three-starred
gentlemen long enough there will not
be any troublesome surplus in the
treasury even should McKinley's hlgn
tariff bill pass just as he desires it.
Monte Vista Graphic.
The question that is now agitating
the people is, what kind of show did
the advance agent" advertise? When
we look at the great scramble for "pie"
at Washington we are inclined to con-
clude it's a comedy but when we see
the scramble among the masses for
bread with the attendant crimes, sui
cides and incidents of starvation, then
it is that we conclude that Mr.. McKin-
ley Is advertising a tragedy, and is not
so far ahead of his show as some peo-
pie seem to think.-Iowa Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25
PEN POINTS.

Principle should be greater than
party, but is it?-Ridgway Populist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25
THE HANNA CLIQUE.
MUST PAY THEIR DEBTS TO
THE RAILROADS.

When the Truth Is Known We May
Find That That Supreme Court De-
cision Simply Cleared tho Way for =
More Favorable Bill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

Switzerland is considering propo-
sition to buy all its principal railways.
The price set is 64.34S, 769 francs. 1t is
proposed to raise the funds for this pur-
pose by a loan redeemable in sixty
years.-Pittsburg Kansan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

John ]. ingalls, says: "The people are
aroused to the menace Of money IN
politics" Good news. 1t is time.-Sil-
yer Knight-Watchman.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-25

Secretary Alger says that hard times
are due to the fact that the people are
practicing too rigid economy. We'll.
that is too bad. II there is any way
that they can exist without such prac-
tees they would be glad to have NC
Kinley, Alger or anybody else tell
them about it right away.-Topeka
Advocate.
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20
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The Lamar register., 1897-11-20
NORTH DAKOTA Lyscr,sc.
Indian. who Brataiiy Murdered IN. spice,
Family wsr. struaE up.

Bismarck. y. d. Nov. i4-AIax Cou
dot. an Insiian h1f- bred. and Pau
Holy Truck aud f'idhp Irrsdnd. full
hleoded Indians. the firs; of whom w1is
scntezlcsrd denth for the murder Of
SIX members OF the Spiccr family last
February. and has Just be,en grunfssi
a new trial by the Supreme Court, and
the latter two s..h-eoufs~-,-d ascr~s4cr.
les IN the murder. were raken from thu
county jail IN EInmous county iass
nifht AMI lyncbed by a mob Ths
lynching had apparently been cu-oliy
plnnD.-i aud was carried out without .
hgsak
W'iihams.oprt. where The hanging took
place. IL about forty miles fF0sn thl.
city. and OF the ruilroad. The news of
the lynchinc was r-cesved hefe TIM.
afternoon.
The men had been und..T the cusfosi,
Of Deputy sheriff Tom Kelley They
were taken from him by tbs. mob and
hanged to beef wtndlaSSs several hun.
dr-h yards from the BAIL Isle4r bodies
were left hanging during the entirN
day. - the coroner had not arrived ana
NJ one else volunteered TO cut them
down
At-out forty men were concerned IN
the lynching They wore masks.
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20
rurksy'. New Troabi..

London, Nov. l5.-The usually wen
informed correspondent OF the Times
at viena says: The hnal treaty OF peace
between Turkey and Greece has lioi
yet been signed, and the Negotiations OF
the powers wlth rsspect to autonomy
for Crete have hanlly emerged from
the lirst stacy, wiisa already theps Is
tlisquicting symptoms in the Balkans.
The relations between Bulgaria and
the porte arr SirTains-i The sultan Is
preparing for all eventualitisss and loo
600 Turkish soldiers an. on The Bul-
garian frontier. armed with Mausers
and amply provided with horses and
gums SerYia. OF course. would b. In
voivcd in any Complications In runne,s
ton with Mace,ionia. while rcent &C
counts from Albania report signs Of
growing umr@7. ON the whole roe out
look in the east s. nowise rtasEurfn=
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20

Tonight force OF men are at work
putting irsa steam line In the eighth
level Mr.. Hallett ssates that he eS-
poets to have this In operation By
O'Clock tomorrow morning. Some
eighty-five men have been laid OF and
it is expected the Mollie viii curtail
their force TO absolute necessity until
the trouble Is over.
should the disaster prove as far
reaching a- II i generally supposed to-
night, Aspen as mining camp viii be
seldom heard from until silver reaches
a figure beyond itS present value.
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20

The ex-governor OF one OF our
wealthiest states said 10 the writer
the other day: When / read an or
dinary little country newspaper
tsomething he does several times ev-
cry day. and then turn to one OF our
great metropolitan papers at once
observe the chasin that is dividing the
newspapers of the country into two
classes. on one side of which Is the
country paper, with its homely. honest
ways. and on the other the hired mud
machine of an anonymous assassin. A
conflict between these two elements is
now at hand. The metropolitan is in
vading the territory of the country
editor. and II is the latter's duty to
drive 1t back. not only as means OF
self-protection. but to protect the NOR
ais of his community. The average
metropolitan paper is immoral in more
ways than one. 1t plants seeds of
poison wherever IL goes To all OF
which we say amen. Country people
ought TO support the home paper.
Whether it is Democratic, Republican.
PopuIistic. Prohihitionist. 1t should be
taken in preference to the "metropoli-
tan mud machines"
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20

An English inventor has contriyed
an instrument, which he calls the
"dromogfaph." intended To record The
time and photograph the finish of a
race, whether OF horses. athletes or BIZ
cycles when. at the start, the con-
testants break cord an electric bell
rings and a ehronograpb begins to re-
cord the time The breaking Of the
string at the finish stops the ehrono-
graph and at the same instant exposes
a Photographic plate. on which the po-
sition OF the contestants al the end OF
the race Is recorded.
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20

The heat Of competition and the
oyercrowding OF trades and professions
Is the subject OF anxious consideration
among young men and their we'll
wishers: but the fact remains that
everywhere are places calling for the
satisfactory occupant In large town
IN one OF the populous middle states
three congregations are vainly search
ing for acceptable pastors: two young
doctors. returned from careful instruc-
ton and practice in foreign hospitals.
have. in spite OF dire predictions to the
contrary. built up large practices; and
a manufacturer in the same town de-
elares that he has two positions of i've
thousand dollars salary each which he
is anxious to MI. Nor is the situation
in this town unique. Mediocrity Is not
wanted. hut in every lire of work ex-
eeptionai ability is in increasing de-
manc.
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20

Utah is increasing in population
faster than any state In the Union
Her mines. her fields and her factories
yield their fuilness OF wealth annually.
The best people in America are set
Ting within her borders. One hun
dred towns and villages have popuia-
;ions OF nearly 3. 500 each. showing
how equally the population is distrib-
uted. There is one thing. however.
tina, Utah needs very much. There is
a scarcity OF printing presses. Thirty
one OF the towns referred to have no
printing Offices and no newspapers. II
would seem tina: this is condition
that cannot exist fo- any great length
of time
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20
COLORADO,

,,-on. ~ ana of German soldier is
aaasnrs ~ I. one half inches. with
a,, hundred and twelve
--r1te. The French soldier
nas ssde two inches shorter. and
'.lee OF one hundred and fifteen
seps minute. The difference typi-
fea the methodieai character of the
one nationality and the mereurial tenn
permanent OF the other. Far distant be
the day when these varying steps shall
meet in hostile onsetl
The Lamar register., 1897-11-20
MousraiS pEw HAIR roslc.

The Greatest flair Grower ON Earth.
want a partner la same can grow
full head OF hair on the baldest head.
Seud TO the dlrcoyerer only for il %
matter IL you have been bald for thlr.
" years or more. Geo. w, Schoenhui,
Eldora, Iowa.