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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

A traveller through Kaskmir recently
found in practice there a novel method
of putting up fodder for winter use.
The country lies in a valley among the
Himalayas. The chief industry of the
people consists in raising fine wool and
in making this into fabrics which have
carried the name of the country all
over the world.
"a curious custom in some places"
he says, sis that of hanging quantities
of hay up among the branches of trees.
Why it wss done was more than I
could guess, till my guide informed
me that in winter the snow lies five
or six yards in depth and that the sup
plies of hay, which now look only as
if they were meant for giraffes, are
then easily reached by the flocks of
sheep which abound there. New York
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

knowing that dismissal will bring him
face to face with starvation, fears to
move counter to the dictates of CEN
tralized capital as expressed by the
employer of labor, who himself in the
clutches of centralized capital. is a
mere task-master driven by a higher
power So it is that the approaching
gold standard, undermining as it does
the profits Of industry, and driving
producers into combines and trusts
designed to restrict production, is lead
ing irresistibly to the enslavement of
our producing classes and the over
throw Of our republic.
Though the Capitalization OF wealth
in few hands and the impoverish-
ment and ultimate enslaving of the
many, the Roman republic fell and
Roman civilization was destroyed.
Along the paths that led to Rome's
downfall we are passing with rapid
strides. 1t was an approaching meas
ure OF value that made it possible for
the few to enjoy the fruits of the toll
of the many and led to the centraliza-
ton OF wealth in Rome twenty CEN
turtles ago. 1t is an approaching meas
ure of value that makes it possible for
the few to enjoy the fruits of toll Of
the many and wax fat on the impover-
ishment of the producing classes to-
day. This transference of wealth from
the producers of wealth to those who
live in idleness and luxury, an idle
ness made possible by the appreciation
of gold and the enjoyment of unearned
gains, is undermining the manhood of
our producing classes, destroying the
spirit of enterprise and resistance to
Entertainments on the rights of our
people and imperiling the existence OF
our republic and civilization in the
same way as similar causes imperiled
the existence and finally destroyed the
Roman empire and Roman civilization
during the early centuries of the Chris
tian era.
The American republic, we say it not
in anger, not in disappointment, but
in humiliation and sadness, is on the
downward path, western civilization
will retrograde, not advance, and the
republic will be destroyed, carrying
down into slavery our toiling millions,
unless the causes that lead irresistibly
to the crushing of the spirit of our pro-
ducing classes through poverty and
their ultimate enslavement to mon
eyed oligarchy are removed. 1t is
therefore demanded of all those who
see the encroachments Of centralized
capital and who see the path to the
emancipation of our producing classes
from the thralldom Of poverty and in
dustrial slavery that they strive siren
uously and continuously, never mind
how great the odds appear to be, to Sc
cure a reversal of the verdict recorded
for-we hesitate to say blythe Ameri-
can people on the election day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
SURPRISING THE ORIENTALs.
A Sea of PIgtails Watched a Twist Drill
Work.


A Sea of PIgtails Watched a Twist Drill
Work.
Ar account of visit to a Chinese
arsenal near Fuchau is given by a cor
respondent of Casters Magazine. He
says:
Taking cut two drills, l sent them
In and Immediately was invited to en-
ter. The official was polite, bowling
and shaking his own hands. as is the
custom among Cinnamon, and offered
me cup of tea. There happened to
be several forgings in the room and as
l pr ssed the drills against them and
poin ed over the wall he seemed to
comprehend what was wanted, and in
few minutes l was in a large, we'll
lighted machine shop. l might say this
extensive plant was built and equipped
by freNch engineers some fifteen years
ago.
Imaginative foreman examined my
tools vi, n great interest and called in
several assistants. All looked puzzled
and dill mot seem to know what they
were f,r. Walking to a drill press, I
took ont the fiat drill and, after con-
siderable packing around the shank,
succeeded in getting one of my taper
shank twist drills to run fairly true in
the spindle. There must have been
fifty Cinnamon working in the room,
and every one had gathered around
this press, The foreman ordered them
on repeatedly, and then, looking at
me, LAUGHED good-naturedly and gave 1t
up. He Drought piece of cast iron,
but l wanted something harder to drill,
so l walked out to a large planer and
TOOK long extension tool, made from
by 1%-inch tool, and clamped it up
to the table of the drill press. He
shook his head, intimating that the
TWIST drill could not go through, and
the crowd Of workmen emitted grunts
OF approval. The press started, the lips
or the twist drill turned out two spiral
chips. The men elbowed me to one
side. There Fas sea Of pigtails bend
Ing down, watching the marvellous ac-
ton of that little tool. AS the chips
grew in length the expressions of won
derment increased.
1T happened that the chips did not
break until they were about fourteen
inches long. Then others started and
each time that they broke off they were
eagerly snatched by the men, some
burning their fingers, and examined
carefully from end to end. The dull
edges of the drill were shown around,
and then ground and started again, and
the fact that the drill would cut as
well as the first time caused increased
amazement and murmurs. | have made
many tests with twist drills, but never
before such an appreciative and de-
monstrative audience"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

A great dry-goods store in Chicago
has recently established in its own
building a school where the employees
are given free instruction in common
and advanced branches of learning.
Under such fostering influences the
smallest cash-boy learns that intelli-
gence rules the world, and that an am
bitten for education is manly. Suppose
all business men should manifest the
spirit of helpfulness here shown. Sup
pose, too, they avoided forcing the
wages of persons in their employ down
to the last dollar under which employ
ment can be obtained. Suppose, also,
that wise, yet generous consideration
was shown in the payment of wages.
Would employees then be restless and
resentful? The uneasy mischief-makers
would still be heard. They would
make trouble under any condition Of
life. But the estranged attitude of the
majority of our employees toward en-
ployers would be modified.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
HOW PLIMSOLL SAVED SAILORS
His Long Struggle with the House of
Commons.

Commons.
Lieut.. John NJ. Ellicott, United States
navy, describing what is the PlimsolI
measure in ST. Nicholas, tells how it
was finally carried: At last Plimsoll
got vague sort of an act passed, CIV
ing the board of trade power to survey
ships going to sea and to stop those
which seemed to be unseaworthy. This
was in 1873, and during the first nine
months of the act 1856 vessels were sur
veyed and 256 If them found unsea-
worthy. At least one in every ten was
found to be so dangerously overloaded
as to be in almost sinking condition
before leaving the dock. OF course,
this opened the eyes of the board of
trade and of parliament and Plimsolls
mark became an established feature on
British seagoing ships: but its estab-
lishment was fought against by ship
owners, inch by Ihch 1t was nick
named the pancake" and ridiculed
and treated with contempt in every
way. Some ship-owners put the mark
Oh their smokestagks in defiance and
derision. Plimsoll held to his idea,
however, even getting himself suspend
ed from the house of commons one day
for being too blunt and violent in his
plain talk upon the subject. The re-
suit was "the merchant shipping act of
1876" making the Plmsoll mark COM
pulsory on all British seagoing vessels,
not by the shipowners but by the
board of trade
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

This country is now passing through
a period that will have more bearing
on it's future history than did the dark
days" from 81 to '65. The experiment
as to whether popular government is
a success and the right of franchise can
be trusted with the people has reached
that stage that it may properly be
called crisis. On the one hand are
arrayed the autocrats of wealth who
desire strong government sustained
by the military, while on the other are
the great plain people who desire a
social democracy sustained and pro-
tected by the right of franchise in the
hands of it's subjects. 1t is really a
contest between wealth and manhood.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

1t is estimated that mile of railroad
can be constructed for $1,000; neverthe-
less the average capitalization per mile
Is $4,000. The whole railroad system
Of this country, capitalized at eleven
thousand million dollars, could be du-
plicated for about one-third that sum,
and if the water was squeezed out of the
rail trust, car-building corporations
and other combines, the cost would BIS
less than one-fourth. So, instead O;
paying taxes, the railroads have been
given franchises to tax the people,
Coming Nation. ........... ~.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
WHOSE TURN NEXT.

To the Editor: "Out of work, out Of
money and with no means of obtain.
ing more, Frederick Cronne of Worces-
| ter tried to kill himself. He had been
in Boston looking for employment, and
failing to find work, became thorough
ly disheartened and discouraged" So
says the Boston Globe of Nov. Is.
Frederick Cronne is but one of many
thousands who will this winter find
themselves out of work, out of money
land with no means of obtaining
more"
According to individual temperament
and circumstances, these will join the
great multitude of beggarS and tramps
or enlist under the black banner of
crime, while the noble, proud and SEN
sitive will accept quietly the fact that
there is no place for them in the world
and so leave it by the rapid transit OF
bullet or poison.
The fact that we as people have
become hardened to this sort of suicide
only adds to it's horror. The brutal in
sensibility of the prosperous few to the
tortures of those whom industrial de-
preston has forced into the substrat-
UNI of want is little short of criminal.
The maintenance of law and order"
has come to mean simply this-that the
plundered people shall submit quietly
to every variety of legalized spoliation
and when at last, crowded to the dead
line, they must die uncomplainingly
and decorously, in no way annoying
those law-abiding persons who attend
the horse show and grand opera.
One such suicide as Frederick
Cronne's (and there are hundreds)
brands our pharsaical civilization as an
enormous blunder, a crime against
mankind, an inferno. But about every
body is afraid to say so, though every
body knows it very well.
The daily papers must print no pro-
test or they will lose advertising pat
ronage and be assailed by their con-
temporaries as subverters of the public
order; business men have but one vul-
nerable point, the pocket nerve, arr
are TOO eager III lucll uCdulOuS uuul
for the nimble and elusive dollar to
know or care who is trodden down in
the chase. The minister with a few
noble exceptions) are feeble folk, pip
ing their platitudes under the protec-
ton of the plutocratic pillars of the
church, not daring to call their souls
their own, as, indeed, they are not. and
the obscure individual here and there
who raises his voice in behalf of better
days and fair show for humanity
in general, is either harmless
crank" or suspicious person." Mean
while, the land is Golgotha and every
hill { Calvary where humanity is cru
Gifted. Whose turn next?
Eleanor f. Baldwin,,
The republican party has q gooC
opportunity now to do something for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

1t is said of a combined telegraph
and telephone apparatus, the device o.
an. army officer, that while one soldier
is sending a message in Morse charac.
ters, second soldier may use the same
wire to talk telephonically with another
station. The distant receiving opera.
tors hear only their own messages.
This apparatus, it is further said, may
be carried conveniently in the users
hand, What if Napoleon could have
awaited himself of such contrivance
at Waterloo? Would history be just
the same? Sc
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

In his last annual report Secretary o.
Agriculture Morton brings forward
statistics to show that the American
farmer is highly prosperous. Whether
this is done for the purpose of justify
ing the numerous trusts in further
advance of prices, or intended as 0
huge practical joke is not stated, but
the farmer who is actually producing
crops at loss will have to take con.
ISOLATION behind the fact that while
figures will not lie, liars will some.
times figure.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

A man carrying an armful of fire
wood would not ordinarily be made the
subject of comment. When, however,
the. man represents a people who used
to think that such labor was degra-
dalton, he is interesting from socio-
logical point Of view. A correspondent
OF the New York Evening Post, writing
from Montana, tells of seeing Chey-
enne Indian walking from the brush
up to his lodge carrying wood. By his
side was a tiny girl with a backload
Of little twigs. A few years ago an
Indian would have been ashamed to be
seen doing what he would have called
squaw's work. To-day the tribes are
directly, and consciously, and of neces-
sity adopting civilized ways. The little
girl at play represented the past; the
man, promise Of the future.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
SOME SOLID SHOT.
An Illinois Preacher Fires at Arrogant
Monopoly.

An Illinois Preacher Fires at Arrogant
Monopoly.
There will never be settled state
of society in our country, nor nowhere
else in the world, until governments
adopt the act on the foregoing lines.
Justice demands that governments Sc
cure to all its citizens equal Opportuni-
ties. Socialism applied will do this
Competition prevents it.
This cry against socialism is heard
everywhere. We hear it in the press,
on the stump, and in the halls of con-
gress. This cry of the hypocritical
class about 'paternalism" is the stop
thief" cry to cover up their own mean
ness They control the government and
operate it in their own interest
1t reminds us of the cry abolition
ist," and "nigger equality that filled
the air just before Mr.. Lincoln's first
election. The enemies of freedom
worked it for all it's worth. Now the
same cry of paternalism is raised
against social equality for the same
reason 1t demonstrated the ignorance
or meanness, or both, of those who
make it.
All evil is perverted good We have
had socialism perverted to Cypress the
masses for ages. Governments have
been used in that way.
Every trust, every combine, every
corporation, is socialism for the bene-
fit of class. 1t is perverted socialism.
1t is this class of socialists who cry
out against true socialism. True So
cialism, the kind that the world needs,
is government socialism, or socialism
of all society instead of classes in So
ciety. Let the government, all its cit
liens, be the only capitalist. Individ-
ualism will still have ample scope for
operating, limited only by not being
permitted to levy tribute on society.
True socialism is coming. We might
as we'll undertake to make Mississippi
river run toward the north pole as to
try to stop its coming.
For six thousand years, nearly, the
world has been "groaning and travail
ing in pain" under the grinding law Of
competition. Now the seventh thou
sand year period which is to be Gods
millennium, is at the door and the
world is going to be born again." We
are in the throes of the new birth now.
In that new era civil law will be in
harmony with divine law. AS it is now
human law is elevated above divine
law.
This is the disturbing element which
districts society all over the world. Our
definition of usury elevates mans law
above Gods law. Our land tenure laws
do the same thing Out of these two
errors have come all the strife and
commotion which vex and agitate So
ciety. In the millennial period which
is being ushered in the civil govern
ments or law will be just and based
on divine law. That is all the millen-
mum means. There will be no monop-
olies and trusts then. "They shall
build houses and occupy them, plant
vineyards and eat the fruit They
shall not build and another occupy;
they shall not plant and another eat"
etc. Every family will own home of
their own, across the threshold of
which no officer of the law can cross
-. a.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The English sparrow was brought
to the United States in 1850, but 1t was
not until 1870 that the species can be
said to have firmly established itself.
Since then it has taken possession of
the country. It's fecundity is amazing.
In the latitude of New York and
southwark 1t matches, as rule, five or
six broods in a season, with from
five to six young in a brood. Assum-
ing the average annual product of
pair to be twenty-fopr young, of which
half are females and half males, and
assuming, further, for the sake of
computation, that all live, together
with their offspring, it will be seen
that in ten years the progeny of
single paiy would be 275,716,9S3,69S.
In a little over four years the Studt-
han become the most successful
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The interval between presidential
election and an Inauguration affords
about four months for entirely profit
less newspaper speculation as to the
makeup of the incoming presidents
cabinet. Coming Immediately after the
seeming hysteria of partisan appeals
to voters, this variety of newspaper
folly amounts almost to a public Of
tense.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

ment Of rents or taxes, for interest and
rents will be no more, and every man
shall "sit under his own vine and fig
tree and none to modest or make him
afraid" Oh, happy day! Oh, glorious
era! The Lord hasten it on.-Rev. d.
Oglesby, Richview, Ill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The offer of fifty thousand dollars to
Doctor Nansen for the exclusive right
60 publish the account of his explora"
ton in the icy north is justly regard.
ed as "a substantial tribute to the value
Of cold facts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
Exception is often taken to the use

Exception is often taken to the use
of the word pedagogue instead Of
schoolmaster, when a teacher Is to be
mentioned. What II one called the
place where teaching is done peda-
gogue? 1t would sound odd enough
now, but the word was formerly used
in that sense. Thus an English writer
of the last century, in describing his
journey to the East, said, Another
part (of the university is what they
call the pedagogue, which is for noble
Ithoy lind gentlemen. There are six
- oh room, with a master
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

After all mans household goods
have been carted around the streets on
a moving van he feels as though the
neighbors had taken an unfair advan-
tage OF him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

McKinley's speeches to the delega'
lions that will visit him hereafter will
not be as lengthy as the ones delivered
during the campaign, but they viii
mean fully as much to the delegates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Some folks, like tug boats, seldom
accomplish anything without great
Zeal of putting and blowing; but, I'M
like tug boats, they often puff and blow
without accomplishing anything.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The presidents salary ought 10 d.
increased; it is worth million dollars
a year to settle with the place-hunter'
and Grover seems to have got abou
that much.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The daily papers keep right on an
nouncing a great business revival, but
the usual number of failures are oc'
curing every week. The great bust
ness boom seems to exist in the papers
principally.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The great daily papers announce
with flaming headlines when factor!
starts up, but they don't say anything
about the railroads reducing then
forces and cutting down wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

It seems that the campaign of edu'
cation will be continued, but the OBJ
iect lessons will be the most impress
sive part of 1t.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

It requires no keen political fore
sight to perceive that the destruction
of the greenback is the objective pom
of the bankers crusade.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The hardest blow McKinleys reputa'
ton ever received was the congratula'
tions and Endorsement of John Sher'
man
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Lucky is the man who stands so
well among his fellows that they will
accept his conclusions without inquir-
ing into his reasons.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

! Human nature does not value a
thing so much for its real worth as
for the fact that it is better than some
thing similar possessed by a neighbor
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

It is a little early yet to mention
candidates for 1900; better advocate
principles; no trouble to get the candi'
dates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Enthusiasm is a thing that is Of no
particular use unless it is of the spon-
taneous kind.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

who can listen the longest without be-
traying bis annoyance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

This country was more prosperous
under an exclusive paper currency thar
at any other time in its history.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Congressman Howard of Alabama
was reelected on a straight populls'
ticket, and there are no strings tt
him,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

There will be another political land.
slide In 1900.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01


The trouble with most schemes is
that they are based on theories that
are not practical.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Dissipated men do not even have
the respect of their associates and i'm
itators. %-'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Some young men would get along
better if they had less point to their
shoes and more to their conversation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

An exchange says: "The nationa
democrats will hold on" What are
they going to hold on to, please?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Bryan may be the populist nominee
for President in 1900, but not as a
democrat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The democrats have had theil
chance; the republicans will now nave
theirs, and the populists will como next
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Confidence may do for meal or two
but as an article of steady diet, please
excuse us.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

One remedy which the republicans
suggest for the cure of hard times is
to raise the taxes-tariff.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The nail trust has advanced prices
when you buy nails now you buy some
of that promised prosperity.