Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-04

against that of our own trusts and
combines! Farm. Stock and Home.
The politicians are afraid Of direct
legislation. A true government by the
people would leave half of them out Of
a job.-Chicago Express.
At present no party will stand in the
way Of the Republicans in their efforts
to restore prosperity. Prosperity will
be welcomed by all, but It cometh not.
Lowell (Miss.l Sun.
II protection is a good thing, put
her on hides. This country can no
more supply the hides necessary than
it can the wool, therefore 1t strikes us
both products should be put on the
same basis. Let's all get rich by tax
ing the shoes and clothing we have to
wear-Bituminou Record.
Did you ever see government bond?
No? That's strange. A government
bond is certainly well-known article.
1t is what you and every other working
citizen pays millions of dollars on
every year. Yet you never saw one!
Very few people hold them-those
who make hem good have no idea Of
their appearance.-Com Nation.
McKinleys wave Of prosperity"
which started out from Canton last No
vember to sweep the whole country"
is tied up in Pittsburg, in protected
Pennsylvania. An Injunction was
served upon 1t by the legislative in
vestigation committee on the 9th in
slant, and all dates for its appearance
in the west are declared off.-Wardner
Citizen.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works at
Philadelphia don't care to teach
American boys how to become ma
chinists. Chinese are given the pref
erence. Labor unionists said the
Chinks only get 81 week. The COM
pany Indignantly denied this and de-
clared the salary was much greater"
but failed to give figures.-Erie (Pa.)
People.
Let the government expenses de-
crease in proportion to the ability Of
the people to buy supplies that pay
revenue to the government and there
will be no deficit. In other words let
the salary Of those who have been in
strumental in reducing the income of
the people be reduced in proportion
and other expenditures be cut down
accordingly and both ends will meet
all right Iowa Farmers Tribune.
All this talk about an international
monetary agreement is as much a
farce as would be a proposition for
an international tariff law. The sill
yer question is one of American pro-
ductipn and industry. Prosperity in
one-half the country depends largely
on the commercial price of the product
of our silver mines-Chicago Ex-
press.
Did our forefathers ask England
what kind of money they should have
when they dug up the earth and for
titled Bunker Hill? What would the
shades of these patriots think of us
if they could see us now bowling and
fawning before the goldbugs of Eng
land?-Orthonoreic Era.
Direct Tax-Single Tax. Direct leg
islation-Initiative and Referendum.
Effective voting-Proportiona Repre-
sentation. Common Ownership of
Public Utilities, are correlated and
together constitute government of
the people, by the people and for the
people.-Pittsburg Kansan.
The last great political battle in
this country was decided in favor of
the policy of low prices, and as soon
as the victors were installed in power
they began to legislate at once in the
interest of high prices for a very large
VI STOCK
and Home.
1t is becoming a question whether
it will ever again be possible for the
people to govern themselves through
representatives. The art of lobbying
is destroying representative govern
ment. Our representatives are prob
ably as good men as the politicians Of
a hundred years ago, but the pressure
upon them is such that ordinary hui
man nature cannot withstand it. The
initiative and referendum are re-
garded by many as remedy, giving
the people the right to propose and
vote upon legislation; but there are
many difficulties, constitutional and
practical, in the way of the applica-
ton Of these reforms.-Des Moines