Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-23
PEN POINTS.

why not!
PEN POINTS.
1t will get so, after awhile, that the
taxpayer will insist on being put in
prison, and compel the convicts to go
out and go to work to support them
Representative.
What an awful fix the country would
have been in but for the present extra
session of congress.-Farm, Stock and
Home.
In his Creeping paralysis of bust
ness and bitter want of the unem-
ployed" Mr.. Wanamaker is rather best
ing Mr.. Mckinley, who is not a bust
ness man, but just an ambitious poll
tician.-To,edo News.
It Is said that dragon fly can fly
backward as rapidly and easily as for
ward; so can some politicians.-Com-
monwealth.
The American people need to make
an uprising against the autocratic pow
err of the speaker Of the house of rep
resentatives. 1t is useless to talk of
house Of representatives where there Is
no such thing as honest, untrammeled
representation Enterprise.
One fundamental cause of hard times
is that there are too many men who
don't get what they earn.-Farm, Sock
and Home.
Before election the Republican party
knew all about the money question
and knew just what to do to restore
prosperity. It's different now, and the
President wants a commission author
lied to go in search of that wave OF
prosperity we've heard so much about
and seen so little of.-Aspen Tribune.
The armies of the world number
about 5000, 900 men. These soldiers, il
engaged in the production of wealth in
stead Of the destruction of wealth
property and life-could, with modern
machinery, produce enough wealth
homes, food, clothing and other neces-
saries-to make comfortable and hap
py 75, 900, 900 people.-Rights of Man.
Dun & Co., the commercial agency
humbuggers, declare that the people
are doing a larger volume of business
than they realize. That's it! Just as
clear as averaging the bank accounts of
ten men, for example. One man may
have $1,000 and the other nine moth
ing, but in the average each man has
500. and therefore people may have
money or be doing business of which
they have no knowledge. Now you see
It. and now you don't.-Cleveland Cit
izen.
Nearly 1000 business houses and
corporations, including more than $50
banks and public repositories of mon
ey. have failed since Mckinley was
elected. Probably 80 per cent of these
clear-headed business men voted for
Mckinley and talked much about peo-
pie who wanted to pay their debts in
53-cent dollars. They would now con-
fer a great favor on their creditors, and
hasten the belated dawn of prosperity.
by paying even so cents on dollar.
The average business man should at
tend night school for time and swear
off on reading newspapers.--ErieP eo-
pie.
The unthinking, the ignorant, the
preiudiced and the bigot have ridiculed
and fought every reform, social, reli-
gious or political calculated to better
the world, since the beginning OF his
tory. They have denounced, abused and
prosecuted every, man or woman who
has spent his or her life to elevate the
race. Ignorance and bigotry combat in
telligence and progress at every turn,
and always will. Yet intelligence and
progress advance slowly but surely and
steadily all along the line.-Real Re-
public (Amarillo, Tex).