Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-08-27

TeF THERE is one character more despicable
~ than another, in the phases of humanity
it is the hypocrte, the sanctimonious, unctious
pious-appearing, psalm-singing individual who
appears incapable of thinking or doing wrong
and who externally conforms to the demands
of aiChristian, but internally is ravening vol
and devourer of his species. You may gener
ally know him by his ultra sanctimoniousness
the low tone of his voice and his perpetual ad-
jective "brother". His aim is ever to obtain the
confidence of his fellow only to betray him
1t is on precisely such lines that certain news
papers ale making believe to champion the
peoples rights. You would think to hear them
decry trusts that they received personal injuries
at their hands, and the outward activity and
apparent desire they have to CLEAN any in
formation about trusts, evinces all earnestness
of purpose worthy of genuine reformerI So
we'll do they play their part that the silly geese
of readers believe them. But let anyone furn-
ish them with genuine information, or quote
standard authorities, or refer them to such or
take pains to write facts and figures giving the
authority from whence they derived, and
the communication goes into the waste baskets.
They have bamboosled the people, increased
their circulation, served their end and purpose,
and persue the even tenor of their way. Yet
if they tell their dupes of readers that such is
the case, and that the said fake reform paper
never did, and never WILL let its readers know
the bottom facts, they will look at you in
anazement and will tell how the expert for the
paper in question testified on their behalf, but
what the testimony amounted to, or what facts
of Importance, if any, he gave they cannot say
The whole wind bag of evidence was not really
intended to be of any real danger to the trusts,
only make believe. There is not all honest
bone in the whole body of such, and every true
reformer knows it to his sorrow; and it is this
playing the hypocrite that retards the progress
of reform, because the ignorant reader thinks
he has all the facts from this "people's cham
pion" that spreads itself on penny charities,
absolutely useless in their result, while it leaves
its readers in the greatest darkness upon the
most vital issues Of our disintegrating social
status, and fails to raise the danger signal Of
the coming storm.
Take the coal strike as all instance. These
fake peoples papers are advocating arbitration
when they know perfectly we'll that it is abso-
luttly futile. Will they read and quote from
H. .Lloyd's "Wealth against Commonwealth, !"
wherein he shows beyond question of doubt
that the coal lands both in the anthracite and
soft coal regions, tom one end of the country
to the other belong to the railroads. Icannot
do better than quote from his admirable work:
within the last 80 years 95 per cent of the
anthracite coal of practically the en-
tire supply, it was reported by congress in 1893
has passed from the ownership of private
citizens, manv thousand in number, into the
poss ssion of the railroads controlling the high
ways of the coal fields.
"These railroads have been undergoing a
similar process of consolidation, and are now
the property of eight great corporations.
Canada remains unannexed politically, but
its best coal deposits have become part of the
United States. In 1892 syndicate of Ameri-
can capitalists obtained the control of the prin-
cipa bitumnous coal of Nova Scotia.
"The railroads compel private owners to sell
their mines or all their product, by refusing to
supply cars for theil business, and by charging
rates of transportation of coal SO high that