Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-30
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

May there be no delay in enacttng
higher tariff laws. The sooner w0
learn that salvation does not abide in
the breeches pocket of a higher tariff
the better.-Farm, Stock and Home.
Both Ballington Booth and Booth
Tucker, the Salvation Army men, have
been talking as If they recognized the
fact that monopoly and only monopoly
Is responsible for the submerged tenth.
Cincinnati Common Cause.
Populism consists in an. earnest, SIN
cere and honest desire for economic
reform, and not in frantic desire to
warm a seat at pie counter.-Reno
(Nev.l Plaindealer.
Cleveland's administration added
1900, 900 to the Populist ranks, and it
is safe to predict that McKinley's ad-
ministration will add 100000, max
ing the total number of Populists in
1900 an even 11,5OO,OOO. Enid (Ok.)
Coming Events.
They tell us that the new tariff law
will be great thing for the poor man
because it will make more work. It
will make more work. in the sense
in which Pharaoh made more work for
the Hebrew brickmakers when he re-
fused them straw; in the sense in
which the spilling of grease over the
floor makes more work for the house,
wife. or the rain that vets his hay
makes more work for the farmer
Harrison Times.
The last congress, strongly Repub-
lican, voted almost unanimously that
bimetallism is the best and necessary
monetary system; and President Cleve-
land, nominally Democrat, endorsed
the vote. But in the estimation of
both congress and president we mustn't
have the best and necessary system
without Europe's nsent!-Farm,
Stock and Home.
For several years past the number
Of the unemployed has been steadily
increasing, and many have died from
starvation and exposure, but during
the past winter the results of enforced
idleness have been much worse than
ever before. The daily papers have
day after day been filled with horrible
accounts of suicides, deaths from star
walton or disease caused by insufficient
food and clothing, yet at the same
time the ruling class was rioting in
luxury.-The People.
Let us establish the principle of ar
bitration at home, If we want to arbi-
trate so badly. Make the railroads ar
bitrate with their employees instead OF
hiring the military to shoot them
down.-Twentieth Century.
The Nicaragua canal company don't
want the earth, they only want $780,
100000, very modest request.-The
Orthonomic Era.
7 What the poor need Is not aims, but
an opportunity to earn just equival-
ent for their labor; and they also need
to learn how to vote right at all cleo
transforming Events.
The shipbuilders at Cleveland, Ohio,
have won their strike against the ty-
ranny of Mark Hanna. Wonder If the
gold bug papers will announce the 60
ing to work of the successful strikers
as another indication of returning
rosperity.-Uncle Sam.
If direct legislation was in force the
people would vote on the silver ques-
ton, Independent of all others. They
would say whether they wanted postal
savings banks, government telegraph
and railroads and would say whether
greenbacks should be retired, in fact
all matters of great interest would be
passed on by the people instead of be-
ing trusted to lot of so-called repre-
sentatives, whose highest aim is to
reap the greatest reward for themselves
regardless Of the interests of the ma
jority. There is no assurance under
our present system that the men elect
ed to Office will fulfill their pledges; in
fact, experience proves that they do
not. Under direct legislation the peo-
pie would make no laws; officers would
have no promises to fulfill, for every
law would represent the voice directly
of the people Chicago Sen
tinel.
Pictures of restitution are accompa-
MED this year by cuts in wages.-Ex.