Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29

the treasury.
ACCORDING to reports from New York, the
number Of poor and destitute people i'll that
city is now greater than ever before.
SPEAKING of John Sherman, the to-be secre-
tary of state, the Republican papers call him
tour premier" So English, we know!
SENATOR PETER will return home after the
18th of March, and take charge of his paper,
the Topeka Advocate, and will preach the doc
trines of Populis,n as they were taught III 1892
and 1894.
Two BAN45 in Henry Wattersons town went
Republican lis week. The Louisville Courier
Journal has the floor and it isn't nailed down,
either Come, Hen-er-y, it's your turn to eX-
plain.-Denver New Road.
MRS. ST. JOHN, wife Of Ex-Governor John
P St. John, has been appointed by Governor
Leedy as one of the regents of the state agri-
cultural college, at Manhattan. She IS the
second woman to become a member of one OF
the state boards Mrs. Lease being the first.
THE railroads fear the passage of a maximum
freight-rate law and are sending their EN-
ployes to Topeka to protest against the passage
of such law Their plea is that if such
law is enacted, the railroads will reduce the
wages of their employees, and they cannot stand
any further reduction
THE school-book trust has its lobbyists iii
= the legislature, trying to prevent any legisla-
ton against that devilisn octopus We miss
e a., fa11o Stout o,,I,
ce' with this legislature We want "our
bows, to give the book trust black eye, and
we believe they will do it.
MARK HANNA says the continued political
agitation is disturbing business, and he wants
it stopped for four years There is Just one
way to stop it, and that is for congress to ensct
some measures for the immediate and lasting
relief of the thousands of starving and freez-
ing people of this country.
If Cleveland and his man Morgan don't Sue
coed in swnding Uncle Sam out OF the Pacific
roads, it will be wonder. Why not try gov
eminent ownership of one transcontinental
route? we ask. The reply is, the other routes
cannot afford to. let the experiment be tried
would ruin them-New Road.
TO SHOW how far along the road of true
form the people have travelled, give each
chance to make money, and see how quickly
they will abandon every "living issue" We
do not offer this as pessimistic view, but on
the broad ground that ideaism is only within
the reach of ideal people, and so long as money
stands higher in the estimation of the people
than right thinking, socialism is out of the
question. New Road.
alton. We cannot take from it without giving
to it. Civilization progresses along similar
lines When those who produce nothing and
live off of those who produce, and lay their
burdens too heavily upon the people who till
the soil, thev establish desire upon the part
of the tolers to 90 to the cities. Then, when
cities become overrun, nature steps in and scat
tiers the crowd by introducing black plaques
(or bubonic plagues). People who live OH $50
lated farms seldom contract plaques, and people
who live in cities know it, and at once make
rush for the country. Pope truly said, "What-
ever is is right" The law of compensation,
as recognized by the Great Creative Force, can
solve conditions inan-inade laws cannot reach.
If the bubonic plague does not cross the Allan
tic and fasten its fangs on Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago, we will be surprised.
Then watch the rush to the West and the
mountain country. There is time when life
;s held HIGHER than god.--New Road.