Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-17
CONDENSED CUBAN CREAM.

In commanding Spain to leave the
island of Cuba, and as last resource
! forcing her to abdicate her entire
authority over the island and the
Cuban people. our country performs a
duty dictated by humanitarian prin-
ciples and in conformity with the ever
growing sentiment of the brotherhood
of man. The sacrifice of blood and
| treasure Is but a just tribute to the
great principles and living forces
Which aided in the earlier times to
! make us an independent republic and .
great people.-The Insignia.
In the earlier stages of the Cuban
struggle, when to have extended recog-
milton OF the Cubans rights as bellig-
erents would have been courageous
and humane, McKinley's policy was
one of mastery inactivity" But now
that the cry Is all for war, and Mark
says "Sic 'em. Bill" the man of many
minds is literally aching for a scrap.
Any buzzing noise audible may be as
turning over in his grave- because he
was quoted by William Mckinley in an
attempt to sell out the country. 1t
would have been interesting to nave
had Jackson alive on that day, and TO
have listened to the sounds of horse
whipping going on in the WHITE
House.-Brann's Iconoclast.
The patriots of the republic, stand
ing upon the graves of hundred tnou-
sand soldiers of Spain, in an island,
three fourths of which they have con-
ouered from the kingdom of Sprin, are
offered arms by the United States with
which to complete their work, with the
| intimation that when they are in full
possession of their native land their
big sister will take it away from them'
| The logical result of non-recognition
of the Cuban republic is the saddling
of the Cuban people with a ruinous
foreign debt, to be deftly syndicated IN
| the future by some Hanna-McCooK
trust.-Dlmock's Comments, in the Ma
| tional Single Taxer.
A good thrashing may awake the
| Spanish people to sense OF their
| rights and duties, and to knowledge
| of the fact that Spain as a nation is
tagging along at the tail OF the process
sion. If so, they will owe the United
States a vote of thanks.-New Charter.
The American people are fghting
Spain to free Cuba-not to annex 1t 10
the sugar trust and put Wall street
Garnet bag administration in control
of it. Let Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Han
ma remember that.-Journal OF Agri-
| culture.
Tropical wars are always destructive
| to human life Years ago our govern
ment sent an army of 7,4OO men 10
| Florida to subdue 5000 Seminoles. The
Job was finally done, but 1t cost us
1881 lives of soldiers, Of whom only
So fell in battle. Since then we have
paid $50. OOO, 900 in pensions on account
of the Seminole Wardrobe Miner
Index.
And now will this government send
10000 or 100000 men to Cuba to &C
complish what the insurgents could do
with one-tenth of the sacrifice OF life
IL supplied with ammunition?-San
Francisco Star.
| 1t would seem that it would be cruel
to send unacclimated troops to Cuba at
present. The insurgents claim an
ability to drive the dons into the sea
il they can be supplied with arms and
supplies by blockading the island;
they could, at the same time, open a
port and pour guns, artillery, ammuni-
ton and food into the insurgents
camp and let them work out their own
salvation. There is little doubt of their
ability to capture Havana in short
order. This would be better than TO
expose our brave boys to the horrors
Of yellow fever, more deadly than
Spanish bullets.-Cleveland Recorder
The pirates that assailed the ship OF
state and placed their Strengthening
grasp upon the throat of the nation in
1861 are still pursuing their system OF
! plumber. At the outbreak of the Civil
War they forced financial policy
upon the country that cost the nation
a thousand millions of debt beyond
what would have been contracted had
the policy of issuing full legal tender
| government notes, as advocated by
Thad Stevens, and adopted by the
House of Representatives, 'Been carried
out. So sure are the pirHtes of their
hold on the government, so sure are
they of their full control of the ad-
ministration through such creatures as
Hanna, Elkins, Gage and Mckinley.
that the present war VIII afford them
additional plumber, and the means OF
perpetuating that policy, of confisca-
ton, that they are q already licking
their greedy chaps in anticipation of
another issue Of bonds, and are de-
manding :. of the; controller of
the currency that he print
the currency with which they
| nropose to issue upon the bonds as a