Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-09
REMEMBER THE POOR.

1t is especially incumbent upon those " no
have plenty of this worlds goods to think OF
the less fortunate at such time as this, when
cold weather and heavy snow have added to the
distresses of poverty. There will be much en-
forced idleness among the laborng classes In
Kansas City as result of the present storm.
Within this class are many who live from hand
to mouth. Consequently, unusual demands
will be made upon the charitable institutions
and upon the charitable branches of the various
churches. Those who can afford to give some
thing for the relief of the unusual distress re-
sulting from severe weather can readily find
mediums through which 10 minister.-Kausas
City Journal.
Is it possible that these conditions exist right
in the midst of a great "wave of prosperity, 4"
OF has the Journal become a calamity howler'?
Where is the "advance agent of prosperity, \"
whose election was going to give steady work,
at good wages, to the laboring man? Would it
not be we'll for him to shower few crumbs of
prosperity on the poor souls who have been un-
able to lay by enough to tide them over a
stormy day, and have enough to live from
hand to mouth?
What are the facts in relation to the admin
ittration of this boosted "advance agent" up
to date? Here are some of them:
A war, claimed to have been in the interest
of humanity and ended in scramble for spells.
An additional Understanding debt, amounting
to hundreds of millions of dollars, piled upon
the shoulders of an already debt-burdened peo-
pie. A restoration of the old English system
of stamp tax, and tax on tea, under which
over three hundred thousand dollars day is
drawn from the people. The --LATEST wool mar
ket known tor years, and cotton lower than ever
known in the nations history. Wool exchange
closed, and a general shutdown of WOODEN
mills throughout New England, and half the
cotton mills closed, and tens OF thousands OF
operatives left without employment, and forced
to depend largely upon public charity The
greatest strike of coal-miners the world has
ever known, ending in numbering many miners
and starving the remainder back into the slav-
ery of such cold blooded mine-owners as Mark
Hanna. A tariff law that gives free trade in
saw-logs for the lumber king, and imposes
high tax upon the poor mans lumber. An adj
power the peoples option to pay our bonded
debt and treasury notes III silver dollars, thus
forcing us to get the gold, it matters not at
what cost. And this "advance agent OF pros
perty" now asks fot standing army OF 1907
900 men, to be supported in time of peace,
mainly by the men who, in the hour of peril,
are the nations defenders. And finally, after
borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars, we
are. according to this "advance agents" mes
sage to congress, confronted by a deficit, at the
close of the present fiscal year, June 80, 1899,
of SIP, 10000
All this, and even more of like nature, has
occurred under the rule of this "advance agent
of prosperity" No wonder the Journal when
little furry of snow comes to give it the
SLIGHTEST excuse, sounds the alarm of approach
,no starvation, and tries to put the blame on
the Lord, instead of on the prosperity howlers,
WHERE IT BELONGS: