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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
A Patriotic Girls Souvenir.

At Trinidad, COL, about 1000 people
met us at the depot with band and
gave us plenty to eat and supplied US
with tobacco, matches and candy.
Some Of the girls along the route gave
away the flowers on their hats and
other articles as souvenirs. / secured
something from black-eyed fairy,
with streak of devil in her makeup,
which prize next to the greyhound.
The train started to pull out of the
station, and l and the rest of the boys
had our heads out of the windows and
our hands outstretched, when this girl
ran forward, placed something in my
hand and lodged back into the crowd.
l drew back and eXamided my trophy
it was jewclled garter. The boys
wrcstlcd me for it but l have it to
ate.--Kansas Recruits Letter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
Notes.

The Northumberland colliery own
ers agreed yesterday to allow theiI
provisional concession of ~ per cent
| advance in wages TO continue in force
until the next ascertainment of ac-
counts. The Fifeshire colliery engine
keepers are demanding an advance of
IL cents per day.
Six hundred machinists, employed by
R. Hoe G. Co., manufacturer of presses,
struck. The committee demanded that
a weekly wage system be adopted, and
a minimum scale of $3.50 day be es-
tablished for all machinists. 1t also
demanded that not more than one ma
chine be given in charge Of one man.
The committee On streets voted TO
report to the board Of aldermen in "a
vor of allowing the Buffalo Traction
company to collect scent fares upon
it's lines. This concession was granted
upon the Traction company's securing
from the Buffalo Railway company and
the Crosstown Street Railway company
an agreement for the exchange OF uni
versal transfers.
The New York Excelsior Labor club
has forwarded letter of thanks to
Mayor Van Wyck for his prompt action
in compelling the ferry companies to
have drinking water placed on all their
boats and in their ferry houses; also
for his action in compelling the Man
haitian Elevated Railway to place new
lights in some of its cars on the Sec
ond avenue branch.
Welsh tin plate workers struck
against cut. The largest tin plate
works in Wales Is to be reopened by
a new company. The men are under
contract to work for three years, dur
ing which period they will not partici-
pate in any strikes, or labor disputes.
Their wages will be at whatever rate
happens to be current in the district,
and the works will find employment
for nearly 1900 men.
The executive board of the Fedora
ton of Trades Unions of New Jersey
has resolved to urge the state labor
congress, which will be held in Pater-
son, on Aug. Is next, to request the
political parties at their state conven-
lions 10 designate the candidates for
United States senator, SO that the
voters, when they vote for state sena-
tors and assemblymen, may express
their preference for candidate for
United States senator. Gov. Voorhees,
killed their labor bills by vetoes, and
several were killed in the senate and
assembly The executive board de-
nounces the partisan construction of
the labor departments Of the state. All
the members of these boards. not some.
It declares, should be in full sympathy
with organized labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
When Shall We Be Stronger.

II you want to condense the argu-
ment Of the last campaign into few
words it will read like this: While We
had political independence we could
not have financial independence. We
have got to have such a financial pol
icy as the financiers Of Europe de-
mard. We are no longer free to legis-
late for ourselves on this question. II
that argument is true, we are no lon
ger free psople. If it is true. we
have passed from democracy to plu-
tocracy, and to our ruler across tho
ocean we must bow on Bonded knee.
1t is better to meet this proposition
now than to put it off. When we are
told that we are powerless to legis-
late for ourselves, we should say with
Patrick Henry: when shall We be
stronger" If we are not able to break
these letters now, when shall we be
able to do it? They say we are bound
to the mother country because we have
borrowed money from her. I say if
we had good financial policy for
twenty years we would be loaning
money to them instead of being in
bonds. When shall we be stronger?-
w. ]. Bryan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
A Libel on Americu.

To say that America cannot govern
colonies which desire our institutions
and our protection is libel on Ameri
ca. Nations, like individuals, always
can do what honor and conscience call
on them to do. The plea of national
inability is plea of cowardice. Amer.
lea, if it can make the Philippines
free, can preserve their freedom. And
by securing for others justice, liberty
and education it will learn how better
to guard these trusts within its own
borders and for its own citizens.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
The Same Old Crew.

1t has leaked out that nearly all the
new war bonds that are being taken
so rapidly in the cities are being TAX
en- by agents of banks and syndicates.
1t is said that the banks are buying
the bonds through their patrons and
employees, and that very few have been
purchased by mechanics and laborers.
Well wager dollars against doughnuts
that the popular loan will ultimately
dob up serenely" in the hands Of a
few people who control the finances Of
the world. In the meantime If gold
should be demonetized and become
deprecated" by legislative action, as
silver has been. what kind of money
would the Shylocks demand in pay
ment of these coin bonds? Wonder il
they wouldn't demand their pay in
MISUNDERSTANDING Union-Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

God said: l am tired of kings;
suffer them no more;
Up to my ear the morning brings
The outrage Of the poor.
Think we I made this ball
A field of havoc and war,
Where tyrants great and tyrants small
Might harry the weak and poor?
My angel-his name is Freedom
Choose him to be your king.
He Ghall cut pathways east and west
And 'fend you with his wing.
I will have never a noble;
No lineage counted great;
Fishers, and choppers, and plowmen
Shall constitute state.
And We shall succor man;
TITS nobleness to serve;
Help them who cannot help again;
Beware from right to swerve.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
The Alternative.

The strike of the engineers in Eng
land is over, and the men have been
defeated. In their defeat is involved
that Of trade-unfonism, for the en-
ployers insisted on the right to man
age their own business in their own
way, and, after a most extraordinary
struggle lasting for six months, the
men have practically surrendered. One
thing the English capitalist, and all
capitalists everywhere, should bear in
mind. The inevitable tendency of
strike like this Is to strengthen the
Socialist movement. The workingmer
will reason that If they cannot bring
their employers to terms by negotia'
ton, or even by striking, they will try
to accomplish their object by legisla'
tion.-Harpers Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

The prosperous condition of the
Usage Indians is notable example of
the beneficial results Of cooperation.
They are said to be the richest COM
munity in the world. They number
173O souls, all told-men, women and
children. They own 100000 acres
of valuable land have 100000 in
trust with the government, which pays
5 per cent interest, and have leases
with cattlemen for the use of their
pasture lands, which bring them be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 year, with
out counting the rent from the agricul-
tural lands and the proceeds of their
own labor. That, however, is very
small. They have so much money that
they are asy, idle and in state of
rapid degeneration. The entire tribe
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
Displaced Labor.

A rev machine for making bread
from raw wheat will soon be put in
operation in the large cities, which Well
be most revolutionary in its effects on
several industries. The wheat Is pour
ed into the machine, soaked in water,
converted into pulp, and after the ref
use is removed, it is formed into loaves
and conveyed by rollers into an oven
and baked. A few ordinary workmen
operating the machine will make bread
enough for large CITY, and according
to experts the bread is purer and more
wholesome than that baked by the
present process; it is said that bread
can be produced as cheap as flour to-
day.-Coming Nation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

A correspondent of the Boston Tran
script, after commenting enthusiastic
ally upon the fighting qualities of our
soldiers, especially commends the mar
tial spirit and bravery of the black
troops. He says, ut is great fighting
our soldiers do, whether regulars or
volunteers, white or black. 1t taxes
time to get the colored troops started,
but when they catch the spirit they
20 at it with the same fervor that car
ries them away at Methodist revival.
They have been so efficient in this
march to Santiago that some Southern
officers have wondered if it is good
thing to equip these negroes, train
them and give them a realization Of
their capacity for war.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
High and Low Wages.

Labor Commissioner Wright is quot
ed as saying that 1.-The average wages
per year paid in the United States is
$S47, and the average product Of each
laborer is valued at $1,SSS. This leaves
the American laborer but II per cent.
Of his product. In Italy the laborer
receives 40 per cent, and in Great
Britain he receives 20 per cent. #
what he produces" 1t is time to stop
talking about the well-paid American
workman. The only reason he ever
gets high wages, apparently, is be-
cause he does more work, and meas
ured by what he produces he gets less
than the Englishman and not half as
much as the Italian. This accounts
for American manufacturers undersell-
ing foreigners in their own markets
for the last twenty-five years. But
what an enormous price the consumer
has to pay-S3 per cent.-for distribu-
ton and profit.-Typographical Jour-
nal
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
A Correct Claim.

l have looked at this claim by the
light Of history and my own con-
science, and it seems to me so looked
at to be most just claim, and that
resistance to it means nothing short
of a denial of the hope of civilization.
This, then, is the claim. 1t is right
and necessary that all men should
have work to do which shall be worth
doing, and be of itself pleasant to do;
and which should be done under such
conditions as would make it neither
overwearisome nor over-anxious. Turn
that claim about as l may, think of 1t
as long as l can, cannot find that it
Is an exorbitant claim; yet again I
say If society would or could admit 1t,
the face of the world would be chang
ed; discomfort and strife and dishon-
esty would be ended To feel that we
are doing work useful to others AMI
pleasant to ourselves, and that such
work and its due reward could not fail
us-what serious harm could happen
to us then? And the price to be paid
for so making the world happy is rev.
olution.- William Morris.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

The government seems to be made
principally for the welfare of the bank
ers. The government designates GER
tain banks as United States depositor-
les. These banks are required to pur-
chase United States bonds to the
amount of the government deposit.
Thus if the government intends to de-
post 100000 with bank the bank
buys 100000 worth of bonds on which
it draws interest. Then the govern
ment gives it 100000 for safe keep
ing, and then the bank promptly loans
this out to borrowers. The kernel to
all this is that the bank gets the
amount of interest on the government
bonds over and above what it would
otherwise receive. Still this is a gov
eminent run for the people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
Battle Hymn of the wronged.

(By Hamlin Garland.)
We have seen the reaper toiling in the
heat of summer sun,
We have seen his children needy when
harvesting was done,
We have seen mighty army dying
hopeless one by one
While their flag went marching on.
Oh, the army of the wretched, how
they swarm the city street;
We have seen them in the night where
Goths and vandals meet,
We have shuddered in the darkness at
the noises of their feet
But their cause goes marching on.
Our slavers marts are empty, human
flesh no more is sold
Where the dealers fateful hammer
wakes the clink Of leaping gold,
But the slavers of the present more
relentless powers hold,
Though the world goes marching on.
But no longer shall the children bend
above the whizzing wheel;
We will free the weary women from
their bondage under steel;
In the mines and in the forests worn
and helpless man shall feel
His cause Is marching on.
Then lift your eyes, we toilers, in the
desert hot and drear,
Catch the cool wind from the noun
tains; bark, the rivers voice is
near;
Soor we'll rest beside the fountains,
and the dream of land will be
here!
As we go marching on.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

Political Reform Religious Movement.
All of the greatest human movements
have been religious. Some one has
called the early anti-slavery agitation
a new religious movement. 1t is be-
coming clearer every day that the cru
SADIE for a peoples currency has far
deeper meaning. There are other far
reaching developments-so many, in
deed, and of such nature that they
have a peculiar significance. The OBJ
iect of it all is to make men free.
The sons of toll must cease to be
slaves They are natures noblemen.
They stand face to face with nature;
with its hard facts and problems, and
out of nature they make the wealth of
the world. Money creates nothing. 1t
has become the tool of the tyrant.
There are indications that the move
ment for freedom is a religious move
ment, undenominational and non-sec
tartan. First, there is the spirit of the
opposition. 1t is intolerant 1t has
ceased to argue. 1t uses slurs; acts
with the spirit of lordly superiority;
INDUCES in the language of the bully
and buffer; it carries in it's bosom the
spirit of hate; it acts exactly as all the
tyrannies of the world have hitherto
acted.
Again, the spirit of the advocates of
reform. 1t is bold, asks only an open
field and fair fight and is serious.
This seriousness is growing. l have
attended meetings, where people wept
where all were solemnly convinced
of the need of the hour. If we may in
terpret the humanitarian sentiments
that are desiring better conditions-as
prayer-(and what is prayer but our
hearts desire), then the movement
surely Is religious. The conscience is
being extended into this political field
and this is peculiarly religious-for
religion has always had to do with
conscience in conduct.
The highest sense of ethics must be
carried into the arena of life.
These facts will demand new order
OF craftsmanship, viz, that which will
wisely consider all the interests of the
people. A good teacher treats with due
-~anect all the wishes and questions of
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

is composed Of about 900 families, Of
which Ito are adults and $50 are
children of school age. This gives
them over 5000 acres of land for each
family, and more than $50 acres pei
capita, with 100000 cash for every fam
lily. Including the grass money" as
they call it, which is received from
leasing pasture, the income of the tribe
will average 100000 per year, or about
$500 per capita, or $1,000 per family
without any labor whatever.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
AS we go marching on.

From New Time: The following ex-
tracts from the pen of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton are exactly in line with the
war policy of the New Time and are
we'll worth a careful reading:
Some good people talk peace and
hold national and international con-
ventions to promote it, but until we
have justice, liberty and equality be-
tween man and man we can never real
lie that peace that passeth all under
standing!" We are still struggling in
the competitive stage of human devel-
opment, governed by the law, Each
man for himself, starvation and death
take the hindmost." There Is no love
and pity, no peace and prosperity for
all. under this law. Our government,
religion, industrial and social life, are
all based on the competitive system.
The war with Spain is but a pictorial
representation in panorama of human
experience. Why feel greater inter-
est in an event that may happen once
in a life time, in the horrors OF war,
than in the prolonged cruelties and
outrages under the system OF wage
slavery?
Our present war with Spain is the
first one on the page Of history based
on purely humanitarian grounds. 1t
Is not war of conquest, but one for
Justice to an oppressed people; for
liberty to the outraged multitude; to
rescue women and children from the
Srutalities of military despotism that
Mas violated all the laws of warfare
among civilized nations. When the
state inscribes on its banner, Equal
rights to ALL" and our statute laws and
constitutions are based on that idea
we shall have no need Of suffrage asso-
Citations. When the church inscribes
on it's banner, Love thy neighbor as
myself" all other creeds will sink in
to insignifcance. When the masses
are well sheltered, fed, clothed, and
educated, there will be no need Of tenn
perance societies, as the vice of intem-
perance and many other evils are the
outgrowth of the despair of poverty.
When we substitute cooperation for
competition, all our fragmentary re-
forms will be united in one general
movement.
Progress is the victory of new
thought over old superstitions."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

Two paramount principles should
guide the nation in making terms OF
peace. The one is that magnanimity
which the great victor should show
toward the vanquished, so that it shall
not even seem in the end to be war
for oppression or for selfish, sordid
gain. The other is that the high OBJ
jects for which the war was begun
shall be secured, so that "our dead
heroes" shall not have died in vain.
Under such guidance, and such alone,
shall peace with honor be restored
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
P0PULIsT POINTS


the child; the true statesman will treat
with serious consideration all the Ques-
lions that the people PROFOUND, and
will look upon the claims Of none with
indifference or scorn. The toil Of the
ages has not been in vain. The spirit
of the new age is growing. Victory
will come, but it will require hard fight
ing. Men will all learn. after while,
that the highest good Of the individual
is in the welfare Of ALL. w. Cald-
we'll
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

Saint Paul laid down some laws
against women which were well
enough in his day, but should the
church of his day rule the church Of
this period? Let us think little in
behalf of ourselves with regard to
church, war, politics and international
complications. Noah built his ark
against precedent and popular judg-
ment, and if he hadn't marked out that
course for himself he would have join
ed the wisdom at the bottom Of the
flood.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

With a sword in one hand and the
healing arts of civilization in the other.
the United States is moving upon some
important islands of the sea. The
American tract society has more than
four hundred publications in the Span
fish language, and is preparing to put
two of them, a primer and New Tes-
lament, in the hands of every Philip
pine, Cuban or Porto Rico family as
soon as the war is over.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

No sound, well regulated American
should permit himself to be disturbed
nv the wave of hero-worship that is
aurging over the land. The American
neonle will be none the worse for this
hantism of patriotic fire. 1t will SUBJ
side. by-and-by, or rather, it will be
materially modified with the advent OF
the mining times of peace; but it is not
harmful for any people to be thor
ouphlv aroused at reasonable intervals
NV me revelation of high ideals and to
Yield themselves to those better desires
"a nurposes which are enkindled by
the sarce Of heroic examples.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02

There was a proposition to argue a
young lady out of school in Boise,
Idaho. The result of it is succinctly
stated in this dispatch from that town:
ut is believed that two of the men shot
last night by Miss Birdie Sanders will
die. The third man escaped by run
ming away and is thought to be unin-
jured. Miss Sanders lately has been
teaching the White Cross school, and
the three men, who opposed her re-
tention as teacher, called and tried to
scare her into leaving the county"
While politics is not necessarily wrong,
even in school matters, it must be in
sisted that there must be nothing Of
that kind which initiates against the
chivalry of this enlightened period. 1t
is barely possible, however, that this
lady knows how to take care Of her
self. no matter what the nature Of the
argument which may be presented
against her desires or her rights.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
Original Gala nifty Howler

Noah was calamity bowler, and the
bones of the men who laughed at him
have helped to make the phosphate
beds out of which fertilizers are now
dug for the market.-Henry D. Lloyd.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
An Accountable Substitute,

"Ah!' sighed the summer girl, II
wish you owned a yacht and would
place it at my disposal"
Sorry 1 can't oblige you," replied
the young man, "but the best can
offer is little smack"
And the silence was punctured by .
sound resembling the opening of pop
bottle. Chicago News.