Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30
FOR OR AGAINST.


President in his future policies" That de-
pends What are the future policies OF the
PRESIDENT is the question that must first be
answered before the people should be willing to
give the President congress all his own
Briefly, the Presidents policies are to turn the
industrial classes over to the great combinations
of capital, to be dealt with according to the
wel-known methods of the capitalistic class.
With congress in sympathy with the present
administration it may be expected that long
strides may be taken in the direction of tasten-
ing conditions upon the masses that are now
uncomfortable. They who vote for congressman
favorable to the President vote for govern
ment of monopolies. They who vote with the
opposition vote for government of the people
There is no escaping this conclusion. What
ever may be the Presidents attitude on any OF
the grave questions that confront us, his envir-
onment is such that, of necessity, he must be
against the peoples interests. vote for
Bailey or Bowersock is vote for further ag-
erosion on the part of the moneyed class, while
a vote for Peters or Botkin is vote for the
emancipation of the toiling millions. AS
matter of fact, the President has not favored
and does not favor, single measure that will
benefit the masses. While it is true that he
stands for so-called protection, and while 1t is
true that the claim is set up that protection
benefits the masses, yet, the beneficial results
are tar from being proven.
''By their fruits we shall know them" and
not by the clatter of politicians or talk in
newspapers.
"a good tree bringeth forth good fruit" and
by that same token, protection stands con-
demned.
Protection has created mllionaires and re-
duced to poverty the men who labor in factories
We care nothing for theories that, when they
are tested, produce different results from that
claimed in their promotion The principles
that Mckinley stands for are, in their working,
detrimental to the best interests of those classes
most deeply concerned. The Populist candi-
dates stand for kind of protection, but 1t IS
lust the opposite of Mckinley protection. Nc
Kinley is for protection for the millionalres;
our people are for protection for the masses
We have too much protection for some peo-
pie and too little for others; and hence, we have
two or more parties, and the lines are clearly
drawn. In the Homestead and Hazeton mas
sacres, protection was all on one side; same III
the great Chicago strike, and the same all along
the line where employe met employer face to
face in the great conflict of the ages.
This is question that has passed beyond the
limit of theories. We are face to face with
facts-hard facts, cruel facts-and he that is
for a congress in sympathy with Mckinley Is
against the peoples against protection tor
the masses He stands for greed and oppres-
sion. He stands for wealth for few and pow
erty for the many. He stands tor govern
ment where money is king and the masses are
serfs. e.,
1t is not forgotten that the President has
some GREAT ideas concerning currency reform.
For the time, they are in the backgrounds Out
a Republican congress will certainly back any
currency scheme, good or bad, that may be ad-
vanced by the administration. Mckinley and
Reed are the "whole thing and if people are
thouqhtful, the very uncertainty ai to the kind
of currency measures that may be sforced
THROUGH. congress would deter voters from voting
for the men who at all times are only tools OF
the money power Voting for almost any man
not in the Republican party IS the helght OF
wisdom and discretion compared with voting
for anv man put up by Republican conventions,
for the reason that no Republican OF spirit OF
independence stands any show or nomination
Voters will do as they please-they ought to,
and yet it will seem strange to thinking men
how large a number of votes will be polled for
congressional candidates who have no more
sympathy for the toiling millions than iurk
has for Christian. Catch phrases, as pro
lection" and "sound money" along with par,
tisan prejudice, will still rope in multitude OF
thoughtless voters
Protection will, under the President, continue
70 protect only few, and sound money will be