Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-11

ness or Ohio increased S20,OOO,000 last
year, the calamity bowler mxst surely
subside.
Those labor and reSorm organ,za-
tons that believe in che rule OF the
people through the ballot, instead OF
spasmOdic and unsuccessful strikes,
should elect delegates TO the national
labor convention at ST. Louis. May 2,
1898.
The enormously wealthy and gold
buggy Chemical National bank OF
New York was despoiied Of nearly
100000 a few weeks ago by loans
made by the cashier On worthless Sc
curity, and a sympathizing silverite
has sent the president the following
letter OF coincidence. or congratula-
tion: George G.. Williams, President
Chemical National Banh- Sir
hasten to congratulate you on your re-
cent misfortune, which, thanks to the
Vaccinations OF the crazy Organizes
Is not as serious as it would appear.
for your late cashier. no doubt. paid
his brother 'ffnancier' the 1888, 900 in
silver certificates, and SO I figure 1t
out that your bank has really lost
ONLY $172,920, assuming the certifi-
Gates, or the silver they represent, TO.
be worth only 44c ON the dollar.
While the ways Of the wicked are
past finding out'-until it is to0 late.
very often. to intercept them. there is
this consolation that even the shrewd-
est Capitalists sometimes 0ver-reach
themselves.
Twas ever thus since childhood's
Some accident befell, etc. etc
Just think Of it! Suppose the
single standard advocates had Sue
ceeded in forcing the gold standard on
the country. you would have actually
given this particular silverite and his
Grable-ing associate 3520,OS0 moro
than you did. Virtue is ITS owR re-
ward even in Wall street, or that
neighb0rhoOd, and your poor little
bank is thus saved nearly two-thirds
of its reported loss"
New conditions of business" have
forced Andrews Bros. of Syracuse, N.
Y, to cut the wages of all employees
from 10 to 20 per cent; and the same
new conditions of business" force
the workers to take the reduction with
out word. In the course of time the
will hau haA nf these
new conditions.
Some thirty years ago, when he was
cOntending against greenbackism,
Baron Rothschild spoke as follows OF
silver: 1.-THE simultaneous employ
ment of the two precious metals is
satisfactory and gives rise to no COM
plant Whether gold or silver domi-
mates for the time being, it is always
true that the two metals concur to-
gether in forming the monetary circu-
lation of the world, and it is the gen.
eral mass of the two metals combined
which serves as the measure of the
value of things. The suppression OF
silver would amount to veritable
destruction of values without any COM
pensation."
Since then plutocracy has taken
several advance steps, and now Baron
Rothschild finds that gold alone is the
best measure of the value Of things,
as. the measure being smaller, he is
able to thus get more of the things.
A New York capitalist sheet has
done rash thing 1t invited the peo-
pie to write their opinions of society,
with this result: Such mHltitudes Of
letters, critical and condemnatory, and
nearly all condemnatory, flowed upon
the editor, who is himself a swell"
that he was scared with the threaten
ing host of angry people he had reused
into expression. So he sat down on
them all, saying that whatever society
might be, it could write
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The most striking fact in the secre-
tary of wars report is that he asks for
an appropriation of So, 25S. 1850 for
the next fiscal year. This is over $43.-
100000 in excess OF last years esti-
mates, over One-half more. than the
$62, 1892, 417.25 voted for the current
year, and nearly double the $780,
1862 actually expended last year.
An exchange suggests that in the
fact that Mr.. Letter controls the bread
and Mr.. Armour dominates the meat.
lies a concentrated hint to somebody
to get a corner on the mustard.
J. A. Wayland says: IF those who
write me are right observers there is
a regular stampede in all the labor
centers of the workers from the Re-
publican party"
Whenever the doctors and lawyers
get their fees down in line with cent
cotton, they are going 10 fall in line
with the boys from the creek