Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-16
GARNETT, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898.

more than traic 1t means the loss of civil
liberty aud right of self-government to the
controlled 1t means a strange flag and the
army and navy of another country quartered in
their cities and floating in their harbors. 1t
means governors, generals, judges, marshals
and revenue officers speaking language they
do not understand It means taxation without
representation. 1t means military despotlsm
in its worst form. 1t means revolutions follow
ing esch other in close order in the wake OF
that which set us free.
The tax-ridden, bayonet-oppressed people OF
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines know
what it means, and this government standing
as it does, upon the granite rock OF liberty and
Justice, most of all can least afford to "control
the trade Of"
DO NOT NEED COLONIES.
The English colonies, of course, enjoy their
freedom, since they are permitted to trade where
Eng land directs. England is an empire This
is plain republic. England needs colonies.
We don't. We have a country three
fourths of which is yet new and undeveloped-
1t is unsurpassed in natural resources, and the
climate is equal to that of any other country.
Some time ago, an article appeared IN the Post,
copied from the Galveston News, showing the
vast resources of the great state of Texas.
What, in that article, was said of Texas is COM
paratively true of all the states, and especially
of those west of the Mississippi. Their re-
sources-agricultural horticultural, mineral,
cotton and stock growing-are inexhaustible,
and, if properly developed, would sustain
population equal TO that of this country and all
Europe combined The vast area extending
FROM the Mississippi to the Pacific. and from
Mexico to the British possessions,is unsurpassed
in richness and fertility. It's capability of pro-
ducing everything essential to the wants of
man is beyond calculation. So far, we have
merely occupied the field with skirmish lines
widely deployed. Here and there camps have
been established and nucleus formed for the
grand industrial army that is moving Not
omly have we this rich, undeveloped country
vea,t, but we have an equally rich, fertile coun
tr,r east, which, all in ALL climate, soil and re-
SO, ,rces, east, west, north and south, stands
nre .e,ninently as the choicest part of Gods
gre, III earth.
O enable ourselves to develop this great
couu 1rv and build for ourselves comfortable
hom es under the roofs of which we might en-
iov he blessings and comforts of life and lib
ertv ,nr forefathers erected and bequeathed to
rs, a wee republican form of government, which
stood for century or more, as the idol of the
Aneric -al people. Under this government, our
people have prospered Our population has
increase d from three to seventy millions; pub
lie scho oils and other institutions of learning
have be en- established; railways constructed,
and facto ries, foundries and manufactures built
and put d successful operation
During she past fiscal year, the surplus pro-
ducts, pro auced by our people and exported to
other cou utries, exceeded our imports to the
extent of O yer six hundred million dollars.
WAR FOR HUMANITY.
Aud vet, in the face of all these benefcent
blessings; II the face of the fact that our gov
wa at peace with ali the world i'll the
lace of the unlimited natural resources and un-
Daralelled p rosperity, we find our government
all OF sudo en engaged in the savegery of war
"a war tn; ID cost many valuable lives and
countless mil lions of money. And all for what?
Humanity, @ they say; but that word has
beed heard since was declared.
Then, if not for lrimanity, for what are we
lighting? Thi Is is question that the Amer-
AN people sho Gtd seriously consider.
When we see Gur country plunged suddenly
nto war, witho ii any person being able to give
. valid reason therefor, and hear the present