Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
UNITED WE STAND.
ORGANIZATION Is ALL THAT Is
REQUIRED,
The OthSy yMiows Are DOiaS It
Some Excellent Suggestions from
Walter vrooman's New Democracy
How to Free Ourselves.

We clip the following from Walter
Vrooman's New Democracy:
The union of those who profit by tyr
amy necesstates the union Of all who
believe in liberty. The information
alism of millionaires is creating an
internationalsm Of the common peo-
pie. The situation is being so sim
plified that all may comprehend clearly
two forces, whose conflict extends over
the modern world. All minor and Sec
ondary divisions and issues are swal-
lowed up. The international aspect OF
the problem does not, as one might at
first suppose, confuse the mind, but,
on the other hand, simplifies the issue,
so that none can mistake concerning
1t. Old prejudice. reverence for party
names, sectional hatreds, sores left by
historic feuds, religious differences and
affiliations with local political ma
chimes, in which self or friends are in
terested selfishly, all tend to cover up
the real issues, when only the local
end of the fight is studied.
When the nature of the present world
conflict is understood, those who IA
vor the peoples cause will cease to re-
ceive any further instruction or advice
whatever from their enemies or the
allies or agents of their enemies.
II America declared open war upon
Britain should we put the slightest
confidence in any statement emanat-
ing from English sources as to the best
line Of attack? Is 1t not a rule of war
always to fire in the direction oppo-
site to that advised by your enemies?
In all business and other practical af-
fairs of life is it not universally rec
ognized as the extreme Of folly to ac-
cept as facts the statements OF those
who may profit by our discontinue?
Most assuredly! And it Is time for
the merchants and workingmen of
America to apply to their political
struggle these simple maxims so well
established elsewhere.
would ask the workingmen Of the
country who are rapidly leaving the
churches not to Judge the clergy
harshly, because the majority are dumb
in your behalf and because few open
ly and blatantly champion the cause
of the oppressors.
But I must also ask you to place no
confidence in their testimony in this
political trial, for their lips often utter
words their hearts fain would with
hold, and they often pray for sue
cess to the banner for which they can
not fight.
Let us not condemn them because
they are bound with chains of depend
ence, but let us rather include them
among those whom we shall liberate
when we establish a political system
which shall set all men free.
| Many clergymen have told me how
their hearts have bled for the victims
| of social injustice; how in anguish they
have wept over the piteous cries for
help uttered by their dying brothers
and sisters in Jesus Christ; how, burst
ing with Indignation, they have longed
to strike blow against the brutality
that brushes Christ's little ones in Or
der to grind from their bones and
blood colossal and unnatural fortunes.
But they said, eve must conceal our
tears and swallow our indignation,
though it chokes us. We dare not
speak out-we could neither destroy the
tyrant nor save the victims. We would
only succeed in dragging down our
our wives and little ones into that
that dark stream of poverty from which
those who have fallen in can never
hope to rise. First of all, we must live
and then do what little we can to
temper the reign of injustice and OPP
preston. The overthrow and destruc-
ton of this system of injustice rests
upon the shoulders of God and the com
mon people"