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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
SELF CONDEMNATION.
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY BRA
zENLY CONFESSED.
After Their Long Record OF Professed
Friendship for Silver the Republicans
Now Throw Aside Even Their In
ternational BimctaIlism Prctence.

The National Republican League at
Omaha, on the 14th of July, 1898, un-
blushingly repudiated all their sham
pretences that they were in favor Of
bimetallism in any form. They said:
I'VE are uncompromisingly in favor
of the maintenance of the single gold
standard"
A party which has secured the de-
monetization of silver by continuous
declarations that they were in favor
of bimetallism now admits that its
whole career on that subject has been
base falsehood. The American peo-
pie are in favor of the use of both met
ais. The Republican party Is in favor
Of the use of only one. The Amer
lean people are in favor Of supply OF
money which will maintain stability
Of prices. The Republican party is
in favor of gold because 1t will de-
press prices and enhance the value OF
bonds. The American people are In
favor Of justice and an honest measure
Of value. The Republican party is In
favor OF injustice and a shrinking
measure of value. The American peo-
pie are in favor of an Independent
financial policy. The Republican
party is in favor Of the English gold
standard and opposed to everything
American. The American people are
patriotic. The Republican party con-
fesses in the resolution above quoted
that 1t is unpatriotic, in favor Of the
rich against the poor, in favor Of in
creasing the value of money and Of
bonds and decreasing the value Of
property.
We thank the Republican party for
pleading guilty and acknowledging
that it is opposed to everything it has
advocated in the last thirty years in
regard to finance. We are glad that
out of its own mouth the Republican
party is condemned as a falsifier. No
condemnation could have been equal
to the condemnation which the Re-
publican party by its authorized agents
has pronounced, and the American
people will never believe them again
when they say they are blmetallists.
The votes they get hereafter they will
have to get as monometallists, as ex-
tortionists, as contractionists, as stock
jobbers, as enemies of the welfare OF
the masses Of the people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
The Axe OF the Settler.

Thou conqueror OF the wilderness,
With keen and bloodless edge
Hail! TO the sturdy artisan
Who welded thee. bold wed9s.
Though the warrior deem the weapon
Fashioned only for the slave,
Yet the settler knows thee mighter
Than the tried Damascus glaiyc.
While desolation marketh
The course OF foemans brand.
Thy strong blow scatters plenty
And gladness through the land:
Chou opest the soil to culture.
To the sunlight and the dew;
And the village spire thou plantest
Where of old the forest grew.
When the broad sea rolled between then
Ard their own far native land.
Thou vert the faithful ally
OF the hardy pilgrim band.
They bore no warlike eagles,
No banners swept the sky;
Nor the clarion, like tempest.
Swclled its fearful notes on high.
But The ringing wild re-echoed
Thy bold, res.stless stroke,
Where, like incense, on the morning
Went up the cabin smoke'
The tall oaks bowed before thee'
Like reeds before the blast;
And the earth put forth in gladness
Where the axe In triumph passed.
Then hail thou noble conqueror.
That, when tyranny oppressed
:Iewed for our fathers from the VIII
A land wherein to rest:
Hail, to the power that giveth
Tho bounty Of the soil.
And freedom, and an honored name'
To the hardy sons of toll!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
POPULIST POINTS

days every year shooting game and
living in state at the villa to be erect
ed on 1t. Lackies and servants will
be in attendance, and the people will
be pushed off that part Of the earth
that the master may have his little
pleasures, just as have been the Irish
people by the landlords there. But
why not? What II he did get his
money by means Of secret bond deals
with the public enemies in New York
and London? Was not that his bust
ness? Can a man not do with his
own as he pleases? Let the game OF
royalty proceed. Let millions be turn
ed into game preserves and the people
turned into the highways and arrested
II they do not get off them. We are
a great and glorious nation. The
American eagle is a glorious bird, and
the people under 1t would never toll
crate royalty or oppression. No land
lordism shall ever be allowed to get
foothold in this grand country. Let
tho rich people hunt. They can afford It..
The working people would not know
what to do with their products If there
were not consumers who produced
nothing! Under Cleveland's blighting
influences British minister to Wash
ington put his stamp of approval on
the Democratic party. Thank God!
the party has recovered from the blight
of both
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
Much Religion, LittIo Christianity.

We have too many millionaires and
too many flnanciers and too few hon
est men; too many prisons and work.
houses. and not enough asylums; too
many professional politicians, and too
little wisdom too many bishops, and
too little humility; too much justice,
and far too little mercy. Yes, we have
too much greed, selfishness. malice,
vanity, pride. prejudice, ignorance,
fear and misery. No religion! Oh, yes,
my boy, l should think we have. Why.
this is near the end of the nineteenth
century Of the foundation Of the re-
ligion OF Christ. Religion! believe
you, my boy; why, the world has never
had so much religion-or SO little
Christianity. Well, the fact is, most
of our religious people have lost faith
in the teachings Of Christ. You see,
they can't make them square with our
competitive and commercial system.
Christianity, they say, is all very well
on Sunday; but it won't chime in with
business during the rest Of the week.
It's = pity, no doubt; but, of course.
when it comes to competition be-
tween them, Christianity is kept lock-
ed up in the churches and chapels,
while business takes possession of all
the rest of the world.-The Clarion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
Notes.

In Dundee, Ireland weavers are paid
S1.65 a week and many Of them have
families.
Forty thousand working women In
New York city are receiving wages so
low that they are compelled to accept
charity or do worse.
The multiplication Of telephones,
gas and water has already been accom-
plished in Amsterdam, the chief city
of Holland, and the municipal council
is now considering the question OF the
municipalization Of the street rail-
ways.
In Spain women work. About $500
are employed in mines; the state tobac-
CO factories give work to about 25,0O0,
and lace making engages 5000. They
may even be found engaged in the
manufacture Of dynamite and gunpow-
der
In one factory Of Detroit, Mich,
Is a machine on which boy not over
Is or 16 years old is doing the work
which, until recently, required six
men, working by hand. The boy gets
81 per week. The six men, who we're
of necessity capable mechanics, could
not be had for less than $3.50 q day,
or 50 a week each.
A decision was rendered by the Unit
ed States supreme court recently al
firming the validity Of the South Caro-
lima dispensary system in its essential
features. Three judges dissented, but
a substantial majority Of the court
accepts the view that a state has a
right to conduct the liquor traffic on
it's own account as an exclusive state
monopoly, subject only to the qualifi-
cation that citizen may import IL
quors from beyond the state for his In
dividual use without interference from
the state. The decision is Of import
ance as establishing the right of a state
to set up and conduct, not only pub
lie liquor monopoly, but any industrial
monopoly.
Harper's Weekly says: 1.-THE strike OF
the engineers In England is over, and
the men have been defeated. In their
defeat Is involved that Of trade union
ism, for the employers insisted on the
right to manage their own business in
their own way, and, after most ex-
traordinary struggle lasting six months
the men have practically surrendered.
One thing the English capitalists, and
all capitalists everywhere, should bear
in mind. The inevitable tendency OF
a strike like this is to strengthen the
socialist movement. The workingmen
will reason that IL they cannot bring
their employers to terms by negotia-
tions, or even by striking, they will try
to accomplish their object by leglsla-
ton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
A Great Gun for Peoples Rule.

Senator Frank ]. Cannon, although
elected as a Republican, has written
to a direct-legislation club in Salt
Lake that he favors election Of SEN
ators, the United States Supreme
Court and the president by the people,
the abolition of nominating conven-
lions for the president Chat being
"the place where corruption begins')
the initiative and the referendum.
That shows how party lines keep good
men apart. We would rather ten
times over vote for such man than
for any alleged Democrat who does
not believe in these things, however
much he might concur with us on cur
rency, tariff, government railroads,
municipal ownership, ETC.; for with
the initiative all these things would
be placed within the grasp of the peo-
pie whenever they become intelligent
enough to want them, as they would
be very quickly. But without 1t they
might want for them for a century
and be powerless to obtain them.
There should be realignment of the
progressive forces on the lines of COM
plete democracy in methods, without
regard to measures. Such move
ment, even on our present idiotic cleo
toral system, with an adverse leverage
of ten to one against us, would sweep
away all obstacles to complete democ-
racy. That once achieved, the minor
differences would be quietly and
speedily settled. Senator Cannon, you
are of the elect.-San Francisco Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

The Cuban soldiers refuse to work,
saying they are soldiers. not laborers.
That kind of pride Is the moro absurd
in view OF their rags and their de-
pendence on this government for food.
The American soldier is infinitely bet
ter off, but he is not too proud to throw
UP the intrenchments and build the
bridges necessary to his own safety;
and SO Of the soldiers Of every other
government. 1t is pity that these
men, whose sufferings have won the
sympathy of the world. should prove
themselves to be little better for any
practical purposes than so many over
grown children.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
Unique and Expensive Books.

There are many rare and costly
books in the world, but the most ex-
pensive of all are certain copies of re-
ligious books A copy of the Koran,
now in the possession of the Shah OF
Persia. is worth one hundred and TWEEN
ty-flve thousand dollars. Its parch-
ment sheets are bound in solid gold
coaer an eighth Of all inch in thick
ness, with a silver lining equally thick.
The golden cover is decorated with
precious stones in the form of cres-
cent. One hundred and nine diamonds,
one hundred and sixty-seven pearls,
and one hundred and twenty-five
rubies make up the brilliant decora-
ton. BY the side of this book the
Churchman places a copy of the Bible,
as one among the costliest books OF
the world. At the present time it has
no price, for money would not buy it.
It is a Hebrew version now in the
Vatican. AS long ago as 1912 Julius
II. refused to part with 1t for its weight
in gold. There is, in the library at
Gottingen, a unique Bible written on
five thousand three hundred and sew
enty-three palm leaves. Amongst I'M
common religious books must be
classed the edition of the Bible used
by the Oxford University Press. 1t is
only one and three-quarters inches in
length, and one and seven-eighths in
breadth. 1t has to be read by means
of a magnifying glass, and one is given
with this tiny Bible for two shillings
and threepence, or fifty-six cents. The
Marquis of Dufferin has small vol
ume one-half the size of a postage
stamp. 1t is an edition Of the sacred
book of the Sikhs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
The Word Dollar.

Dollar is word that has passed
through various forms. 1t was thai
thaler, dahler, daalder, daler and tai
lero. 1t originally came from Thai
a town in Bohemia. Here coins of an
ounce in weight were made. They
were called Joachims thalcr or Sch
licken thaler. So popular did these
coins become that they gave their
name to those that came after them.
Their manufacture dates from about
the year 1913.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
A correspondent in Connecticut sends

y A correspondent in Connecticut sends
an account of his own experience with
a savings bank deposit. When small
boy, in March, 1S47, he deposited five
dollars in the New London savings
bank, and in July, 1848, an equal num-
Nothing has been withdrawn or de-
posted since that time. In 1870 the
amount to his credit was $32.10; in
1882 it was 1880; in 1888 it had
reached $91.7O; in June, this year, the
original ten dollars has become $136.0S.
But where does the extra money come
from? 1t is not the money added to
the country's medium Of exchange.
Then it follows that somebody Ia being
Soaked"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

No good housewife is without her
own special and favorite disinfectant.
A simple and effective one may be
made Of charcoal, mixed with clear
water. Speaking of charcoal, it is
well to remark that little Of it
sprinkled in water containing cut
flowers will keep the water fresh for
some time.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

A tailor accidently swallowed
needle and died as result of the in
fammation. Little things frequently
have great power, as is seen in few
doses of the famous Hostetters Stom-
act Bitters, which, however, has an
entirely different effect. The Bitters
make nervous, weak and sickly per.
sons we'll and strong again.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
Honey In Cookery

Is far more useful than sugar where It
can be obtained. In rice pudding.
tablespoonful of honey in the place of
sugar will give a delicate taste. 1t is
also very good to flavor gruels In hot
weather there is nothing SO healthful
and refreshing as an occasional glass
of lemonade swectened with honey.
Eaten on bread it is a good change
from butter for children.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
Cake Icing.

To make a fine cake icing, take
cupful of but ter, two cupfuls Of sugar.
three cupfuls of flour, one cupful OF
milk, four eggs well beaten. one
spoonful of soda and two teaspoonfuls
Of cream of tartar. This mixture may
be placed between the layers and on
the top and sides of the cake.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Clean blood makes clean skin. No
beauty Without 1t. Cascarets. Candy Cathar-
tics cleanses your blood and keeps 1t clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all inn
Danish pimples, boils, blotches. blackheads,
ind that sickly bilious complexion BY taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c CSC. 5oS
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

The expulsion Of lola from the le
gion of honor indicates that that body
is rather legion Of corrupt men; and
1t can less afford to be without lola
than he can afford to have anything to
do with 1t.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

american Export Trade Double That OF
the Imports-Priocs Received Therefor
Arc Growing Lower and lower So
THAT the Excess Amounts to Nothing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Now If Spain would only leave that
Cuban debt out over night in the vicin-
ity of Santiago it could be readily dis
posed of. The Cubans would carry it
OF before morning, hoof, hide and tai
low,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Lay piece of brown paper on the
table, lay your silk on it, cover the
spot with French chalk, cover this
with another piece of brown paper
and place a warm iron on it; keep
changing the chalk as 1t absorbs the
grease; it will remove it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
To Remove Mildew.

Lemon juice, mixed with an equal
weight OF salt, powdered starch and
soft soap. Rub on thiclkly and lay on
the grass in the hot sun, renewing the
application two or three times day
until the spot fades or comes out.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Cleveland the Fat has bought one
thousand acres of ground in New Jer-
sey for game preserve, where he and
few Of his friends may spend few
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Now that Hawaii has been annexed
to the United States, Industrial condl-
tions there have become invested with
new iatarest Hawaii is probably rot
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

According to New York dispatches
Internal Revenue Collector Treat OF
New York city has received a number
of important decisions, one OF which
will set at rest professional differ
ence of some weeks standing between
a number OF large banking houses and
the revenue officers. The question was
whether or not the acceptance of a
draft acceptanced by an order upon
bank to pay the same should have a
2-cent stamp affixed. The collector rul-
ed that it should and many banks ac-
ccpted this ruling. Some, however, dis
puted II and have not required that ac-
Hcentance be stamped. The commission
er's ruling Is as follows: Drafts
drawn upon or issued by any bank,
trust company, or any person or per-
sons. companies or corporations, re-
uuire stamp, and If the acceptance is
accompanied by an order to the bank
To nav the same and charge to the
amount of the drawee, this accompany
ing order requires 2-cent stamp as an
order for the payment of money" The
following question was recently for
,warded to the commissioner: Where
a mortgage, executed in duplicate, Is
recorded in various counties and states.
must a stamp be affixed to each mort
gage duplicate" A dispatch In reply
saws: "a mortgage cannot be lawfully
recorded in any county unless 1t is duly
stamped, therefore duplicate mort
cages must be stamped"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

In saying that he is not ashamed OF
anything he has said, Professor Nor
ton shows conclusively that he is still
that kind of man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

1t is good to reflect that Spain will
send no more soldiers over here. 1t
costs SO much to send the survivors
back.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
PROSPERITY NOTES.

The employees Of the electric llgh'
and telephone companies have struck
in st. Louis. They want more pros
perity. If the city owned these plants
it could pay these men 81 per day
they ask for Sand charge their GUS
toners about half the present price.
Charles Binder, st. Louis cooper,
got out OF work in spite Of the good
times Dun and Bradstreet tell about.
Finally, after much consideration, he
chose the pistol route into the king
dom come. The competitive system
is the only one that furnishes in
centive."
The Pennsylvania railroad monopoly
has just discharged 1873 men fifty years
Of age or over at Altoona, Pa. They
have been thrown upon the scrap-heap
like so much WORKOUT old iron. They
vote to uphold the system that makes
such heartlessness possible - Labor
Leader.
Wages are being reduced 10 per cent
in the plants of the American Steel
and Wire company, otherwise known
as the nail trust. 1t Is not so much
on account of Mr.. Dingley's higher
tariff, perhaps, as on account of those
famous Economies in production"
which trusts are wont to practice in
their efforts to give higher prices to
the public.-Springfleld, Mass, Repub-
lican.
A mass-meeting of workingmen was
held at Anderson, Ind. It seems that
the wire nail trust had just delivered
its Anderson employees blow on the
solar plexus of their pocketbook. Forty
per cent reduction in wages In some
not less than 10 per cent In any. Too
much war prosperity. Everything
gone up but wages-they're travelling
in the other direction. So the other
workingmen held a mass-meeting and
appointed a committee to treat with
the trust officers" which means that
the intelligent. patriotic, liberty-lovers
will whine around to the officers about
"big families" and rent to pay" and
"cost Of living" and good wages
means good work." and they will
promise to do more work than they
ever did before, If their wages only be
left intact. But the story is one the
officers have oft heard before. They
were not cut of their heads when they
made the reduction. They know
that it will deprive their employees oil
necessities. but there are dividends to
pay on watered stock, which are also
ecessities-necessities to some one
more important than the meek and
lowly laborer-the stakeholder.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Nine times out of ten the man who is
let in on the ground floor of scheme
Hands in the cellar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

A man gets the last word in an ar
gument with woman, but it's because
she gives 1t to him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Some women attract attention SIM
ply because they make no effort to at
tract 1t.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

! There is nothing new under the sun
except SPANS introduction Of barbed
wire as a munition of war;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Lots of people are too conscientious
TO lie and yet manage to suppress the
truth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Boarding houses are necessary evils
intended to convince bachelors that
they should have homes of their own.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

In q woman's novel, the first should
be last and the last first.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

Rich bachelors never realize how well
on they were until after marrying.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09
But few people who are born fools
ever succeed in living 1t down.

Whenever a man fails in an under
taxing he attributes 1t to fatalism.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

irs q wise girl that Is able to analyzs
her own complexion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-09

The American soldiers, according to
hhe London Saturday Review, whipped
his English cousin because he shot
markedly better and won astonishing
victories" We could have sworn that
that was the very reason; but, be-
,yond that, he is generally volunteer
and fights as he prays. We have the
grandest standing army in the world,
for the reason that every citizen is q
soldier and ready to act Whenever
patriotism calls. And he supports HIM
self, at the same time that ne coHTio-
utes money to the expense of the gov
eminent.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-10-10
Boy Wanted.

THE DAILY CHIEFTAIN wants an
active boy in every town in the North
ern district to solicit subscribers, de-
liver the paper daily, collect 10 cents
a week from each customer at the end
of the week and remit half to the Of
flee. 1t is pretty small town in
which a boy cannot secure 20 persons,
during term Of court particularly, who
want the news. daily. Twenty sub
scribers would pay the person securing
them a dollar a week.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-10-10
Gone to the Army,

The libel case against Thomas A.
Latta has been continued generally.
Latta, it will be remembered, tele-
graphcd a Kansas City paper year or
two ago, story of the killing of j.
Matt Yocum at Oolagah, duplicating
c. V. Rogers, Yocum's father-in-law.
The story was pure fabrication with
out semblance Of truth, and Rogers
indicted Latta for 1t. Latta has
joined the army and is in Oklahoma.