Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-13
Draws Vivid Picture of the Corruption that is Devourne
the Vtdls of Free Government

thirty-five years later we behold q Re-
publican successor of Lincoln nodding as
sent to doctrine which characterizes the
above utterance Of the great martyr
President as a specious form of bias.
phemy. Yea, Hamiltonism fits these
times. Jefferson and Lincoln stood OH
the platform of the common people and
as the light of Jefferson wanes the work
of the great liberator passes into the
shadow.
Oucon and President.
About two months ago the New York
Chamber of Commerce gave banquet.
and the president of that body asked the
! assembled guests to drink to the health
OF the British Queen before drinking the
health of the President of the United
States, and 1t was done. He said the
President would consent to this If he
was there. To be sure. this will not
shake our Republic; but 1t does show
the tendency of thought among certain
classes 1t shows that the stock jobbers
the spectators and the financial wolves
have no more love for our institutions
| today than they had in 1776, when they
sided with England. or 1861, when they
sided with the Confederacy.
M,udlin Talk of Anglo American Al
lance.
From the same source comes the maud
lin talk of an alliance with England We
are to repeat the experience of the lamb
and lie down with the lion. and we have
toadies and flunkeys in America who
would consider it privilege to lie down
inside Of the lion.
How to Call Halt.
But. say you, these things are not new
to US; tell us what to do. My friends,
no mortal can tell you in advance. In
all great conflicts the first thing Is to as
certain the principle involved and the
ultimate object aimed at. The campaign
VIII then be shaped by conditions and
events. We wish to prevent the enslave-
ment of our people and the establishment
of an aristocracy We see that no aris-
tocracy, either of birth or wealth, can
be established or maintained where the
great masses are prosperous and inde-
pendent. 1t can exist only amid cheap
property, cheap labor and cheap men. A
cowed and a poor people are the soil in
which 1t grows. When they gave us a
financial system which paralyZed our
country. which cheapened property.
which crushed labor and which cheap
ened manhood and destroyed independ-
ence, they laid the first stone for an
American aristocracy. If these conditions
are to continue, then the star of the Re-
public has set. But II we can overthrow
this system, IL we can re-establish bimet
alism, II we can found a scientific mon
etary system and restore the price of
products and of property. II we can raise
the spirit of labor and renew the inde-
pendence of the masses. then the begin
ming of the next century will crush this
aristocracy to atoms and cast 1t to the
four winds, and liberated people, bow
ing only to the God who made Them will
leap forward with a joy that shall glad
den the earth. You see the money ques-
ton confronts us at the door. 1t Is not
Of our choosing. We cannot make issues.
Issues grow out Of wrong-grow out of
injustice. grow out of human suffering
towards and weaklings evade them, but
men must meet them.
The Financial Question.
Other great questions vital to our exist
ence have been evolved by the age and
must be met. But the financial question
is basic and central 1t Is the mother of
a whole brood of evils. The financial
spectators of the east of Europe want |
the absolute power to control average
prices. Therefore they want silver and
greenbacks wiped out SO as to make |
everything rest on gold-this they can
easily corner-then with a monopoly of |
issuing naner money thew can connantr.ta
everytbjne into a faw beds g.,
Gigantic hanks can then contro, VIZ,
1t suits their speculative purposes they /
can eynand and raise nrjces ond 49,
contract and lower nrjces and tL,,s oatot |
tho country coming and goinr mise
Great and unscrupuIous interes9s oin,a,,s |
move secretly and in the darl, Tbsy
bridge every chasm with n bride and |
eaten the Poii.ieai M hisnway man with an
oIiic,ai uilioii me suiu standard mas
never crawl an Ion .s, plea.h nor taken
an hones. s.ep IN en's country, ana lts
success 50 Ia SHOWS Tue Nvnaiity ana
'he apos'aoy VI Aiieiicah poii'ic'ahs'
Ratio of Metals.
What about 1s TO - weu NV Friends
!. "a not In orr nover to chonaa this.
~ ,s imnossib,e to Get anvthine along nn,,
other line CHANCE the ratio and tho
whole case diasoIves To he sure theo-
retica,lv This is NOT so bnt we have IN |.
deaI with fe,rfu,Iv sad facts For tvon,
~ yoors botb ~ tho rreot rort,os a.
norncod tho go,d stordord ard dar,o,5oa
the rrea oo;pora Of siI,,or a. tho ia
ratio n Looked nc irthe ouostion Iyou,d
he so,t,nd IN 81 hnt ;nstood ~ a,oid
standard GOT n,ora anvil. sootad -, .ho