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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

A Polish laborer in Honolulu writes
to a socialist paper in Austrian Poland
describing how he and forty others fell
into the legal slavery-sanctioned by
the U. s. senate-of the Sandwich Is
land labor laws. The German agents
at Bremen, he said, sold them to the
Austrian consul at Honolulu. When
they proved unable to do the work they
were imprisoned. On the plantations
they were starved, housed with the
horses, beaten and driven back to work
by dogs. The men beg to be rescued
London Clarion.
Lawrence, Kan, has just been. touch
ed lightly on the fifth rib again by the
trust. They had horse collar factory
there. The trust offered to buy the
owner out, but being an enterprislng
gentleman who still believed In COM
petition he refused to sell. He pro-
posed to do business in spite of the
trust He would show them a few
tricks with holes in them, so he would
And in the midst of his defiance the
trust gently but firmly laid him down
upon his back. In other words, after
the gent refused to sell to the trust,
he could buy no more material to make
horse collars. So he had to close up
and didn't get cent.
The National Harness Review of Chi
cago. May 10, says that large traffic
has grown up in England in tanning
human skins for belts, card cases, ETC.,
and is obtained from the unclaimed
bodies of the poor. Here is an open
ing for the American capitalists. Many
people suffering from an abundance OF
prosperity produced by competition
might get few pennies by selling their
hides. And we live in the most civil
lied epoch of the worlds history!
Perhaps the reason why Aguinaldo
and his Filipino brethren kick so hard
against the march of civilization Is be-
cause they see poverty, starvation
drudgery, the Migrants cell, drunken
ness. crime and prostitution coming
hand in hand with it.-Pueblo Courier.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
M ALAYAN TRAITS.
Points of Character of tho Philippine
Islanders.


Points of Character of tho Philippine
Islanders.
The Malay race is impassive, re-
served, and even bashful, so that, I'M
til one knows the race better, one can
scarcely credit his bloodthirsty repu-
tation. The Malay is entirely unde-
monstrative. If he has any feelings Of
surprise he never shows them Per-
haps he experiences none, no matter
how wonderful the sight which meets
his gaze. He is slow and deliberate in
speech, and circumlocutory in intro
ducing subject to be discussed. Even
the children and women are timid, and
scream at the sight Of European.
are silent and taciturn. Even when
alone the Malay neither talks nor
sings, in this respect differing much
from the Papuan, who has all the ne
himself for company. Overpay Malay
for some trifle and his countenance
betrays no sign of emotion; Papuan
will be grave for moment out OF per-
feet establishment at the mistake made,
and then burst into peals of grinning
laughter, while he bends in two, and
finally rolls on the ground in ecstasies
of merriment. The Malays, when in
company in canoe, chant plaintive,
monotonous song; at other times they
are silent. The Malay is cautious Of
giving offense to any one, and accord
ingly will hesitate to quarrel about
money matters, and rather abandon a
just debt due to him than to run the
risk of a feud with his equals. In his
ordinary life he is as impassive as a
typical Scot, and as fond of all the nil
admirar line of conduct as the Amer
lean Indian, though, unlike him, the
Malay does not dissemble his feelings
or play part. He has really little, IL
any appreciation of humor, and does
not understand a practical jest. To all
breaches Of etiquette he is very sensi-
tive, and equally jealous Of any inter-
ference with his own or any one else's
liberty. To such an extent does he
carry this idea that Malay servant
will hesitate to waken another, even
his own master, though told to do so.
The higher classes are exceedingly po-
lite, possessing all the repose and quiet
dignity of the best-bred Europeans.
There is, however, another side to the
character of the Malay. He is reck-
less, cruel and careless Of human life;
possesses but poor intellect, and has
neither taste for knowledge nor any in
digenous civilization.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
Farming the Farmers.

The Wall Street News, May IL, re-
ferring to the stock of the Burlington
as not likely to suffer because of short
crops in Nebraska, says in defense OF
its position: "The cost Of producing a
bushel of corn in Nebraska is 1O.7c.;
oats, 1896; wheat on car exclusive
of ground remit tic. bushel." You
see these Wall street fellows know
more about the cost of farming than
the farmers themselves, and they know
how to arrange the railroad and ele-
vator charges so as to leave the farm
err Just enough to keep him from &C
tually starving so he can produce more
slave products next year, says the APP
peal to Reason. These figures show
that they do not intend to allow the
farmers anything for the capital in
vested in farming, but the capitalists
get interest on all their capital. 1t is
an easy thing to farm the farmers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
possiblv of the Worlds FaIr at Chi

possibly, OF the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago. 1t will also be the first expo
sition ever designed, to afford lnfor-
nation on n practical, tangible ques-
ton. No citizen will be fully equipped
to best exercise the privilege of suf-
frage in the solution OF the great
pending question of expansion until
he has seen the colonial exhibits at the
exposition and has studied the people.
products and resources of the lands
acquired through the war with Spain.
Several departments of the federal
government, notably the war and agri-
cultural departments, are lending ma!
terial assistance in the collection OF
comprehensive exhibits from these
countries.
A contract has been closed with the
the Pain Fireworks company OF Chi
cago for twenty marvelously brilliant
spectacular performances during thd
first two months of the exposition.
1.-THE Fall of Manila" and "The De-
struction of Cerveras Fleet" will bo
reproduced with elaborate scenery.
realistic pyrotechnic effects, splendid
costuming and grand Examinations
Over 300 people will participate. The
stage around which the scenery Will
be set will be 100 feet long and 80 feet
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
FISH GRANDFATHER CAUGHT.
Al Old, Old story with Gone Modern
Variations.

Al Old, Old story with Goue Modern
Variations.
Colson is q star at tellinA Ilsh stories,
out he isn't a marker to TIA man we
met in a canoe off TwiA Island says tho
Lewiston Journal. Ha was evidently
an Oxford bear and he greeted US
pleasantly as We pulled by.
what luck?" we asked.
"Nuthin' much" he answered.
"Ain't very good fishin," Clipped In
Colson.
"Good?" he grunted, turning so that
he could keep alongside us and carry
on the conversation. Good? I should
say it want. You ought to hev seen
this here pond when my father was
young Teller. Lord bless we, We don't
know nuthin' bout fishin'. How big
fish did you ever ketch?"
Three pounds" said I, truthfully.
mine pounds" said Colson.
Mine pounds" repeated the native.
scornfully. Mine pounds! Why, I've
heard my grandfather tell bout their
using nine-pounders fer bait! Them
wuz the days when fishin' wuz fishin'.
The lake wuz so dern full of fish then
that the farmers never used to buy
grain fer the hens. lister set nets an
catch fish fer 'em. Some of my grand
fathers hens got so they'd catch their
| own fish. Grandfather says he parnt
the ducks how, an they iarnt the hens.
THAT seems tol'able strange, know,
but I've hearn grandfather say as how
his father lister feed out fish to the
cows. They rarnt to like 1t better'n
| hay, an as there wasn't much hay
raised them days 1t were great saw
in. Only trouble wuz the cows couldn't
| pick out the bones, an they ulster work
| down along with the milk and stick
into feller's fingers when he were
milkin'.
Them wuz days when there WIZ
some fun goin' fishin'. They never'd
never think of takin home fish that
weighed under fifty pounds. Some OF
them big WALLPAPERS ulster fight like
time. I've hearn grandfather tell
about bein' out when they'd hooked
onto big Teller and brought him up
to the side Of the boat. He was ugly
and wuz fer comm right into the boat
an settlin' things. T'other two fellers
wuz scairt, but granddad he just pulled
out a big revolver he always carried
an shot that fish right plumb through
the head.
"Granddad said it wuz pretty close
call, but he wuz prudent fellow,
granddad wuz, an he never went fishin'
without bein' armed"
Colson had been listening with rapt
attention. AS the native concluded he
took off his hat deferentially.
II am something of liar myself"
he said, and l rowed away.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
Direct Legislation.

New Era Standard, Kearney, Neb..
Direct legislation is the only salvation
of the people from the grasping power
of corporations in the direction of our
government Direct legislation re-
moves the middle man between the
voter and his desire into law. A ma
jority expression on the adoption OF
new law is thus known prior to adop-
ton. BY direct legislation we can dc
tate the laws, while under the present
system of elections the middle men
state senators and representatives
follow their own dictates in voting for
or against enactment Of law. ma
jority vote is required to elect candl-
date for Office. Why should not ma
jority vote designate any particular law
for enactment? Why should the peo-
pie be taxed outrageously high for alb
solute necessaries of life, when less
money paid into city treasury gives
the taxpayers just as good gas, water
telegraph, telephone, electric light or
railroad service? The people are the
government. The franchises they in
their blindness have voted away they
should absolutely own, and can, there
fore, operate them in their own inter-
ests. If the people will only get to-
gether on direct legislation they can
easily wipe trustism and corporate
monopoly out of existence. No one man,
no corporation, no trust can long ex-
list If a majority Of the people annie
ably get together and assert their
rights as regards direct legislation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

The Oakland Enquirer asks: "How
can the people be taught to respect the
laws they themselves have nader"
This recalls King Charles celebrated
poser to the Academy Of Sciences:
"Why is it that if you put fish in a
vessel Of water it will weigh no more
than 1t did previously" After the
scientists had exhausted their ingenu-
ity in solutions, the king asked them
If they were sure of the fact. Now,
we don't ask the Enquirer that ques-
ton, but simply deny that the people
either make or administer their own
laws.-San Francisco Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
rs NOTHING WRONG?
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAOE ON
MONOPOLY.
" Sermon Filled with Hot Shot for tho
Plutocrats - Monopoly the Bribe-
Oliver, the Thief, the Wholesale OPP
pressor.

The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmase weekly
breaches to larger congregation than
any clergyman on earth, owing to the
fact that his sermons are published in
null by thousands OF American newspa-
pers. One Of the great dailies that has
not failed for years to print Taimage's
weekly sermon is that bulwark Of plu-
tocracy, the st. Louis Globe-Democrat,
and the following extract from one OF
Rev. Talmage's recent sermons was
clipped from that paper. Never before
did the Globe-Democrat admit to Its
columns such scathing denunciation
of monopolies and the monopoly rule
which it is that papers chosen policy to
uphold.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23


The statesman was in an agitated
frame of mind.
So was the explolter.
Both paced uneasily up and down the
corridors of time.
whats troubling your" asked the
statesman.
The exploiter leaned against the wall
"The unemployed" he gasped.
The statesman turned pale.
What of them?" he cried.
The exploiter recovered the use of
his limbs with mighty effort.
He said:
What will we do with the unem-
ployed"
The statesman laughed bitterly.
you've got the wrong pig by the
ear" he replied. What will the I'M
employed do with u.s."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

When Richard Wagner declared his
faith that the people would be the ar
fists of the future, and that from the
most absolute democracy the true mu-
sic would come, his critics pointed to
the multitudes as a conclusive answer.
This mob" he said in reply, is in no
wise normal product of real human
nature, but is, instead, the ortihclal
product Of your unnatural culture; all
the crimes and horrors which you ma
so repulsive in this mob are only des-
perate incidents of the war which real
human nature is waging against its
cruel ppressor-modern civilization
From possessions" he says, which
have become private property, and
which now. strangely enough, are re-
garded as the very foundation of good
order, spring all the crimes, both OF
myth and of history"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
MINES AND MINING BUILDING.
American ingenuity and handicraft

American ingenuity and handicraft
will be more graphically shown in the
manufacturing exhibits than at any OF
the expositions Of the past. Some OF
the novelties promised are mentioned
The Allen Chester Silk company OF
Patterson, N. j., will have in full oper-
alton every day three looms and 6
spooling machine. The same which
took the gold medal at the Worlds
Fair. One loom will manufacture white
silk ribbon badges bearing colored pic
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
|THE GREATER AMERICA
How It il to Be Shown In the Forth.
coming Exposition.
TURNSTILtS MOVE JULY l, 1899.
At This Time the Masses Can Pass into
The Beautiful Grounds and View What
Has Been Gathered From AL Sections
of the Country for Their Edification
And Delight.

Any intimation or suspicion that the
Greater America Exposition, to be held
at Omaha, beginning July 1 and con-
tinuing four months, may fail or prove
aught but a perfect success in point of
attractiveness, educational worth or
actual attendance, is wholly without
foundation in fact or reason. The
conservative, careful men of wealth
who have carried this project forward
have not expended over 100000 with
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

ports. The governmental departments
are manifesting an interest In this
enterprise that ensures it successful
opening should other resources fail.
Above all the people of the country
are manifesting an intense curiosity
concerning the colonial exhibits,
which, in view of the great question
now pending as to the policy to be
pursued in the dispositions Of landa
acquired through the war with Spain
will come as a response to the prayers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

deep, and the lake for the naval opera
tions will be 300 feet long and 70
broad. Performances will be given
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays OF
each week. Following each perform
ance will be given grand display
of fireworks, including fifty-one spe-
cialties, all of which are novel. These
displays will far surpass anything ever
seen in the west.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

lures of President Mckinley, Vice
President Hobart, officers of the expo
sition and other celebrities. Another
will weave silk handkerchiefs bearing
pictures of exposition buildings and a
third will turn out fine silk dress
goods.
The concessions being granted for
Midway attractions at the Greater
America Exposition at Omaha this
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
The New English Policy.

The British government has given
an American firm the contract for a
large bridge to be erected in the Sou
dan. All the locomotives for that coun-
try will be built in American shops.
The process of making America the
workshop Of the world" and England
the paradise Of the rich is setting in
Appeal to Reason.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
No Cause for Doubt.

I'm afraid l won't be able to get
through" faltered the young knight.
preparing for his first tourney.
"Never fear!" grinned his opponent.
as he playfully poised his lance, I'll
run you through. Answers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

the possibility of seeing it wholly lost,
Every dollar needed to insure tho
complete and emphatic success of this
great enterprise will be forthcoming
with practically as much certainty as
If 1t were now in the exposition treas
ury The colonial exhibits planned
as the basic feature of the enterprise
are being collected and will be landed
In this country by government trans
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

I never could believe that Provi-
dence had sent few men into the
world, ready booted and spurred to
ride, and millions ready saddled and
bridled to be ridden.-Richard Rum
bold, on the scaffold, 1855.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
Not Much Warmth.

well, went to see my rich uncle
N see If he would help me-" said Squil-
dig. "Did he receive you warmly"
asked McSwilllgen. eyes; lukewarm-
ly."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

1899 will be the first in history In
which large appropriations of taxpay-
ers' money have not been asked from
public treasures, and it will eclips,
In magnitude and attractiveness any o!
its predecessors, with the exception
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

of a perplexed people for additional
light and information on a subject
needing calculation. Special features
of great interest to every citizen OF
the republic are being planned, and
before the fall of 1899 has passed into
history the pilgrimage of the preced-
ing year to Omaha will have been re-
enacted.
The Greater America Exposition for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

Henry Georges teaching in a nut
shell: To deprive men Of the power to
take what belongs to others.-Mel-
bourne (Aust.) Beacon.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

Mr.. Rockefeller claims that he re-
ceived his colossal wealth as gift
from God. would like to examine the
witnesses to that transaction.-Debs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

The use of the law as the instrument
of social injustice and industrial law
lessness Is a form Of anarchy from
which our nation urgently needs re-
demption.-Herron.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
WORDS OF THE WISE.

1t has often been said that corpora
lions have no souls, and the same Is
still more true of the governments OF
our day.-Alfred Russell Wallace.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

When the people are tired of fighting
and devouring one another, and OF be-
ing robbed, skinned, and cast into the
ditch to starve and die, they can try
cooperative and brotherhood for
change. The change can't hurt and
may help them.-Humanity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

America Is "pacifying' the Phil
ippine islanders on the same plan that
Spain pursued, only as we have better
troops we are able to kill them faster
The New Era.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

Next year Is destined to be Populist
year. The anti-monopoly forces Will
not everywhere carry the Populist flag
but the battle all along the line will be
for Populist as against plutocratic prin-
ciples, with Bryan as the popular lead
err. And it will be winning hight
The tactics during the coming year OF
the combined usurers and trusts Will
make a political ground swell inevl-
table
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

summer already exceed those Of the
Trans Mississippi Exposition. Care
has been exercised to permit only the
most interesting novelties to get o
footing on this years cosmopolitan
Midway.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

the great preacher. Yet large major
ity Of the voters, and thousands Of Re-
publicans, will affirm that all OF Tai
mage's charges against monopolism are
true, and that the situation is fully as
serious as he represents. The asser-
ton OF the monopoly owned daily
newspapers that nothing is wrong Is
not accepted by the masses Of the peo-
Pile.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

But what Is to be done? Can DR..
Talmage and the rest of the American
citizens reasonably expect a politlcai
party controlled by such bosses as
Hanna, Plat and Quay, and which In
cludes in its membership every large
monopolist, to destroy monopoly? Can
we expect any help from the pot-house
and gambling house politicians OF New
York and Chicago, by whatever polit-
ical name they may call themselves?
Shall we allow Wall street to draft the
plans for our campaign against mon
opoly?
Such men as DR.. Talmage, Gov. Pin
gree and Mayor Jones Of Toledo all
vote the Republican ticket-as yet. III
they are honest and intelligent men
they can never vote 1t again, as the
monopoly control of that party is be-
coming too apparent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

Our growing commerce with the new
possessions in the far Pacific is most
encouraging. Our exports this month
to the Philippines amount to several
thousand American youth with guns,
and $1,500,000 in gold, while our i'm
ports therefrom amount to only sew
eral hundred sick, wounded and inval-
ided soldiers. AS will be seen, the trade
balance is heavily in our favor
Springfield Republican.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

Municipal, state, and national owner
ship of public utilities, and OF what
ever. may become a monopoly, will as
surely come as the trusts have come,
and then the trusts will disappear
Pittsburg Kansan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

The two houses of the Arizona legis-
lature passed a bill for allowing the
people to vote on laws, but the very
paternal governor, appointed by Nc
Hanna, vetoed the bill. He knows
much better than the people what the
people want. All kings do, you know.
And so the people of Arizona have lib
erty with a big L. The republican
kind of liberty. Appeal to Reason.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23

The editorial columns OF the Globe
democrat and every other plutocratic
newspaper in America hab'tually de-
MES that there is any foundation for
such Populistic talk as the above by.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-22
CANADIANS GO HOME.
Members of the Joint High Commits
sion start for Ottawa.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.-Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, the head Of the Canadian commits
sioners on the high joint commission, to-
gether with Sir Louis Davies, his colleague,
and Messrs. Sifton and Fielding, the mem
bers of the Canadian Parliament, who made
a flying trip here from Ottawa, left to-day
for Ottawa. Lord Herschell and his COL
league, Mr.. C%artright, ana Mr.. Pope. under
secretary Of state, are still in the city. The
quarters of the high commission have been
.relinquished.
On the question which perhaps was the
foremost obstacle TO the attaining of a sat-
isfactory result of the negotiations, the
Alaskan boundary issue, complaints are
coming In of continued alleged encroach-
Alaskan side OF the border, and information
ties are collecting duties on American resi-
dents within our territory has been placed
the possession Of the Washington gov
ernment In one instance, according to q
complaint from an American resident who
lives near Wrangel, the Canadian authori-
ties established themselves about twelve
miles this side of the line established by
government survey made by A. Lacy, and
openly asserted their authority there. The
matter will be taken up promptly here and
Investigated. the advices here boing that
there Is a strained situation along the