Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-30
POPULAR GOVERNMEN
NO LONGER FAVORED BY THE
WEALTHY CLASS.
rho Goldbugs and Monopollsts Would
Put Us In the Same Boat with the
Fnipinos, Which Is Why They Want o
Large Army.

The present Wall street national ad-
ministration is committed in favor of
a standing army Of 100000 men as
starter. No previous Wall street ad
ministration recommended any in
crease OF the standing army. Here is
a change in Wall street policy that is
worth noting. The conquest of the
Philippines furnishes no good excuse
for quadrupling the standing army,
unless the war there is expected to be
perpetuated. The huge standing army
asked for by President Mckinley must
be intended for use at home.
The young giant republic Of the
western hemisphere has oustripped all
pre-existing governments, not only in
the loftiness of its ideals and the ex-
tent Of their realization, but in its
material progress as we'll. Until very
recently the word destiny" when as
ISOLATED with the government and peo-
pie of the United States made no sug-
gestion Of empire, armies or serfs, but
tllumined the imagination with a pic
ture ofsmillions Of happy homes spread
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from the lakes to the gulf, says the
National Waterman. The imagination,
as 1t peered into the future, counted
a population of hundreds of millions,
and viewed a domestic commerce I'M
known and undreamed of before and
possible only to the great American
nation.
The changed attitude Of the execu-
tive head of the nation, who is now
cowardly skulking behind the de-
mands of the commercial press and
trimming to avoid the avowal Of
policy, while the tolls and snares Of
imperialism are inviting the nation to
It's ruin, Is making all intelligent
Americans sick at heart. What power
paralyzes the tongue of President Nc
Kinley, who in a message to congress
less than one year ago spoke in plain
American dialect: II speak not Of
forcing annexation, for that cannot be
thought of. That, by our code of NOR
atty, would be criminal aggression"
With imprisoned conscience and
sealed lips the silence Of the president
is ominous, while the men who are
known to control his action are de-
manding the subjugation of the Fill
pinos and the consigning to vassalage
OF millions who were eagerly sought as
allies and who Loyalty co-operated with
Dewey and Merritt few short months
ago.
What is behind this strange con-
duct? What does 1t mean? There can
be but one Interpretation. Free insti-
tutions and popular government no
longer find favor among the wealthy
and powerful classes, who through the
gold standard, trusts and monopolies
are forging letters for the limbs of
American freemen. These classes seem
determined to utilize the passions of
the people, engendered by war, to
cause them to blindly do that, which
II done, will prove the undoing of the
republic These classes realize that
they must undo the republic or pop
ular government will sooner or later
restore the reins of government to the
people and right the wrongs of the
toilers, producers and taxpayers of the
nation. Hence, under the heat and eX-
element of war, they are demanding
that we enter upon the unrighteous
and ignoble conquest and vassalage of
millions of human beings who aspire
to the realization and enjoyment of
freedom and national life-the highest
attributes of collective man that the
Creator has implanted in the human
breast.
To compass this end the first thing
necessary is to rear a large military
establishment. Men of America-farm-
ers, mechanics. laborers, merchants.
all who are producers of wealth. Won
men whose brain and Drawn produce
all that give incomes to the rich and
revenues to the government-wherein
do your interests demand the subiu-
cation of the Filipino? In what way
will large military establishment
contribute to your peace, comfort. Sc
curity and future happiness?
You are the victims of the gold
standard and monopolies. They are
not demanding a large military estab-
lishment to secure your release from
their own relentless grasp. No, it is
not to advance your welfare that the
Filipino is to be subjugated and the
army increased You have political
power. This the monopolies dread.
Do you think they will continue in
definitely to spend their millions to
corrupt the ballot box in order to de-
feat your will, as they did in 1896,
after they have sufficiently strength
ened the military arm of the govern
ment and are able to control it to defy
the popular will? In the strict adj
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