Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-05
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
A New Book.

"A NtW 6UOk.
The Republican campaign committee has is
sued new book for farmers. An educated son
talks to his old dad. The substance of the
teaching is that the party that has successfully
run the government for so many years may still
be trusted; government is business, and ex-
panson is fact.
The opposition to Republicanism deny the
assumption of success. If the party max
ing success of liberty and happiness for the
masses, there would be no use for second
party and the fact that all parties are hostile
to Repubicanism is strong evidence that the
first proposition is untrue.
The second proposition contradicts the Dec
.laration of independence, and also the teaching
of the founders of the Republican party
In the preamble of the Constitution of the
United States, find that the aim of our
government is to secure the blessings of liberty
'-by promising happness and insurirg domestic
tranquility. Not word about business.
harles Sumner declared that politics is the
application of moral principles to public affairs.
An honest business is moral, and dishonesty
is ne yer moral. Business, as understand the
term, is only a small part of liberty and happi
ness, and dishonest business is as much the foe
of liberty and happiness as kings and mon
arches.
The Republican party is guilty of much
dishonest or immoral legislation and admins
tration as to make it impossible to mention it
all in newspaper article. Suffice it to say
that, through Republican legislation, the tax
PAYERS have paid bond holders some 81 ,ooo,-
600, 900 of interest money. Through Repub-
can administration, few men have largely
acquired the wealth of the nation, and un
doubtedly by dishonest methods The Repub-
lican party created evil and condoned evil until,
if our affairs were wound up, and balance
sheet produced, we would find the masses large
|, bankrupt of the the things intended by our
fathers.
Our fathers certainly intended that the
masses should be the possessors OF property or
the means of providing food and comfortable
n habitatons. Liberty has no meaning if it
does not mean the opportunity to freely provide
physical comforts, and also the development Of
the mental, moral and spiritual attributes of
the mind and soul.
Republ1Can1Sln mas smut, ana is shutting, the
door that leads to the blessings of liberty in
that the great mass of our people are depend
ent upon the will of another for the opporuni-
ty to acquire the means that make liberty worth
the striving for.
AS we see now, and as we have been seeing,
tens of thousands of our fellow citizens are
without habitation they call their own,
and that the wages they receive, at the will OF
another are inadequate to secure comfortable
maintenance of themselves and families. These
tens of thousands have, in measure, lost the
blessings of liberty-and through Republican
administration.
It remains to be seen if the Philippine ex
pansion is an an accomplished fact" NJ
evil is an accomplished fact, and if the seizin
\ of the Philippines is wicked and barbarous, a
we believe that kind of expansion is not a
accomplished fact; or else, if so, God does nc
reign.
We depend upon the moral sentimer