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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

| am in receipt of letter from
reader residing in Augusta, Ga, ask
ing whether 1t is feasible to establish
cooperative stores, restaurants, etc.,
in this country, after the pattern of
those of England. l do not see any
thing to prevent the undertaking of
such enterprises, although here they
would be classed simply as partner
ships or corporations, whereas in
England they enjoy the benefit of laws
made expressly to encourage them, a
circumstance that no doubt renders
their existence and management easier
than would be the case otherwise. But
in my opinion the greatest obstacle CO.
operative enterprises have to overcome
here are not created by law or lack of
law, but consist in the disinclination
of the people at large to engage in
them. Exception must be made in ia
vor of one class of cooperative enter
prise, financial one, namely, building
and loan associations. which meet
with quite general acceptance, and
are favored by special laws. But speak
ing broadly, the masses do not take
kindly to cooperation. There are
many industrial centers where vast
sums of money are disbursed monthly
or semi-monthly for labor, where no
company stores exist, and where it Is
altogether Indifferent to the employers
how wages are spent. In such locali-
ties the employees might establish great
cooperative mercantile enterprises
grocery stores, meat markets, shoe and
furniture houses, but the don't. No
one can dispute that they could sup
ply their wants at reduced cost under
a cooperative plan, yet the fact is the
plan does not appeal to them. They
prefer to buy from the merchant. The
nearest step towards such co-opera-
ton is taken when, as not infrequent-
ly happens, several families pool some
cash and send to large city for a
lot of things they need, and thus re-
duce the cost. But even this is not
done once where it might with profit
be done twenty-five times. Why this
is so, l don't know, but l do know
that that particular form of affecting
economies styled cooperative buying
and selling receives slight attention
and slighter acceptance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
Join the Union OF Your Craft.

"As l review the progress of labor
from the early '70's to the present
day." said Mr.. James H. Payne, presi-
dent of the Chicago Trades Union La
bel league and business agent of the
Boxmakers' and Sawyers' union, Il
observe great stride in the advance
ment of the movement in every way
and from every standpoint. In that
day labor organizations were few and
scattered, with each one having a pur-
pose of its own, and all uncertain as
to the future. Now We find them
united and crystallized in their juris-
diction and world wide in their in
fluence. No one now disputes the right
of labor to organize for its protection,
and it takes little persuasion to induce
the workers to accept the idea that
trades unions furnish the only prac-
tical means of their emancipation from
the power of greed and selfishness.
Labor organizations encourage educa-
ton and independence, develop man
hood and establish fraternity, shorten
the hours of toll and increase wages,
enlarge the privileges of the toiler and
abolish oppression, thereby making
the world better as an abiding place.
have, therefore, but one sentence OF
advice for workingmen-join the union
of your craft"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
What May Follow.

1t may we'll be that cooperative
trading may follow more complete Or
ganization of labor. Take some in
dustries that give employment to tens
and hundreds of thousands of men.
Miners, iron workers, glass blowers,
cotton operatives, all have been work.
ing hard the last few years to perfect
their organizations, and get higher
wages. They have been successful. 1t
would hardly have been reasonable for
them to have withdrawn any energy
from that undertaking, to devote it
to the subject of cooperation trading.
That may, and probably will follow,
but until several millions of men now
out of unions have been brought into
them, there is hardly room to hope
that the trading" feature will be
taken up to any great extent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

The German reichstag has passed
the third reading of the bill repeating
the law prohibiting workmen's asso-
Citations.
The Toledo (Ohio) board of alder
men has unanimously decided that
none but union bricklayers shall be
employed on sewer construction in
that city.
The Beloit (Wis.) iron works has re-
ceived contract for building two pa
per machines for paper and pulp mill
in China. The machines will cost
$4,000 each.
Combinations of employers and
workingmen who unite to further
common interests, especially In the
building trades, are not uncommon,
and are fast becoming feature of the
industry.
The result of the late municipal cleo
ton in Boston, Mass, was a victory
for the labor unions in that 1t brought
out an overwhelming vote in favor of
the eight-hour day for city employees.
Mayor Quincy has ordered the rule to
go into effect at once.
Railway switchmen at Pittsburg and
vicinity are about to take steps for the
adoption Of the Chicago wage scale,
which calls for rate of %, 81 and 20
cents per hour in the various branches
of the work. Present efforts are con-
centrated, however, upon thorough or
ganization, 700 members having been
enrolled In the past few weeks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
Working Their Way Up.

Fifty per cent of the young men
students at Northwestern university
at Evanston, ILL.,, are now earning their
classical educations by varied means
of support"
This is the astonishing report for
the first two months service of the
students free employment bureau,
established this year at the university.
The various kinds of work which these
seekers in the paths of learning are
willing to perform in order to gain
their coveted diplomas form an inter-
esting list. The schedule prepared by
the employment bureau follows: 1.
Washing dishes. 2. Waiting on ia
bles. 8. Club stewards. 4. Taking
care Of horses and cows. 5. Caring
for furnaces. 6. Spading gardens. Z.
Lawn moving. 8. Janitor work for
halls and churches. 9. Shoveling
snow. 10. Shoveling coal. II. Saw
ing wood. IL. Miscellaneous indoor
work, beating rugs, etc., by the hour.
10. Distributing bills and dodgers. IA.
Soliciting for laundries. Is. Assist
ing BARRIERS. 16. Tailoring. II. Watch
repairing. 1S. Paper hanging. 10.
Carpenter work. 20. Painting. 21.
Dealing in butter and eggs. %. Can
vassing for books, papers, maps, etc.
20. Collecting bills. a. Clerking in
stores 25. Taking gas statements.
26. Blowing pipe organs. q. Play
inc organs % Sinpinp in oboir,
20. Law students working in law Off
ces. 30. Library clerks. 81. Stenog-
raphy. 80. Weighers in factories. "a.
Renting rooms. S5. Work on the life
saving crew. SO. Typewriting. 81.
Corresponding for Evanston and Chi
cago papers. 38. Giving readings and
teaching elocution. 80. Tutoring. 40.
Preaching. Al. Mission work in Chi
cago. AZ. Night Waterman. 4S.
Nursing the sick. "A. Newspaper car
riers. In the homes of wea stu
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
The Old Clock on the wall.


The old brass clock that is ticking on the
wall,
My father bought the day that was
born;
And I'm sitting today and list'ning to its
call,
While I'm thinking of that far-off New
sad heart, sad hearth says the ticking
of the wheel.
AS slowly the hands go creeping on;
Sad heart, sad hearth" and the cadence
makes me feel
That the dear old clock and l are
running down.
Now. my mind goes back to a happy New
Years day.
When I. girl of twenty sunny years.
Sat list'ning to the clock as 1t licked the
time away,
And the man 1 loved sat whispering in
my ears:
Sweetheart! sweetheart said the clock
with merry ring,
Repeating just the words all lovers
know;
Sweetheart! sweetheart oh. such
dreams Of hope they bring!
AS 1 look into the fires ruddy glow
Oh, the years go by, leaving shadows In
the heart,
That go dancing where our buried hopes
lie dead:
And the dear old friends of youth, from
whom we drift apart,
They are counted by the old clock over
head.
Zone, two, three, four!' sings the old
clocks sad refrain,
Till Johns dear face comes peeping
through the door;
Then those old words come back. OH
those dear old words again.
They are calling me their Sweetheart"
as of yore.
Zelda Radoona.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
ANGLER AT WORK.
Fish That Fishes for Other Fish-Nsv
Arrivals at she Aquarium.

Arrivals ut the Aquarium.
OF all the monsters of the deep, few
seem more uncanny to the average OBJ
server than the angler fish," two fine
specimens of which have been received
at the Aquarium. Black. moss covered
stones. or great lump OF mud anyone
would call them who happened to look
into the great, tiled swimming pool.
where they lie motionless. Indeed, II
is hard to believe that they are living
creatures at all. The smaller fish even
do not apparently suspect 1t. From
the forehead of the angler" springs q
sort of tentacle. in reality a living fish-
ing rod. From its tip bangles a bit of
loose flesh, which looks very tempting.
waving in the clear water. The little
fish makes rush, and is just about
to close his jaws on the morsel when
SNAP" the anglers mouth opens and
shuts, and there Is the end of the little
fish. The anglers" appetite seems in
exhaustible, and his mouth, half the
size Of his body, never makes a miss.
"Pie-eaters" the Aquarium attendants
call them, and. indeed, whole round
pie would not be too large mouthful
for these thirty-pound monstrosities.
Arrivals during the past week have
greatly increased the already large coll
lection of trout in the Aquarium. and
1t is now one Of the finest to be found
anywhere. The most recent arrivals
are some fine specimens of the Suna-
pee trout from the New Hampshire
lakes, some Scotch Loeb Levin trout, g.
hundred lingering trout, and beautf-
full six-pound brook trout from Han
cock county, Maine. 1t is a peculiar
fact that fresh-water trout will not
thrive in Croton water. Even sea
water is more healthy for them, and
all trout received are put in brine at
first, to remove the parasites which in
fest them.-New York Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
THE MAN WITH THE GUN.

II am the man with the gun,
And l straddle the man with the hoe,
Though the sun beats hot or the chill
winds blow,
Though his back be bent and his gar
ments be rent,
Though his back be bent and his
breath be spent,
From earliest morn till the sun goes
low,
Through the long, long night till the
day gods glow,
1 ride him a race at a death-dealing
pace,
o l ride him a race to his last resting
place,
And l care not for friend and I care not
for foe,
So long as straddle the man with the
For am the man with the gum"
Justice, Wilmington. Del.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
Slaves to Gold.

A false basis of credit has been set
up through the power Of a creditor
class and nearly the whole world has
been forced upon this basis. II gov
eminent offers a bond for sale this
creditor class does not ask What are
the resources of this government? Are
its people wealthy? Are they active
and progressive in business and able
and willing to sustain their govern
ment in.meeting its obligations?" But
they ask will this government pay
gold? All the great wealth Of the
American republic is worthless with
out promise, direct or implied, to
pay gold"
Suppose the same rule were applied
to fixing the individual basis Of credit,
how long would the commercial struc-
ture stand the strain? When the cred
itor class succeeds in getting gold in all
government bonds of. all the nations,
in all evidences of debt, the day OF
foreclosure against practically all the
wealth of the world will wait upon
their pleasure.-Louisville Dispatch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
PREACHER FAVORS CARDS.

The Methodists of Massachusetts, are
greatly excited over the sensational
stand recently taken by Rev. Charles
A. Davis in regard to card playing.
dancing and theater-going. Mr. Davis
is the pastor of the First Methodist
church of Lynn. He declares that the
rule of the church forbidding its mem
bers from taking part in these amuse-
ments is dead letter, and only tends
to keep many desirable young people
out Of the church He believes that,
speaking generally, the theater is rot
ten to the core, and he condemns both
public balls and indiscriminate card
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

dent has displaced the coachman. the
butler and the gardener. He cares for
the lawn. mows the grass, trims the
shrubbery, and rakes away the with
cred leaves. While washing dishes for
an education may not be the most
pleasant thing in the world, 1t Is in
flnitely. better than washing barroom
spittoons for stale dregs Of beer, and
that's become the occupation of many
person who was too Indifferent or
conceited to be ready to work for an
education.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
NAMES OF WEIRD MALADIES.
Curious Nomenclature of the Various d.
seases That AHiIct the Body.

Curious Nomenclature of the Various d.
seases That AmIct the Body.
II have been looking over one Of the
blanks for the regular monthly NOR
tally report of the board Of health"
said citizen who admits that he likes
to pry and prowl, land l was amazed
at the weird diseases which found
enumerated. l had no idea that hui
manity had such variety Of things
with eerie names to select from In the
matter of shutting off. Science has
certainly made great advance in that
particular. A few years ago appendi-
citis was about the only fancy disease
on the market, and that was beyond
the reach of people of limited means.
1t was confined entirely to the aris-
tocracy. Here are few sample mall
aides from the last board Of health
Haemetemesis, apthous,
doleno, cachexia, lympha-
denoma, colica-pictonom. spina-bifidia
and mollities-ossium. I'd like to see
the man who would dare assert, after
reading that little list, that medicine
has been at standstill during the last
decade. Altogether there are 302 diff
ferent ways of getting out of the world
set down on the blank, and the chap
who couldn't find something to suit
him in the lot would certainly be ultra
fastidious. The document looks at
first glance like the classified advertise
ment of big bargain sale. 1t is a
monument of pathological
New Orleans Plea
uuna
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

The village blacksmith stood within
the shade of the chestnut tree. His
heart was heavy within him and he
bewailed to the new parson his hard
lot 1T is very different to what 1t
was, SIR" he said. Its hard now to
get living, what with the rise ip food
and. worse than all, the competition"
You mean the young man who has
recently opened forge at the other
end of the village?" queried the minis
ter.
Eyes, SIR" 49,
well, WE'LL" answered the minister.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

preparing to take his departure, you
must go on trusting and hoping" and
with these words of comfort he left.
A few days afterward, passing the
same way, the minister stopped to in
quire as to how things were going.
This time the blacksmith met him with
a cheerful visage. Things are looking
up" he explained. Il went on trust
ing and hoping, as you advised, sir,
and it's all right now. The young
mans dead!"-Ex.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

In this work of manipulating the
markets, all legitimate industry Is In
jured, and@in the struggle between the
bulls" and bears" the entire public
suffers.
One of the favorite methods for beat
ing down prices Is to create stringen-.
cy in the money market, and thus force
men to sell in order to raise money at a
time when money is scarce, and, there
fore, buyers few.
It is natural law that II men are
compelled to sell to raise cash at
time when cash is scarce, they will
have to sell at iov price because buy
ers will be few. If so great a financial
stringency can be created that large
number will be forced to sell, under
such circumstances prices will go way
down.
OF course a financial stringency af-
fects all classes of goods and all the
people.
The bears" who wish to force down
the price of wheat will create finan-
cial stringency, or, if possible, finan-
cial panic, and so force down the price
of all articles, causing ruin and dis
tress to thousands and the loss of mil
lions of dollars in order that out of the
ruin they may reap a few dollars.
- !. tG. .
Their plan is like that of the men
who will cause the wreck of great
ship in order that they may gather
some of the tribes that are washed
ashore.
The recent panic in Wall street,
which caused losses amounting to hun
dreds of millions and checked the In
dustries of the entire country. was
brought about by some men who want
ed to buy some valuable stock at less
than it was worth. They accomplished
their end by Selling the opportunity to
create a money stringency so severe
that it precipitated a panic.
They reaped rich harvest for them
selves, and of course the holders of the
stock were defrauded of an equal
amount But in accomplishing this,
ruin was brought on many who were in
no way interested in the stocks in
question, and every industry in the
country was more or less injured.
The key to the whole nefarious bust
ness is in the ability of spectators to
create a money stringency-to make it
difficult for men to secure money when
it is needed.
How intense was the demand for
money in New York during the panic
is shown by the fact that rates Of in
terest ran up as high as one half per
cent day, or over $50 per centA year.
And this rate was paid by men who
had the best security to offer. ~ e..
AS the key to this business is the
ability to create money stringency, so
the remedy and only remedy is the
adoption of a system under which 1t
will be impossible for any man or any
combination of men to prevent other
men from getting money when they
need it and have the proper security to
offer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

playing. At the same time he takes
the position that there are some
worthy actors and improving plays and
that children dancing among them
selves or playing cards together at
home are every bit as innocent as
they are in Sunday school" Mr..
Davis radical views will be pleased
upon at the next general conference.
oy which body 1t is not expected that
hey will be Endorsed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

Manchester, England, is about to
change its horse car system to electric
traction at cost of $4,000,000.
In Japan 1t Is customary for the
bride to give all her wedding presents
to her parents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
Best Way to Toast Cheese.

Cut two ounces of cheese into thin
slices, put it in a saucepan, set 1t on
he fire, and add one gill of fresh milk;
simmer it till the cheese is quite dis
solved, then take it from the fire and
,our into shallow dish; when cooled
4 little add the yolk of an egg well
beaten. Then place it before the fire
md brown it nicely.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

All sensible men recognize the fact
that speculation in the stock market is
an injury to all except the very few
twh0 come out winners in those gam
Billing transactions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

No wealth is created, no honest in
ttustry is served; the business is gam
Bling pure and simple, and is no better
than if conducted with cards or dice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME NOTES OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Co. Experimentation Forms of Cooper
ation-Working Their Way Up-stu-
dents Are Now Earning Their Classical
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02
WALL ST. GAMBLERS.
THE SAME AS ANY OTHER CARD
PLAYERS.

uuly They Wreak Ruin and Desoiation
. Million Times Greater Than the
Ordinary Bettor Can-Devoid of Heart
or Conscience and Perhaps of Souls.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

A man may not have a stitch to his'
back and yet have one in his side
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

In this work of manipulating the
markets, all legitimate industry is in
jured, and-in the struggle between the
bulls" and bears" the entire public
suffers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

One of the favorite methods for beat
ing down prices is to create stringen-
cy in the money market, and thus force
men to sell in order to raise money at a
time when money is scarce, and, there
fore, buyers few.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

hlay with marked cards and loaded
dice.
. The man who sells wheat he does not
own, expecting the price to fall before
ehe time for delivery comes, takes his
chances on the future price of wheat.
But he also does all he can to break the
price. He circulates false reports; he
iendeavors to corner the money market
and compel men to throw their wheat
rou the market so as to break the price.
He endeavors to get up scare or
panic so as to depress all prices. he
seeks to produce conditions which Will
enable him to win his bet that wheat
will fall, regardless of the injury he IN
The meantime infiicts on honest indus
fry and legitimate business.
In order that few men may realize
a few thousands or hundreds of thou
sands on a bet, they derange the en-
tire business of the country, cripple
production, and throw thousands out OF
employment.
In these transactions the goods sup
posed to be bought and sold never
change hands. In fact, they are never
in hand.
a sells D a million bushels of wheat
at 20 cents, to be delivered in ten days.
Wnen the time comes, If wheat Is stlll
20 cents, the transaction is off. Neither
mas made or lost anything. A could
get the wheat and fill his contract, but
he would make nothing and would
make nothing, so the deal is draw.
But if at the time for delivery wheat
can We bought for 68 cents, then A, by
buying and delivering the wheat to b,
who would have to pay 70 cents for
wheat worth only 6S cents, would
make 2 cents bushel. So B pays A 2
cents on each bushel that was to be
delivered, and A makes 100000 cents,
twenty thousand dollars, because he
won his bet that wheat would fall.
II at the time for delivery wheat
should be u cents a bushel, B would
make cents a bushel by getting a
million bushels of wheat at 70 cents.
which he could sell for II; so A pays B
the difference, twenty thousand dollars.
b has won his bet that wheat would
advance.
II the men who engage in these gam
Bling schemes simply sat down and
waited to see what the market would
be, no one outside of those engaged in
the game would be particularly con-
cerned; no one but those who lost In
che game would be particularly harmed.
But, as before state., they do not sit
down to wait to see what prices will
ne; they set to work to make them
what they desire. Those who will gain
nv the rise endeavor to boom prices,
or, as it is called, "bull the market;
unose who will gain by a decline set to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

It is, in fact, worse than game
which is determined purely by chance,
9ur the operators in these transactions,
while taking chances, always aim to
Mlay with marked cards and loaded
dice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

work to depress the market. or, as 1t is
called, bear the market"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-02-02

They reaped rich harvest for them
selves, and of course the holders of the
stock were defrauded of an equal
amount. But in accomplishing this,
ruin was brought on many who were in
no way interested in the stocks in
question, and every industry in the
country was more or less injured.