Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-03
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
THE OLD NEW DEVIL.

THE OLD NEW DEVIL.
The Bible has something to say about the
Devil being ''turned loose for season." AS
matter of fact, either Mephistopheles or the
Devil has always been loose but they are just
a little bit looser now than formerly.
The rage now is blood-blood Of the Filipi-
nos-blood of the Boers-blood of the Chinese
blood of the white race-blood of the COL
ored-blood of the Christan-blood of the
Pagan.
Mephistopheles roams the suburbs of Heaven
in search of Virtue and Innocense to drag down
to He'll, with only here and there victim; but
this old new Devil at present has worldwide
influence. His victims are in the tens of thou
sands. He calls for blood and carrion and
Christian presidents, and monarchs respond in
piles of dead bodies and rivers of blood. This
old new Devil calls for the widows and orphans,
burned habitations, want and famine, and men
who call on the name of Jesus pray that His
cup may be full.
It is strange but awful sight to see the
worlds rulers filling the earth with wanton
barbarism and horrid cruelty, and these rulers
claiming to be followers of the meek and lowly
Nazarene, who never sanctioned war.
He is also Devil of deceit. This Devil of
deceit in one place is robed in patriotism, in
another place in national power; still another
favorte robe is benevoence. This old new
Devil, in the form of Christian queens and EN-
perors, sezes and slaughters young men in bat
tie and load their loyal and poor subjects with
the grievous burdens of taxation. This old
new Devil is rich in earthly comforts and luxu-
ries, wiser than the creatures of all preceding
ages, and has more of all that belongs to civil
ization, and with all his wealth, wit and wis
dom, he covets the one little lamb of his poor
neighbor who is neither rich, wise or witty.
This old new Devil would not be devil if
he was shedding blood to maintain righteous
ness and uphold the sceptre OF Justice. Ii
battle was being waged in maintenance of the
wit, wisdom and commerce of civilization,
against horde of Huns OF Hohammedans; If
a new Ghenkis Khan had arisen who threaten
ed the human race with extinction, then would
Her Most Gracious Majesty and His Royal
Highness have been justified; and no more
loyal subject than mo more willing to shed
his blood or pay tribute; but, since all these
wars are causeless and greed is the moving
spirit, aud since no man Gas Lincoln declared)
is good enough to rule over another man with
out his consent--since all these things and
more, l am eternally opposed to each and all OF
them.
AN ERROR THAT is NO ERROR.
In last weeks issue of the AGITAToR, learn
that it was the office "devils' who "run off"
the paper. A typographical error appears in
my article entitled "Republcan Principles"
In that article, stated that Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands, under Republican
ism, were to be governed by "United States
appointees, and held as colonial dependencies. s."
The devils (I mean the office devils) had me
say that the islands were 10 be held as ''colo-
nal dispensaries.' On second thought, am
inclined to think that "dispensary" is all right.
am not sure that the word, in that connection,
is not second cousin to inspiration. Offices
will be dispensed to broken-down, conscience
less politicians, and death and damnation will
be dispensed to the inhabitants. The colonial
dispensary will deal out the same kind of med
icine the whites dealt to the red and black men;
the same kind of medicine the carpetbaggers
dealt to the people of the South, after the war.