Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-10
GARNETT, KANSAS, AUGUST 10, 1900.
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that trust is formed, it will issue stock, both
common and preferred. The profits of the
company will be enormous, and the stock will
be boom and boom and boom
Bowersock may have the gift of few shares,
if he is elected, and, if so, next years package
of seeds may reach the value of nickel. Shall
stand by and see Peters elected and lose my
seeds? Free seeds or no free seeds is the great
question with which and my brother farmers
are confronted.
We will also have to choose between Cholly
Scott and Rev. J. D. Botkin. Cholly belongs
to the young generation of Republicans. He
is as devoted to Mckinley and Hanna as Mo-
hammedan to the false prophet. With him,
these is no god but Mckinley, and Hanna is
his prophet. 1t is not known to the writer
whether Cholly is for free seeds OF not, but,
Judging from what is known, l should say that
he is for free seeds. Why not? Cholly has
farned the farmers with zeal that would have
done credit to Brigham Young in his devotion
to Mormonism. Cholly stands for the gold
standard, high tariff and imperiaistic expan-
sion. He must be for free seeds. Riches for
the few and poverty for the many is part of his
creed and Office is the other part.
Shall the chosen farmers receive gifts at the
expense of the other farmers? Why not? Is
it not written that to him that hath shall be
given? Yea, it is written. 1t is in the Mark
Hanna chronicles.
Carnegie hath; Rockefeller hath; Gould
hath; Havemeyer hath, and the Arbuckles
have. Sixty-6ve millions of people have not
except brains and muscle. The God of the
Nazarene is the creator of brains and muscle.
The god of Rowersock and Cholly is the god of
the Rockefclers-and who is greater than the
god OF the Rockefellers?
Creating brains and muscle is small business
beside creating millionaires.
Peters and Botkin are for the God of the
lowly Nazarene, and no free seeds. Comfort
for all, and no want, is in their creed. The
great ~ Am" is their God, and Jesus of Naz-
areth is the only redeemer. They discredit
McKinley's providence and Mark Hanna's be-
nevoI.nce. If they don't send free seeds, it is
because other men are taxed to pay the cost.
1t is free seeds or no free seeds. 1t is the God
of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob or the god of
Mckinley and Mark Hanna.
l am solving these problems for myself. l
have been thinking, and have about resolved
that will vote for Cholly and Bowersock if
they will only enlarge their free-seed creed.
l have great idea, but no copyright. My
idea is to have congress appropriate money to
buy stock for free distribution. Buy stock in
sugar that is selling at premium of forty
cents, or buy bank stock that pays dividends OF
80 per cent, or buy coal-oil stock that is sell.
ing at 81 90 and still advancing. Let that kind
OF "iruck" be for free distribution, and my
name on the list, and I'll vote tor Mckinley
providence and Hanna benevolence and trust
omui potence. Bowersock and free stock dis
trbution would make battle-cry that could be
heard from the lofty peaks of the Potawatomie
clear up to the eagles nest on the roaring
Cedar.