Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-04-20
WhiteWaSh

If just knew how to get up corner on
whitewash, l would soon have more millions
than Frick and Carnegie. There is most
wonderful d-mand for whitewash. Con-
e1ess engages in whitewashing; the legisla-
iules whitewash secret orders, military boards
and municipal concerns are all more or less III
the whitewashing business, and there is no sign
of rise. SO far the supply is fully up to the
demand. And such lavish use! Why, it is
laid on in some places, till it cracks and peels
off, exposing some of the most hideous NAL
formations of human form, and some OF the
darkest splotches on human cuticle ever seen, IN
one nation, since Adam lived in the Garden OF
Eden. The taxpayer NAV not know it, but
whitewasl costs money-lots of money--lnile-
age money, witness-fees money, money for halls
and stenographers, and money for junkets. 1t
is bad enough for the tax payer to have to loot
the bill for necessaries, but when it comes to
luxurics, either want a halt or corner on the
product
Republican politicians are not in sympathy
with the Beers of South Africa Resolutions
of sympathy for the Beers, in the legislatures OF
Ohio and Iowa, failed to pass, by strictly party
vote. In congress, resolutions of sympathy are
tied up in committees. l am speaking of the
leaders. If the truth could be made public, 1t
would be found that the administration and
England have a secret understanding, and the
machine, in carrying out the wishes of the ad-
mnisration, has zeaously suppressed pro-Boer
sentiment within the party lines. 1t IS my
honest opinion that the man who does not favor
the Beers is not friend of republican instltu-
tons If we say nothing about our friendship
for any people who are struggling tor liberty,
we at least have less reason to love England
than auv other nation on the face OF the earth.
True Americans have not forgotten Bunker Hill,
the sack of Washington, or England's sypathy
for the rebels during the war of the rebellion.
The governing power in England has no more
love for republics than Russia or Turkey. Acts
speak for themselves.
The black guards of the Couer de Alene bull
pen corraled an cid soldier of the civil war. He,
be ing somewhat saucy, was dubbed with the
butt of rife. This old soldier wore q. A. X
hutton, and was so enraged that he tore the
button off his coat and stamped II IN the ground.
You may put it up as safe guessing that
whenever mau roars about "Old Glory" he Is
IN hear, disloya to the principles of which the
A,o is emblematic. The flag used to be all Elm,
blem of brotherhood, purity and fidelity. 1t Is
the same old flag, but the "roarers" have trail
ed il in the dust OF the great men who up
held the principles of the flag, not one roarec
about it,
Washineton Jefferson, Sumner, and Llncolr
had much to say in advocacy Of certain primer
ples but not a speech has come down to us II
which the flag was glorihed, Watch the fias
| roarer.
The Dingley tariff collected in duties on Por
20 Rican imports is to be paid back to the IN
habitan's of that iecen! eXpanse,
The amount is about $2oo,ooo Congress
verv liberal with other peoples money. In
suoar and tobacco trusts received the beneht
tbe du;ies collected. The consumers OF suga
and tobacco paid the tax AS the transactio
;s sunposed to stand, the people of Porto Ric
are even, the sugar and tobacco trusts are ahea
5000, 900, and the consumers are out OF pock
to the amount of the tariff. This 100000
vet TO be re e.distrihued and it is safe to conjec
IRE that the men who make the distribution WI