Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
The DiSSimulatOrS.

Principles never die, and human nature never
changes. The old slave-h holder sentiment of
fifty years ago has bobbed up in the ranks of
new party and is found in the hearts of new
men. Fifty years ago, lot of people, includ-
ing men who claimed to be ministers of the
gospel, were teaching that slavery was divine
institution, and that God had placed the whites
over the blacks A million men, under Lin
coin and Grant, tramped that uholy sentiment
into the very dust of the earth, never again to
be resurrected.
New men, under new leaders, ale claiming
that God has commissioned them TO kill and
subjugate people who, of right ought to be
free and independent. 1t is the old evil spirit
clothed in new garments The devils that
Lincoln and Grant cast out have entered into
the hearts of the men who lead the Republican
party. There are new methods and new forms,
but 1t is the same old lying, cruel spirit of the
old Shareholder of fifty years ago. 1t is the
spirit that "mght makes right" 1t is the
spirit that the strong may crush the weak, and
ride rough-shod over every hope and aspiration
that is dear to all men.
This old new position of the enemies of lib
erty is one step in advance of the old slave
holder.
standing army has been created. Not only
would the weak be crushed, but the friends of
the weak.
We find the parallel, and we find more.
In addition to preachers, politicians and
newspapers, we have Gatlng guns and burden
some taxes
The old slave holder demanded a fugitive
slave law, and got it. He demanded supreme
court decision, and got it. He demanded
/. more slave territory, and he lost the old.
Shall the parallel be followed to the end? 1t
looks that way, and we shall see. An angry
host is arising-has arisen-to confront this
old new enemy of liberty. At first, the old
slave-h holder gained more advantage than the
old new enemy and, i'll the end, lost.
The standing army, if made up of true
Americans, can never be employed iii shooting
Americans, and the prayers Of the men who
pray for the success of McKinley's "benevolent
.assimilaton' will never ascend higher than
the echo of their voices.
If it was right to hold any one man in chat
tel slavery, the principle may have been stretch
ed far enough to take in some other man. The
sword struck down the whole principle If it
is right to hold any people as subjects, and tax
without representation, why not right to hold
all the people? great principle is involved,
and, just as in the slavery contest, it cannot be
settled but in that way.
am free to admit that great many people
may be deluded, but not the leaders.
This late movement of McKinley's followers
leads to the extinction of the American repub-
lie.
The position of the old slave holder led to
treason and civil war. The position of the
e1f-holder leads to certain revolution, unless
that position is overthrown.
Changes will come slowly. AS we see now,
preachers, politicians and boughtup newspa-
pers are loudly sounding the praises of these
new men and this new policy.
Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden for
listening to the lies of the old serpent The
| laboring men of America may share similar
fate if they listen to the lies of the crowd who
run our government
| l. may not be just as respectful as | might
be- but honor everything that is American,
and spit on that which is not American, and
have profound contempt, if not hatred, for
hypocrites, and l know that Mckinley and the
leaders of the Republican party are not in the
benevolence business, and never have been, and
! if they would express their true sentiments,