Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-06-22
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
That Missouri Man.

III Missouri jumped onto the AGlTAlok VIII
boil feet, the other day. Fortunately, the ed
itor of that paper was barefooted The matte
comr laine d of was sume of 10 McDill's Mus
ines The charges are, in substance, that thu
AGIrAroR was once fearless, but now, since
somebody 'has a thumb on it, " it "is trucking
and cowaldlv," and that the eulogstic remarks
concerning Bryan were "iot."
will say, in reply, that 10 McDill is not the
editor of the AGIrAToR, and that he is just a!
brave as any other ordinary mortal who farms
for living. pause here to remark that any
man who is brave enough to over-stock the
worlds markets with food products is brave
enough to face masked batteries of wooder
guns; and any man who is brave enough tc
90 as a soldier to the Philippines, and help lick
the poorly armed and ill.disciplined, unhappy
natives of those islands.
think my title TO courage is good enough
and will be vindcated OH many hard plowed
coin-6 field No one has thumb on me except
the trusts and Hanna politicians. That the
thumb rests OH any part of my being is not my
fault. If working people, generally, had spunk
and intelligence, that thumb would come of
quicker than : suffering man could say scat!
Having set myself right on the question OF
courage, l shall take up the question of "rot. "
When can't answer another mans argument,
| invariably resort to the word 'rot"
Human nature is much the same all over the
United States and part of England. The word
"rot," in connection with the Missouri editors
remarks, is as meaningless as it is short. Will
the Missouri man show wherein it is 'rot' to
support a man for president who is both able
and patriotic?
In the article referred 20, attempted to show
that radical measures are more surely advanced
by conservative men and through conservative
action. Stone upon stone. Furrow upon tur-
row. Even God required millions of years to
create the earth | make the prediction, sure
of fulfllment, that Populism will not spring
into power at one leap. The masses are not
intelligent enough, if they could be stampeded
into elecing Populist president, to stand by
such president in carrying forward Populist
principles. AS we'll attempt to lay all the
ston>s of wall at one lift.
History abounds with illustrations in support
of this assertion Illinois first anti slavery
United States senator was a compromise fusion
choice, in the person of Judge Trumbull, who
was the author of the co 'stitutional amend
ment prohibiting slavery and involuntary servl-
tude, and who, when he died, was an earnest
Populst 1t was not mistake for the Abo'l-
lionsts to drop Lincoln and accept Trumbull,
the Wing nominee.
Cromwell forced his radical ideas upon Eng
land at the point of the bayonet. Collapse fol
lowed his death, and the people of England
were ten times more unhappy under Charles II
than under Charles |.
II was left for the conservative Dutch William
of Orange to place England upon the sure high
way to civil and religious liberty.
In the choice of Trunbull, no principle wa
| lost sight of or sacrificed.
Williams conclatory policy was far bette
than Cromwells policy of coercion.
To-day, Bryan is the only man of the com
mon people attainable. 1t is wise and politi
10 support him, for the reason that, if elected
he would be one step in the right direction
one stone in the structure--one furrow to it
fellow.
Comparisons are odious but will say tina
BRYAN is far better equipped, from the states
mans standpoint, than Barker has as muc
love for the common people as Barker can have