Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30
No Homes for the Homeless.

No Homes for the Homeless.
can recall time when Republicans shout.
ed for "Homes for the homeless" and when
political assemblies had inscribed upon theii
banners mo pauper labor"
am not nearly as old as Methuselah, who,
from Bible authority, reached the ripe old age
of 969 years, yet, have lived to see the day
when, under Republican rule, one-half the
people OF our country are without property,
and fotty thousand people own half of our ma
tional wealth.
Now, am not guessing. Of personal
knowledge, am acquainted with early Repub-
lican protestations, and, as l did not die and
come to life, may say that I know the party
as well as a mule that was foaled on my farm,
and had always drawn in my North Carolina
chain harness. 1t is true that have not been
in the secret councils of Republicanism, but
can read a book after it is written as we'll as
the author of the book, and l never Judge of
the merits of the book by the title, but by its
contents. Since the book is written and pub
lished, the contents, l find, are just the
reverse of "homes for tine hon eless," and jim
stead of emo pauper labor" it is pauper labor
of the worst type.
The title of the Republican book should
have been, No homes fsr the homeless and
pauper labor in unlimited measure. After hav-
ing read the book, should say that the title is,
Millions for benevolent assimilation and misery
for the masses. | move for title in hnr nony
with the contents.
l know that it is very common thing to
brush aside the facts, or condone them, by in
sstng that government has nothing to do with
the welfare of the masses, and that "you can
not legislate man rich"
H. re again | turn to the contents. If the
first man, Adam, had lived from his creation
until now on salary of $4,000 year, he
would have been worth less than some million
airs are reputed 10 be. Expenses of living are
not included in this estimate. If Adam had
lived, and been wired and dined in the lavish
manner of our millonaires, he would probably
have been just about able to meet his living
expenses. In other words, on the highly-civil-
lied plane of modern living for miionares,
Adam might not have been pauper, but he
would have been so close to cover the Hills to
the Poor House. as to have made his old bones
rattle.
No president ever has got rich, and never
can get rich, salary of $5o,ooo. No Re-
publican president but Lincoln ever earned
$4,000, and we only paid him $25,o ain
told that no educator in the United States re-
ceives over 81 900 salary, and in Kansas, none
over 81 ,ooo A millionaire mutual admiration
club in New York pays preacher 81 1000, but
the average salary paid preachers in the United
States is about $500. AS farmer, l naturally
think that teachers and preachers are worth
more to society than benevolent assimilation
Now, if the bulwarks of society receive so
little compared with the benevolent assimilator,
it follows that either one class is over-paid or
the other class is under paid; and it follows
too, that religion and brains are just as shrewd,
JUS: wise, grab and gain, the difference
being that religion and brains work unceasing-
ly in elevating the human race, while grab and
gain are up to the ears in manipulating legis-
latures and courts.
Tariff and financial legislation created the
Carnegies and Pierpont Morgans The absence
of trust and railroad legislation permitted the
Rockefellers and Goulds.
The book of Republicanism is full of the
sins of omission and commission. Since the
days of Lincoln, its title page has been repudi-
ated. Once, the party stood for homesteads,
but gave the land to corporations. 1t stood
for high wages for American workmen, but,