Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-09


have. the hearty and constant coop.
GRAFTON Of every Populist in the state
in the great work Of spreading our
principles among the great mass Of
honest but unconvertsd Republican,
In times past the committee has re-
fused to bill avowsd candidates for
nomination, for speeches. The com.
nittee IL now ready, however, to bill
for speeches any one who believes in
our principles and can give his rea-
sons for the faith that 10 within him.
We can not afford to put ON the re-
tired list all the splendid men who
nre candidates for the nomination for
governor, or for any other Office.
Rather lot US set them ala ct work
and award the palm of leader to him
who from now until the state conven-
tion shows most ability. activity and
devotion to our common cause
Every Populist In the state should
subscribe at once for his county paper,
for Jerry Simpsons "Bayonet" and
for the "Twice Week Times" He
should then start right out after his
neighbors and get up club for the
"Bayonst ct the present nominal
price of twenty-five cents q year. We
cannot have Arst olass papers unless
We support them, and without hrst
class papers widely circulated. We
cannot win. Every speaker should
take subscrip tions for the county and
state papers. The state committee
desires to make 1t exceedingly plain
that we cannot carry Kansas next
November unless the people awake
from their lethargy and lasiness, put
their hands into their pocketbooks.
take OF their coats and fight like
Beers for their principles Such .
fight will bring certain victory.
After we have conquered our ty-
rants at the polls. our most desperate
conflict IL before uA To complete
their subjugation We must face their
Anal stand In the halls Of Congress
and in the courts. What policy will
bring success in the struggle? First
Of all, IL IL certain that We cannot
afford to indulge In obsolete. puerile
quaok palliatives.
We might - we'll try to sweep back
the OCEAN with . broom - to attempt
to force business back into tho old
narrow competitive channels by re-
pressive, restrictive or prohibitive
legislation
A trust. not built on special priv
leges. "is . labor saving machine "
Yes. but at present prostituted BY
monopoliss TO their own base pur-
posea Mr.. Rockefeller and others
have proved that = trust 10 = good
thing for those who are In it. and, IS
Colonel Little says. the only solu-
ton is for all the people to got In It."
The long. feeble, dabby history OF At
tempted government control or state
control Of giant corporations BY COM
| missions, as we'll as the history OF re-
pressivs, restrictive and prohibitive
antitrust legislation, is one long, lu-
Rubrious history of failure To say
that these laws have not been pro-
perly enforced, that whom they have
been. the courts have stepped in aud
interfered, 10 to state the truth. but
not tho whole truth. In tho arst place,
to enforce these laws, would require
statesmen 80 incorruptibly pure that
they could not be bribsl, 80 colossal
in genius that they could not be out
witted, 30 brave that they could not
be bulldozed, and SO bullet proof that
they could not be assassinated. Hero
ism, genius aud dauntless bravery
spring up in emergencies; but laws
which are worthless without con-
slant and never falling supply OF such
qualities, are impracticable. 1t IL
| the same old fable over again. that
brave, self sacrificing genius as auto
crat is the best government We hnc
these men occasionally, but the rank
and file of the worlds Autocrats and
politicians Is not made up Of thai
kind of timber. In tho second place
il we had rs statesmen nothing but
heroic geniuses, they could not, n
they would, and they would not II
they could, tie the world down to thu
crude, expensive, business methods o.
the late. and by some lamented
"Competitive System" Heroism hal
better business than blocking thu
wheels of progress; and all thu
genius we can muster is imperatively
demanded in tho great work, not O
abolishing new labor saving inven
lions, but Of utilizing those invention!
for the common good.
Many Of our trusts are the unnat
ural and unhealthy pro lucts OF speca
privileges. Some, for example, have
been built up by protective tariff
and can be destroyed by removing thu
fostering tariff duties. Others exist
through the aid and protection OF thu
gigantic money power All these viii
fall to pieces when the United States
government once more assumes he
fundamental prerogLtive of sovereign
ty and issues and controls the suppl,
Of money, gold, silver or paper, in tn
interest, not of favor;tes, but OF th'
whole people. SO that the demands o
business and industry shall be me
ard stable price level maintained
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