Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Bible and praying to God to give heI
husband and son strength in the field
to aim straight at the white Of an Eng
lishman's eye. Mr.. Moore Is up to the
average of his kind Of philosophers.
Strictly speaking he is swayed by the
commercial instinct.
One day last week, 1t was our good
fortune to meet-an old gentleman near.
Ing the age Of ninety who has just re-
turned from the Ute reservation to
visit his son engaged in the cattle
business.
while there" said he, II saw In
dams shooting deer and after killing
them they would remove their heads
and pelts and leave the carcasses for
the coyotes to feed upon. Even the
Indian has caught the spirit Of COM
mercialism. He knows that head and
that pelt will bring money. l knew
the Indian intimately in western New
York seventy-five years ago and want
to say to you, my friend, that In those
mercialism. There was an unwritten
law among the Indians never to kill
deer or any other animal unless alb
solutely necessary to do so to provide
food and an Indian caught wasting
any portion of an animal was looked
upon by the other Indians as an Indian
meriting punishment and he usually
received the punishment"
There Is food for reflection in this
little story. Even the so-called Eng
fish civilization has penetrated the
abysmal depths of the Indians intel
ligence.
Mr.. Moores claim that English civil
lization is ahead of Boer civilization
is open to question. You cannot sell
cash register to a Boer merchant.
This might be termed as an indication
of their uncivilized state, but 1t need
not be when one realizes the fact that
a Boer is naturally honest and doesn't
require a cash register to keep him
honest. You will not find bell punches
on Boer officials. The Transvaal is
a poor country in which to sell safes,
bolts, locks, rum, Jail fixtures and ma
terial for suicides. Undoubtedly this
is due to a lack of civilization and We
presume there are Colonial danes and
Sons of the Revolution that really
think we are called upon to institute
conditions in the Transvaal that will
make a market for the goods above
mentioned; in other words civilize
them.
We notice that King Bill of Germany
is booked for another meeting with
his grandmother, Queen Victoria.
This, we presume, may be taken as
evidence that Germany will undertake
to keep Russia and France quiet and
stop those countries from interven-
ing. Queen Victoria feels quite sure
of her grasp upon the Mckinley ad-
ministratlon and gloats over the pos3
sibility of being let alone while she
butchers every Boer upon the soil of
the Transvaal. The Germans are with
Dom Paul and we want to predict now
that If the Kaiser carries out his pres
ent program, German republic will
rise upon the ruins of the empire.
Crazy Billy of Hoenzollen will find
that his army is not to be relied upon,
and that it will turn their muzzles to-
ward him and his English grand
mother IL it becomes necessary. II
Germany refuses to intercede in be-
half Of Dom Paul, we sincerely hope
the muzzles Of the German army will
smoke him and his unholy gang on
the earth. The emperor Of Germany
doesn't represent the German senti-
ment any more than Emperor Mckin-
ley of the United States represents the
sentiments of the United States of Am
erica. Both Of these unworthy repre-
sentatives of effete aristocracy have no
business occupying the places they do.
We feel as if the world is on the verge
of great revolution. II that revolu-
ton comes it will be all day for the
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noses of the poor and enriching them
selves through class legislation, stand
ing armies and lyddite shells.
The cost CT wars is not so great when
figured from a dollar and cent stand
point. 1t is the diseased and insane
soldiers returning from these far-off
islands to curse coming generations,
that cost civilization the most. OF
course we feel for the widows and Or
phans of both sides, but when it comes
to mere question Of dollars and cents,
how little 1t all amounts to. Just one
Rockefeller with his two hundred
million dollars of wealth could pay for
such war as Great Britain or our own
in the Philippine islands for nearly
two hundred days, and 1t is pity that
men like Rockefeller cannot be con-
fscated to pay for these wars instead
of settling the debt upon the people. If
a law existed settling the debt upon
we would have no wars.