Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-31
BRYANISMS,
FROM THE coMMo NER"


more decades for the 6nanciers to corner hope
The new cupdefender is named "Consttu-
ton, and Sir Thomas Upton is encouraged.
He has learned that the Constitution does not
60 very far
Mr.. Conger says thousands of Chinese are
dying of starvation; aud the cablegrams say
that the indemnity China will have to pay
amounts to $4,000 ,ooo Yet, people of
Christian countries wonder why the Chinese are
so slow to accept the Christian religion.
Farmers who bought Northern Pacific and
Union Pacific stock at the right time, and let
60 of it at the proper moment are feeling good.
The farmers who did not are still plowing.
The pickpocket who touched Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson should hasten to cover
He is likely to collide with more skillful
pickpocket who operates behind brokers'
license.
The Republican papers are beginning to ex-
press fear that the "McLauren movement will
fail for "lack of leadership" AS Senator Nc
Lauren seems to be the only person in the
movement, so far, he ought to have no trouble
leading himself.
The fever of speculation on Wall street is
wearing on Mr.. Gage. He does not know
whether he will have to sell bonds to keep the
market from breaking, or buy bonds to keep
the spectators from going broke.
Why is it that trusts can initiate the value of
their property, while agriculturists cannot?
The answer is simple The farmer must sell
in the market and buy at trust prices; the
trusts can buy in the open market and sell at
trust prices.
Senator Hoar is reported as saying that
Harvard should confer the Doctors degree up
on President Mckinley as reward for his
protective-ta1if work If the title is to be
cheapened by making it reward for political
services, why not offer it as premium to all
those who vote the Republican ticket?
Reverend Jenkln Lloyd Jones, of Chicago,
commenting upon the craze for speculation,
says: 'sWe have spent our time in lauding
our Rockefe.lers aud Morgans. They are the
Napoleons and Bisrnarcks of finance We
seem to have forgotten Gladstone and Lincoln
and their homely teachings. The craze for
speculation is the result Of the far-reaching de.
generacy of our ideals" There is more truth
than poetry in Jenkin Lloyd Jones state ment.
The protectionists have always insisted that
the foreigner pays the tax. And now it is sug-
gested that Chinas import duties be increased
hot he b1.J ,t1,o
demnity. The spectacle of foreigners taxing
themselves to pay debt owed to them by
China is rather humorous, but not more so than
many other doings of the protectionists.
]. Pierpont Morgan has organized another
trust He has purchased the Leyland steam.
ship line and combined it with that of the At
lahic Transport COMPANY This combination
will operate sixty-seven large ocean steamers,
and it is freely predicted that the new interest
i'll the sFip.subsidy till which this move will
give to Mr.. Morgan will result in the passage
of that measure. The man who is shrewd
enough 10 organize all tine trusts of the day,
and inhue ential enough to have the attorney for
the greatest trust of them all made attorney
general of the United States, ought to have
sufficient influence with Republican congress
men TO accomplish the passage of Mr. Hanna's
subsidy bill.
Chief Justice Doster, of Kansas, in an article
printed in the Arena, says that in 1892, the
total market value of the imports and exports
of the Philippine Islands announced to $780,
900, 900 in gold He estimates that temper
cent basis being used, the profits for the traders
amounted to $1,000, 600. He also showed that
the expenditure incurred in the Philippine war