Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-30
How to Educate EN-.
Appeal 70 Reason.

HOW u EuuCdtc EI
Appeal TO Reason
The year that every Socialist puts his shoul
der to the wheel aud does his full duty, that
year will the flag of the Cooperative Common
wealth float VIGOROUSLY over the forever-silenced
batlements of incorporated greed. 1t is going
to require suffering and sacrifice to accomplish
this But, comrades, when you look into the
faces of the little children, think of the fate
that surely awaits the vast majority of them if
organized greed and guttony is permitted TO
continue its devastating sway, and then con-
template the lives of happiness and usefulness
they MAY live if we all do OR duty. Who can
count any sacrifice too great? Often tried to
impress upon you the fact that work done
few weeks before election, when the party pref
udices of the people are aroused, counts for
naught. NOW is the time to convert to Social
ism. NOW is the time men will read and
reason. NOW is the time when men will listen
to he truth. If next year you want an increase
in the ranks of working Socialists, NOW is the
time to appeal to the hearts and minds of men.
Never before in the history of our country has
incorporated greed been so arrogant and bold in
its entertainments upon the rights and Liberties
of the people, Never before has the hated in
junction been made to do such faithful service
that Vested Rights may trample in the dust the
Rights of Man. To such extent is organ
lied capital carrying its high-handed play that
even Republican papers are beginning to sound
the alarm. The Evening Telegram { (Rep.), of
Portland, Oregon, in its issue OF July 1S, says
that, as result of the encroachments of organ
lied capital upon the peoples rights, future
generations twill look back on bloodier fields
than were ever seen before in the worlds his
tory" Socialists do not want war. They do
not believe in war. There is peaceful revo-
luton to be brought about through the educa-
tion of the masses. But they realize fully that
only through perfect understanding OF the
true principles of social economy by majority
of the voters of the country can bloody cata-
clysm be avoided, or better condition be es-
tablished, should the upheaval come. How
important, then, that the work of spreading
the truth be pushed forward rapidly as pos
sibe! Are you doing YOUR duty IN this great
work? The Socialists of Jasper county, Mis-
souri, have raised funds to buy 5000 copies OF
a Socialist paper every week, which they dis
tribute by carriers in the towns. Car you
doubt what the result will be in those towns?
This, or some similar method, must be adopted
everywhere, that the people may be aroused
and made to think for themselves. If you are
a Socialist-if you believe in its principles and
have faith in the better conditions for ell man
kind to tie ushered in by the Cooperative Com
monwealth--rest on your oars no longer. DO
YOUR duty, as thousands of your comrades are
doing theirs. This is no time for "summer
soldiers and sunshine patriots" If liberty is
to be the heritage of your children. you must
do your duty, and do it now.
Retorme1s along ALL lines would do we'll to
follow the advice given above. Reformers
should not only support their papers themselves.
but thew should induce others to do So to the
end that the people may be ed.-ED1roR