Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
GARNETT, KANSAS, APRIL 26, 1901.

enable them to see more truth. SO far as the
Hill. Cleveland wing of the Democratic party is
concerned, it holds no more beneficial truth than
Republicans.
In the long run, we will have to have a one
idea party call i, what you please. That one
idea will embrace the ways and means of over
throwing the reign of moneyed aristocracv.
The contest now on will have but one central
thought. Like the political contests that pre-
ceded the Civil war, where the leading prin-
cipe was slavery or no slavery, we will find
that the citadel assaulted and defended will be
putocracy or no plutocracy. All the minor
parties are coming to see that since the people
have common enemy, it will only be common
sense to have one army OF assault The army
of assault will be under Bryan leadership, or
under party of another name than that Of
Democrat.
A one-idea party drops side issues and other
mems quarrels. When the Democratic party
fights the battles of the saloons, it takes up
of the enemy. Cleveland and Hill have never
opposed the robbery of soulless corporations
The reform forces cannot use, with benefit,
either the whisky wing or the gold wing of the
Democratic party. These wings of the patty
are either neutral when it comes to the real test
or else they ere on the other side.
In every extended speech OF Bryan, he at.
tackled entrenched capital. The one idea is
dominent in Bryanism, as the one idea of no
slavery, in the minds of the founders Of the Re-
publican party. The one idea is the winning
idea. Concentration OF thought purpose and
action raises up giants where only dwarfs were
supposed to exist. The Israelites turned aside
to the worship of Aarou's golden calf, but only
for day. Let us hope the Democratic party
has had its day with the golden calf.
In the idea, it is not to be taken as true, as
is charged, that the aim is to array one class Of
citizens against another class.
That sort of tactics is as old as the anti -savery
contest The Shareholder charged that the
fight was OH the slave-holder but the truth was
that the assault was directed against the prin-
clple that permitted the holding of slaves
Organism assaults not the millionaire monopol-
lst, but the conditions that permit few men to
grasp the wealth of nation OF wonderful re-
sources, and peopled by the most intelligent and
industrious laborers of any nation on earth.
AS the war against slavery was to substitute
a good principle for bad, SO must the war
against monopoly be Oh behalf Of right state
of society to take the place of wrong conditions.
1c1o,
seek to abolish wage slavery. The intention is
not to injure any class in particular, but to
place all classes upon the possible plane of
comfortable existence righteous govern
ment protects all its citizens, and protection
will always require restraint so long as the rich
take advantage of the weakness of the poor.
Now that the war mas reached the acute
stage, the party of reform caunot afford to in
dulge in any doubtful side skirnishes on behalf
of uncertain friends. AS in the antislavery
the opposition. The more concentrated the ef
forts of the aggressor the closer the ranks of the
opposition.
do not claim that we are not to battle for
allies when tried and true, but the hireling, at
best, is all uncertain quantity.
The saloon and the saloon element is for sale.
Its chief strength lies i'll its ability to corral the
whisky vote. The saloon vote in the North is
as dangerous to free institutions as the ignorant
colored vote of the South. To do away with
either vote, it is necessary to do away with the
conditions which make such vote possible. Ig-
norance and vice are natural allies of wrong
doers and part Of the evil OF bad government.
1t is part of the mission of the new party to
attack everything that does not promote the