Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-02-21

here and there IN all our OIOau anu olooHiiuR
prosperous country? think so, and the PEG
pie who are in want, or threatened with want
are the people am praying for, hoping TO
and working for.
Toadyism in the pulpit is only one phase o
American toadyism. American toadies will b
down in the dust to Prince Henry, of Prussia
The sycophant is the most contemplate crea
ture in all the world. What has Prince Henr,
done for the American people, for the German
people, or for any other people, that enttle
him to any honor whatever? We can honor
good farmer or mechanic, an eminent educate
or physician, an inventor or discoverer, but t.
honor man who is simply titled dead-heat
is undemocratic, and lowers the human race il
its dignity and self-respect. Toadying to Eng
land in sending delegation of sycophants te
the coronation of King Edward, at cost O
thousands of dollars Of the peoples money, is
another case of American degeneracy tina
causes my American blood to boil and fills Inc
with loathing for people who claim to be Amer
leans, and are not, but are contemplate men o.
the 6shworm order.
Two young sprigs of the moneyed toadies
in knee breeches and tin swords, were recent!
presented to King Edward. 1t would hav1
been fitting to have presented them as Lord
Hoefat Armour and Lord Gripfast Brown
These young bucks no more represent tru<
Americans, either in sentiment or true nobility
of character, than canuibal could stand to:
George Washington or Lincoln. The MOBILES
of America are people who are doing something
to better the human race--to advance civillza
ton. and never come down to the level Q:
crowns and titles.
Augustus Schwab, steel lord, has "done'
Europe, and been presented at several courts
He is received with "great affability." Wha
mean opinion the good people of Europe viii
have of Americans. The impression will &c
out, and grow, that Americans are mob O.
vulgar money. worshippers and groveers to no
bility that is noble only in name, and to oov
down to kings whose right to rule is founde
and maintained in the power Of might.
The Chicago American wants to know i
Americans are afraid of great men, in dealin
with public wrongs. This query, in connec
ton with the coroner's inquest held over tn
dead bodies of the New York Central RAILROAD
tunnel slaughter of nofending trainmen an'
travellers. Some people are afraid, but there
are always few who do not bow the knee t.
American Baal; always few people who hav
too much self-respect to grovel at the feet c
any man; always few people who will thin
as much of the poor as of the rich; always
few Christians whose conception OF Christian
dutv will send them down into the slums will
helping hands; always few people who vii
wear out their lives in uever.ending effort IL
lift fallen humanity to higher plane of inte
lgence and hrppiness; and there is always
low, mean-spirited lot OF toadies to cumber th
earth and pollute humanity.
Toadyism sets up very sorry lot OF peopl'
to bow to. 1t might be excusable in man tt
bow to Whittier, Lowell, Bancroft or Wilcox
or Whitaker. Watts, Fulton or Edison, but L
bow to men who have simply reaped the fra
of other mems labor is too degrading to be toll
Grated in free America. 1t would not degrade
us to do reverence to the Dckenses, Thacker
avs and John Brights, but 10 slobber over th'
foot of throne occupied by such man a
Edward VII. ought to disgust native of Avs
tralia. To pray for prominent men and th,i
families while poor people die of want is in ex
act imitation of the old Pharisee of Jesus
time. The Pharsees stood OH the street cor
ners that they might be seen Of men, and Jesu
declared that God held them in lower esteem
than the people of SoGom.
We hold the American toady in very low es
TEEN, and we presume that in Gods esteem