Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

Coal barons, and no more. The farmer asked
the Lord to bless him and his wife, his son
John and his wife-'us four, and no more"
Some years ago, the Pullman Car Company
had hell seance up at Chicago. The pitch
forks were all in evidence, and the hearts were
we'll prodded. There have been great num-
Der of hellish outbreaks, but these will suffice.
The situation points to a continued hell, with
the variation that the inmates of the hells
sometimes grow restless and attempt to break
the barriers.
The inmates of the hells occasionally want a
let-up. To want let-up is equivalent to an
invitation to increase the torments. AT least,
that is the outcome, in most cases.
am reminded of story told me by gen.
tleman vino lived on Red river, Texas, in the
good old days before the war. He said: eff
slave ran away from his master, and was
caught (Which generally happened), the slave
was bound to the trunk of tree, and had one
toe-nail drawn out by the roots, with pincers,
for the first offense; for the second, the number
of toe-nails was doubled"-and so on to the
end of the chapter The drawing of the nails
slave
could perform, but it hurt, all the same. The
slave had the punishment and the master was
no loser 1t is generally admitted, now that
the slave only attempted to secure his right,
and was punished for wanting his own.
The cabitalist initiates the Shareholder.
1t would seem that the hell of the laboring
men is surrounded with strong barriers, and the
gates are well guarded. 1t was always so. If
there was no other way to hold laborng men In
hels, a war was proclaimed. There was always
enough CT liars and lies to delude the laboring
man into bloody slaughter of his fellows. It
was always the strongest men that were slain.
The remnant left after the wars, being made up
of timid men and defenceless women, generally,
offered no resistance to the barriers set by kings
and capitalists.
The modern hels ar. harder to maintain
since the wars are less frequent, but so far, the
capitalist is managing very we'll.
It has been one of the popular delusions that
Uncle Sam was opposed to industrial hels-at
least, on general principles-and was, in his
youth. Just now, Uncle Sam is on drunk or
losing his mind
Uncle Sam has declared for industrial hells.
Uncle Sam might be doctored sufficiently to
break the barriers that surround labor, if the
laboring men were not so densely ignorant.
To-day, ignorance is giant With all our
boasted schools and sources of knowledge, the
mass of the American people are comparatively
ignorant, and being ignorant, they are the
prey of as cruel set Of robbers and exploiters
as ever cursed the human race.
Ignorance sets the barriers to progress and
excavates the halls of labor. Kings have only
seized the opportunity laboring men afforded
them. speak of the cruelty and injustice in
ficted by eartl1s rulers, because what that class
of men did, and do, was done, and is done,
with perfect knowledge of the effect, and is
all the more barbarous.
Orthodoxy sends people to hell because it is
supposed that the punishment is merited. No
one claims that the lot that has fallen to the
toiling millions is just or excusabe on any ra-
tional ground.
knowledge for the masses is lacking Just
ice is on their side; also, humanity and religion.