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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
american Federation Of Labor
IL Underpaying Its Officials

meetings is nearer sixteen than eight,
still, If the workmen had to put in
that time they would be receiving
time and one-half or double time for
all over eight hours.
The labor official on an average puts
in more time in two weeks than the
workman does in three weeks, still
they believe he has soft job and
should be satisfied with the minimum
wage scale. There may be more or
less doubtful glory in the job, but as
a short cut to wealth 1t is dismal
failure. 1t is time the American Fed.
Grafton Of Labor set the example and
paid the men who are giving their
time to the work Of organizing the
toilers of the country at least decent
living wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Serious Mistake Was Made by
Striking Chicago Freight Handler

the increase, but posted in the differ
ent freighthouses, with notice that
it would govern all freight handlers
after a certain date. While workmen,
either individually or collectively,
have a perfect right to say under
what terms they shall sell their labor,
the employer has an equal right to
say upon what conditions he will buy
that labor, and if they cannot agree
there is nothing left but to part. At
the same time, each is dependent on
the other, and the sensible thing to
do is to get together and discuss
terms.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Dresden Way With Cats.

In Dresden, where they do some
things better than In some other
places, there is a tax of mark on
every cat. AS result Of this impo-
sition the homeless animals were
gathered and extinguished. In the
first year Of the tax 10000 cats were
killed. 1t would be of use and inter-
est to learn il any corresponding in
crease of rats and mice occurred. If
so. 1t would be better to allow cats to
come in free Of duty and license the
mice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
ure, since more than half of them rep
resent themselves as permanently dis
abled by their short service.



Because the Standard Oil and the
Hard Coal trust have not the benefit
Of tariff on their products the Re-
publican party SCOTS at the contention
that the tariff is the father Of the
trusts.
That the completely of the railroads
with their determinations against in.
dependent companies has taken these
two out of the category of tariff-made
monopolies does not alter the general
proposition at all.
AS well might 1t be urged that the
fact that some burglars used crow.
bars in their housebreaking shows
the injustice of the ban on burglars
tools.
When the Steel trust Is able to fur
nish structural iron cheaper in Europe
and Africa than it will supply the
same material here; when American
sewing machines cost less in England
than they do at the factory doors;
when the Food trust raises the price
of meat to famine figures because it is
secure against the competition of
Canada mutton and Mexican beef.
the potency of the element of duties
in their monopolies requires no fur
Their demonstration, though the re-
fusal to give Cuba the reciprocity we
owe her, at the behest Of another
trust, is cumulative evidence Of the
same thing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Not Easy of Exclamation.

Mr.. Austin, the newspaper man
whom Mr.. Hanna made chief of the
treasury bureau of statistics, is an ex-
FOUNDER of the doctrine that trade fol-
lows the flag, but he has difficulty in
explaining the falling off in our ex-
ports during the past year, amounting
to more than $1OO,OOOOOO in value. He
is no worse off, however, than all the
other imperialist soothsayers who
have found it to their profit to dissem-
mate fairy tales about the effects Of
expansion" upon our foreign trade
and our national prosperity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
: Not Prosperity.

Salaries and wages are at a stand
still, while everything which men
must use, who depend for their liveli-
hood upon salaries and wages, has
gone up at rapid rate; and the Re-
publican orators and Republican ora
tors tell us that this is prosperity"
1t is not prosperity. 1t is an I'M
natural and an Unjust condition, one in
which the few thrive at the expense
of the many, and the many are re-
CURED to bear the burdens which can
not long be endured.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Notes
General News of Interest to
Workinsmen of All Trades

trade unions. The secretary has re-
turns from more than 1900 unions,
covering every branch of industry in
the state. 1t will contain, in general
way, the increase of me members of
the local unions and improved con-
dition of the toiler.'
The inability of their employers to
secure strike-breakers has caused the
striking union coppersmiths of Phil
adelphia to increase their demands.
Three weeks ago 100 of them-the en-
tire local trade-struck for a nine
hour workday and minimum wage
rate of $2.75 to SO day. On Monday
they notified their nine employers that
they would not go back to work for
less than $3.50 day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Secretary Wilson of the United
Mine Workers states that the member
ship of that organization is now 232,-
2S9, making it the largest labor
organization in the United States. The
United Mine Workers paid 1902, 926.07
for strike benefits to its members last
year.
Philadelphia blacksmiths have
practically won their strike for nine
hour workday with present wages. Out
of the 200 odd shops in the city 1S1
have signed the union scale. OF the
1863 men who went on strike 1923 have
returned to work in the union shops.
In connection with its annual re-
port, the Bureau of Labor of this
state will publish interesting data on
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
LOVES LEGACY.

The rose he pressed against my heart
Still kept its cruel thorn.
Never such smiles as those OF Love!
But ne'er such bitter pain
Nor cruel wounds deep In my heart'
Nor tears like wintry rain!
Love came and stayed for one brief hou'
Within my open door;
Then woe to me, he went away,
Never to enter more!
Yes. Love is gone; but still. he came
And left all this with me:
A kiss, wound, a rose. smile,
A sad, sweet memory.
Boston Transcript.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

I waited long for Love to come.
Longing for him with vague unrest
To come and kiss my tired eyes
And soothe my throbbing heart to rest.
I thought that never tears should rise
Again. nor grief should come to me;
That nights then dark would lose their
gloom
That changed all the world would be.
At last he came, and oh, what Joy
He brought! No dream of mine
Had ever reached such lofty heights
Nor could such bliss divine.
But with the Joy came bitter pain
When this dear Love was born;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Volunteer Pension erabbers.

Five regiments of regular infantry
that took part in the battles at San
tiago and lost GOA men in killed,
wounded and missing have furnished
764 applicants for pensions. From
five regiments of volunteers that did
not lose man in any Of the battles
come 1897 claims for pensions. AS
we are forbidden to assume that the
volunteers were any less unselfish in
their patriotic devotion than the regu.
lars. the only possible inference from
this contrast is that the volunteers
were sadly unit to Withstand expos.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
WHAT is 1T ALL FOR?
LET US HAVE LIGHT ON THE
Philippine QUESTION.
American People Should Insist on
Knowing What Interests Are Being
Served by Our Expenditures OF
Blood and Treasure.

During the few months covering the
period of actual war in the Philippines
the American army lost In killed and
wounded about 120 men. In this num-
Der are included the casualties occa-
stoned by the assault upon Manila.
The losses since Feb. 4, 1899, the
day on which operations against the
insurgents began, have been 1867.
Deaths from all causes were 4,155 and
the number wounded was 2,S97. or
the deaths about 1000 were from
wounds received in battle.
Most of the time that this tragic
record was being made the govern
ment at Washington insisted that
there was no war in the Philippines
and maintained some sort of pretense
that civil government obtained.
To say nothing Of the heavy finan'
cial expense, this death roll of Ameri-
can soldiers should cause very seri-
Gus inquiry in this country as to the
object of the military operations
which have made such a sacrifice of
life necessary.
Heretofore 1t has not been custom.
airy to shed the blood Of Americans
except for some good and sufficient
cause. The liberty, the rights and
the unity of Americans have been as
serted and defended at tremendous
cost, and, in the case of the Cubans,
the liberties of other people have been
similarly maintained. The object has
been always in plain view and has
been held to be worth the sacrifice
that was necessary to attain 1t.
In the Philippines however, we are
entirely in the dark as to the pur-
pose for which these lives have been
taken. We do not know whether we
are there as liberators, as conquerors,
as Adventures, as commercial agents,
as incorporators, or as mere sojourn-
ers, likely at any time to take down
the flag and return to this hemi-
sphere.
There is no question at all about
the fact that some Americans have
an important interest in the Philip
pines, but as matters now stand the
American people as a whole have no
assurance that they will ever have
any stake there.
So far as surface indications go, the
army is there for the purpose of serv-
ing the interests of favored persons
who are intent upin securing the nat
ural advantages which the islands
hold forth. There are hints that at
some future time, probably when the
adventurous and the selfish have
reached the limit of their exploita-
tons, the islands will be turned over
to somebody else and the American
occupation will come to an end.
If that should be the outcome the
records will show that we have ex-
pended in life and treasure as much
as it cost to carry the army Of the
Potomac through an important cam
paign in behalf of liberty and union,
and the results will be seen in the
augmented possession of individuals
rather than in the increased power
and glory of the republic.
The appalling sacrifices here tabu-
lated and confessed for the first time
constitute more than 1000 solemn
reasons why every honest American
shrould insist upon a speedy answer
to the question: What for?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The Boston Transcript calls atten-
ton to the decline which appears to
have taken place during the last de-
cade." and explains it by the fact
that certain classes of salaried en-
ployes previously included as among
the wage-earners were excluded in
the last census. Not only, moreover,
have money wages risen real wages,
represented by purchasing power,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Newfoundland Honesty.

Simple honesty Is one of the strik-
ing characteristics Of the people Of
Observation-Disclosures piety and homes.
ty which accompany an austere re-
ligion. Doors are not locked, prop
erty lies exposed everywhere, no
watch is kept on the fish when they
lie drying on the fakes. No man
takes advantage of his neighbor, no
man quarrels with his brother, no
man appeals to the law. nobody Is
arrested.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Who Got the Money.

A man, having had a sum Of money
left him at the death of his father,
went to see his solicitor, who had the
matter in hand, to arrange the final
settlement. The bill Of costs having
been presented to him, the man
glanced over the figures and. thinking
the charges were excessively heavy.
turned to his legal adviser in astonish-
ment. my father lett his money to
me-not to you'll" he exclaimed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
How Working People View Il.

When an honest laboring man or
woman. who is not looking for charity,
but for fair wages, reads in the papers
that the cost of living to-day is higher
than it has been at the beginning OF
any fiscal year since 1865, what does
he or she care II &rust magnate has
endowed another library? Does that
endowment really improve the present
magnificent opportunities for securing
a superior education in this country?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Chewing Tobacco a Necessity.

They have 2 Sunday closing ordi-
nance in Joplin, Mo-, and under it's
provisions only necessaries may be
sold. A grocer was accused Of selling
plug tobacco on sunday, but his attor-
ney raised the point that chewing to-
bacco is a necessity. Judge Brown,
before whom the case was tried, took
the same view and discharged the
accused. Then he took fresh chew
of plug and called the next case.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
A Great Idea.

It is announced that feature Of the
coming Woman's Exhibition in New
York will be a table on which will be
exhibited samples Of the sewing of
famous actresses. Many men would
go far to see a stocking darned by
Lillian Russell or pair of trousers
patched by. Leslie Carter. That table
should draw like a poker game.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Tricks of Beaqars.

A beggars' league in st. Petersburg
mutilates children and cripples them
to arouse sympathy from the benevo-
lent when they are sent to beg in
public places. The chief of this gang,
who is wealthy man and has posed
as a philanthropist. receives rs per
cent of the money begged by the poor
people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Lava From Mont PeIee AnaIyzed.

The sample of lava which caused
the destruction Of st. Pierre has been
analysed by J. M. Camp, chief chemist
at the Duquesne Steel Works. The
result shows the composition Of the
lava as follows: Silica. $3.50; sesqui-
noxide iron, 7.21; alumina, 1879; lime,
6.28; .magnesia, 1.0S; manganese, a
small trace; sulphur trioxide. 1.60;
carbonic acid, 6.12, and moisture, 1873.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Mr.. Fitzsimmons' fervent prayer for
victory on the eve of battle didn't pull
down the long end OF the purse, but 1t
may have helped him to put up good
stiff fight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
The Hardest Bill to Collect.

Talk about hard bills to collect"
exclaimed the fashionable florist II
know the limit. The banner for i'm
possibility is borne off by the bill
for blossoms run up by the young
man whose engagement has been
broken off,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Lord Kitchener's latest smile-said
to be the twelfth of his lifetime-has
been photographed. If he has the
bad luck that distinguishes the pri-
vate career of American heroes 1t will
be his last.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
The onIy Remedy at Hand.

There will never be any effective
action against The trusts by the Re-
publican party. The way to uemedy
the trust evil is to defeat the Repub-
lican party at the polls and then pro-
coed to revise the tariff TO the point
of making 1t tariff for revenue only.
st. Louis Republic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Honor Ia Due 10 klnu Herod.

When a man like General Jake
Smith, who ordered all children over
10 massacred, can be praised for gal
lantry 1t is time that we were revising
our opinion Of Herod and erecting
monuments to HIS memory z.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

They have found some bones out in
Kansas which show that man has lived
on the earth for at least $4,000 years.
What long time it took to work up
to the sugar trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The word "automaniac" has been
coined as descriptive of the man who
owns a devil wagon but SO far no in
sane asylum wards have been set
aside for the use Of this class Of
lunatics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Great Britain has captured Africa,
but the Yankees have captured the
trade of Africa. The Yankees have
made the greatest capture, on the
whole.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Edinburq Honors Canadians.

The municipality of Edinburg con-
ferred the freedom of that city to
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can
ada, and Sir Robert Bond, premier
and colonial secretary of Newfound-
land, on the occasion of their last
visit there on July 26 to receive de-
grees from the university.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

A woman in San Francisco tasted
forty-five days in order TO reduce her
weight. She accomplished her pur-
pose, but her family will now be put
to the expense of burying her.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The new battleship Maine is flyer
as well as fighter. That she will
never use her speed in leaving an
enemy behind is foregone conclu-
sion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The census bureaus statement that
the farms of tne United States are
worth more than $20.0OO,OOO,0O0 ap-
parently hasn't as yet inspired any
one with the idea of getting up a
farmers trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

And now an Indian lis years old
follows the old negro who was 1875.
Some of these stories of the age OF
people who only knew when they were
born by hearsay look trifie doubtful.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Only five revolutions and three
wars are now going on In South
America. But what can you expect in
the vacation season?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Joshua Anderson was taken from
Jail one morning by a crowd of men
and hanged to the cross beam of the
city scales, in greensboro, Ky. His
weight Is not stated.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Baron de Coubertin runs no risk in
prophesying that the American starry
banner will sometime be par excel
lence the Anglo-Saxon flag. 1t is to-
day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

HOLSTERS are scarce-on the benches
in the Boston markets. Elsewhere,
we regret to say, they are as numer-
GUS as usual.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

According to the census bureau,
bachelors outnumber maidens by
2,531,333 in the United States. Now,
girls, don't let these figures make you
frivolous, or you may spoil your
chances altogether.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Iron Rescued From the Sea.

An enormous quantity of iron. in the
shape of old anchors and chains, Is
annually rescued from the sea. Dur
ing one period of twelve months as
much as $50 tons weight was dredged
up on the east coast of England alone.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Locusts Cause Great Loss.

The Rocky Mountain locust, or
grasshopper, in 1874 destroyed $780,
100000 of crops of Kansas. Missouri,
Nebraska and Iowa, and the indirect
loss was probably as much more.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Latest crop reports are to the effect
that the growth Of hair on John
Rockefeller's head is doing excellently
well.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

No amount of abuse will bring the
blush of shame to the cheek of the
man who owns a record-breaking au'
tomobile.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Did you ever meet person who
had learned to swim by following in
structions such as are printed in
many papers at this season Of the
year?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
In Jersey.

A farmer of Lambertsville, N. j.,
has died from the bite of a rooster.
We had thaught that the bite of the
Jersey skeeter was the only thing in
Jersey for which there was no anti
dote.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Carnegie is now giving libraries to
individuals. If he intends to go all
around there is little danger that the
field will soon be covered.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

After undergoing all the perils of
the South African campaign, it would
be indeed distressing If Kitchener in
London should be killed by kindness.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

Prince Boris of Russia, rs years old
and unmarried, is on his way to the
United States, probably with the idea
of mining for gold.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

In a Vienna divorce case the I'M
faithful wife and the correspondent
were sent to jail TO. two months. Is
this step toward social reform7
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

What is to be said Of other trusts In
Germany when even the cement COM
bine has failed to stick?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

II all the world were really a stage
the theatrical trust would come pretty
near owning the earth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The naphtha launch is now assisting
the automobile in reducing the surplus
population.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

In his second battle with Champion
Jeffries Kangaroo Bob can not deny
that he got his share of the dope.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The Alps have cost 301 lives in the
last ten years. Death seems to be
doing the tallest climbing after all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

AS England doesn't happen to need
"Bobs" in her business just at present
she is q trifie forgetful Of him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15

The rest of the fight may have been
a fake, but Jeffries' broken nose was
genuine, apparently.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-15
Since 1850
Changes in Compensation of Labor
as Shown by tho Census Repo

The changes in the compensation Of
laborers in the United States from
1850 to the present time, according to
the census reports, are as follows:
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-27

In the matter Of the emancipation OF
japanese women it is not generally
known that the lady who has done
more than anybody else for her sex in
the land of the chrysanthemum is the
present japanese Empress. Her influ-
ence has been exerted in small things
as in large. She has entirely revolu-
tionized the education of girls. and
the cornerstone viii be put on the sys-
tenn early next year by the opening Of
a university for women in Toxic. 1t
was she who. in the early seventies.
by her example. put an end to the old
custom of married women blackening
their teeth. From the western point
of view the most commendable inno-
walton for which her majesty has
been responsible Is the introduction of
European dress In place Of the fault
less costume of Japan. Still, there is
even a reason for this. the contention
being that a Japanese lady is treated
more respectfully by her husband
when she is in European dress than
when retaining her national costume.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-27
NcptuuO ana tho N-emnla,.

Nov. girls" said Neptuac. and b,s
voice trembled with deep-sea emotion
1--WE are up against it for fair" with
one voice the fair nymphs inquired
what the matte Was. THAT subna. T..
rine scheme of ths Pennsylvania svs-
tera. its q dreadful thing II railroads
are. to Invade our watery domain {"
"oh, i don't know retolted pert
young mermaid; "all we've got To do
is to look out for the locomotive /"
That shows how little you know
about the railroad business" replied
Neptune, with sigh. THE most i'm
portant thing is TO look out for the
conductors and the engineers. Ma.
rine Journal