Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-02-07
WHO CHANGES?

The people who resist change the most undesira-
BILE people in the world The people who believe that
things are good enough are the people who clog the
wheels Of progress The people who have no theories
ideals the people who usually return to barbarsm
never emerge therefrom.
The ideals and theories Of Jesus were in His day i
adopted by twelve men, and one Of the twelve was
traitor To-day the best civilization the most humane
the most enlightened the civilization builded upon the
theories and ideals OF the lowy Nazarene.
To say that every advance Of the human family along
the lines Of Jesus teaching has been met with gbbets
bunings and dungeons to state mere fact of history
beyond dispute To state that every who proposed
any great change made any great discovery and that
whose theories and discoveries received with favor
by the ruling powers, would be to state what all history
reutes.
1t is the thinking man who changes. 1t is the man
who has ideals who advances. Jesus said that His
Kingdom not like unto the kingdoms of this world
not like unto the kingdoms Of men. Jesus Kingdom is
a Kingdom Of love. Mems kingdom is kingdom Of
force
From mems rule to Jesus rule is revolution His
subjects willing loving subjects. To substitute love
for force, light for darkness happiness for misery, is
reasonable, just and benefcent and yet, the worlds
powers have fought against such change on thousands
Of battle fields The fight goes to-day in the days
Of old Not many clods who do not think but far too
plenty for easy motion The kingdoms Of force are not
so strong as formerly still formidable Two thousand
years of conflict in which the earth has drank the blood
Of the worlds best men-the men who desired change
had lofty ideals and indomitable courage
1t is the owy and obscure who change and fight for
lofty ideals. s
Jesus was carpenter. Savanarola and Luther we're
obscure monks Franklin printer. Lin coin was
a rai-spitter. None came from the slums and none
from palaces The sums furnish no thinking men. but
criminals. The palaces furnish no thinking men. but
the men who employ brute force.
The reformer has heart. AS Jesus had compassion
upon the multitude, so must he who would make the
world better
Uncle Toms Cabin was not written by politician
but the reading of the book made tens Of thousands Of
ant~slavey votes. 1t all heart Heart, as we'll
head plead and fought for the freedom Of the chatte
slave. The thinking man and the changing man is
loving man. He is courageous man, for he fights
against tremendous odds, at immense sacrifice. Not
ruler he refuses be ruled by wrong conditions the
force that is barbarous Kings well-to-do priests and
politicians not Of the reformers The priest is
tent. 1t requires mental effort to believe what
fathers taught u.s. and warm house is preferable to
camping out with only the skies for shelter. ndoence
ignorance and prejudice are warm garment in fair
weather The storms raised by reformers whip to tat
tiers the filthy old garments Of tradition creed and legend
Disturb the incidence Of the priest and you fill him
with rage and resistance. The politician is cunning
knave. He it is who makes laws and interprets them.
He is the tool Of the worlds grandees. He feathers the
nests Of kings and goges the stomache Of corporations