Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-04
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
TWO.LEGGED STOOL.


For all history teaches us-public and private
,history--conquereis, statesmen, sharp EyFo
.crites and trave designers--yes; they all teach
,us how mighty one man OF great intelligence
and no scruples is against the Justice OF mil
lions. The one man moves, the mass Is inert.
Justice sits on a throne. Roguery never rests
Activity is the lever of Archimedes. ON
Bulwer Lytton, in "Night and Morning
The mass will not become active unless it
can be made to think, and some one has said
that the way to thought, i'll the mass, is through
the stomach.
If it is true that the way to thought and act
iv,ty among the working people in America is
through the stomach, we have to rejoice ovel
the general unrest now prevailing, and hail the
strikes of union labor men as the ushering in
of a new and better era, not only for working
people in America, but for working people IN
every country and Of every nationality.
II NAV not be true that the way 10 thought
is through the stomach.
My mules kick hardest when they have the
most feed.
From Republican authority, we have had
wonderful era Of prosperity. Miners ripped
the bowels of the earth tor coal. Ditto, the
metal miners. The well-borer tapped the great
lakes of petroleum. The farmer, not to be
outdone, clogged the markets with grain' cot
ton, beef and pork.
The producer in all lines of industry created
vast quantities of those things that have great
commercial value, either as necessities or lux
,uries. The producer was exceedingly active IN
,producine wealth, but slow to perceive that the
wealth he produced in such incredible quant'-
tiles ,passed through his hands into the hands OF
Others who were not producers. The producer
barely lived IN the booming times, and scarcely
existed when the good old hard times were
reaping harvests Of misery. While the mil
lions grew into billions, the "captains of indus
,vn were very busy. The men of great
intellect and no scruples grabbed, squeezed and
merged. The Rockefelers gobbled the oil.
The Carneeies and Morgans gobbled the wealth
in steel The coal baIons gobbled the wealth
IN coal, The Vanderbilts and Goulds raked IN
the railroads. The Havemyers were Lound to
have the sugar, and got t--both domestic and
foreion. The "Big -Four" gobbled the beef
and pork in such quantities as to knock supply
and demand off its pins. The Astors cut a
wide swath IN lots and tenements, and the tim
her thieves gobbled the forests. Land only
parly remains to the farmer, and when the
time IS ripe, great land syndieates will sweep
the land away from the ownership OF the mar
who tills aid tolls; and then will the idea
Of Satan have been fully accomplished 'rher
we will have nation of serfs-wage- slaves
hireliups, truckers, sycophants, knaves, fools
criminals, paupers. Every conceivable phas
of degraded humanity will grow and flourish
The foundations will crumble from beneath tn
GREAT republic Civilization will perish.
The one man has moved He is rogue
and has never rested. The mass has bee
inert when it came to looking after the stomach
Now--to.day-the stomach of the "lnass"
hu,np him, or else, thoughts come from som
other source. If we are to believe Republica
.rthority, the stomach of the mass was new
.o full since the day Adam was cast out
Eden.