Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-01-23


No smoke without fire.
The newspapers are voicing the sentiment Of
an ever-incieasng indignation.
The Rockefellers may buy seat on the
right hand of the throne of THEIR GOD by en-
dowing universities and paying off church
debts. But their god will disappear from the
face of the earth, same as the god of the old
time robber chief,ain who plundered and mas.
sscred 1.-THE veal; and defencetess creatures of
the ages of barbarism.
Would it be too much to say that ours is an
age of barbarisin, the difference of our time
and time past being in degree and methods
employed in producing misery and death.
In the olden time, blood sancti6ed the gift.
In the new time, it is sweat and empty stom-
achs.
In the olden time, life went out in gushes of
blood. In the new time, life goes ont to the
gnawing of hunger and exhaustion and from
cold.
Which is the human way-the old, or the
new?
Was it not easier to die from sword-thrust
than to die of hunger and exposurel
Whose long prayers sancti6ed the books of
the sanity Carnegie, or has won immortality
for the man who stood behind the Homestead
massacre? Is the Rockefelers' and the Carne-
gies' god half as good as the gods of the an
cient Greeks? No!--not half.
The deities of the ancient Greeks started at
half man and half god, and, by easy grada-
tions, ascended to the real thing. But the
Greek gods had valor for, according to my
theology of that people, the distinguished
minor gods did some great, useful working in
destroying some great enemy of the human
race.
The American deities suffer by contrast The
Rockefellers seized oil that God made, and
squeezed out all their weak competitors, and
we bow in abiect humility and cry with loud
voice, Great are the Rockefellers! also, oilyI
Carnegie is worshipped on two continents in
loud footing of newspaper brass horns and
other wind instrumental. But Carnegie is no
inventor, and his books are mere drivel. Car.
negie never created an ounce of iron; never
sweat over srnelter, nor invented so much as
a rod or bolt of all the vast productions Of his
steel manufactures.
Aurora lifted the curtain of night, and Her
figures the Rochefellers and the Carnegies
when compared with stable.cleaners. The
time is coming when we shall set up a superior
set of deities to the RockefelIers and the Car
negies.
Then comes the end.
Give us the gods that cleaned up the filth of
tine earth, or the goddess that lifted the cuitain
of darkness. Verify, we are in need of more
light, and the stendh of oil is offending the
nostrils of the turkey-buzzard
Give us back the Isis of Egypt, or the Jupi-
ter of Rome. Even Molock, who demanded
the burning of infants, might not suffer in
comparison with the men who work little chill
dren into premature graves; who convert every
drop of swat of the laboring man into gold,
and gloat over the wealth wrung out in agony
eff torured child bodies.
1t is long lane that has no turn-a long
night that has no day ahead. The era of semi
barbarism must end. Heart and mind OF the
enlightened American cry out against the
damnable rule of the capitalist who robs the
laborer of his just reward.
Uncle Toms Cabin and Helpers Impending
Crisis tipped the beam in favor of no chattel
slavery. The one appealed to the heart, the
other to the head. Heads guided the hearts to
glorious action.
The robbery of capitalism has nearly had its
day. Aurora lifts the curtain of the night
Hercules will cast the Rockefellers into the sea-