Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

some bad seed sown.
If the generations that followed the genera
tion OF Washington are not up to the Washing
ton standard, there is serious deterioration.
There should be advancement.
There has been much false teaching-teach-
ing of the kind that comes from certain class
of literature; teaching that exalts richers;
teaching that opens saloons; teaching thar has
filled our city councils with booders and OUT
legislatures with knaves.
Public sentiment coudones or approves MANY
things that people generally condemned in
Washingtons day.
We may not have lowered our standard of
patriotism, but we have certainly lowered the
standard of morals. We lowered the Washinp-
ton standard of liberty when we seized the
Philippines. We lowered the Washington
standard of honesty all along the line in per.
mitting the issuing of fraudulent stock; in
permitting the extortion of capitalists.
The Puritans' idea of God was better than
Mammon worship. Puritanism prouced invinc-
ible men and women. The worship of Mann
mon is producing heartless greed and unblush-
ing dishonesty. We need not have either Pur.
itanism or Mammon worship, but if we nust
choose, give us Purtanism. Puritanism will
turn out better men and women than Mammoun
We sow to greed and reap dishonor for our
nation anG misery for our toiling millions. II
is bad to sow to merely physical appetite, but
there is more hope for drunkard than the
man who oppresses the hireling or withholds
wages fairly earned.
Greed is an intellectual lunacy. The witch
burners do not suffer in comparison. The
witch.burners found but few witches. The
Mammon craze gobbles not only the little fish,
but many good-sized whales.
1t would seem that, educationally, we had
left the Washington generation far in the rear.
Maybe, and maybe not. This is generation
that is satisfied with the form, and many people
are not aware that there is substance.
What little scholar may pick up iu COM
mon school, in the way of knowledge, don't
amount to much compared with the sum total.
At best, it is only the crawling locomotion that
precedes walking; yet, there are legislative
fools that would hang flag over the school
houses to teach patriotism.
burned witches. The followers of the false
god sow impure and dishonest lives and burn
"niggers." Puritanism launched great ma
ton. Will Mammon worship sink the finest
vessel of all time?
Doctors are progressive, and, also, cranks.
We may claim that cranks belong to the heal
ers' fraternity.
We cannot cure defect of character in a
large number of people by mob burnings.
To have healthy children, we must not alone
treat the parents, but we must place the chill
dren in congenial environment.
The husbandman is a fool who believes a
good crop lies in the seed alone. There must !,
be careful cultivation to insure good crop and I
improvement in the quality of the grain. II
Socialism gives the conditions in which care /
full cultivation of all the children is possible.
The hope of any people lies in the conditions
that environ the wealth-producers. Destroy
the life suckers, not in violence, but in whols- III
some restraint. The more humanity, the less
The mob spirit is bad seed. Don't
cultivate it. They that sow to that spirit end H
in anarchy. Sow the truth, SOW honor and Il
honesty, sow peace, sow loving your neighbor, II
sow equal opportunities, sow temperance in III
closed saloons, sow noble and unselfsh deeds III
everywhere and at all times, and reap grander
crop of men and women than has yet been III
produced since the creation of man. Sow III
through Socialism, because Socialism presents III
the only conditions that make right sowing III
possible.