Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-27
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
THE SHOW" AND SH0WIN'
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to camp on public highways. Chinese pleas
ants are inside the pale of the law. Also
mems faces under The high jurisdiction OF &
"barbers' board" said board to be appointed
and hold their Office so long as they put uT
part OF their salary to the campaign fund.
"No nomination" is knocked out, as is, also,
"nob violence" and "biackmailing.
This is about the gist of the acts of the egis'
lature that cumber our statute. books and cause
the state printer to earn small portion OF his
enormous haul on state funds. The unwritten
acts, if all accounts are true, would damn
Satan and shame his imps.
Even Mr.. Ramsey is forced to admit that the
Cy Leland bum house has "started fire." but
Mr. Ramsey is in error as to the starting. The
legislature has added fuel to the fire, already
started. To put men on the payroll who per-
formed no service, and pay out OF the state
funds, is a good deal lower-down kind OF steal
ing than stealing horses, and infinitely more
contemplate. To burden poor students with
tuition fee who are now working up to the full
limit of their means and capacity must stamp
the men of the Legislature, OF either house or
senate, as being both heartless and stupid. 10
refuse to pass law prohibiting child labor
.rlnes Kansas down to the level of South Car
oiiua--and South Carolina is hundred years
behind the times.
The Kansas legislature just adjourned is a
type of legislatures generally. There is ter
rife straining at gnats and swallowing OF cameis
Legislatures meet, nowadays, to swell expenol'
lures and further burden taxpayers. The
great ambition of the average legislator is to
acquire Doodle and place ''poitical buns" on
the pay-rolls.
The great questions OF the day are lost sight
of in the scramble for spols. Poor people
laboring people--tax payers-have no rights
legislatures or congress are bound to respect
Snake.eaters are hunted down and gopher-kill-
ers are hunted up. There is TO effective pro-
lection for children against the necessity that
is born of rapacity. No effort to protect the
weak against the str ug. No thought OF the
civilization that mus, DECLINE under present
conditions. No interest in the great questions
that concern The whole people. No desire to
quicken and push forward the graudest of the
worlds civlliz alton, All to the contrary IS
pretense. Every hog that has teen shorn has
yielded more squeals than wool.
It would seem 10 common man that II
man wanted to eat snakes, and relished snakes,
it was nobodys business The act regulating
the number of birds that might be killed IN one
day is of vast importance beside the question
of how many Children a corporation might XII
in one generation. To burden students with
tuition fees, in the name of economy, and
souander the public funds on "political buns, y
sets premium on vice and places virtue below
par. &C..
This country is swarmng with "Pol:'ic'l
buns" The bum is the product OF partisan
ship. Partisanship and ignorance are twin
inps. The voter is accessory. The voters OF
this state did not so discriminate as to elect a
good senate and bad house. Both bodies be-
long to the same party. Both wings OF the
legislature had their buns and scapegoats, and
when the man from the house replies to the
man from the senate, we will have the whole
story.
The accused party in this case has right to
be heard. The fact that Mr.. Ramsey prayed
fof the senate is not conclusive evidence that
the senate was "6ne body" and not undey
control
1t is an old dodge Of politicians to look wise
and saw nothing--at least as old as Cleveland
"By their fruits We shall know them y We
Judge men by their acts, aud not by their looks
or fine clothes.
NV verdict is that the legislature was a
bunny legislature. The prayers of the blind
chaplain of the house and the acting chaplain
of the senate were not sufficiently efhcacious.
The legislature hearkened to the voice of the
god of Wall street. II praying is to reform
the Republican party we will have 10 have
new set of chaplains