Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-06
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
"pUr NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES"

certain psychologist teaches that the ma
jc-''y of men gain no new ideas after they are
twenty-five years old. 1t may be that this
strange thing connected with the mind of the
human being accounts for the general stupidity
of the masses.
"Once Democrat, always Democrat" 1t
is not to be presumed that people have very
many ideas at the age of twenty-five. This
may account tor the slow progress of knowl-
edge.
It is the few that develope ideas all through
life, and that few are generally persecuted.
1t is the youth we must look TO to embrace
the new doctrines. The'old are incapable.
Once blind partisan, always blind parti-
san. Once a toe-ksser of royalty, always a
toe-kisser.
Young people should be very careful in the
selection of life principles.
Looking back to the time when war was
4 waged on chattel slavery, we may find that the
idea of abolishing chatte slavery also embraced
the idea of abolishing wage slavery. That old
war horse of the Abolitionists, Wendell Phil
lips, sounded call to the onslaught on the
capitalist wage Shareholder in of the last
lectures he ever delivered. Lyman Trumbul
died friend of the tolirg millions The one
idea embraced all forms of slavery oppres-
son and the strange thing is that so few of the
mighty hosts who followed Lincoln and Grant
rose, in principles, to the height of their
achievements.
All old soldiers should be with the laboring
hat Woc Ou1v occi1 o
impulse that led men into the ranks of the
Union army? 1t seems so. Is it leadership by
the few that has betrayed this country Of free
men into the hands of more dangerous, op-
pressor than the owner of chattels could posi-
sby become under the old regime of the South
ern slave holder? 1t is lying leadership.
The old soldier has been power in the Re-
publican party, and has lost all he gained by
i his victory over the Confederates, through the
exercise of that power.
The colored people are free in no sence but
in name. His very existence is menaced in
many localities. The condition of the white
people is thousand fold worse than at the be-
ginning of the civil war.
mean that the power inimical to the inter
es's of the masses is thousand fold stronger
has a thousand fold the greater advantage.
At he beginning of the civil war, there were
no capitalists in the sense that man is capi-
talist to-day. No corrupt judges. No congress
selected by capitalist Influence. No standing
army, and no desire to use an army.
In less than half century, the American
people have created power that is as absolute
as the powers of the Gar of Russia. As yet,
it has only been partially exercised. Wait till
union labor and anti-union labor lock horns in
the death struggle, and you will see that my
words are not the words of fool. Union labor
will not win. II has no right to win. Union
labor seeks to benefit itself. 1t is as selfish as
the capitalist. 1t may ease its own burdens,
z but every burden lifted from the shoulders of
organized labor through strikes and boycotts
is sadded onto the shoulders of some other
class If productive and useful citizens. If or
ganized labor won, where would be the farm
! ers teachers and other classes not embraced by
tie labor organizations? Union labor is not
benevolent. Benevolence embraces all classes.