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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06
Bryan's Views on Immortality

The February National Mag
azine reprints from a new book,
She Proofs OF Life After Death,
this expression of the views of
William Jennings Bryan on i'm
mortality:
81 shall,,not believe that this life
is extirguished. If the Father
deigns 10 touch with devine
power the cold and pulseless
less heart of the buried acorn,
and make it to burst forth from
its prison walls, will he leave
neglected in the earth the soul
of man, who WAS made in the
image of his creator? IT He
stops to give to the rosebush,
whose withered blossoms float
upon breeze, the sweet assurance
of another springtime, will He
Withhold the words of hope from
the sous OF men when the 1rOStS
of winter come? If matter,
mute and inanimate, though
changed by nature into a multi
tude OF forms, can never die,
will the imperial spirit OF man
suffer humiliation after it has
paid a brief visit, like a royal
guest, to his tenement of clay?
"Rather let us believe that He,
who in His apparent prodigality
wastes not the raindrop, the blade
of grass, or the evenings sigh
ing zephyr, but makes them all
carey out His plans, has given
immortality to the mortal"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

THE senate has not yet settled the coal fam
inc proposition. Further investigation along
the lines laid down in the concurrent resolution
has been deferred until next Thursday. This
will give the downtrodden coal barons time to
get together, like gang of high school stu
dents notified to appear before the faculty, and
prepare hard luck story which will track. 1t
is very kind Of the senate as it is very probable
that sudden invest cation would catch the
coalists at home and II prepared to answer in an
intelligent manner. Now, they will be able to
call meeting and agree on some story, laying
the trouble to the crime Of 70 or the Boer war.
Topeka State Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

THE Chicago Federation of Labor has barred
out politics. So long as the laborng people of
this country ignore politics, just so long may
they expect strikes and lock-outs.
THE city OF Atchison will have but one tick
ct at the city election this coming spring, and
it will be non.partisau the candidates being Sc
lee ed will be the best men that can be found
1t is the purpose to pive the city good BUSH
ness administration, regardless OF politics.
In is said that Carnegie wishes to die poor.
1t is evident that the riches he now pose sses
cannot be transported across the river Styx;
and he therefore chooses to leave monuments to
his memory in the shape Of Libraries and uni.
versty buildings-but these will not atone for
the crime Of msappropriating millions from the
hands of. the producers Of wealth.
BIG blizzard swept over the middle states,
Wednesday and yesterday. Telegraph and TEL
ephone wires were broken and communication
cut off. Damage is reported as far south as
Knoxville, Tenn. In Chicago, street railway
traffic was damaged, and railroad traffic in GEN.
eral was hindered. Livestock suffered a great
deal, many cattle being killed. All kinds Of
business in the northwest is at standstill
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06
FEBRUARY NUMBER
New Idea v oman's Magazine
II VAUGHN'S. GARNE1T.

The principal features of the New Idea ,
Woman's Magazine for February are, as
ALWAYS the unitarian. and in patterns,
descriptions of costume. fancy work,
and de nestle affairs there is nothing
NOSE helpful to the home maker now
published; but the literary features are
equally as valuable. The stories are
charmingIv told and we'll illus trait d..
Mrs. f. A Osborne's paper upon Lincoln.
entitled "A Nations Patron Saint Isl
especially appropriate, and Ernest Neal
LYONS poem on Washirgtonemphasizcs
the patriotic element of the contents.
Mrs. Wilson Woodrnw's article upon
Mrs. Iiske as Mary of Magdala" con-
tinues the series upon the prominent
women OF the stake,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06
THE PASS EVIL.

The pass evil has been discussed in the leg
islature for several days, and there has been
some talk of enact,ng law to eliminate the use
of railroad passes by public officials But 1t
will not be done by the present legislature, tor
the members find that they can pay many OF
their political debts by getting passes for those
of their constituents who have "worked" tor
said members during the campaign and at the
polls.
Bale Waggcner, attorney for the Missouri
Pacific railroad, is kept busy issuing passes.
There are seven pages in the legislature who DO
nothing but carry requests for passes to the
various railroad representatives who are at the
capital. Speaking of this matter, last Satur'
days Topeka Herald says:
'Many members pay their political obliga-
tons with free transportation Precinct work.
ers who have helped them are to be rewarded,
and members, being unable to have them placed
on the payroll, send them pasres. 1t is adj
united by all politicians that more can be &C.
complished with railroad pass than its equiv
aleut in cash. AS passes ale much cheaper
than cash, members use the passes.
"The railroads submit to the pass graft, be-
cause it is cheaper to do so than to fight legis-
lation intended to inure or confscate their prop
erty. The railroad attornies say they would
welcome law prohibiting the use of fsses by
public officials, but there is no possibility OF
such measure by the present Legislature. Mem
bers now not only are able to pay political debts
with passes, but also are able to ride free them
selves, and collect IS cents mile for the dis
lance they travel. 1t is a snap for these who
live iron. 100 to 400 miles from Topeka, and
and they are not going to give it up
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

THE Populist stock.yards law was in leg
islation FIVE years. BY agreement of lawyers
and court the stock.yards company was required
to keep in separate set of books the amount
due each patron if the law should be decided in
favor of the people. 1t is stated on good author
ity that these accounts aggregated in the five
years grand total of $Is,ooo,ooo, or $4,000
COO per year, which represents the amount that
this Pop law would have saved to the stock
growers of Kansas, annually, had-the law been
held good. Still there are men who pretend to
see no good in the Peoples party.-Peope's
Voice, Wellington.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

THERE was considerable buster about the
legislature investigating the coal question, but
nothing has been done about it, so far, and the
indications do not point to an Investigation.
The Topeka State Journal says: Everything
points to the probability of the coal famine in
vestigation of l1eu3 becoming one of the quiet
jokes of the session, about which the members
of both houses will smile whenever the subject
is mentioned in the fu'ure.''
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

THE new German minister, Baron Won S!ern'
berg, who arrived in Washington only few
days ago, says for Emperor William that the
only policy OF Germany in America is to follow
the lead and respect the wishes OF the United
States government. He says the emperor has
instructed him TO say that he recognizes the
Monroe doctrine in all its bearings, and will
sustain this government in it's right to control
the political affairs of the American continent.
He admits that no European government has
auy right to meddle with affairs on this side of
the Atlantic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06
GERMANY NOT WHOLLY TO BLAME.

Those newspapers that have been Jumping
onto Germany so hard for her attitude toward
Venezuela must now sing another song. Great
Britain has been compelled to acknowledge that
che took the initiative in the matter, and invit-
ed Germany to join her in raid on Venezuela
Great Britain's involuntary acknowledgment
has created no little STIR and her action in this
matter has opened the eyes of the world TO the
fact that Great Britain is only 'friend" to any
nation when she can use that nation as a cats
paw.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

CHICAGO is selling coal to her citizens at cost.
The distribution began last Saturday, and hun
dreds of people, mainly women, gathered at the
city collectors Office and the various points Of
distribution throughought the city, and it was
demonstrated early in the day that the esti
mate of $50 tons day would not meet the
demand. 1t took 1900 tons to meet the de-
mands of the first day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

J.P. MORGAN says he owns no personal prop
erty on which he can be compelled to pay tax,
as his debts ammount to more than the value of
his personal property. However, he says he is
not tax-dodger, and voluntarily agrees to pay
tax on $4oo, 900 worth Of personal property. If
Morgan's deb's would exempt him from taxation,
how about the farmer or laborer who is in debt?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

THE Nebraska Legislature adopted resolutions
condemniug Senator DIETRICH for introducing a
resolution in congress calling for the removal
of all fences on public lands before June I,
1904. The act of the Legislature was favorable
to the cattle men who fenced the land, and who
had powerful lobby in the legislature.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

IT is stated that President Roosevelt favors AT.
torney. General Knox's "anti.trust" measure,
which provides for publicity and opposes the
giving or taking of railroad rebates. Any meas
ure advocated by Knox, in this connection,
may well be looked upon with suspicion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

SMooT, the newly-elected senator from Utah,
has an advocate in Susan B. Anthony, vino
says he has right to his seat in the senate;
that he will take his seat and keep it. Helen
Gould is opposed to Smoot.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

SOCIALISTS are peparing to carry on lively
campaign during the present year. 1t will be
a campaign of education. Mrs. Luella R. Kray-
bill, lecturer of acknowledged ability, has
been selected as state organizer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-06

FIRE did good deal of damage to the sub
treasury building in Men York last Saturday.
There was $50, 900, 900 in cash in the building,
and what was not already in the safes was rush
ed brand the safes locked. The fire was ex-
tinguished, and no damage done except to the
building.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
ACT FIRST TALK AFTERwARD.

A Chicago grand jury voted true
bills against four walking delegates ana
nine members of unions last week.
Previous to this it had brought in in
dictments against two officers OF a
press feeders union two other mem
bers of that union and two brulsers
who had been employed as sluggers
President Schardt, of the federation
these indictments will teach labor lead
ers the lesson that they are facing
new conditions in labor difficulties and
that violence will no longer be toler-
ated.'
President Schardt is talking common
sense and good citizenship. His stand
is Me proper enc for offieers.of the fed
Grafton to take everywhere. 1t is not IN
numbers that unionism must find its
strength but in principles. Violence
and outrage are the levers which vii!
sooner or later throw down the temple
which organized labor is attempting 10
erect. In the face of the shameful ac
tion Of the livery drivers in picketing
the homes of the dead and preventing
funerals in every way possible Presi :
dent Schardt's utteranees have the
right ring. 1t is well to know that
the president OF the federation stands
fnr law and order
But talk is cheap. 1t is up to Presi-
dent Schardt and the federation to do
something. So long as law breaking
unions remain members of the feder-
alton it viii be charged with their
acts. 1t will not do for the central
organization to condemn violence while
Aff1liating and offering shelter to vio-
lators of the public peace and of pri-
vate rights. When President Schard.'s
federation have shown a disposition }
rid themselves of these the publie
will lend more attentive ear to as
severations of pubic spirit and support
OF law. The public is waiting for
works more than precept.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26

OF them harmless, while some hide
truth. 1t stands for sound ethics, for
humanity, for learning, and also for
science and progress and modern
thought, but in a somewhat hampered
sense. -encyclically denied. but prac-
t!cally recognized
Grayer apprehension is felt on ac-
count of the note of question and un-
certainty that pervades the church.
Everything is doubted, or is vehement
IN defended because it IS doubted. The
result is perplexity and languid inter
est: the ties are easily dissolved; the
great realities-or what have been re-
garded as such-fade out; so much Is
gone, why not all? That these ana
like apprS tensions indicate a general
breaking up of the churches, or that
tnev involve the whole world of rellg-
ious thought IS not TO be allowed. III
Is not the final result that is to be
feared. but the long and weary tract
of ignorance and timidity and mistaken
faith and invested interests and pima
conservatism that must be crossed pc
fore the inevitable result Is gained. 10
lei matters drift and suffer the church- :
es to lapse into ethica. clubs. or, py
violent reaction, into peaceful retreats
where neither thought nor doubt enter
Il. not the American way OF haafdllhs
diffieul, questions. They will be settled
,vhan the churches suffer themselves
IN h. ed out of regions of thought ana
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

a New York judge decides that u
physician's prescription belongs to the
patient who buys 1t and not TO the
druggist who fills it. Most anybody
could have deci 4 that, but where is
the prescription worth squabblin3
owe. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Japan is not blind to the serious
problem before ii, but ii can not see
well enough to devise plan of settle
,ncllt. This trouble will probably go
till somebody gets licked.-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Ii would be Interesting to know
which made the break--the prisoner In
North Carolina who plead guilty or the
court which adjudged him Innocent
Norfolk Public Ledger.
Colombia elected man president
who was more than a thousand miles
away at the time. That was low
advantage TO take of Gefenseless man
Atlanta Journal.
That Mexican mine in which several
hundred gullible wealth seekers invest
ed their money turns out to be minus.
ed their money turns out to be minus.
Newport News Press. 49,. 49,. ....
Germs of kleptomania generally get
lively at this season of the year.
Newport News Times Herald.
The presidents door of hope to the
negroes continues TO swing open only
Southward.-- (Texas) Post.
1t has gotten SO that the New Years
call is limited almost entirely to the
bill colector.-Birmingha News.
Poor old Langley! He Will never fly
until he becomes an angel. Birming-
ham Age Herald
While Christmas comes but once a
year. coming and going it takes the
better part of 80 Providence
Journal.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
THIS YEARS COMMERCE.

Details of eleven months commerce
of the year 1903 are just made public
by the department of commerce and la
bor thru Its bureau of statistics. They
show an increase in practically all of
the great groups into which the bureau
OF statistics divides the exports and
in all of the groups into which 1t di-
yides the imports. Agricultural pro-
ducts, as whole, show an increase of
s74,00o.o00; products of the forests
$4,000, 900: products of the mines $S,-
900, 900; manufactures, s5.o00,0o0, and
miscellaneous articles, s2,00o,00o. In
the single group. fisheries. is shown Il
slight decrease of a little more than
$1,000 600.
The figures for the month of Novem-
ber show a marked growth IN exports
of manufactures. the total for the
month being s34.o93,6S9, against $So.-
513,5l2 in November of last year. Agrl-
cultural products also show a marked
increase In the month, the figures for
November, 1903, being s114172,255. a.
gainst ss3.0S5.s5o in the same month
of last year. The increase in agricul-
tural exports occurs chiefly in cotton,
of which the value of the months eX-
ports is unusually high.
The increase in exports of manufac-
lures is distributed thru many articles,
but does not occur. as had been ex
pected, in iron and steel. Discussions
in trade circles and in the press during
the past few weeks have predicted a
revival in the export trade of iron and
steel. manufactures. but the November
figures of exports Of this class of mer-
ehandise do not justify this prediction.
The total value of iron and steel manu-
factures exported in November, 1908,
was ST,9SS,4 against sS,119,924 in
November of 1902, $3.50, 1913 in Novem-
Der, 1901, and $1o112,721 in November,
1900. For the eleven months ending
with November. the total exports OF
iron and steel manufactures are $780,
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
Empjover and EMPLOYED.

Amid all the darkening of counsel
in regard to the so called labor prob
lem, the words of the Honorable Car
roll Wright In recent address are
worth considering. The Decalogue is
as good labor platform as any," Mr..
Wright is reported as saying. The
economic man is growing into the CO.
ordinative man. We are to have A
new law of wages, grown out of relig-
ious thought. The old struggle is for
existence; the new struggle is for a
wider spiritual margin"
Admirably said, and the truth thus
set forth was never more essential to
the establishment Of righteous and
enduring relations between employer
and employed than it is now Arbitra-
ton. compulsory or voluntary the trade
agreement, Progressive legislation,
and the different stages of socialism
are only empirical remedies at the
best We may go even further than
Mr.. Wright and assert that the new
law of service, as we'll as the new law
of wages, is to be the law of doing unto
others as you would have others do
unto you.
The cynics will say that before the
Golden Rule can really prevail as uni
yersal guide to conduct we must elm
mate human selfishness. Is this rea-
sonable view OF the matter? Ii men
are bound to be selfish let them inter-
pret the Golden Rule as meaning that
1t is best for them, even out OF regard
for self, to deal justly with their fell
lows. AS Tolstoi says in his memor-
able apologize of the farm; The
beasts Craze in the fields without inter-
fering with each others needs. and
men after having learned the condl-
tions Of the true life. follow their ev''
ways saying it is impossible 10 h'e
otherwise
,, Perhaps the time is coming when
men will enjoy the abundance OF the
earth with the tranquility of ths
beasts OF the field and with the same
regard for each others rights, II not iof
each others welfare.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
Fiaht viii Be Bitter.

Those who will persist in closing
their ears against the continual rec
onmendation OF Dr. Kings New Dis
coyery for Consumption will have 8
long and bitter fight with their trou-
hles If not ended earlier by fatal
termination. Read what I. r. Beall. of
Reall. Miss, has to say: Last fall
INV wife had every symptom Of con-
sumption. She took DR.. Kings New
Discovery after everything else had
failed. Improvement came at once and
four bottles entirely cured her." Guar
anteed by George P. Powers. druggist.
Price SO cents and 81. Trial bottles
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
IHE Ekp oE fAl1HEuL SERVICE.

Once more 1t is the privilege and
pleasure of the Republican to
turn the pages of history and pay t,ib-
ute 10 a woman who heiped TO make II
possible for Iowa to produce so many
gseat men and women.
From out the Santa Clara valley Of
California, whore the setting sun kiss
es Monei Love ere it sinks into the
night, train spsd last Sunday night
bearing all that was mortal of Jana
I.oughridga Cooper, Wife of Colonel
Samuel f. Cooper and on tomorrow
she will be laid 10 rest in Hazelwood
ait G.inneii.
For more than fifty years thsse peo-
pie have toiled hand in hand: together
they have accumulated; together they
have planned, and togs ther they have
given away. Away back in the sos
they came to ihe little hamlet of Grim
nell and cast their lot with the heroic
souls who made for themselves place
In the history of Iowa. Fortune smiled
upon them. but fortunes smiles never
made them forge, that they We're liy-
ing for great purpose. The first
sthought was shelter, and after that
came plans for education. books.
schools. colleges, art. music and every
thing that makes men and women bet
3 !.
ter. No children blessed the union. but
other peoples children have been en-
raehed by the numberless benefactions
OF this worthy couple to all the things
in a community that educate and re-
fine. They were part and parcel o.
that strange early life of this hamlet,
that has contributed so much to Con-
gregationalisn and 70 human freedom.
Then came the war ana IS service. and
s then service abroad. In later years
Mrs. Cooper's physiica! condition re-
Wlired a milder climate. and a spacious
home was built in the Californian yai
ley; but while they have resided iheTa
now. for many years. they have always
lived in G1dnn-ll. When at last the
again to Grinnei and the husband.
bent with years. tottering and like a
great trae of the forest. just ready to
fall, made the pilgrimage of 1000 miles
to lay her where she wished to lie.
AS one contemplates the glorious
xplendor of such life, be can not re-
sist comparison with the life of the
ordinary rich man of today, the life
that expends itself on banqusts and
wine, lne equipages, pomp and display.
Here were two rich people. Colonel
Cooper was a born financier His broth
.ar directors in the bank at Grinnell of
which he was so many years the head
used to say of him that he knew a good
loan by instinct. Every enterprise he
touched yielded profit. He met with
no losses. Occasionally note would
be criticised by the examining commit
dee, but the colonel would quietly re-
mind them that he knew the loan was
4 bad one when he made it, and that
eventually 1t was 10 De charged up to
his account. This was his way OF do
ing certain things. He built a spacious
home in Grnnell, not for revelry, not
for display, but simply to have a place
for his friends when they came. In
the Santa Clara valley he built another
spacious home. He had no use for 1t
himself, as their tastes We're extremely
simple. but he expected any one of his
Grinnell friends that lourneyed thru
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-26
Rla,ted H;. Life,

The strong man buried his face In
his hands.
His powerful frame that had braved
the elements and the iceman trembled
like loose board on barn door.
A great sorrow had come into his
life unbidden as a poor relation at q
family dinner or small boy at the
side entrance Of a circus.
He was disappointed man. Money
had flowed into his lap like beer into
an alderman. His wife had retained
her beauty. His home was all that
man could wish whose wisher was not
broken. He had stocks and bonds and
ten dogs, but now came great disap-
pointment into his life.
His only son, his namesake, the boy
on whom he had builded his hopes and
on whom he had lavished his money
at barber shops and merry go rounds.
had failed to make good.
Failed in his first undertaking, ana
now he stood with downcast eyes at
his fathers side.
His wife tried to comfort him by tell
ing him that one Of the horses had
broken its leg and that the gas bill
was overdue, but he waved her aside
with a gesture that was almost bru-
tai.
His agony was pitiable.
He raised his head and looked at the
boy and then at crumpled bit of pa
per in his hand.
His voice trembled.
"Oh, it is terriblev' he said. ut viii
drive me mad. Here is our little Geor-
gle Of whom we were so proud. We
thought he was as bright as other
boys. We even dared to hope that he
was brighter, but the illusion is over.
He will never be great and famous.
Eight years old and here is his first
composition on horse in which he
does not say that 1t has four legs"
And the man once more buried his
face in his hands.