Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-20

Great was Diana OF the EpheSianS, I" from
the standpoint of the gold and silversmiths, foi
they had "great gain'' from the traffic ia
shrines, and great is our god of Mammon in
the eyes of the claquers, ward. heelers, lick
spittles and trucking newspapers, for they are
paid in coin that is dipped in sweat and blood
of toiling millions of Gods noblest beings II
the nagnates should empty some Of the huge
reservoirs of water into the bill CT wages oil
employees, then it would be safe to indulge in
inst faint shout of darkey's "hallelujeram."
| Let us see: Advance in wages raises freights.
Advance in freights greater in proportion than
advance in wages. Boom in stocks. More
water. More nillionaires. More watered
presidents, senators and representatives. More
watered federat judges. Seventy millions Of
men, women aud children aAoat on the bosom
of the dead sea Of commercial brigandage.
Waters of oil, coal, iron, copper and zinc.
Water here, there and everywhere. A Noah's
deluee of water, only the water is not natural.
To think OF the commercial water of our day
and generation is intolerable. To be Aoated in
it is more horrible than to have been drowned
in Noah's deluge. The people who were
swept off the earth in the food OF Noah's time
went down to death in clean bath The souls
of the antedeluvans could have been no blacker
than he of the watered stocks Not so black,
or God would have used fire instead of water
for the earth's publication.
But, pshaw! WHAT'S the use? The "ripht.
eous soul" of the Populist was vexed years and
years ago. Like old Noah, he was laughed at
for his pains. To the Populist, the showers of
twenty-five years ago were the forerunners of
the "breaking up of the great deep" below,
and general and continuous downpour from
above. Dishonesty permeates our whole at
mosphere. 1t is in colleges and church as
we'll in politics and commerce. Unfortun-
atelv, the Populist bulded no ak. He was
not as wise as Noah, for Noah was an old man,
and knew that it took new vessel to weather
great storm.
Shall we attempt rebuilding? Yes; but,
not after the old pattern, and with no eye to
second.class ticket on vessel whose timbers
are old and barnacled. Abundance of material
is at hand. What is wanted is skilled mechan-
les in construction, and wise sailing masters.
Still, as people, we are not ripe, as to con-
viction. Unrest there is IN abundance. but
unrest and conviction are two different things.
The sinner does lot of squirming, before he
yields to grace and divine guidance.
We had the Missouri compromise and SQUAT
ter sovereignty before we had the civil war and
emancipation of the slaves
The oil magnates soothe the preachers in os-
,horch
The church accepts the gifts, and, in accepting
the gifts, accepts the giver, and, in accepting
the gifts and the gver, condones the methods
of the giver.
few cents advance in the wages of en-
ployes who are only one remove from starva-
ton will tend to still the thought and hush the
mouths OF mortals wiser than brakemen or
section hands. The farmer is never reckoned
with--be is big naught. Not that farmers
have not had unrest and have not fought, but
because farmers have no cohesion. Farmers,
more than any other class, destroyed the Farm
ers' Alliance. Farmers administered political
soothing syrup OF Republican proprietorship to
the order of Patrons of Husbandry until it be-
came sinking fly in the ointment. At least,
outside CT grange mutual insurance, it has no
reasonable excuse for its existence.
Unrest there is plenty, but the farmer
would rather be dead lion in the bosom of
Lis cherished political party than a living
bloodhound on the trail of the men who rob
him. But, unrest leads to conviction. There
is hope for the sinner who squirms. The Bos-
ton tea party was the step of child who, later,
marched under Washington with the strides OF
mighty man of valor. Populism is the baby
man who natures in the Socialism of universal
corporation, and with no eye to second.class
tickets
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