Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-16

NO class OF CltlZenS SnOulU De d.
lowed to use governmental function
for private profit and reap the enor-
nous gains which the bankers now de-
rive from that source. But this view
Of the subject Is almost trivial COM
pared to the tremendous power which
the national banks have in expanding
and contracting the currency, thus
holding the markets of the republic at
their mercy and having the power at
any time to unsettle values from sea
to sea.
A Perilous Situation.
This country today Is in the utmost
peril from the money question. In
vain do the democrats waive it; 1t can
not be waived. The Cleveland ruling,
by which coin was held to mean gold,
and by which paper notes were used to
get bonds from the government, Is stlll
in force. and the endless chain only
needs another Cleveland at the wind
lass. And when We see standing
around Judge Parker the same old
Cleveland crowd--Olney, German. Bel
mont. Carlisle, Lamont-the gravity OF
the situation deepens as we study the
faces of that notable collection OF pa
triots. The discoveries of new meth
dds of treating gold ores, the opening
If vast deposits of the precious metal
n so many different parts of the world
Illustrated and vindicated the peoples
2arty's contention on the subject
he currency rather than discredlted IT,.
But / beg to call your attention tc
the fact that no man can tell whep
these veins will be exhausted, anu
when this vast increase in our cur
rency will be discontinued. And /
warn YOU now that when that day ar
rives. contraction. and the frightful re-
suits which have always flowed from
contraction. will be upon you. The
moment the volume of currency ceases
TO increase, as population and com
nerce increase. then relative contrac-
ton : at once in action; and the in
creased need for money not be-
ing followed by greater supply Of
money, there will be crash which
will make this republic shake from one
end of it to the other
A Storm Coming.
And in the storm that sweeps over
the land. as it surely will do, there
will again be heard the cry OF the
suffering man. the suffering woman
and the suffering child. Why is Judge
Darker so assured that the gold stand
ard is irreyocable? Nothing in human
law and custom is rrevocable-espe-
tally If it is wrong. Neither the sane
tons of the constitution of the United
states. the statute law of the land, no.
the unbroken national practice of e
century were sufficient to make the
double standard Of gold and silver IT.
-evocabe. Why. then, should thu
single gold standard. which violate
.he constitution, mocks the statute law
and rebels against the precedents of
hundred years be considered irreyoca-
BILE?
1t seems to me that a financial sys-
tenn which is based upon violation
" fundamental law which all Officials
IRE sworn to obey rests upon foundea
ton which lacks a good deal of being
rs stable as the rocks.
A Jefersonan.
fl know myself, | am a Jefferson
ian. heart and soul. If | know m,
,arty. it Is Jeffersonian. through am
through. We have the same faith tina
he had in the principles of human
motherhood and the same horror
my system which robs labor of its JUS
"eward, which builds up aristocrac'
W means of special privilege anf
which by class legislation brings bacl
III N old fnpc nf the hi.
nan race.
Manhood Above Money.
To restore the liberties of the people
he rule of the people, the equality
I'll men before the law is our purpose
We believe that manhood should coun
or more than money; that characte'
hould outweigh the dollar. Whether
We work with Drawn or brain, it is thu
ror'-or who should be monarch Of the
world.
Not wealth. not birth, not Office. bu
he worker-he who has noble ideals
he who wants to achieve; he who ha'
message and mission, and looks
rpOn the earth as a room to work ir
md the blessed sun the light to worl
lyle who, clinging to those convic
lions which become part of his life
would rather die than make cowardl,
submission to what he felt to be
wrong.
Feels Optimistic.
For myself, do not believe that the
present tyranny Of the corporation
the monopoly and the autocracy o.
wealth can endure forever. Some day
some day the American people will rise
N their resistless majesty and drive
the usurpers from the places they have
seized. Some day popular sovereignty
will come again and put it's foes to
rout as it did in the time of Jefferson,
as it did in the time of Jackson.
1t may be that this effort of mine to
rally and arouse the real democrats
the real believers in popular govern
ment. may come to naught-but nc
matter what befalls, | will accept this
all. which seems to be to be the cal
to duty AS fearless John Adams said
IN the brave days Of old. "Sink or
swim, live or die, survive or perish,
give my hand and my heart to this
cause"
Mr.. TlbbIes Notified.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Watson e
speech. Mr. lay w. Forrest, of the AL