Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-16
POpuIiStS RdIIying to the Standard OF the Gal
liant Georgian in Every State.

pie of America were so diSsatlSned WIFI
the conditions and the tendencies
which prevail. There is unrest, dis
trust, grave apprehension everywhere
In vain do the subsidized organs oil
monopoly preach good times, universal
prosperity, general content. Deep
down in their hearts the masses or the
people feel that the reins of power
are slipping out of their hands; that
those who fill the high places are not
so anxiously concerned about the well
fare of the common people as they pre-
tend to be. In spite of all that can be
done by partisan press, the fact can
not be concealed from the eyes OF the
average citizen that the vast pre-
ponderance of all the wealth produced
in this land is transferred by legalized
robbery into the hands of few; that
the courts are run in the interest OF
the few; that the law-making power
is manipulated by the few; and that
while both the old political parties
pretend to devote themselves to the
interests of the common people, they
are both financed by Wall street, both
dominated by Wall street, both
willing and the servile tools of Wall
street
Tell me that the people Of this
country are resting easy under condl-
lions like these? Tell me that the
confidence game being played upon
them by the willy leaders of both the
old political parties creates no angry
discomfort?
The man who comforts himself with
that belief has no conception what
ever of the true feelings OF the Amer
lean people. Do you need proof that
the masses are ready to rush to the
support of any leader who is brave
enough to challenge the right of the
corporations to rule this land?
Praises Hearst.
See how they rallied to w. R. Hearst.
Because he had taken sides with the
masses. because he was denouncin"
oppression and pleading for the rights
of the common man there was from
ocean to ocean an upheaval in his ia
or which astounded the professional
politicians and strained all Of the re-
sources of political strategy to defeat
that noble-hearted champion OF the
| JeHerSOnlan democracy.
| The AlI.Important Question.
| To every American citizen ques-
ton of supreme Importance is this:
| Does the government still represent
he ideals of those who framed It? Is
t the government which the statesman
planned, for which the orator pleaded
md to establish which the soldier shed
Ills blood? Is it still a government OF
| The people? Does it respond to the will
IF the people? Is its chief aim the
Welfare of the people? Is it run in the
interests Of the great mass OF its citi-
ems? In other words, is it truly a
democratic republic?
From the depths of my heart l be-
lieve that such a government is what
he American people want and mean
70 have. believe that sevcnty-five per
cent of our citizens are firmly welded
20 the old doctrines of popular self
government as they were in the days
If Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry and
Thomas Jefferson.
| Two Antagonistic Principles.
| Since human society was organized
there has been a constant struggle be-
tween two principles Of government;
| one of which seeks to concentrate
power, wealth and privilege in the
hands of a class; the other which
strives to have the benefits of the state
shared by all alike.
At the very beginning of our his
tory the two antagonistic principles
dashed. The one was represented by
Alexander Hamilton, who had no con-
fdence in the people, no love for the
people. no sympathy with the people.
but who believed that wealth should
be taken into co-partnership with the
government, given control Vt its laws,
given command of its policies. and
thus the favored few, becoming identi-
fed with the government, would give
it that kind Of strength which, accord
ing to his theory, it needed. Devoted
rs he was to the English model, ut
terly scouting the idea that the people
were capable of elf-government, he
brought all the powers of his mag
nificent intellect, and Of his indomita-
BILE energy, to the introduction Of
measures to evolve the moneyed aris-
tocracy, which, according to his ideal.
had the right to govern.
Jcfferson's Ideal.
On the other hand, came Thomas
Jefferson proclaiming the principles o.
democracy. With the idea of human
brotherhood, with perfect faith in
the great body Of the people, and with
4 constitutional love Of right and JUS
tlce which made class legislation alb
horent to him, he challenged the doc
trines of Hamilton, and struggled to
hold the government true to the prin-
ciple of equal and exact justice to all
men,"
Tonight. fellow citizens, ask you to
take this simple question home to your
hearts and your consciences. Which
is the party. and who is the candidate,
that proclaims the principles of
Thomas Jefferson, and goes-forth to
fight for the great mass of the Amer
lean people? Is it the republican
party? How can any sane man an
swer. Yes. In form and in spirit it is
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