Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-02-19

oiled part OF the machlne that poses as "the
people,"
From Aaron Burr down to Cy Leland, the
luukhead voter Is just tool. There are peo.
pie who are not lunkheads-a few-aud there
are and have teen parties whom the intelligent
and disnterested voter contrslled--a few.
Bosses rule most of the time, but even bosses
sre liable to run up agin facts Instead Of Offices
for "patriots''-a few cases. It is always the
few, which goes to prove that the lunkhead is Of
a class is very numerous. Just why man and
voter should be lunkhead will form the sub.
ject of another paper, should ever discover
the cause. Just now, luukheadism belongs TO
the occult, and may be one Of the great uu-
fathomables that belongs to the eternity of hid
den wisdom. If we ever discover the cause Of
lunkeadism, we may be able to cure it, aud
when it is cured, there will be no Hochites OF
Baileyites to grieve our eizzards aud disturb
our small wit.
1t is fitting that Aaron Burr-libertine, mur.
derer and traitor-should be the founder Of
bosssm in politics. It is fitting that Burton,
Deitrioh, Smoot, Oaay and their ilk should
wear the mantle OF the man without principles,
country OF God.
But don't want to be too hard on the bosses
They are not to blame. blame the luuk.
heads. The bosses have Office, salary, Doodle
and honor. The lunkheads 90 down into their
pockets aud font the bills. It pays to be q
"patriot," but it doesn't pay to be a lunkhead,
either in this world or the world to come.
If there were no lunkheads, there would be
no patriots of the Hoch or Bailey stripe, and
the first thing to do in overthrowing the evils
of bossism and boodeism is to do away With
lunkheadism. In some future paper, may
attempt to define lunkhead. A lunkhead is no
secret. The secret is in why spread-eaele
American citizen should be a lunkhead.
have said that preferred giving all the
patriots Office. Curiosity has got the better Of
my desire for reform. Shall We see the nation
stride alongsthe great highway Of Hanna-Ie-
landism till all the .'patriots" have ofices3
Shall we see4the expenditures OF government
grow till the tax-gatherer will 60 out among
the poor wealth-producing class and wallop the
taxes out of their thick-skinned backs, same as
is done in the. played-out civilizations of Asie2
Shall we see Rockefeller sailing great yachts in
seas Of stolen oil? Shall we see Gou1ds and
Vanderblts riding in Pullman coaches over
railroads whose cross.ties are human bodies7
Shall we see the Moreaus in control of every
branch Of government? Shall we see ''cor.
ners'' on bread, meat and every human neces.
sity till mothers wiring their hands in agonies
Of misery, and children die of hunger1
Already ! toresee. We are we'll on the way
of such wonderful pheuomena: A free people,
slaves to partisan prejudice. In the most en-.
lightened age, where the powers OF govern
ment are primarily in the hands of the people,
with schools on every hilltop aud colleges in
the valleys, with books without number; the
nobest ancestry OF all time, We are boss-riddeu
and trust.riddeu to such an unparalleled degree
that an honest mau bushes for shame. The
heart Of the true patriot bleeds aud the faint.
hearted reformer despairs.
"And he that sits in Heaven shall laugh.
The Lord shall scorn them all."-Bible.