Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-07-15
CIRCUSES.

The High-muck- a-mrckMutual Admiration
Association of Bell-Wethers, having met il
Chicago and gone through the formalitv o
nominating candidate for presid ,nt and vice
president, the people may breathe freely An
other administration of s;renuosity will be
permitted and vouchsafed to the common, ant
some uncommon, people of screanl-eage Amer
ica. "Rosy" will be elected, and if "Rosy'
should, through any of the inscrHtable ways O
Providence, be gathered to his fathers, ther
Fairbanks will reign in his stead.
If am correctly informed, Fairbanks was a
"poor boy.' The Lord deliver us from 'pool
boy." Therefore, pray for "Rosey's" safe.
keeping to the end of his natural life, and
longer, if need be.
think the President is the best man in the
Republican party-not excepting Hoch and
the "poor boys'-and, therefore, if we are tc
have high old time of watered stocks, pillage
of the public by boodlers and pillage OF the
public through combinations of capitalists, by
all means let it be under the best man in the
Republican party.
If miners are to be transpanted from the
rich mine soil of Telluride to the sand deserts
of Mexico, by all means let it be under the
president who smiles and smiles and smiles
A man by the name of Root has, since the
Chicago convention made what the papers call
"riuging speech" think it depends on the
ears as to the ringing. To me, the bell is NUT
fed clear up to the hinge of the clapper But
then, am little hard of hearing.
suppose that Root is the bll-poster who
announces the coming of the big circus The
pe,f,rming elephant in the show is Heap Big
Prosperity. Prosperity is jig-dancer, tum,
b'er and horse-rider-al three in one; or, if
you insist, it can be rendered in separate acts
and in quantities to suit the tastes of custom
ers. For instance, the transplanting of the
union miners from fertile soil 10 barren wastes
is of such prosperous dimensions as to cause
doctors to hang their heads who never got any
further up in the transplanting business than
hog-skin on human nose. Maybe it is all in
the point of view. Probably Root has ben
getting big dividends on watered stock, and
.maeines that because he is prosperous, every
body else is prosperous.
You couldn't make Telluride or Cripple
Geek miner believe the Root circus is any
great shakes-not in a whole dozen ringing
speeches.
But this has been good year for tramps, for
there are only forty-six thousand in the United
States, according to professor of Columbian
University, and, therefore, there being only .
few tramps, the charitable people have scarcely
felt the burden of grub provided in handouts
No doubt, the tramps are feeling good, as well
as the charitable people; and the miners will
teel good if they are properly irrigated.
Since Root gave no particulars, chuck in
these little items as the evidence of too much
mufled. There is also another little item that
Root did not refer to, and that is, there are
seventy-six thousand railroad men idle. They
have not, as yet, been transplanted but if the
Cripple Creek miners do we'll (and no doubt
Root confidently expects they will, then the
railroad men will be transplanted. Possibly
the circus managers are only waiting for more
of Peabody's Jail birds and General Bells
There is also another item upon which
would like to have Root opinion and that Is,
why are there so many young people of school
ape who are working hard to keep body and
soul together, who have never, in all their