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

tendance at the show might be somewhat cur
tailed if there was any mention as to the
habilments OF the voter. The show is run on
Cuisines" principles. The "Highmuck-a-
muck" party is "business" party. A Demo.
cratic representative may have but one wife,
but Republican senator can have not to ex.
ceed ten wives.
The Democrats are trying to run a rival con-
Germ. Roberts, the plurality-wife Democtat,
wasn't fit for door-mat but Smoot, the plu-
rality-wife Republican, will be seated in the
amen corner cushions that would bear up a
Carnegie steel foundry. l am not sure that it
the Democrats had chance, they would retail
late. "Tit for tat. You kill my dog, and I'll
kill your cat" That's business in politics
up among the bell wethers, and anybody who
complains may take back seat and wait till
all the good boys served. If there is any
thing left, the "kicker' might have crust.
There is never anything left. The pie-counter
is swept bare of crumbs by the good boys.
Root forgot to tell, while he was singing,
that the show was not great "moral show"
like Artemas Wards, which was composed
mostly of "wax fggers." The ''business'
shows are mostly "6ggels," but the managers
have some fine pickings in the way of realities.
Business" and morals travel in separate
coaches NOWADAYS, like negroes and whites
down Southland morals take second.class
passage.
There are still some other things that Root
did nof tell us about, not in the platform, and
OF which not even the good "Rosey" has
spoken. One.twefth of the people of New
York city own the wealth of three million in
habitants, and human beings are huddled to-
gether in tenement houses not fit for an outcast
rat. The tenement trouble is blamed on the
laboring people who wanted higher wages and
struck, and kept on striking, so that houses
could not be erected fast enough for needs of in
creasing population. If there is any hitch in
the progress of the prosperity" circus, the
laboring man is to blame. He will have to be
transplanted, same as they do in Russia. How
would penal colony in Alaska do for Ameri-
cas- aboring men? 1t is colder than Siberia
From the rapid manner in which America is
being Russianzed, infer that the 'business''
circus "prosperity" concern is to be run on
Russian lines, and, since we are making such
rapid progress, Root and the other pride-pOinters
are inspired to make 'ringing speeches."
There are still other things that 60 to prove
that the common peoples prosperity" is of
the kind enjoyed by Russian peasants; and if
So it doesn't strike me as it does Root and the
speech-rngers. believe that laboring people
ought to have decent dwellings, and that their
children should be educated; but the Root
"prosperty" compels laboring people to pay
rent for rat dens, and if they do not pay, out
they 60 onto the streets, and from the streets
to the poor-house, or over the liver. read
the other day (and find many similar cases)
where man went to mad-house, and where
his wife slew their three children and took her
own life. The man could not get work, and
the woman had notice of eviction. When the
coroner stepped into the little rooms occupied
by the Root "prosperous" family, he found
few articles of furniture, two dollars and four
dead bodies, and a months rent not paid.
Anxiety drove the bread-winner, who could
could win no bread, into the mad-house, and
the wife and mother sought refuge in death,
for herself and little ones, from people who
professed to worship the same God she wor-
shipped, spoke her tongue aud were of the
same blood. And all this after the whoopin'-
est old years of prosperity" that ever the sun
shone upon, or that ever patronized a 'busi-
ness'' circus.