Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-01-20
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.

The government still lives and the flag still
waves, but there is not, as vet, any great reason
for national thanksgiving. The evidence OF
life is very feeble. The government is jus,
finding out things the Populists knew years ago,
populists knew years ago that there was
meat combine as much as fifteen years ago, and
when the eovernnle mt ran down the meat COM
bipe, recently, no intelligent person was sur
pgised.
populists knew that railroad companies were
p.rmeated with deviltry. The President and
few others caught on in the last few months.
Was the government stupid, or Indifferent
Will Allen White says there has been crook
edness in Washington for thirty years. and that
the crookedness got worse all the time up to
the time that Brisow down the Beaver
Meachen outfit tThe Son of His Father
Harrison, Grover the Great and Mckinley the
martyr all were supposedly unaware that there
we're legions of trusts, combines, mergers
gtaftets and bribe-givers.
IF we take a view or the situation in Mis-
souri,, we find, from Steffins, that Democratic
politicians were just as corrupt as Republican
politicians. Not only were the combines buv-
ing everything in sight that promised big re-
tu.ns, and the brbe-gvers sent corporation
tool tc the United States senate in the person
of a man by the name OF Stone. Missouri has
only one statesman in high office.
Take a peep over into Wisconsin, and we
6nd but one great man working for the people.
His name is La Toilette, and. single-hauded,
he has waged incessant warfare On the corrupt
rings for about decade, and has not, as yet,
secured the passage of single act by the leg
isature in protection of the people; and all
these wears the voters have been voting as
faithfully as if the government was worth some
thug, and as if politician was wise and
good man. During the reign of the politicians
tie people of Wisconsin lost millions and tens
of millions of dollars because the men whom
t1sv chose tor office did not know as much as
Populist.
For quarter of century, Wisconsin was
represented in congress by tools of corporations.
There was the dead senator, Sawyer, and Post
u, ster.G General Payne, and there are Senators
Spooner and Quarles.
Nebraska has furnished her quota OF tools in
the late Senator Thurston, the present Senator
DIETRICH and Paul Morton. DIETRICH was con-
victed of crookedness, but escaped punishment
on "technicality." The corporations pulled
the wool over the eyes OF The President and Sc
cured the appointment OF Morton as check to
the Presidents "strenuosity.'
Snstnr Mitchell, Of Oregon, aud Represent
alive Herman have lately been engaged in the
same kind of plundering that l,d to the La
Toilette rebellion. Mitchell is indicted, but
Spooner still leads the United States senate.
Spooner covered his tracks, and is as clean as
DEVILS coat of whtewash. Sawyer and
Payue sent the money, gobbled from the people
",hundering down the ages" through their
descendants, same as the sanity Jay Gould and
Vanderblts.
Gas Addcks' attempt to break into the Unit
el States senate from Delaware, in open and
persistent corruption, is unparalleled in the
worlds history, and, though he has been re:
peatedy baffled, he has not given up the at
tempt
If there was no other way to settle man
like Addicks, hemp and the nearest lamp-pos'