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14 THE ADVOCATE. Thoughts From the Bats. Editob Advocate: I was riding to town the other day, and a portion of the road having been cut up, when muddy, was very rough. There waa much jost ling and shaking; the driver waa very mad at the road; and while ha fumed and snarled and made me more uncom fortable than the shaking did, my mind was filled with many thoughts from the fact that judt on either side of ua waa a good smooth road, while we were being shaken up because the driver did not choose to turn out of the ruts perhaps he did not see. No matter; the ruta were not lesa rough because he waa the more blind. I saw the smooth way and so found it all the more exasperating to be shook up in old ruts. I can stand a good deal of shaking when there is no help for it, but cannot bear it vrith one bit of patience when I once see the way out I wish I could recall to mind now all the thoughts that came to it during the brief space I was in those ruta. I thought of the poor, unthinking crea tures who continue all their Uvea in ruts, because father or grandfather once went that way; and I thought if some of the old fathers could come once more among ua they would say, "children, you jare a disgrace to my memory; you do not improve the light and opportuni ties of your time as I did those of my time; the way to that better condition of peace on earth, good will toward men, is progressive; turn out of the old ruts, and seek and walk in the better way; the rightings of wrongs will ever consist in the breaking up of old systems and conditions, and will ever be a revolu tionary process." Let us not, then, for get the revolutionary grandsires, but rather prove ourselves their worthy children by walking in the way of pro gress, never standing still; but aa we go on in the way of light, and see the rot tenness of the old system of things, let us rebel in a substantial way by putting our shoulder against errors, building and overturning again and again until we behold the peifeotly-builded system of brotherly love whioh alone has the right to remain. I have a neighbor just across the road a good, unthinking re publican. (I guess none of them do any thinking, except the fellows who are after the spoils.) The other day I was trying to tell him of the scheming, gam bling, and general corruption praoticed by the old parties, all of which he did not attempt to deny. He simply argued that the Populists in power would soon do the same, for the influence of money would soon itiluence and corrupt any man. How I pitied that man; for had he not confessed to his own sad condi tion? Find a man who will if need be, give his life in defense of the principle of right, and he is always ready to as cribe to others his own mental quali ties. Now here is a significant fact to which I would call other's attention. It is this, that during the past eight years I have noticed that every old party man with whoa I talked was in the same mental condition as my neighbor. Now I ask in all seriousness is it not time this re form movement was even farther ad vanced than it is, when men born and reared under the old system and condi tion of things become so much a part of the heartless, Christlesa system that they have no knowledge of the principle of truth in them? Then I think such a system is surely doomed, and he who works in the uprooting and overturning, is working for the good of humanity and doing God's service. I notice, too, that the old stand-UM will not nad. that fa. any more than the subsidized preea dishes up for them ; and those of us who have been there know just what kind of misleading filthy truck that is. I knew if my neighbor would read the Advo gats for a few weeks he would become clothed in his right, which is his own mind. So I loaned him our paper, but he simply looks through "The Dead Line" to see how about Mr. Overton and what of Kate. The Christly teachings there he doea not see. Those who have not within themselves a line of such teachings and knowledge of the possi bility of such will not of course, look for them. There is hope of a man who is of a searching, inquiring mind, but when he thinks he knows and has the best that can be, there ia no hope for him. Why, said my neighbor, the rich al ways did lord it over the poor, and of oourae they always will; there never has been a better condition of things, and there never will be. There is enlight ened reasoning tor you from an old party atand-upper-would-be flea. Think no more of the holy light of op pression's morn, whioh we have dreamed would end the night of darkes terror and oppression; be no more dazzled by the brilliancy of those Christly minds which have been in all ages the talc of the earth and a help to those who toiled under the oppressor's rod, ever pointing them to the bea con light of truth, which is the only real liberty from either meutal or phy sical bondage. If only my neighbor could have been heie in time he could have told Jesus there was no such thing as heaven within man, and that evil, and not good, was man's natural habitude. Now, friends, let us arouse ourselves and be more zealous in this cause of Christ and humanity, not simply because it is to be in a heavenly condition to believe the beautiful propheeyings of the Bible of the glorified condition of hu manity on earth but because the spirit of truth teaohea us not alone that such condition is possible, but that it is the heaven ordained and natural condition of God's children; and because we know for ourselves that the truth ia all power ful and evil cannot always stand before it. The hydra-headed monster must eventually fall It is as though it could already see the end approaching and was trying to do its worst I was told the other day that free trade is keeping thousands out of the Populist ranks. To such I would say, we need protection only against all forms of ignorance and error, and against such we would protect, not a small portion of, but the entire human race, by uncover ing and driving from the earth all sorts of scheming greediness, and when the clearing out is all done, there will be on the earth a more Christly type of hu manity, in which will be seen the image of their Maker, and they shall poos ess the earth in peace. You and I may not see this better time during our short stay in the flesh, but it ia our duty to labor with that end in view; be not afraid of being called anarchist; meet often together; speak often to each other of these things; teach your children the truth, and get not into ruts. Nexus L. Hall. Bossville, Kansas. Notes by the Way. Editor A dvocatx.: Your typo made me say last week that our meeting at Lamed was our last, when it should have read our best meet ing. Why waa it so? Simply because at Larned the Women' Alliance was and is a great factor in reform work there. They have one of the best, if not the beat, Alliance in the state. Let me describe their hall, with its pictures and clock on the wall, with ita organ, carpet and comfortable chairs in one room, and the next room with five tables, each fif teen feet long and plenty of dishes and table clothes to spread the same; with their own cook stove and cooking uten sils, all owned by these good women. They pay f 60 a year rent for the rooms. And how do they pay this, you ask? Why, when the county Alliance or any reform rally occurs in that city, they give a dinner, charging twenty cents for it. They gave over 300 meals the day we were there, so you see it is no won der they have plenty of money for cam paign purpceep, or to secure lecturers, establish libraries or distribute reform literature. Should any Alliance ladies wish to know more about the work of this Woman's Alliance, they can write Mrs. Laura E. Casey, Mrs. A. Goodner or Mrs. Mattie Fox, who are among the leaders of that Alliance. The court house was crowded with the thinking men and women of Pawnee ciunty to hear Brothers Hanna and Wardall. With the assistance of George Fell, your reporter seoured 117 sub scribers for the Advocate, the best af ternoon's work we have done so far. You can depend on Pawnee giving an increased majority for reform. From Larned we went to Great Bend, and here too a large crowd greeted us and many friends bade us "God speed." Our next was at Lyons, Rice county, where we were royally entertained by Brother Hodgden and his good family. The men here seemed more intensely inter ested in our work than at any point yet visited. The meeting at Ellsworth numerically speaking was not a success, but otherwise was good. We are now in the Sixth district where Pons are thicker than the sands on the sea shore. More anon. 0. W. Hexdzx. What the Women Ihink bhould Be Done. The following resolution was passed at meeting of Woman's Progressive Po litical league of Topeka April i: Whibxas, More than 300 newspapers of Kansas, representing the interests of all the political parties of the state, have, in reply to icquiries from the suffragists, signified their intention to support the pending amendment; and Whxbias, Experience has proven that the indorsement of en amendment by the sev eral political platforms has greatly contrib uted to its suocees at the ballot box and was one of the causes which led to victory in Colorado; and Whxbias, The true way to win any good cause is to boldly advocate and deolare for it; and as woman's suffrage is a political but not a partisan question; therefore, Resolved, By the Woman's Progressive Political league of Topeka, that we earn estly request all newspapers of our state favorable to the enfranchisement of the women of Kansas, irrespective of party affiliations, to unitedly and decidedly adrooate the insertion of suffrage planks in the respeothe political platforms, state and local. 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