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VOL. 2.
GARNETT, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 22, 1891.
NO. 15.
KANSAS AGITATOR.
Devoted to the interests of
THE im: asses.
A Fearless, Aggressive, Progressive
Advocate of All Reforms.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY EVENING.
W. 0. CIIAMPE, Editor.
l' Associate Ed's.
W.E. Alexander
J.M.Alexander
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K. R. P. A,
Send Ten Cents for a bundle of
Reform papers for distribution among
your weak-kneed friends.
Wonder if Gen. Rice, of Ft. Scott,
has read the returns from Superin
tendent Porter's census department?
Wonder if he don't wish he hadn't
written that letter to The Lantern ?
Last week's Ottawa Republican
warns the old soldiers not to vote
ihe People's ticket, for fear of los
ing their pensions ! How do you
like such talk, old soldier? A
pretty how-dy-do, ain't it ?
It now appears that there is pro
posed a type founders' trust. This
trust it is claimed will represent
$18,000,000, and is to be backed by
an English syndicate. This of
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course is another scheme of the
power of usurpation, and means
that all small type founders must
be squeezed down and out of busi
ness. The People's rally at Ottawa, last
week, was a big affair. Saturday
was the grandest day of the three.
The city literally 6warmed with
people. The procession that crossed
the bridge and filed inlo Forest Park ,
was nearly four miles in length, and
occupied an hour and a half in
crossing the bridge. The faces of
the Republicans were very long
almost as long as the procession.
One prominent Republican stood on
the s-treet and watched the proces
sion a while, then remared, "Well,
boys, we give up ; you're too many
for us."
Organize ! Unite I
Tariff.
That both the Republican and
Democratic parties are wrong on
the tariff question becomes more
and more evident as their positions
are more fully unfolded. The Re
publican party believes in a high
tariff, and its learned advocates in
form us that the foreign exporter
pays the duty on imports. This
being the case, as a matter of course,
with the exception of internal reve
nue, the foreign exporter defrays
the expenses of our government;
and as long as the expenses were
limited, there does not seem to be
any complaint. But if the Repub
lican party should be continued in
power, and increase expenses of our
government as it did last congress,
the exporter will, sooner or later,
kick against further encroachment,
and inasmuch as the Republican
party never concedes the possibility
of its being in error, a European
war can hardly be averted. If the
Republican party does not go out of
power, it is on the horns of a di
lemma. It will either have to econo
mize, or fight the exporting nations
of Europe. On the other hand, the
Democratic party believes in free
trade, which of course will relieve
the exporter of any of the burden
of sustaining our government ; and
inasmuch as whisky and tobacco
have had about all the revenue
they will bear, it becomes a ques
tion of how the revenues are to be
raised. The Democratic party has
expensive tastes, and it will not fall
below the Republican party in the
gratification of these tastes, so in
addition to its being exposed to the
charge of working for the foreign
exporter, it will also be without
money for government expenses.
No party can or ougnt to be able to
stand up under the charge of being
anEnglish annex, and that is just
where the Democratic party stands
to-day, or else tho Republican party
is in error as to who pays the tariff.
Again, the Republican party claims
that the tariff is not a tax. The
Democratic party claims that the
tariff is a tax. If the Republicau
party is right, wc have the only
government on the face of the earth
where revenues are raised without
taxing somebody, cither directly or
indirectly, and of course the party
would deserve great credit for so
wonderful a piece of governmental
legerdemain ; but unfortunately the
effect is not so felicitous, because of
the Democratic party's refusal to
believe, and insists that the tariff is
a tax ; and some Democrats even go
so far as to claim that consumers of
manufactured articles upon which
there is a duty, pay the tariff, and
thus are indirectly taxed. Both
parties cannot be right. Neither
do both parties please all the people.
Some people are willing to let the
English exporter pay the expenses
of running our government. This
class is Republican clear down to
the toe-nails, and every one of
them would not hesitate to twjst
the British lion's tail, and have
Whig ancestry clear back to the
Pilgrim fathers. Another class are
willing to take a tariff for revenue,
but of course a tariff for revenue
would still involve the foreign ex
porter in the expenses of. the gov
ernment, and there would still be
the same liability to extravagance,
and a European war. All these
schemes must fail. If we make the
foreign exporter pay the expenses
of our government, we will have to
fight. If we adopt free trade, we
become a British annex, which no
patriot will 6tand.
Mrs. Helen M. Gougar is now
devoting her time to Ohio. She
says the McKinley law is "a robber
tax upon the people," and that she
proposes to follow McKinley all
over the state and force the claims
of her party, and that of the Peo
ple's party, upon her hearers. May
the good work of forcing the issues
of reform upon the people never
cease until the administration of the
people's government be taken out
Ol Wic nanus jl iuuu'-id.
The Topeka Capital of last week
says the Democrats of Geary (for
merly Davis) county will join
hands and nominate a fusion ticket
this fall, to beat tho People's ticket
if possible. The Capital (the
brass-collared Republican paper of
the 6tate) thinks the scheme a good
one. Great Ca?6ar ! how the Peo
nle's nartv is trying to kill the Re-
I publican party and put Democrats
office I
How They- Work It.
During the fair one of our voters
brought a stranger up from the
grounds who lived in Davis county.
He was a Democrat, and upon being
assured that the driver was a Dem
ocrat, he opened his heart and told
how they were working it down in
Davis. "We put up two men on the
ticket,and the Republicans two men,
and we are going to clean up Jhe
d Alliance t' ket." The next
day a Democrat hom Ottawa county
told how it was to be worked in
Ottawa county. "We are going to
put two men on the ticket and the
Republicans two men, and we are
going in and beat h out of the
Alliance." The Cloud" county
Repubs only offer the Democrats
help on one candidate, but if the
Democrats will hold off awhile they
will carry their point and get help
on register and coroner. The Al
liant, Concordia.
A man by the name of B'urkhair,
who lives near Greeley, was in Gar
nett last Saturday. Burkhall is a '
Republican. In a conversation, he
said, "If the .Republican party
should die, I will vote the straight
Democratic ticket rather than the
People's ticket and I know lots of
Republicans who will do the same."
Now let us look at the inconsisten
cy of the thing. For about thirty
years we have been told by Repub
lican speakers and papers that the
Democratic party is, and always
was, a party devoid of principle.
We have been told that Democrats
were a lot of thieves, liars and
scalawags, and possessed no honor;
that the Democratic party's only
object was to destroy this govern
ment, etc., etc. If those reports
were true during past years, are
they not true to-day ? Is the Dem
ocratic party any better now than it
has been for years ? If not, why
will Republicans declare that they
will join the Democrats ? Is there
any reason or sense in such action?
If the Democratic party seoks to
destroy this government, it is your
intention to help that party, is it?
Why not act like sensible men, and
join with the People's party in
! righting the wrongs from which the
masses are suffering I