Kansas agitator. [volume], May 04, 1893, Image 1

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VOL. 3.
GARNETT, KANSAS, MAY 4. 1893.
NO. 50,
Cam buy Shoes at Greene's fur less money than anywhere else. Below
' . we quote a lew BIG BARGAINS:
jar-Ladies' Pure Dongola Kid Slices, $1.00. Ladies' Fine Dongola Kid
SgrShoes, $1 50. Ladies' Best Dongola Shoes; $2.00. Ladies' Patent
SLeathcr-trimmed Slippers, $1 00. Ladies' Cloth-top Patent-tip
5-Slippers, $1.25. Ladies' Fine Kid Hand-sewed Slippers, $1.75.
S-Ladies'' Oloth-top Shoes, the best goods made, all style toes and
S-heels, $2.50 Men's Fine Shoes, from $1.25 to $3.00. If you want
Srcomfort and durability, try our Creole Congress Plow Shoe at $1.50.
5-EVERY PaIR WARRANTED.
GREENE THE SHOE MAN
South Side Square'
Gamett, Kas.
KANSAS.
All hail to the Sun-flower state,
The fairest and the bravest !
Entrenched in thee, may freedom wait
The onslaught of the rich, the great,
Where thou thy banner wavest !
Thy Sun-flower flag, of green and gold,
With "Liberty" in every fold.
Thou first to bare thine infant arm
To free the human chattel ;
While full-grown states, in wild alarm,
Shrank irom the duty, danger, harm
' Of compamonsTiip in battle J
Thy blood ran free in many fights
For freedom and for human rights.
This, the proud record of thy youth,
Is far surpassed in glory,
In courage, chivalry and truth
Of that romantic story
That flames thy latter enterprise
On the high arches of the skies.
Give hands and shout I O Manly West,
Wake heaven with thy clamour,
That sets the bravest and the best
O'er all the legend's glamour.
On thee all people's eyes are bent,
Thou Sparta of the Occident I
Around thee clusters every hope
Of all the poor and lowly I
And yet, not singly, shalt thou cope
With all the powers unholy !
The lower millions of all lauds
Shall, afterwhile8, uphold thy hands.
II. W. Taylor.
THE QUADRANGULAR DEBATE
O.uestion : "Which Offers the Best
- Practical .Political Means for the
Benefit of the Workinsrmen of
tins Country."
The Democratic Party, the People's
Party, the Republican Party'or
the Church.
This, the greatest debate of 'mod
ern times, was held at Philadelphia,
under auspices of the Chatham Lit
erary union by the following speak
ers :
Democratic party Col. Henry
Watl.erson, of Kentucky.
The Church Rev. R II. Conwell,
of Pennsylvania.
People's party Gen. Janus B.
Weaver, of Iowa. ' "
Republican party Colonel S. L.
Woodford, of New York.
The four speeches complete are
printed in pamphiet form, and will
be sent to any one on receipt of 25
cents.
GET A COPY FREE.
The Farmers' Tribune, of Des-
Moines, Iowa (Gen. Jas. B. Weaver,
editor-in-chief), and the Agitator
will both be sent one year for $1.80,
and the subscriber will receive a
copy of the book free. Tell all
your neighbors of this offer. Ev
ery man, woman and child in Amer-fcar'slrou-ld-read-these-
speeches, by 1
men, each of whom is ackuwledged
as one of the ablest representatives
of his organization. This is the
only pamphlet ever in print where
the best arguments of the best men
of all parties are presented.
Gold-Bug Cleveland -says the
manufacturers and business men of
the nation must be protected, but'he
says not a word about protecting
the farmers and other laboring men
who, by their toil, have made it
possible for those "manufacturers
and business men" to amass great
fortunes.". Grover Cleveland is the
willing tool of the Wall street bank
ers and gamblers, and the man who
cannot see it is as blind as a bat.
Anthony and Mitchell, the anar
chist ex-railroad commissioners,have
been knocked out by the supreme
court, the judges deciding that the
executive board had a right to dis
miss them and appoint others. 'Tis
"the last of the Mohicans."
There isagreat hue and cry
about the extravagance of the Cleve
land administration. We are told
as often as the sun rises that it is
only a question of time when Secre
tary Carlisle Will have to issue
bonds, and with a hope that such is
a fact, Republican papers are in
great glee. The Harrison adminis
tration turned over, with the affairs
of government, to his successor, a
looted treasury, and now the ghouls
are anticipating high carnival over
the condition in which Carlisle finds
the treasury. No sane man not a
blind partisan has hoped for any oth
er financial policy from the present
administration than that followed by
Harrison. He ran on a silver plat
form and betrayed the people, and
now they expect the same from
Cleveland. The mills of the gods
are grinding.
The Lewiston reservoir, next to
the largest in America, broke, yes
terday morning, and a huge wall of
water ten feet deep and three miles
wide swept down the Miami valley,
carrying devastation in its course,
but causing no loss of life. The
towns of Port Jefferson, Quincy,
Logansville, Degraff, Piqua, Troy
a.id Dayton, which were in the path
of the flood, and were badly dam
aged. Farmers in the path are to
tally ruined. . The amount of the
damage is unknown.
The people of Kansas will hand
over about $60,000 to the tax-gatherers
to pay for Kansas' display at
the Columbian exposition, which
will consist largely of a costly
furnished , state building, several
car-loads of stuffed animals and a
score or two of dudes and dudeens
with soft hands, holding down fat
obs. That is about all the tax
payers will get out of the invest
ment.
Two billion-dollar congresses one
Republican and one Democratic
both bent on the spoils of office
both guilty of official extravagance
-X-both making euphonious charges,
which, being translated, means
thieves, and working harmoniously
when playing the game of loot, and
iheir pur-blind followers shouting
hozannas to them at each successful
sacking ot the people's homes.