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KANSAS AGITATOR: GARNETT, KAS., SEPT 28, 1893.
KANSAS AGITATOR.
Devoted to the interests of
THE MASSES.
A Fearless, Aggressive, Progressive
Advocate of All Reforms.
W. 0. CHAMPE, Editor.
J . M. Alexander, ) Assoc,teEd8.
W. H. Ambrose, )
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llSIONCDSCoPrBIOHTtD BY MARK.M.POMtRB'rt
If ever any mortal be so situated
that lie is in debt to the Devil for
the most pronounced liar ot this
year of grace, and the Devil would
refuse to accept the author of the
eaitonai: xne iubuicuuc ua pnvi
lege," in' the Kansas City x Daily
Times of September 19, 1893, that
unfortunate mortal would surely be
absolved from making any future
effort to , liquidate the debt,- for
surely no greater liar could be pro
duced. The writer of the Times'
article insinuates the same old, stale
lie about the general government
being compelled to purchase all the
silver presented at the mint, in the
event of the passage of a law estab
lishing the free coinage of that
metal, when he knows, or should
know, that free coinage does not
carry with it any such conditions.
To-day there is free coinage of gold,
and the government does not pur
chase the gold bullion. But telling
the lie, though it be done in a cow
ardly and . sneaking manner, will
mislead some. The writing of such
an article should be made a felony,
wi(h perpetual disfranchisement.
The Topeka upper crust is com
posed of those leuows wtio trniiK
toey are in the swim when they can
meet at some club house and get
gloriously drunk, and, as the chief
.C !ni !i lia nnt tho fpnr tf onv rf
j ; . -
the social snob's before his eyes, but
gives all who violate the law an
opportunity to plead guilty or not
guilty, they are moving heaven and
earth to have him removed, the
Topeka anarchrists do . not want a
faithful officer. Hughs is of their
kind.
Til AXKSGI VINO DAT.
In a little more than a month from
the present, the stuffed prophet of
Buzzard's Bay will direct the Secre
tary of State to issue a Thankgiving
proclamation, adjuring the people
to cease work on a designated day,
assemble in the many churches and
render thanks for the multiplied
blessings showered upon this people
since the prophet was inaugurated
ruler of this nation. .
It will be done. For a generation
it has been done annually, and it
will be done again. The old rut
must be kept smooth. The people
have objected and will again, to the
publication of well-known lies by
national proclamation, but what
care the fellows who wear purple
and fine linen and fare sumptuously
every day ?
With an effrontry that will be
really appalling they will come with
the same old dose of blessings
dressed up in sophistical phrases,
such as will capture those who
never give thanks, or if they do, do
not remember long eaough to have
any salutory effect on' their sub
sequent lives.
But the Plutos will have the
proclamation issued. It is one of
these things that tend to keep the
common people tame. Their masters
want the common herd tame. It is
much easier mauaged. If the poor
really think that as a nation we have
been blessed that they have
secured really all they are entitled
to as the result of their labor, they
will not kick, but eat their crust in
thankfulness. Such a faith thenabobs
desire to. see among the poor and
lowly, and by mending the broken
promises and violated pledges with
soft solder, they will ktep the poor
dupes in line a little longer. So we
will soon have the thanksgiving
proclamation.
The question has been , asked, if
in the event that the senate defeats
Voorhees' bill and then passes a
free coinage act, with a ratio ot 16
to 1, and the house should approve
the same, would Grover dare veto
it f We are of the opinion that he
would. He is demanded for un
conditional repeal of the Sherman
law at the demand of Wall street '
tells too plainly that he is not the !
president of the United State, but
the tool of Wall street, and that he
will dare do anything they command
him to as. They nominated him ;
their, falshoods elected him, and
he is doing their bidding.
Since congress met, all the popular
notions of "a government of the peo
ple, by the people, for the people,"
have been knocked into ' a cocked
hat.' . Ours is a government of the
president, by the paesident, for the
New York and English bankers, and
congress is a servile tool of
plutocracy. ..
The late Cherokee Strip business
was a piece of barbarism that cannot
be repeated. There is no more
land to war' for, so at least bar
barism is headed off in that direction
Old-fashioned Americans were
umjer the impression that congress
alone had power to coin money and
regulate the value thereof, but lately
it seems that the power is shared
with the New York bankers.
Cut down the salaries of. our
national officers to a gold basis, and
be sure to begin with the President's
salary ; and while we are cutting
pensions, suppose we begin with the
ten thousand-dollar pensioners.
A few days ago we heard a rock-
ribbed Republican say that, in the
next election, his vote would be
wonderfully changed; that now the
East is openly arrayed against the
South ahd West, forcing those
sections to pay tribute' to New
England greed and New England
injustice, aud for one, he would
demand with his vote.
Some one has said thought never
dies. We are glad to know it for the
reason that the great mass of think
ing men are ' now convinced that
John Sherman and Grover Cleveland
are a brace of the most pronounced
charlatans in existence, and this
thought will not die, even when
Cleveland and Sherman are too dead,
politically, to he ever resurrected.
The administration Democrats and
the Lodge Bill Republicans have
gone into partnership on that bill and
the next thing we will learn is that
Grover is in favor f the bill to cir
cumvent the Populists in their . re
form measures. "Cloak-room"Demo-cracy
and modern Republism cannot
be distinguished, separately nor
seperated, when .it comes to the
enactment of "devil laws They are
indistinguisable twins, then. .
The irrepressible Funston has
written and published a letter in
which he would convey the im
pression that the Populist mem
ber of congress were opposed to free
silver. Mr. Funston well knows the
Populist members of congress are
a unit for free silver 16 to 1, and in
attempting to give out any other
impression, he becomes a .falsifier;
but it is due our members to fay
that they oppose a silver dollar so
big and heavy that they could not
be conveniently handled, and in
this they have displayed good horse
sense. To iucrease the bullion in a
silver dollar, would be to destroy it
as a money, because of its weight
and bulk. Any fool can see that the
more bullion in a dollar, the fewer
dollars: . We wani more dollar, not
biggei dollars;
POPS GAII IN GEORGIA.
At a special election on the 7th,
for representative to the Georgia
legislature lrora Whitefield county,
Riley Gidderis, Populist, was elect
ed by some 200 majority- over his
Democratic opponent. ; Last Octo
ber, the county went Democratic.
Upon the eve of the election, the
Atlanta Constitution declared that
no issue was involved except that of
"Democracy and Popularism." The
Atlanta Journal, Hoke Smith's pa
per, is very hot over this defeat and
the Bourbons all over the state can
not understand it. ..! Other things
passing their understanding are
likely to happen in Georgia in the
near future. -New Nation.
The election of John Adams to
the presidency was the death blow
to Alexander Hamiltonism (that the
rich should rule by right), and after
a few years feebly struggling for
recognition, it ceased to be a troub
lesome factor in political contests
until it arose in the form of the
slave-holding money power, which
continued ! to increase in strength
and grow in power until the guns of
Sumpter awoke the nation ; then it
assumed a new form and came forth
in the gajse of national banks and
national bonds cto' ruleVthe people.
For a few years the people were ob
livious to the great dangers by
which they were surrounded', but
at last they wefe aroused, and now
the fight is on to the .finish. There
will be no compromise. - The money
power must be shorn of its power to
do evil.'1 The creators of wealth are
determined to say how the results of
their labor shall be disposed of. In
all uations,' despotism has always
accompanied the. rule of the rich.
Possession of gfeat riches is no evi
dence of fitness to shape the desti
nies of a nation or ability' to bring
happiness to the people. ! The people
of the United States are not enam
ored of Alexander Hamiltonianism.
The Buffalo, New York, Express
is alarmed at the movement in the
West to create a great grain market
and shipping port on the Gulf of
Mexico, and says the . legislature of
New York "must come to the rescue
and put the Erie canal in condition
to give the best service at the lowest
cost," which is evidence that those
Eastern fejlows are beginning to get
their eyes open to the fact that they
are killing the goose that lays for
them a golden egg.
. Organized capital has vouchsafed
to labor a little breathing spell,
now on the eve of an election.
Americau voters, for God's sake, do
not walk into the trap set. for you.
Should you, the vote will scarcely
be counted until the horns and hoofs
of the same old devil of outrage will
stick-out above and below the sheep
skin. Take lessons from, the past.