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VOL. 4.
KANSAS AGITATOR.
Devoted to the interests of
THE MASSES.
a Fearless, Aggressive, Progressive
Advocate of All Ketorms.
LOSS OF CONFIDENCE.
The primary cause of the present
i themselves with the thought that
demoralized condition of business,
the financiers tell us, is "loss ol
confidence." That has always been
ii the cry when capital was devising a
scheme to rob the masses. When
the question is put, "Who has lost
confidence ?" we are told, "Capital
has," and that it will be necessary
to legislate o few millions out of the
pockets of the people and into the
vaults of capital before it will get
calm and confident again and quit
raising financial hell over the whole
country.
Capital "lost confidence" during
the war, and had to be paid 100 per
cent, profit on every dollar furnished
the country that had rendered it
possible for capital to exist.
Capital "lost confidence" before
act was
the Credit-strengtheni-
demanded, and by which several
millions were stolen from the people
and appropriated by capital.
Capital "lost confidence" before
silver was demonetized, and before
Bill McKinley revised the tariff, and
now, when it desires to stop coin-
age, issue interest bearing bonds
and force on the country a single
gold standard, thereby nearly doub-
ling its gains at the ex-
pense of every property holder in
the nation, it raises the same old cry
of "loss of confidence," and declares
nothing can restore it but legislat-
ive changes that will make every
hoarded gold dollar worth twice its
face ; or, what is equivalent, depre-
ciate values till one dollar will buy
as much as two will now. The
people need not delude themselves
with the hope that the scheme will
fail. Capital never failb except
when revolution takes it by the
throat and demands that the people
have their own.
The silver men talk bravely ; the
Populists oppose it to a man ; the
Western and Southern press de-
nounced it with laudable unanimity,
but 'tis in vain. Every day the
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GARNETT, KANSAS, AUGUST 3, 1893.
Wall street octopus reaches a ten-
tacle fuYther west or south, and
drags in a congressman, an influen-
tial newspaper or a board of trade.
Every day, "loss of confidence,
caused by silver purchases," is din-
ned in the ears of the people till
they are stunned beyond the capa
bility of reasoning, and content
Wall street's nefarious scheme can
never be accomplished but it will
be. never the less. What does it
mean when a convention of
gold-hoarde-
meet in New York city
and resolve that "funds must be
OVERCOME
RAISED TO MEET AND
silver men"? That means whole-
sale purchase of press, legislators,
boards of trade and every one who
occupies a conspicuous public posi
tion, if cash in hand or political pre
ferment will do the work. This is
the deepest, the blackest and most
unholy of all conspiracies against
the common people. It is also the
boldest and mo6t impudent in its
devilish demands. All rights and
every interest are ignored except
those of the millionaires, bankers
and speculators in money and bonds.
When capital contemplates a steal
off the people, it gets up a financial
flurry in Wall street, and the secre-
tary of the treasury, a servant of
the people, immediately sneaks away
and consults the robbers to ascertain
what he can do to help along the
steal. Did you ever hear of his
consulting with a body of promi
nent farmers who gave him his posi-
tion, to know what he could do to
prevent the steal ? I think not.
The doom of silver is sealed.
Gold is to be the tyrant that will hold
every industry . in its villainous
grasp, and crush life aud hope out
of the common people with its in
satiable demands. The only remedy
is to DEMONETIZE GOLD !
Clip the tentacles of the remorse-
less devil-fis- and render him as
harmless as a half-grow- n
clam.
If capital has "lost confidence"
on account of silver, let it know that
the people have lost confidence on
Make it a com-
account of cold.
modity, and it will cut no more fig-
ure in the financial world than dia-
monds. Give us Legal tender paper
that will "ham-string- " capital, after
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NO. 11.
which the rjeocle can fence it in Can 3 Go Into 1 ?
with appropriate legislation. American Nonconformist.
But first DEMONETIZE GOLD I How are the banks going to pay
W. H. M. $3,734,000,000, the amount deposit-
ed in the national and savings banks
Justice vs. Barbarism. of the country (see N. Y. World
The Flaming Sword, Chicago. almanac for 1893, pages 143-4- 4)
The Borden trial disclosed the con with $1,593,000,000, the entire
spiracy of detectives and officers of amount of money in circulation ?
the state to convict an innocent per
of secretary of the treas-
son, failing to find a guilty one. (See report
Disclosures coming from Home ury for July). There is no way
stead reveal conspiracy between de- known to Populists to pay $2.30
tectives and accomplices to convict with $1. Yet this is all the banks
Dempsey and other labor leaders of have got to pay with, counting that
poiboning n men, in order
non-unio-
within their vaultp every
to divert attention from the outrage they have
committed by the Carnegie works dollar in the United States. We
in constituting imported ruffians know that they don't have all the
THE
state militia. Gallagher, the money, for individuals have millions
wretch who swore that Dempsey, of dollars, and the state and private
district master workman of the banks have as much on hand as the
Knights of Labor, paid him to poison
enemies of the strikers, now swears national banks have.
No, if every depositor should want
that the detectives filled him for
more than a month with liquor, kept his money at once, the banks could
him away from his friends, threaten- not pay over 25 cents on the dollar.
ed to hang him for murder, and to
do other dreadful things if he did
You must have confidence, though,
not implicate Dempsey as chief of and believe they can pay dollar for
the poisoning plot. He admits that dollar. As we write, the Indianapo
there was no poison used and none lis banks are thronged with anxious
suggested. Dempsey has been serv depositors, eager to draw out their
ing a prison sentence for the crime money before it is too late, and two
his convictor says he did not com
mit. Chicago Herald. of them, one a United States depos-
The Borden trial, like every other itory, have placards upon the doors
"suspended."
trial of the state against a suspect,
discloses the disgraceful aspect ol
justice. It is geucrally Systematized and persistent mis
supposed that a state's attorney oc representation is the stock in trade
cupies his position by virtue of his of such papers as the Toledo Blade,
legal ability ; and to sustain his rep- of which the following is a fair
utation as a lawyer he must convict, sample, and in which the denizens
at all hazards, whether innocent or of the great west can easily point
guilty, the unfortunate person who out a number of clearly-expresse- d
may fall into his merciless hands. falsehoods. Mark them, ye tillers
Our criminal jurisprudnce is one of the soil How many of you got
of the most barbarous and disgrace- $1, or one-ha-
lt of it, in 1892? And
ful things of civilization, so on to the end of the list :
and so far as the attitude of the 1892
state toward its euspects is concern
Grandfather's big hat,
ed requires an overhauling no less Wheat $1 per bushel.
This
radical than a revolution. Wool 20 cents per pound.
charge must receive its impulse Homestead labor, $6 to $18 per
from outside the socalled courts of day, and striking for more.
1893
justice.
G rover's big collar,
The Deuver Road insists on the Wheat 60 cents per bushel,
demonetization of gold in the event Wool 10 cents per pound,
of the demonetisation of silver. Labor out of a job.
We're wid yez, Brother George. Which did you vote for last
The demonetization-of-gol- idea is fall?
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rapidly gainiug ground, too.
Don't fail to read the Great Quad-
Order "The Golden Bottle" thro' rangular Debate, then hand it to
the Agitator Price, 50 cts. your neighbor.