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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1891
Page
5
A Swiss observer warns that America must raise its political honor or risk national decay. He condemns party press and old party politics as eroding public morals and governance, condemning bipartisan political matrimony and a family metaphor of fractured parties.
A poem notes that tax free silver coinage could harm savings banks. It asserts about 150 banks annually close and steal depositors’ money, urging a procession to move on regardless of these losses.
The Chicago Ex press denounces the national banking system for allowing a man to leverage $5,000 actual investment into $95,000 cash business. By lending $50,000 to the government and receiving $45,000 in notes, he earns interest on the full amount while his real stake remains $5,000. The piece accuses bankers and media of pushing the system as best in the world for their own gain.
A Reeder correspondent decries postwar inflation noting wheat at ninety cents to a dollar, corn sixty cents and hay ten dollars per load. He says farmers convert grain to gold coin then buy sugar, muslin, calico, barbed wire, and a suit for ten dollars. He claims farmers lack goods to sell as speculators absorb farm products.
After offloading his holdings prices rise, and gamblers and speculators reap profits. The Reeder correspondent of the R.P. argues the public may be misled by his apparent cleverness, but widespread gullibility won’t follow him for long.
The piece argues Lincoln and Seward doomed the republic that was half free, half slave and now cannot endure if workers' earnings are monopolized. It condemns reform opponents as robbers, demagogues, and corrupt press backing the present schemes to thwart financial and social progress for toilers.
United Labor of Omaha cites a church of Jeans Christ as favoring labor and social reform. The piece recounts the life of a Nazarean son of a carpenter who preached brotherhood, aided the poor, denounced oppressors, and was betrayed for money, leading to crucifixion.
Carr writes from New York describing Capt. Jerry Simpson’s free trade address at Cooper Union. He notes Henry George’s absence as presiding, coverage by Wall Street Farmer editors, and hostility from eastern papers while praising Simpson’s stance against Democrats and Republicans. Carr hopes Alliance organizing in New York on April 22 and aims to align Weatchester County with the National Alliance.
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