01 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
1
The piece laments Kewaner glove makers paid 414 cents per dozen, urges fair wages, and condemns society for exploiting and neglecting working girls. It imagines a new humane society where women can earn honestly, with supporters rallying to aid workers and oppose patriarchal backlash.
Poem lamenting life's vanity and futility if no afterlife exists. The speaker questions meaning, fame, and pleasure, urging present solace and daring to confront darkness and silence without hope beyond. The verse mingles grave imagery with insistence on living now.
A caustic opinion piece decries poverty in London amid the stalled coronation, contrasts royal waste with misery, and rejects any American cousinship to England. It condemns imperial taxes, class oppression, and calls for independence from royal influence while mocking congress and a rogue commission on Southern colored people.
A strong critique argues that exploitation and corruption cross regional lines, condemning commissions as political capital rather than protection. It urges education, industrial training, and responsible voting to uplift the colored race while calling for white voters to reflect integrity in ballot use. The speaker questions Hanna’s investigations and suggests focus on white abuses prewar and present.
El Dorado editor Bent Murdock railes at agricultural officials and pensioned scholars in Washington. He mocks pensioned doctors and ex lawyers turned naturalists and agronomists funded by Congress to push farm spending, lampooning mixed seed and hybrid corn as unfit fare for farmers and warning of a corrupt payroll.
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