21 Aug 1903
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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
1
A dated critique discusses Christ's predicted end of evil, urging unity of politics and religion to purge oppression. It cites biblical prophecy from Malachi and Revelation, foreseeing a rapid social cleansing. The piece frames political and religious leaders as false prophets and calls for sweeping reform.
A St. Louis dispatch reports Judge Rogerty’s ruling that employers may dismiss union members and maintain a blacklist as a lawful act. The decision in Boyens v. Western Union bars discharges for union membership but allows blacklist use, contrasting with anti boycott laws and fueling calls for workers to vote for their own interests.
Fifty people in Colorado Springs were poisoned last Monday after consuming creamery ice cream. Several remain in critical condition as investigators look into the use of embalming fluid, formaldehyde, in keeping the cream sweet.
Gen. Jouy C. Black of Illinois is set to succeed Gen. Stewart as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. General 14 is slated to follow Black.
The scrub women of Toledo Ohio have organized a trust to raise wages. They demand $150 and two meals a day.
A long elegiac verse reflects silent griefs and unseen wounds. It laments unspoken memories and fading joys while imagining eternal peace beyond, where souls are united in love and radiant light inspires heavenly dreams. The unknown author contemplates sorrow, hope, and solace after death.
Jo McDilla urges that sin is a nation’s reproach and cites drunkenness, mobs, boodling, perjured officeholders, and commercial robbery as systemic evils. He warns government failure to stamp out mobs and corruption, condemns politicians and party machines, and laments attacks on education and liberty.
The passage declares that wealth concentrates power and tyrannical standing armies serve tyrants. It critiques education that does not lead to wise action, condemns robberies behind elites such as Rockefeller Carnegie Gould and Rothschilds, and urges laboring men to defend rights at the ballot box through government action. It portrays the laboring man as a fool who must seize power to prevent subversion of republican foundations.
From the Appeal to Reason a U S court upholds the Great Northern railroad merger. The piece blasts judges, rails against powerful corporations, and questions political will to curb monopolies, urging voters to awaken and oppose industrial slavery. It cites Teddy Roosevelt and criticizes public policy. It closes praising Jos Printing.
Hearse service available from Vaughn's Furniture. Located at the furnished store with residence telephone listed as 29.
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