11 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
1
The piece laments a marked retrogression in public virtue and warns that corruption in politics and finance threatens republican order. It urges faith in God as a restraint when elections and courts fail, warns of riot and revolution, and calls for preparation before an impending financial storm.
Rev Dr Newell Dwight Hillis of Brooklyn, speaking in Boston on John Ruskin, warns a "magnate" who owns private railways, cables, judges, and a private board of aldermen could one day own a president. He argues against wealth inequality and says high earnings should fund public libraries and living wages.
The Southern Mercury editorializes that the Republican party has adopted secession, suggesting a move to grant pensions to Confederate veterans and to erect a monument to Jefferson Davis, implying a shift in postwar policy and memory.
A reflective poem describes a symbolic garden of Gethsemane hidden beyond life’s joys and shadows. It urges readers to face personal trials and despair, kneel in darkness, and seek a higher purpose beyond the cup of sorrow. The piece frames sorrow as a universal journey all must endure.
P P Elder of Ottawa writes on the beef combine charging price manipulation by packers and rail rates. He urges laws enforcement, harsher prosecutions, and suggests farmers build smokehouses to cure meat and sell locally to counter rising cut meat prices. He laments Republican officials and calls for action against trusts and land pirates.
The Kansas Democrat from Hiawatha quotes Governor Bailey puzzled by numerous resignations of justices of the peace and considering reassigning the vacancies to former assistant superintendents of ventilation who may be ready for new roles.
Kentucky editor Henry Watterson harshly criticizes the Panama and Wood incidents in an Louisville Courier Journal editorial titled Let Her Go Gallagher. He claims the administration will force the canal through, urging opposition to a treaty and warning that government power shifts toward elite party managers.
A quoted Southern Mercury editorial from Dallas warns that partisan legislatures and partisan judges are the most powerful engines of oppression in the U S government. It paraphrases Jefferson comparing the judiciary to sappers undermining liberties.
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