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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1891
Page
4
The fragmentary notice records W E Anexanper and Anexaxnen in a brief local item. Details are unreadable but identify individuals and contextual placement within a community column. Further text would clarify roles, dates, or affiliations.
A broad critique of debt across the United States highlights railways, cities, farms, and factories encumbered by mortgages and borrowings. The piece argues retrenchment worsens unemployment, swelling poverty as usury and bond schemes threaten farmers and workers, urging voters to oust bond worshipers.
A fragment quotes Groner Wasitxetox, a free man who signed the U S Constitution on September 17 1787, warning that rejection could end peaceful chance to renew the compact. It laments laboring men uniting with ballots to reestablish Washingtons foundation or risk bloodshed.
An old friend argues legislation affects prices, but money bonds and mortgages are legal creations not caused by labor. The speaker notes government actions since the war have valued these instruments, extracting profits from labor and farms through taxes and financial policy. If legal tender were ample and properly circulated, bonds and mortgages would be unnecessary. Subsidized press payments to editors are claimed to influence the laboring public.
The piece questions how voters can reconcile Tygalls and Cleveland actions with their current political stances. It contrasts Cleveland’s silver coinage opposition with a veto of a five cent fare bill in New York City and criticizes both parties for wavering leadership and influence over labor and public policy.
One of the greatest and best generals of the late war, Ges, died last Saturday. His remains will be interred at St Louis on Thursday. Columbia mourns the death of a beloved son.
The Kansas senate killed the measure reducing official salaries after a contentious House debate. The bill faced strong opposition and prompted sharp rhetoric as lawmakers argued over fiscal policy and government spending.
A letter attacks Eastern capitalists for pressuring loans to choke the People's party, calling such arguments a political trick. It credits Mellen with offering timely farm and state loans in Anderson county at low rates, rebuking papers that claim capital would flee Kansas as mislead ing the public. The piece labels the controversy as political banter and defends populist loan access.
A letter questions class conflict and finance, arguing farmers need a new pomace to generate money. It equates farmer debts to capitalist control and uses cider industry metaphors to urge monetary expansion and broader economic reform.
The Coffeyville dynamite plot is described as a lag on the string. The legislature plans to appropriate $60,000 for the relief of the needy in western Kansas.
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