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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1903
Page
1
Poem urges embracing daily work as a calling and blessing. The speaker vows to resist wandering desires, claim work as personal vocation, and find fulfillment in labor from dawn until evening. It celebrates steady effort, purpose, and balance with rest and recreation.
The essay argues reforms emerge beyond parties, cites Jeffersonian and Lincoln ideals, endorses socialist and new party movements, and warns that wage slavery must be defeated. It critiques Rockefeller funded education, praising Prof Bascom for challenging corporate influence and urging public integrity over bought schools.
The Kansas City Star delivers a forcible arraignment of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil monopoly, detailing alleged piratical business methods and commercial misconduct attributed to their practices.
A call to moral direction urging standards for self-respect and opposition to subsidies that corrupt the people. It condemns concentrated wealth and the monstrous avarice that places hundreds of millions of dollars in the hands of a single individual.
The Topeka Capital reports a $1 250 000 donation to Chicago University by John D Rockefeller amid a surge in oil prices. The piece argues oil magnates profit from high dividends while squeezing the public, citing Standard Oil rebates and the bishop's question to capitalists. It condemns philanthropist motives, warns of trusts’ control, and notes ongoing editorial debate.
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