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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1895
Page
2
The July 12 1899 issue from Garnet Kansas runs a political melee featuring derisive terms toward opponents and calls for reform. It reflects factional strife and the era’s partisan rhetoric with terse attacks on rival groups. The piece signals local political maneuvering and public discourse in a small town newspaper.
A condensed warning from the American Practitioner on alcohol use. A study of twenty four families over twelve years shows twelve drinkers and twelve temperate households with fifty seven and sixty one births respectively. Among drinkers, twenty five infants died in the first week and many severe conditions arose. temperate parents produced mostly normal children. The piece argues temperance is essential for humanity and civilization.
Prohibition leader Rev Charles H St John from Kansas City urges unity with reform movements to win the money issue in politics. Susan B Anthony criticizes Gov Morrill and calls for suffrage and enforcement reform. Mary Lease and Helen Gougar contribute in Womankind on what women owe their country, urging patriotism, equal rights, and humanitarian duties.
A suffrage era appeal urges women to lead in peace, arguing men should refuse to bear the burden of war while bondholders profit from gold. The speaker condemns gold-backed deceit, calls for mothers to influence politics, and insists that national sacrifice must exclude financial interests and force.
Lawrence and W. H. L. Waxman advocate free silver coinage while arguing against money value as wealth. They contend wealth cannot rise from mere monetary expansion, warn that debt relief favors old debtors over new, and claim land and monopoly issues drive taxation. In Salina, Kansas, a flood disrupts life with residents crossing streets by boat.
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