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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1900
Page
2
A jumble of brief items notes diverse topics from a Shah of Persia’s jeweled pipe worth 400000 to new apples that lack flavor. It mentions Irish gout immunity from diet potatoes, rafts menacing Pacific navigation, and Chicago women opening a modal lodging house. Other notes cover logs rafting, Danish royal visits, and Rhodes’ fitness amid South African cricket.
B. C. Flower argues that imperialism and the imperialism of capital threaten the republic. He blames McKinley era policy for colonial rule and warns of government by injunction and the power of trusts. He lauds Bryan’s anti imperial address and calls for preserving the Declaration of Independence.
A secret circular from the Railway Employes Democratic League urges covert political organizing across the Western states. It recalls the 1894-96 strikes and accuses corporate domination, describing railway workers mobilizing to influence the 1900 presidential race while pledging secrecy and collective action.
The author accuses Republicans of avoiding real issues and imperialism, deriding founding principles, and prioritizing money over liberty. They lampoon McKinley era rhetoric, claim prosperity is transient, and contrast material wealth with enduring national ideals and historic figures like Lincoln and Washington.
In a speech cited from Pekin remarks, William Jennings Bryan argues against holding a flag once raised, asserting soldiers remain under it in foreign lands. He contends if conquering doctrine applies to Pekin and Manila then the U S might have to claim all of China and its 400 million subjects.
Jesse Hardesty presents a nonpartisan study of railroads as the mightiest trust. He details costs, valuations, and the expansion from small beginnings to power, and argues for state ownership as a remedy. The Non Conformist offers the book for 50 cents, amid calls for readers to study the railroad question.
The article by Matthew Marshall argues free silver would inflate government, railroad, mortgage, and bank notes to trillions, halving bank deposits and destroying savings. It asks why revive a dead issue and cites McKinley’s policy as stabilizing, noting planned silver coinage could reach ninety million dollars under a Republican Congress.
The piece praises Mr Bryan for his ability to spot a pickpocket on a Kaneas train and argues he will catch thieves across the country, both domestic and abroad, including those in the army and civil life, blaming elites like Rockefeller and Morgan and predicting a fruitful future as president.
A dialect passage offers advice to support a political party by delaying action and signaling the party's debt of favor. It urges self-interest, caution, and timely note writing while hinting at loyalty and personal benefit in political alignment.
A terse exchange unfolds as a woman questions Frayed Frawley about drinking while pointing to his worn clothes and busted shoes, with a sharp retort about appearances and money and a final nod to the Chicago Post.
An old humor collage cites a bank clerk nicknamed Jones unable to lend five cents, a novice poker tale where a player’s weak hand loses to a fat jackpot, and skits from the World Herald and other papers about clever quips and a piano‑pounding neighbor.
A dialogic line posits a guiding law: when sure you are right, suspect you are wrong. The exchange centers on doubt guiding philosophical progress and critical thinking.
A fragmentary historical text presents a misspelled dialogue about helping creatures and family duties. The Indian Apolin fourasel voice asks whether aiding a bug or an aunt is the wiser choice, revealing language and cultural nuance in a compact, imperfect transcription.
The excerpt blends science notes on antiseptic ideas and microbes with mentions of New York actors owning homes such as J. H. L. Rothern and Richard Mansfeld, Annie Russell, and a health advertisement for Cascarets. It also cites Canada’s fishery department data on salmon packing in British Columbia for 1869 and a jump in catches versus 1897.
A jumble of product names and odd lines from a vintage page includes Putnam spaceless dy rs marketing, a Chinese empress dowager remark, dental advice, Red Cross praise, a wind of medicine ad, and a quip about a man wearing a silk hat. The text showcases era style ads and scattered consumer references.
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