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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1891
Page
4
The piece argues against Prohibitionists charging resubmission motives for a proposed 1892 constitutional convention. It explains that the last legislature would vote only on a convention and notes the coming process, urging that the constitution be amended on its merits rather than party maneuvering.
In western Kansas bankers and financiers bought many farms over the last year, acquiring them for little more than mortgage value. Buyers stand to gain fifty to three hundred percent on invested funds, while farmers lose their properties to mortgagees. Republican-leaning papers amplified each foreclosure as a partisan action.
The letter questions the so called Republic an party as a secret political order. It argues Knights of Reciprocity and the Republican league act as outside sentinels for the party. It says the two units aim to protect capitalist monopolies and trusts.
A letter from Byron T. Park of Erin New York discusses a clipping from the New York Advertiser about the alleged Hutchinson resolution. The Interior Herald is said to have published both the bogus and the genuine reform version from Thatchinsins editors. The note claims the bogus resolution is a lie devised to injure the People's party.
The Republican Calamity League adopts the same old campaign resolutions and speeches with two changes. It replaces demonizing the Democrat party with extra abuse aimed at the People's party while dropping the prohibition enforcement pledge. The move signals a shift without improving core strategy.
The Beacon notes a failed attempt to dethrone the beer king while the money king remains unmolested. The colorful metaphor likens the effort to garrying a hornet nest with hornets furious and a mad hull, underscoring the futility of disrupting entrenched power.
A fragment expresses a metaphor about eradicating hornets by destroying nests and dismantling monopolies to strike at money power behind government misdeeds. The passage links political corruption to economic controls and urges decisive action against entrenched interests.
The census bureau reports Kansas total mortgage debt at 285,488,105 with 7,601,718 state and railroad land contract debt. Acres hold 107 million and lots 68 million. western half has 34 percent of acres debt while eastern holds 66 percent. Property valuation stands at 290,509,711, mortgage debt at 81 percent of value.
The passage describes widespread abandonment of mortgages as farmers surrender homes to loan companies. Many received nothing while a few got small sums. foreclosure was cheaper. No farm mortgage in the county was paid off by the mortgagor.
Volkus on the telegraphic report, calling it a lie, denounced those reviving sectional wounds. He praised the Farmers Alliance in reconciliation efforts in the south and urged a peaceful, unified nation postwar. He urged young men to heed reconciliation and reject prejudice.
A note announces a bundle of Reform papers ready for distribution to supporters. The item describes selecting ten issues and distributing them among friends, aiming to spread reform ideas and boost advocacy.
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