Dakota farmers' leader., November 21, 1890, Image 3

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'ENDING DANGER.
'fcRNMENT LOANS THE ONLY
MEANS OP ESCAPE
From the Millstone of Debt that How
Hangs on tlie Necks. of the American
People—Sliylocks and Sharpers Object—
How It is Managoil.
That the American people are being
not only crushed, but crushed with
the burden of private debt, is plain
to every well informed person.
That not only the American repub
lic, but civilization itself is jeopar
dised by this curse of debt is just as
plain.
Belief must come, and that speed
ily or the bottom or ths hill will be
ihed, and death, ruin and decay
*l begin its work.
sprat this impending danger we
there is but one means of
e, jind that is by and through
government loans direct to the peo
ple.
It is the only proclamation of free
dom that will set. free thrice three
millions of debt enslaven farmers,
workingmen, merchants and manu
facturers.
But objections are made to govern
ment loans. These objections come
principally trom two classes, the
croakers who find fault with the ten
commandments and declare they
would do no good, and the usurious
Shyloqks who live on interest money.
A correspondent asks us to state
how these loans could be so managed
tlxat sharpers could not get the bene
fit^ them to the exclusion of the
!,Orer classes.
jet us suppose that there are 500
rigaged cursed farmers in some
am county and that their mort
es average $1,000 each.
et the government loan sums
not exceeding $1,000, to any one per
son in the county, giving preference
to applicants for the smaller sums,
and preference to those who are al
ready mortgaged.
In this manner the sharper would
be cut off.
If it happens that a rich man has
a $10,000 farm with a $7,000 mortgage
on it, he, of course, would get the
"benefit" of a $1,000 loan. At the
same time a poor man having a
$2,000 farm with a $1,000 mortgage
on it would get the same "benefit"
that the rich man did'.
Let it be understood that this idea
of government loans is for the benefit
of the people, and especially for those
who are cursed with mortgage delfts,
and with that thought in view, base
the law, which is to carry the idea
into effect, and there is little or no
danger of the rich getting any undue
"benefit" from it.
But, some one suggests, there are
2,420 counties in the United States,
and if the government loaned on an
ferage $500,000 in each county -it
ould take $1,210,000,000, and that
would be "too much inflation." Of
course, the shylock would shout "in
flation!" as inflation is as hateful to
old shyldck as holy water' is to thei
devil.
But let us see.
The debts of the 50ft mortgaged
cursed farmers in this certain county
are not all due at present. They
•have from one to perhaps five years
to run. Suppose that only one-flflh
of them are due this year. It would
take only $100,000 to relieve them for
this yeiar. Next year it would take
as much more. In two years, two
fifths, only of $1,210,000,000 would be
required, so that instead of an "in
fiation of $1,210,000,000 it would be an
"inflation" of only, $480,000,000—or
less than $10 per capita.
At the end of the first year, the in
terest on the first year's loan would
be turned into the treasury, causing
so much of a contraction to offset
part of the "inflation."
Bight here another important fea
ture of the question is presented.
What would the present money loan
ers, who would be compelled to accept
their money, do with it?
They could not loan it out unless
they did so at the same rate the gov
ernment did it.
They would not keep their money
idle, for then it would bring them no
income.
They would do one of two things
loan at government rates, or invest
their money in some productive
enterprise.
In either event, their money must
go into circulation!
And if it went into circulation, it
would partially relieve the demand
upon the government for loans.
In short, in all probability an "in
flation" of not more than $500,000,
000 to $600,000,000 would be all that
would be required to place every
mortgage in the United States upon
the level of a two or three per cent
basis.
And thus released from the curse of
the exhausting, killing, high rate of
interest which exists at the present
time, men could accumulate some
thing in order to pay off the princi
pal and get out of the merciless jaws
of an accursed debt.
Debt, from the petty mortgage on
the humble home up to the govern
ment bonded indebtedness, is the
millstone tied to the neck of the
American people to-day.
Government loans direct to the
peeple is the passage way through
the Bed Sea of debt, which will en
able God's beloved men, women and
and children to escape from the
shylock Pharaohs who are in hot
pursuit.—Chicago Sentinel.
Another Official Disregard or Law.
On the, 10th of September, Secre
tary of the Treasury Windom, made a
bold play into the hands of favorites
by beginning the payment of one
year's interest in advance of falling
due on government 4 per cent bonds
From September 10th to October
10th, the clerical force of the treasury
department is»making out checks and
forwarding them by mail to those
who in this or other countries hold
U. S. bonds that were given out years
ago in exchange for greenback money
called in and burned in order to pro
vide bonds for the millionaires.
Tnese bonds are generally deposited
in the treasury or sub-treasury for
safe keeping, free of charge to the
owners. As the interest is sent out,
on the face of the bonds will be
stamped "interest due January 1st,
April 1st and July 1st, 1891, prepaid."
The one year's interest thus to be
paid on outstanding "fours" amounts
to $23,453,546. Among the largest
holders of these bonds given out for
legal tender greenback money, taken
in and destroyed in order to, make
money scarce and the rate of interest
higher for the benefit of usurers, is
the Bowery bank, New York City.
$20,000,000 Brooklyn Savings bank,
$10,000,000 Standard Oil Trust Com
pany Trust, $20,000,000 Atlantic In
surance Company, $5,000,000 the Van
derbilts, $25,000,000 National Hanks,
$125,000,000.
Secretary "Windom has no more
legal right or authority to pay this
interest for one year or one day before
it is due, than he has to pay "the en
tire bonded debt, principal and inter
est. No more legal right to thus
throw $23,453,546 into the hands of
favorites, than he has to pay the sala
ries of all the employes of the people,
from president down to postal delivery
clerk, for one year to ten years in ad
vance,
But it shows the utter disregard the
present party in power has for the
people, and the party now in power in
Washington ransacking the place, dif
fers not a whit from the administra
tion that preceded it, as both are the
machine hirelings of the bondholders
and national bank combinations.
The government rakes the country
from hilltop to furrow skins it of all
it dares hoards it in the treasury, and
to accommodate money lenders, thus
step in. takes out $23,000,000, and
kindly hands it out to those who, as
bondholders, are exempt from taxa
tion, and much given to pleasure in
foreign countries.
"Why not pay Harrison's salary the
full term in advance?
Why not pay each member of his
cabinet his'full salary in advance?
Why not pay each senator his*salary
six years in advance?
Why not pay each congressman his
two years' salary in advance?
Why nor pay each judge and court
official his salary in advance.
Why not pay the army and navy,
and all the pension claims ten years
in advance?
Why not pay all postmasters and
post-office clerks their salary four
years in advance?
Why not pay interest on the govern
ment bonds given to the Union Pacific
Bailroad, ten or twenty years in ad
vance?
Then, why not issue more bonds,
sell them to those thus favored, let
ting them have bonds in lieu of cash,
and compel the damphools of farmers
and laboring men generally to pay in
terest on all these bonds, at least one
year in advance?
Why damphools?
Because they go right on, year
after year, raising children for hog
feed, instead of cutting loose from
the prejudice that makes them slaves,
and uniting and electing a congress
that will replace old and make new
laws.
The road to Jericho was a saint's
rest compared to the one lined by the
old parties, one of which robs till
weary, then sleeps to regain strength
while the other robs. Thus they rob
and rob about, and poverty, hard
times, the sheriff apd the property
absorber stalk over the land bring
ing the present generation to despair
and the coming generations into
slavery.—Pomeroy's Advance Thought.
A Word to Farmers.
Money belongs to our competitive
system of production and distribution.
A complete round of exchange equiva
lent for equivalent, op co-operative
principle, would render money as we
now understand it, unnecessary. The
warehouse receipt for a product
would be the exact equivalent for
that product. This is soraething
that money never could do. If money
is an equivalent for the commodities
which it purchases, it follows as a
logical sequence that all the money
in the world is equal in value to all
the products and the earth itself* and
hence by this principle all 'Valuations
placed on the wealth of the world in
excess of the money volume, is in ex
cess of its real value. This logical de
duction from the teachings of monop
oly financiers, that money must pos
sess an intrinsic value equal to the
commodity which it is used to pur
chase demonstrates its utter absurdity.
But while under the present system
of production and distribution we
must have a medium by which debts
may be paid and property exchanged,
in order to protect ourselves from the
grasp of the usurer, the people must
have direct control of its distribution.
This would be a co-operative medium
of exchange adapted to a competitive
system and all the members of society
would share'equally in the benefits se
cured thereby. Money in its last anal
ysis is the language by which we ex
press the relative value of commodi
ties. Under a system of universal co
operation we would still use money in
this sense to facilitate the correct
keeping of accounts, but the tokens,
metal or paper coins, which we now
use, might be dispensed with alto
gether. Money under a system of dis
tribution through private channels
must in the very nature of things be a
robber to the amount of the interest
exacted, but place the distribution
under public control for the benefit of
nil citizens and money becomes a use
ful convenience, saving an amount of
labor that is incalculable. When the
average laborer and business man un
derstand this money question as well
as the great financiers of the world
now understand it, money will thence
forth be taken out of the hands of pri
vate speculators and become a public
blessing. This is the key to the great
social questions which are now forcing
themselves upon the public attention.
The people should be as free to ex
change their products as they are to
create them by their labor, but this
.freedom of exchange they cannot se
cure until they control the medium by
which the exchanges are made.—Dit
to tA {Minn.) Industrial Age.
The Great Oliject.
From near and far, everywhere,
have come the expressions of "sur-
?ndependencstrengthTheseexpression
rise" at the developed by the
party.
of surprise, it will be "noted, come
from the papers of both the old
parties. But already they have begun
the work intended to disorganize.
With the Independents who used to
be Democrats the argument is used
that that party will be in the major
ity and promises great reforms.
With Independents who used to be
Bepublicans the argument is used
that they must come back to the g.
o. p. in order to "knock the rebels
out" again.
The great object of the leaders, of
both old parties, who are brothers in
iniqui-ty for the monopoly interests of
the country,.is to break up the In
dependent movement. The result of
the election in Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, Minnesota, South
Carolina, Georgia and other states
where the Independents were fairly
well organized, proves that both old
parties have more to fear from the
new party than they have from each
other. The situation is clearly set
forth in a private letter received from
a man who was very active in work
ing for the Independent candidate
for congress but who up to a few
days before election advocated stay
ing by the old party state ticket. He
says. "I am no longer a Democrat,
and am as willing to work against
Democrats as Bepublicans they both
pitch into me." And our ex-Demo
cratic friend's experience is that of
every Independent. The treatment
that an Independent may expect from
party-slave Democrats and Bepubli
cans is very well portrayed in a story
of an Irish family. A traveler, while
passing by the home or an Irish fam
ily heard a great commotion inside,
and going quickly to the door found
Pat and Biddy in a great quarrel over
their son Mike, a few years of age
and while they were pounding each
other considerable in the effort to
gain the possession, Mike the little
innocent was getting the worst of it.
The traveler at once interfered in be
half of little Mike, whereupon Pat
and Biddy at once forgot their quar
rel and jointly pounced upon the
traveler. Of course the interferance
by the "third party'' was a "great
surprise" and resulted in a temporary
relief for little Mike. The traveler
like some Independents, felt like
"giving up the fight" and as soon as
he was driven from the field the
"old parties" had it all their own
way again.
Friends of free and honest govern
ment everywhere should be on their
guard against the schemes of the old
party politicians to break up the In
dependent movement. The crisis of
the new party is near at hand. Un
principled political schemers, satis
fied that the Independent party is
sure to at least hold the balance of
power, will enter its ranks with
pretended great earnestness but with
the one object in view of barter and
trade. Every influence possible will
be brought to bear to pull voters back
into the old party lines and the gov
ernment, which the Independent
party is seeking to rescue from the
grasp of monopoly, whose henchmen
are keeping up a fight for spoils, will,
if the new party retreats, be left to
the fate of ancient republics.
"These are times that try men's
souls." The people must stand firm
and continue in the march of free
dom.
The next election must show
greater "surprises" than the past one
—all in the interest of right, truth
and justice. To achieve this result
the great object of the old party
politicians—to break up the new
party—must be defeated.
On with the fight!
What the Farmer Wants.
He wants an equal chance with
men engaged in other occupations no
more.
He wants an equal representation in
the legislative department.
He wants a fair remuneration for
his Ifibor.
He wants no speculation, in the
price of the products of £he farm.
He wants more money that debt
trade may be abolished.
He wants reduced rates on the trans
portation of the products of his labor,
in order to place him nearer th» con
sumer.
He wants the free coinage of silver
and the issue of full legal tender paper
money.
He wants the financial system so
modified that money will become the
beneficent agent of commerce instead
of its master.
He wants free and fair elections
and purity in politics.
He wants everybody to have a fair
chance in the race of life.
He wants to see the genius of man
directed to the development of the
country's resources.
He wants to see class legislation
abolished.
He wants to see all men successful
who are engaged in legitimate enter
prises.
He wants to see this republic a "gov
ernment of the people, for the people,
and by the people."—National Re
former.
The Independent Movement in South
Carolina.
The Democratic party of South
Carolina is splitting apart on the lino
of intelligence, One wing has glued
the seat, of its pants down to dead
issues that fatten only usurers, specu
lators knd office holders, while the
other is moving on toward school
houses, daylight and the encourage
ment of industry ,by caring for the
industrious, Including the farmers.
One portion of the party is anxious
only for party supremacy, while the
other is seeking general prosperity.—
Pomeroy's Advance Thought.
THOUSANDS are to-day impressed
with the approaching dangers. The
facts that should alarm them are con
spicuous. The industrial classes in
both city and country are profoundly
discontented. The western farmers are
not alone in their suffering. The de
cline In New York has been so great
that State Assessor Wood, In 18S9, ex
pressed the opinion that in a few dc
cades there will be none but tenant
farmers in the state. While the farm
ers are going down, and nearly four
fifths of the city of New York live in
tenement houses, the plutocracy is
going up, the gulf is widen
«ng between
wealth and poverty—between the man
who may be arrested as a tramp for
being out of work, and the millionaire
who spends $700,000 on a stable for his
horses.—Thedford Tribune.
DOES legalizing robbery make it
right? Does a system which robs the
people of their homes harmonize with
the teachings of the Holy Bible? Can
you blend Christianity and robbery in
one ornate setting? Where is the
press that does not lift its voice in
behalf of the people? Where is the
pulpit that it does not sound the
warning note of alarm? Does Jonah
refuse to go to Nineveh? Beware of
God's wrath and the whale.—National
Reformer.
WE were jglad to see that most of
our merchants were in sympaty with
the farmers and voted with them.
This is right. Their interests, arc
identical with the farmers and what
will benefit the farmer will benefit the
merchant.—Ghw/ton {Neb.} Lzadir.
Who is Interested In Silver?
Our esteemed con temporary, the Le
Mara San, raises the question of free
coinage of silver in the following edi
torial, which we quote entire.
"The national bank note is made
redeemable In greeenbacks. It is that
provision of the law which makes it
equal with the greenback and allows
the two notes to circulate side by side
without question. In fact, the na
tional bank note is only a greenback,
or treasury note with anew face. The
greenback is legal tender money, but
the national bank note is not but
the fact of the latter being convertible
into the former gives the two notes
equal power. The greenback, being
redeemable in coin—gold or silver
gives it its par value with coined
money. Free coinage of silver, by
making silver the standard of value
and driving gold out of circulation,
would reduce the value of all green
backs and national bank notes to the
bullion value of silver, and gold would
be at a premium. With free coinage
of silver there would be a wild rush for
the gold in the national treasury. It
is not the owners of gold who are
afraid of silver coinage but the private
owners of banR notes and greenbacks
have reason to oppose such a change.
The National Bankers have no doubt
had sufficient assurance from head
quarters that President Harrison
would veto such a measure, and there
could not be a majority got to Dass.it
over the veto. The owners of"silver
mines and the bankers have diverse
interests hence their different views
of the question. It*is purely a question
of the self interest of the rich classes,
in which the general interests of the
people have no share, or very little.—
Le Mars Sun, Nov. 6.
We diesire to call the attention of
our contemporary to one conclusion
arrived at in the
above article, namely:
"Free coinage of silver, by making
silver the standard of value and driv
ing gold out of circulation, would re
duce the value of greenbacks and na
tional bank, notes to the value of silver
bullion, and gold would beat a premium.
With free coinage of silver there wouM be
a wild rush for the gold in the national
treasury."
The italics in the above extract are
our own. We do not agree with this
conclusion. If we bad free coinage of
silver and the coinage were
a full legal
tender, there could not by any possi
bility be any premium on gold,, be
cause a man with silver coin or certifl
cate&or greenbacks, could do anything
or buy anything or pay any debts or
taxes that he could with gold,, and
consequently he would not be foolish
enough to pay any premium for the
latter, even though some one might
be foolish enough to ask it, which is
very improbable. Even in the matter
of foreign exchange there would, be no
premium beyond the rate of exchange
because those exchanges are made al
most wholly by means of bank drafts
or bills of exchange and these are based
on bank deposits and are sent back
and forth in exchange
for commodities
only, and so long as the balance of
trade remains in our favor—In other
words, so long as this country sells
more to foreign countries than it buys
from tnem, there would be,mor@ drafts
sent here than would be sent away,
and when final settlement was- made
there would be a balance coming to us
—giyr credits in foreign banks would
be increased, anft they would be glacl
to have us send them more drafts to
balance.
!k That the value of each and every do!-*
lar would be lessened by such a meas
ure is true provided the number of
dollars in circulation were increased
thereby, but all dollars, whether of
gold, silver or paper, would be de
creased in value alike that is, their
purchasing power would be increased,
or in other words prices would advance
produce, labor, and everything but
taxes and interest would go higher.
But that is what the country needs,
higher prices. The squeezing process
to which the people were subjected af
ter the close of the war incident to
the destruction of the currency of the
country was, as certified by the sliver
commission "more damaging than war,
pestilence or famine."
In our opinion thefarmersare vitally
interested in increasing the currency
of thecountry by free silver coinage
and all other legitimate means.—
Sioux City Liberty Bell.
The Money Question.
The war between labor and capital
rages. Labor has been the under dog
for ages.
The 3 per cent of men who own the
capital control the 97 per cent of
workingmen who produce it, and en
slave them, too.
How is this? How can 3 per cent
of men control and enslave 97 per
cent? What magic power does cap
ital possess that makes it the master
over its creator? It does, however,
possess this power—and exercises it,
too.
It is a false power, fraught with an
evil effect almost illimitable, and so
long as capital possesses this false, er
roneous power, just that long will
labor be its slave.
The whole evil grows out of a un
derstanding, or not understanding,
the money question. Money is essen
tial to civilization without it civ
ilization could not exist, because the
products of labor could not be ex
changed, and no exchanges means no
production—and idleness, vice and
barbarism results.
It is thus clearly seen that money
represents the amount of labor in
articles to be exchanged. Labor pro
duces all wealth, hence, the real price
of anything in market is the amount
of labor that produced it. Money
was designed, too, and should express
*he price of articles for sale, and only
express prices already fixed by labor.
Money should not be permitted to
fix and control prices no more than
to fix and control the weather, and
every dollar a man has in his posses
sion should certify on its face that
the bearer had labored a day, or given
the products of a day's labor for it,
then the testimony of a monopolist's
own money would consign him to
prison.
It is therefore no wonder labor is
beginning to rise up and kick, for it is
a clear-cut, self-evident fact that
great fortunes are the result of legal
ized robbery, and it all results from a
false system of finance. The nature
and function of money is not at all
understood. It is assumed that money
is property, while it only represents
the price of property and while it
hicks as much of being property as
shadow does the substance, still It
fixes the price of all. property and Qt
labor, and exempts the owner of it
from all labor. It is bought and sold,
borrowed and loaned it is gambled in
and speculated with. Men become
rich, richer than others, by dealing in
money.
The task of the toiler is to wrest
from money this robber power. The
war will rage on and on to the crack
of doom and nothing will be gained
until money is made to dothe work it
Was invented to do, viz: represent the
price of property. This false idea
about money is the groundwork on
which usury stands. Usury is the
foundation of debts. Debts are'an un
mitigated curse. There would be no
debts but for nsury. Legislators
would not have to be urged and pe
titioned to to make more money but
for usurers.
All this wrangling about the free
coinage of silver, about the $50' per
capita in circulation',, or about the
government loaning to farmters att 2
per cent, on land, wouMbe, if realized,
only a partial relief, for if the siame
robber system of usury goes on, it is
only a question of time until the money
.will produce the same results now
complained of.
Yoa might abolish every trust, ev
ery monopoly, to-morrow, and put in*
circultion $50per capita next day, and
if you give money the same robber
power it will land
society in.
the same
condition again.
The government must furnish the
people money at its face value, free
from usury and usury must cease be
tween the banks and the people, oth
erwise this war between labor and
capital will never end, and a free gov
ernment wiil never be realized.—Na
tional View
What E» the Alliance?
The Alliance is one of the grandest
labor organization in the world. It
numbers over two million members
and is rapidly increasing every day. It
has for its object the greatest good to
to the greatest number—the maximum
of happiness for the human family.
It believes that honesty and industry1
are the true basis of manhood and
womanhood* It believes in the father
hood of God and acknowledges the
brotherhood of man. It believes that
under proper economic conditons man
would be prosperous and happy, and
labors to secure those conditions. It
teaches physical^, mental and moral
developement. It endeavors to
alleviate the sufferings of the poor
and distressed. It seeks to suppress
?t
artisan hatred and sectional strife,
believes in the golden rule and that
the "decalogue bas-aplacein politics."
would clear away the rubbish,
superstition and barbarism of the
feudal ages and lay deep the founda
tion of human liberty. Its artisans
are already at work. They will build
a Temple of Justice that will with
stand the combined attacks of kings
and potentates and monopolistic com
binations of the worldi. Its founda
tions are being laid broad and deep
upon the eternal bed-rock of Human
Bights. Every rock used in the struc
ture has been tested and crystalized
by human experience-. Its four corner
stones are Liberty, Justice, Equality
and Fraternity. Its walls will be
decorated with paintings from the
hands of the old masters representing
the success of industry in all ages.
There will be depicted in harmonious
colors the philosophy of Aristotle, the
calm, patieiit and. submissive 'endur
ance of Seneca, the eloquence of Cicero
and Demosthenes, the imaginative
genius of Homer and Virgil, the keen
penetration of Newton, the indom
itable will and perseverance of Colum
bus, the brilliant talent of Burke and
the fiery eloquence of Pitt. There will
be represented the dramatic taste of
Shakespeare, the- inventive intellect
of Watts, the pathos of Milton, the
simplicity of Burns, the brilliancy of
Byron, the versatile and pathetic gen
ius of Dickens.. The world's philoso
phers and artists and statesmen and
poets and architects and artisans and
farmers and laborers and reformation
ists shall contribute to decorate its
walls and archives with living monu
ments of the success of industry. On
too of its dome shall rest the Goddess
of Liberty looking out upon a nappy
and contented people. Within its
walls the leprous hand of bribery and
contamination shall not corrupt the
dispensation of justice. A new era
will be ushered in. Anew civilization
will spring up. and in its track will
reign peace,, happiness and prosperity.
The old regime of strife and plunder,
of pomp and splendor, of wretchedness
ana poverty,, of suffering and woe and
want and hunarer will pass out. God
has ordained that it be so. The fertile
soil, the inexhaustible resources of
mother earth.makes it possible. These,
natural resources, these abundant re
sources are the gift of God to his peo^
pie. His word and work are not in.
vain. The decree has gone forth. "In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
biead." These conditions havebeeni
changed by the cruelty of man. Best
assured they cannot long remain so.
The spiriit of unrest everywhere be
tokens the coming storm. The light
ning of God's wrath will wipe fore
vac
from the- face of the earth the bar
barous lie that one man "shall: eat
bread in the sweat of another's face
"If ye s®.w to the wind ye shall, neap,
the whirlwind." Beware of tho-har
vest! The spirit of God is moving the
minds.of the people. The arm i^being
raised to strike, and when the blow
falls it will settle forever the great
question of Human Bights.—National
Reformer.
Lead on Out of the Wilderness.
There never was a time in the his
tory of our country, when the minds
of the great producing masses were in
so unsettled and chaotic condition
as the present. Labor and capital
are growing constantly wddei- apart
more and more antagniatic to each
other.
Organized capital is. continually
making encroachments unorganized
labor, through its vasious methods,
seeks redress.
Pinkerton thugs hired by rich rail
road corporations to protect their
rights, shoot watoningly into in
offensive women and. children to in
timidate the peopie.
There are strikes, from one end of
the great public jail ways to the ottoer.
Human rights are invaded.
Business is delayed.
Property is endangered.
Arbitration is out of the question.
Appealing to the higher senses is
as "throwing pearls before swine."
When two pigs stand at, the same
trough feasting the stronger is always
robbing the weaker on©. Moral sua
sion Is thrown away upou them
There must be a board set up in the
middle of the trough that the two
may share evenly. This board Is the
congressional and statute laws. And
the producing classes of this nation
must place it there. The congression
al and statute laws that we now have
are ineffectual. There is a great hole
made in the board and all the feast
is in the other end of the trough.
The weaker party squeals and strives
to get over on the other side to share
with the stronger. The stronger
drives him back and1 holds him, arbi
trarily, in his place.
What is to be done? Capital1 and
labor are at variance, Legislation is
the only and true remedy. Through
the enactment of statute laws the
laboring and producing- classes can.
If they will, revolutionize and reclaim
our country from the great financial,
maelstrom into which it has been so
mercilessly drawn. Their united name
is legion yet they suffer and submit.
And why? They lack organization^
One faction goes off in one direction
another faction in another. Many,,
knowing the great wrong to which
they are subjected go right on voting
each year upon themselves still greater
wrong. Thus they scatter their
forces. Thus they prove their weak
ness their ineffectiveness their lack
o-f power to accomplish results.
There can be no reform without a
thorough and systematic revolution
iw the statute laws. There can be no
change of laws without a new set of
legislators. There can be no new
legislators who will work for the peo
pie without organization on the part'
of tlie people.
Great corporations influence the
people to elect the attorneys and
agents of those corporations to state'
legislatures and to congress, (here to
1
serve the interests they are paid to
represent: at the same time drawing
pay from the people for what they do'
against the people. When their
terms- as law-makers, expire, they, or
others-of the same class are re-elected.
The'confiscation of the property of
the laboring element goes'steadily on
and the- people are growing poorer
each year,, still refuse to unite, to or
ganize to act. as one man in the
methods-of electing a differeut class
ofmento office-, then find fault be
cause they, the people, suffer from
their own inaction.
Not a mam eui women among their
number but knows of the great
wrongs-that do- now exist. But few
enquire into' the- cause or the legal
remedy.
What then is- the-next step forward?
Organization!
A harmonizing and a unifying of
all the various- elements that consti
tute the laboring and producing
masses.-.
The coming together for political
work of every element that produces
wealth by producing: wealth, rather
than by confiscation of property or
wealth produced by others.
Of all. who- occupy places called
homes and. who desire the improve
ment of these homes and the better
ment of the condition of those who
occupy thenii.
Of thosew-howowM preserve and ex
tend civiLandi religious liberties, and
who would steadily aid vance thought In
every direction, that can bring spirit
ual or mental growth, physical com
forts and: increasing prosperity and
happiness to. ail, instead of those,
who, by combinations and organiza
tions control. the legislative and ad
ministrative machinery of the country
and the- volume of money and the
rate of interest, an over-worked and
overtaxed industrial element must
pay as-at present.
Casting aside all personal prej
udices and. all uniting as one man
for the-common. good of all.
There need be mo more Pinkerton
thugs,.no more-bullets and bayonets*
no more-bloodshed.
Only. a. little good practical com
moa-sense ov the part of the people.
And-the-time Is ripe for action.
Are-you. ready to meet the emer
gency.?:
No!:
Only acyclooe can meet and destroy
another cyclone.
Only organized labor can meet or
ganized capital.
Until1 the industrial element can
rise above the prejudices and polit-
ical differences which keep good men
iapart,. organize and act for the good
of all every change in political af
fairs- will be for the further enslav
ment and degradation of every farm
ery, mechanic-and other laborer in this
country.
Organize aod let this united organ
ization elect its officers and march on
to'Vitetory for all.—Anna D. Weaver.in..
AcBvotnce Thought.
Under the new silver bill the acr
conamodating Secretary Windom has-,
issued some $2,000,000 in one hundred
dollar bills,, and about $3,500,000 in,
one thousand dollar bills. Surely you
farmers have money enough now. It.
is-really strange that none have offered
to pay a subscription with one of these
bills.—Grafton (Neb.) Leader.
THE Bepublicans arc nil in the soup*.
Their leaders have betrayed them..
The people are not satisfied they are
looking for something better thani
they have been getting. They are
now looking to the Democratr for sue
cur, but it is only jumping out of th»
frying pan into the fine.—Gladbrook
(la.) Labor Review.
WHY should not the-farmers go
.into
politics? They are the most impor
tant contingent in every state oft the
broad land. The fact is, the fawners
in the west have always been in. poli
tics and know more-as a class about
politics than two-thirds of the-people
that are talking about them.:—Inter
Ocean.
THE Democrats and Farmers' Alli
ance held an election Tuesday. The
Bepublicans didn't seem to.be in it.
—Hartington (Neh.) Herald.
"I WISH I was*a grangjer," is the
burden of the defeated candidate's
song.—HartMvgtm (Neb.) Bfrrald.
THE farmers and laborers played a
lively game this year. They begin to
feel their power.—Iowa Tribune.
THE. PICTURE'S DABKKK SIDE.
He stood out there 'neath the silver atoon
A Did sang a serenade
On the llst'ning ears of the fleeting might
To his own heart's, chosen maid.
And e'en as the las*, notes died a*ay,
Up goes the wlndww pane,
And the Other Fellow politely ftsks
If he won't oblige again.
—firn^