The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-19
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f In the absence of the speech il
full we give synopsis, as report
| ed to the Tribune, of the remark.
of Master ID. W. Adams before the
Oranges of Dubuque Co., Ia, last
week: He commenced by referring
to the disadvantages under which
farmers labored, not only strug
Cling for honors and emoluments
| of life, but when it became neces.
| sary to defend themselves from op.
| pressive combinations or unfriend.
| " legislation, by reason of the
isolation in which they lived, scat
tered on the prairies, having fol
days and weeks little eommunica-
ton with anybody save their Own
families. The natural and inevi7
table result is, he fails to make
the mental and moral progress be
otherwise would. Furthermore,
while he is drudging on the farm
day and night, month after month
1 and year after year, professional
politicians nominate candidates
for him, lawyers in the legislature
FOR court room make or enforce the
laws for him, and spectators fix
/ the price of his wheat. The Pat
,rons of Hushandry is ans organi-
,zation intended to remedy this rs
far as possible. IL is not q relig-
ious sect, a political party or cor
porate association. It is based
upon broader principles and has a
higher purpose, and there. may be
Oranges whose highest idea of its
benefit is to buy pillow So cheaper
or sell steer for So more, but the
progress Of the individual of the
class of community which the Pat
rons design to accomplish is re-
suit that cannot be measured by
money nor even by the fact that
the farmer will be able to compete
with monopolists ON his own
grounds, wit against wit, mind
against mind. A certain class of
writer's feel it proper to say of the
Patrons: "If theirleaders are hon
est, they may be able to accomplish
something-an insinuation that
the Patrons are q set of ignorant
ciodhoppers, led by men of doubt
full honesty. and this is the very
point the Patrons propose to take
care Otto educate and discipline
its members until they can dis
pense with leaders and lead them
selves. A special in4erest is taken
just now, particularly by the class
of mon who have been in the hab-
it of filing the offices and pocket
ing the salaries, in the action of
the Patrons regarding politics.
They warn US not to NEEDLE with
politics, but rather to keep on pro-
ducing Is cent corn and try to de-
wise some way to raise it for a
shilling. But in becoming Pat
rons we never relinquished our
right to participate in politics. On
| the contrary, while advising that
the Patrons as an organization
take no part in politics, the speak
er urged that as individuals they
inform themselves more fully upon
political matters, and attend with
more fidelity to their political du-
ties than ever before. Politics
have become corrupt not because
honest men have attended too
closely to political matters, but
because they have neglected them
too much. Let "honest men all
over the country see to it that only
worthy and competent men are
| put in nomination at the caucus,
and when election comes honest
men will not be compelled to
choose between two corrupt men
for Office. When the township
caucus comes OFF, what do we find?
We find the farmer holding his
pillow, the carpenter showing his
plane, the shoemaker hammering
his sole leather, the blacksmith at
work at his forge, but every cor
rupt politician and purehasable
knave in the community turns out
and the industrial classes leave
the politics of their country in
their hands. The speaker dwelt
emphatically upon this point, and
hoped to see the day when it would
be deemed as much a patriotic duty
to watch over our liberties at the
polls in time of peace as to defend
it in time of war. He referred to
a speech made by one S. NJ. Smith,
in Illinois q few weeks ago, in
which he used language to the eff
feet that if legislation hostile to
the agricultural interests was con-
tinued, those guilty of it should
be driven out of the State; that
many q tree should bear human
fruit, and that certain actions de-
served, and if he could have his
way, should receive a coat of tar
and feathers. All this the speaker
deemed utterly unwarrantable Ian
guage. The course here indicated
means nothing less than civil war,
with all it's attendant horrors. 1t
means an acknowledgement of the
ineficiency of the ballot to pre-
serve the liberties of the people.
It means the failure of the princi-
Piles of self government, and the
speaker repeated his injunction to
rely upon the ballot for the right,
ing of whatever wrongs afflicted
them, and to repudiate and rebuke
lawlessness in all its forms.
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