Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-06-14
THE NEW MOVEMENT.

u
er the first evidence of independ-
ent determination made by the
people, in the formation of a farm
ers party, is meeting with univer-
sal encouragement from honest
men all over the country. The free
press, by which we mean those
journals which are not run in tho
interests of professional political
hacks, is sounding thej clear notes
of new song from one end to the
other of this wide land. 1t is the
chant OF the millions who are ris-
ing from expressions and are
moving against oppressors like men
fred with holy zeal and nerycd
with the b6ldcst determination.
The State of Illinois has already
sent it's greetings of successful vic
tory, achieved in the late election
for Supreme Judge, to the rallying
veterans in the other States which
surround her, and on all sides may
BIO seen the deep lines of sad disap-
pointment which are drawn in the
elongated faces of the played-out
hacks of old parties, who are bcgin-
ming to appreciate the fact that they
are as bad as Othello,andthat their
profession is gone. Honest men to
the front, politicians and dema-
gogues down from prominence, is
now the cry, and we trust to see
the struggle 60 on until the heroes
of Mobilier, the grabbets of back
pay and the manipulators OF politl-
cal stocks are sent bowling into
the wilderness of utter defeat. Tex.
as has her advocates of the new
measure in the field, and their
bright blades are already SHINING
among the political pests which
have been ovcrshadowing our pros
~perity. We have just read with
no little interest the pamphlet re-
Gently published by MIR. Rufus X.
Cage, of Houston, in which he ham
dies without gloves the infamous
measures which have been
practiced by moro infamous
politicians upon the rights of the
people. He most sagely advises
FARMERS to- organize publicly and
openly throughout the land, not
for aggression upon the rights of
others, but for resistance to the
general tendencies nova days to
spoliation of every character of in
dustry." We can not refrain from
quoting his observations and conclu-
sions touching the degenerating
tendency of our agricultural inter
ests, upon which every item both
Of our individual, sovereign and
natural prosperity depends:
IA taste for country life and for agri-
cultural pursuits is languisbing, because
the farmers life Is every day becoming
drearier, more hopeless, and less profta-
Bile. We see great cities rising in con-
spicuous contrast 10 the poverty Of . decay
ing country. An immense and ever.in-
creasing host Of Office holders, and great
army OF corporation and monopoly para
sites are weighing down the industrial
classes to the uliimate condition Of lazza-
roni and serfs. With this ruin in pros
pectise the press is silent the pulpit is
silent and with q few noble and grand
exceptions our law makers, while luxuria-
ting in their daily increasing wealth and
power, only chatter with their buyers ss-to
The market value Of a Scion. There is DO
other class but the farmers that could re-
sist this fearful march Of ruin, and they
can never do il except by solid and COM
pact union and association. Then let
thcm organize for resistance, and il nee
essary for an aggressive struggle for JUS
lice and equal rights FOR al"
We concur most heartily in every
suggestion contained in the extract,
but We 90 f2rthsF, and advise our
farmers 10 d5 more than Mr.. Cage
does, aad that is to give politicians
a wide birth. Ignore them entire
IL. Have no dealings with them,
50 for sure as they do they will be
gulled into believing that they
are the very best friends to
the agricultural interests Of the
country. and have done nothing in
al their public lives bat labor for
he advancement Of that veal
which goes direct to ihe happiness
n Tie country people We take this