The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-25
The Farmers Party.
5000 Farmers of Kanakee
County, I'LL, in Council.
War against all Class-Leg-
islation that makes Mo-
nopo1ies Possible.
Montgomery Co., Farmers
Nominate a County Ticket.
The Farmers Movement
Rapidly Gaining Ground
in Missouri.
500 Oranges already Estab-
1ished in the State.
-SSS-
The Modoc Captives to be
Executed October 3.
Steamboat Explosion--Loss
of Life.
The Modoc Captives to be
Executed October 3.
Steamboat Explosion--Loss
of Life.
Ohio Po1itics--The Negroes
Comp1aint--Morton White
washes the Salary
Thieves.
KANKAKEE FARMERS IN COUNCIL.

N
ers meeting at this place was held in the
beautiful camp meeting ground, and prov
ed great success. By O'Clock in the
morning the roads leading TO the grove
were crowded with people, and full 5000
farmers were in council by the time the
exercises commenced. A noticeable Tea
ture was the absence Of the too tamillar
faces of the county politicians who usually
run these meetings, and their places were
supplied by farmers fresh from the hay
fields
The meeting was presided over by Al
phonze Miller, an everyday practical
farmer, and the usual complement OF Vice
Presidents, every one OF whom Is now an
active farmer.
After speaking of the reasons that led TO
the formation of oranges and clubs, the
President said But Representatives in
Congress have thrust their hands into the
National Treasury; our Legislatures are
bought and sold by monopolies OF every
kind that want to use them; our Chief
Magistrate has an itching palm and takes
his share Of the back action forward acting
salary-steal Corruption, fraud and brib-
cry are stalking abroad in the land. The
patriots Of I1T6, being oppressed until
oppression became uncomfortable, entered
into a combination defensive, set forth
/ their grievances in a declaration of indie
/ pendence, signed it and sealed IT with their
/ blood. The patriotic farmers Of 1873, be
! ing oppressed by King Railroad, King
Tariff, and like King monopolies, have en-
tered into a combination. have set forth
their grievances in a declaration Of inde-
pendence, and will fight until their just
rights are secured. We make no war with
railroads as roads, but we will wage unre-
lenting warfare with all salary steals
Credit Mobilier frauds, and all class legis
latiOn that make monopoles possible that
enrich the few at the expense of the peo
pie. ! believe it to be libel on humanity
to say every man has his price. We have
men good and true whom we can elect a,
our servants yet we shall never get then
until we smoke out the party politician,
that are going around begging for office |
matters not from what party we seek gu
good and true men from among the people
/, In other words, the office must seek tn
man, and not the man the office
The applause which greeted this pith.
, address made the few chronic office seeker
who were there look exceedingly blue
: They can see the handwriting on the wall
t Any fool can The Farmers Declaratio
was ably read by Willard Dixon, tarme
boy.
g A glee club, under the leadership c
Misses Fannie Bentley and Alta Donavar
D furnished many beautiful songs.
p The first address was made by Charlie
j. Ollie, farmer of this county for thirt
years. There was none of the good Lor
and good devil. i'll his address, but in
l. square, straightforward manner he wer
o down to the root of the evils that are de-
r troying the agricultural body OF the natlor
{ taking substantially the positions enumera
> ted by the President in his speech, an
e calculating them in an hour address.
, An adjournment Of two hours was ha
FOR dinner, which was served up in trU
: farmer style of hospitality and abundanc
e In the afternoon S. NJ, Smith, Secretal
Of the State organization, was called OF
and for two hours held the vast audient
lie by his plain, logical statements of the grie
:, ances borne by the farmers and the moo
II of redress. He took the ground that Il
- farmers are responsible for some of Il
evils of which they complain Let
N first cast out the beam from our own ey
before we look for the mote in our neig
wood and drawers of water that many
us have been born to believe that theI
was nothing else for us to do. One gre
u fault with us is that we get into debt al
mortgage our crops of corn, pork, and be
before it is raised Then we are at Il
mercy Of our grocer and merchant, al
OF we must sell for any price they fix upon
pay us We should get clear of debt
&C. we have to wear out our pants until tn
It. have as many coiors by reason Of t
Il patches, as Joseph's coat, SO let it b
ne but get out of debt, and be in a conditi
y to hold your produce until the consume
D. will be willing to pay you fair remunel
he ton for your labor. If the pork men MT
III in September, ,and set price on your POI
ID as they did last year, and say they v
ol give "a for it, then meet them by holdi
'iS on to it until they will be willing to g
T 1ie you So There is no excess Of breadstu
Vi over what the world wants to eonsun
- If there is a surplus one year there will
4. deficit in the second or third year, anC
I'm I'm will all be wanted at renumerative pric
ii'' Get out Of debt, and keep out Of debt, q
assert your true manhood, and do not sta
at the mercy of every combination that
. formed to fatten on you.
- Then, again, another beam that is
e your eye is the vast amount of machin
Z that you let lay out of doors and rust
!. am using reaper and mower that
:. been in use fifteen years, and it is do
- service yet, and the same is true of
plows aud planters. You leave them
in the field, and there is more machin
-. that rusts out than is worn out Take c
- of it. Stop paying so much for unnet
!. sary machines, and get out of debt. y
bic. The speaker then went for the profie
tch- expenditure of the peoples money, ur
the farmers to reduce their town and &C