Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-23
Some Agricultural Resolutions.

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redress, at least satisfaction. These gen
tlemen say "iho combination Of many 9TH
err branches Of business eompcls them ''tO
combine Together for the purpose of buy
ing where they can buy the cheapest aud
selling where they can sell the highest :"
which is reasonably clear statement Of
their belief iu the doctrise currently ae-
ceptcd aud acted on, though not always so
frankly confessed, that ''the greatest num-
Der" whose great good" is TO be desired
is Number One. "The FIRST great object
of the movement, as they state it, Is ito
protect ourselves from the extortionate
prices paid by the manufacturers and their
agents for the sale Of farm machinery; )"
] and the second is, "to compel the railroad
companies to obey the laws Of the State
until they are repealed or declared uneon-
stitutional." They say the railroads are
no longer operated in the interest Of the
people but only that of moDeyed monOpo-
lies, aud that they arc dangerous enemies,
which should be compelled to resume their
proper relations to the community; but
what those relations are and precisely how
they are to be compelled to resume them,
they do not undertake TO say. The near
est approach they make to such definite
statement. is in resolving to "use all legal
and honorable means to suppress unjust
discrimination Of railway monopolies, and
10 put down manufacturing Rings and
all other monopOlies detrimental to the in
terests of the farmer" And this after all
is only rciteration of their heretofore
expressed hostility to the railroads and
the manufacturers.
Recurring to their unhappy condition
they resolved that they are 'as class
subjected Ito the oppression and unjust
determinations of moneyed monopolIcs, {"
and that it is their incumbent duty" to
give their united support 10 men only
whose interests are theirs, and who will
devote their power to redress of their
grievances. And then they passed the
following singularly intoxicated jumbo of
words:
"Resolrcd, That We will heartily cooperate
with other clubs in the country and State to re-
woke the detected state into which we are cast,
and which is shadowing our future prosperity
with cloud redundant with oppression and
harbinger that our independence is in the bal
ance.
"ReSolped, That we indorse the policy of all
papers identified with our great struggle against
oppression, and that we give our preference to
such papers; and that we shall buy our farming
implements of manufacturers who are first to
recognize our caamitous state, and are willing
to compete or assent to a reduction of prices"
Well, here is the old st DRY. Labor,
blind, uninteligent and unreasoning, wca-
ry and discouraged in the long struggle
with the cunning md acquisitivcness and
over-reaching, disposition of capital, throw
ing up its hands in n wild protest, and
calling upon the State-which means the
politicians-to come to its help. These
men see that they have to pay high prices
for what they buy, and get low prices for
what they sell. They sec rank injustice
in it. Without investigating causes or
going into the PHILOSOPHY Of the situation
at all, they strike at the thing nearest to
them. The manufacturers of farming
implements charge high prices and seem
prosperous. The first suggestion is to
level up little with them by paying low.
er prices for tools and charging higher
prices for products. Then there are the
railroad companies-manifcstly prosper.
Gus and rich. If they could be made to
carry grain to market at the farmers
freight tariff instead of their own, the
price would advance, and that would help
to remedy the present inequality ana in
justice. And then they would see that
the manufacturing companies and the
railroad corporations derive their fran.
chises from the State Then that the news
papers and politicians control Legislation !;
and there their reasoning stops. It's a
short and rapid process. Nothing is more
natural than for them to hold out to US
as they do in the resolutions quoted,
and in nearly all their organized move
ments, to every party POLITICIANS and
party organs, the offer for votes and sup
port in exchange for help-some sort Of
help, they know not what against the
monopolies which Cypress them.
j BE assured the politicians and the or.
fgans hear them soon enough. Here are
votes. And it makes no difference to tho
practical politician-who also is seeking
the greatest good Of the greatest num-
Der, with the same understanding of the
greatest whether there is reason
or unreason in the complaint, or whether
he has the slightest idea of any method
of redress for them. He is ready to
promise TO cooperate, and if need be to
give bonds, to revoke the detected