Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-04

The fozce thai plaEq ten mllli0n sous
Of wonderful activity in the West e rot ez
hsusted, and We who i've more quiet lives
on their border are beginning to feel the re-.
action OF new power out of what was
lately wilderness. Tbs destiny. of the
South is linked iEdissolubly with that fof
the West. What it thinks, feels and does,
win. directly or indirectly, affect our well
being not less than its own It's a matter
of common sense to keep ourselves posted
Ia the acts and policy Of our near neigh
bors. n T
Railway combinations to secure the max
imum income from the fruits Of the soil and
the pockets of its owners, have led, very
naturally, to associations among farmers to
resist extostion. viii resistance be sue
cessful against possible railway combina-
ton representing some four Thousand mil
lion dollars, handled as one consolidated
money power? If the people send second
and third class men to Congress, and to
enact State laws, concentrated capital viii
carry the day apd fix its own interest and
income, to be paid by the productive in
dustry of the nation. Capital will say how
all capital and labor shall be employed, and
what returns shall be made for the use and
services of both labor and capital. The fol-
lowing resolutions indicate the breadth and
spirit of this industrial revolution: pea1
"Resolved, That while we profess un-
bounded faith in popular government and
free institutions, reverence for OUT eonsti
tuition and obedience TO our laws, we mean
war against the tyranny Of moDopolies In
all shapes and forms.
eResolved, That, like the immortal rev.
dictionary heroes of century ago, We are
bound by one common tie into one great
and indivisibls brotherhood, determined to
arise for our just cause. the cause OF the
robbed, insulted, suff ring and downtrod-
den laboring classes, one for all and all for
one, shoulder to shoulder, and that we will
not rest until we shall have accomplished
our task, which is justice and right to all
men,"
1t is great mistake to believe that q
thousand oranges are organized in Illinois,
including the wives of farmers by the ten
thousand TO fight railroad monopolies alone.
A correspondent of the Rural Sun, writing
from Ashland, Iowa, says: "The war be-
tween conflicting principles has begun 10
earnest in the Northwest, and is dailygrow-
ing in its bitter intensity. Our organization
is leading out boldly against the oppressive
influence Of capitalists. We have had con-
tracts for all kinds of implements and ma
chinery, from threshers and sowing ma
chimes down to rakes and hoes with manu-
facturers 1T from thirty to fifty per cent.
below usual prices" A saving to farmersl
of from thirty to fifty par cent. on al
wagons, carts, plows, household furniture >
dry goods, groceries aud many other ar
ticles consumed in every prosperous family,
IS is now done by some four thous and
oranges in the very stirring West, really
means business. The same correspondent
says:
"We are beginning 10 build up our own
factories aud business houses, which are
under our Own exclusive control. We have
our printing houses independent Of the or
gans so tenaciously devoted to political par
tisanship that we could not write an article
for their columns unless subjecting it to
such emasculation by the publishers, lest
some political pet or fsvorite should get his
tender feelings touched, that we can some
times scarcely recognize it as our original"
It is stated that any number of farmers
can raise money by mortgage on their es-
tates quite as easily as railway and other
corporations raise capital by pledgiDg their
bonds secured BY mortgage. The rolling
stock and iron track of a railway may be
removed, and its buildings burnt; but the
farms ofthe patrons of husbandry can be
neither stolen nor burnt. Farmers need
only to have wisdom equal to their natural
advantages to win this great fight, in which
their wives and daughters take a part in
the councils of the organization. Its ex-
istence demonstrates at once social educa-
tional, industrial and political progress.