The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-04-04
Iron. the Land Owner.J
A REVOLUTION AT WORK.


erings of farmers and tillers of the
soil, the news of which reach us
every day? What are these deep,
sonorous nutterings of discomfort
that are born to our ears on every
breeze from the prairies of the great
West? What clouds are these so
plainly discernable in the political
horizon.
The student of history may in
deed regard them as pregnant Of
coming events, for thus began the
terrible revolutions of the world.
Louis of France heard them in bis
workshop at Versailles, and Maria
Antoinnette needed them not in her
retreat at Grand Trianon. But the
French Revolution broke like an
avalanche, when the wrath of the
people had eliminated to ripeness.
Throughout the boundless West
the farmers are organizing. We do
not see much Of it here in Chicago
for the lords of the soil gather in
their villages and on their own
farms. Their meetings are immense.
At recent conclave held at Bloom
ington there were upward of 400
delegates, representing fully $4,000
)drmeTs. Their deliberations were
calm, and marked with terrible deter
minations. They went about their
business like wise men who intend to
assert their rights. There were no
hummer politicians, and hence no
offers of bribes. There were no dis
sentions, and hence nothing but busi-
ness.
| In Iowa, these Oranges, as their
societies are called, are forming in
every part of the State. Kansas,
Minnesota. the Territories, all have
caught the fever. Men are travel
ing about among the farmers and ex-
horting them to action, on the thresh-
ing floor and in the school house.
The women are up in arms as we'll
These men have terrible eloquence,
and converts are made by thousands.
The old monks who went up and
down the Rhine in the days of the
Crusaders did their work with no
greater effect. War is TO be waged by
the husbandman; war against mo-
nopoly, and war against official
thieving and corruption, and it will
be war to the knife.
, These men, who constitute the
!. very ,itals of the State, are in ear
|, nest. All winter they have burnt
, their corn for fuel, and have seen
, their produce decay and return again
to the rich soil from which their
, labor brought it. The railroads
have eaten out their vitals, which,
|. unlike those of Prometheus, do moi
!, grow again when the vulture retires
for the railroads vulture never leaves
his victim. On every hand these
!. iron bonds are being drawn tighter
, around the people. Congress
through its enormous corruption
9 has given railroads a mighty and
consuming power, which they WELD
with the most tyrannical hand. The
, farmers corn cannot 60 to market
!. for the railroad extort more than i
is worth to carry it to the seaboard
, And in the rich fame this burning
:. corn emits, the railroad kings, if they
, were wise, would see their doom
: 1t takes no alchemist to read the tale
at the present rate of organiza
: ton there will soon be a million far
. mers organized in these Oranges
+ They will be supreme masters of the
: situation, for they make the laws anC
. are capable of administering them
: They are desperate men, when arous
: ed, and do not easily change thei
opinions. They have the power Il
compel the combination of railroad
monopolists to do their bidding
= Let railroad manipulators take timel,
:, warning. If this embargo upon tn,
rights of the farmers is not remov
; ed. the farmers will take the admins
!. tration of law into their own hands
:. They will tear up the track and plan
E corn on the lands these roads hole
title to only by their sufferance
The farmers once united, and NJ
, railroad could run train acros,
: Iowa or Illinois. The Governor
: with his feeble militia, would be ,
farce. Faster than ties can be lait
!, they will be torn up. The wives anG
: daughters of the farmers are also il
: this struggle. When women joir
: hand and raise the red flag, the Bas
: tile falls. Beware, then, you mer
= who handle monopolies that arr
crushing out the honest industry O
!, the great West, how you longer op
. press. These people will be hyena.
when aroused. They will chain yo,
|. with a thousand chains, and thei
warth will not be easily appeased
' for it is fire you have lit and famed
I. yourselves for twenty years.
4 We make no doubt that thi
' language will be laughed at by tn,
2 railroad sharks, comfortably enscon
b ced in velvet arm chairs, with none,
: to bribe and money to fight. Fool
! can never hear their own death
i knell. 1t is an attribute God ha
!. not given them.
4 The Land O,cner desires to pu
d this prophecy on record. Unles,
a there is a compromise between th,
a farmers and the railroads before an
{ other season brings forth its plen
: teous crops, there will be a terribl,
g revolution. They will not let 20,
r run your trains through their coun
n ties. They will tear up your tracks
}, and will not hesitate to kill, if they
i are driven to it. If ever men wer,
d aroused, the farmers of the Yves
Q are. Their thousand meetings arr
8 tanning into life determination tt
resist, at any hazard. the further
usurpation of their rights. They in