The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-02
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We1negaeYa 14orAlux ,;ApEil 2e 1873.

u We93lneeqeH MORNING "A 4pfA 2e357S
=. s. ;s6ssHEs.;E,..;s, 'WiorLlos mon
70 Sh!e, ~ n. pf, thse eiiass. .ss,c a .hh
!; ;ad For some time thete have prevailed
ssrsasnota I of !. fabors strikess;in the North.
,s ssra ',oittes. i1h .efslte3aht attend
I Ing, them among the. various trades still
: Sottin4SSs. = TIE masons; carpenters. and
other branches Of rlabot engaged ir the
nb,qhiggaliIhg = AZ! trade. are 81, The lockout for
any developmenta that nay occur. They
are keenly watching the bosses whom
'th1ey, ,chArge7with the Aesigdldf, bringing
dBont the ten hour syisstaa of 81 work again.
In a few instancess they have returned
to it..'fThe immediate Trouble Il not
about wages, as 6mployS ySfsa aafe. generally
willing to eqntinu@qat rthe-present rateei
ssSg Hss. I age 81 ao1' sSsjdat satt s y
;, thet theyis afs l5pakfing pafing AaGt, Ast, ,apa1 1tRat
they may not lose the ground gained
last eqmme5 as 70 t4s shen<a Ahioh CON
stitute'a days work. In the West, there.
are taking place noticeable combinatipAs
of farmers. mefdhants and traders, %.
protect and promote their interestso
THIS issdfiie unasr dHetent organizs:
siods'an names, The Immediate Objective
point of most of them being to bear upoti
,ssthss railroad corporations, insorder! 10
&hripg down their, freight rates for parry,
ing produce to market. After paying
the present transportation charges, FARM
ers fnd their crops unremaneratiye and
unsatisfactory. They are seeking the.
union OF interests, and those combina:
tiens of influence which will give them
strength to right the evils under which
they, suffer. They have, also, other and
eadnasraTer complaints and grievances,
and nre taking stops to-. bring them be-
;.atoEeyshe Goyernmssaat and thseountry.
State Pasmsri' ,,UonYehtiS held
East Week. at Topeka, Kansas, in which
resplutions were adopted in fayor of an
orsSR&efPn ofstka HlSanoinR GLASS es.
aug leabH Hmepdhg lt!asnabra lt!s AHsover the
country to become members OF some
local farmers club. They also passed re-
solutions condemdhtory of the National
State and local Governme ents' taxes al
slS'gSg' 8 H. sa4i& isI9, .bs il
demanding thatsAilrRad diraightseadta
Th4snpketsdB QgHkae aHo HAQice of
voting municipal bonds. apd charge that
''gsfving Bakks ! MONOPOLY iiolp ~ pSsssen's
currency, whereby the people are conil
paHA4o; ;bay SnbimaMass 8 iAhtel a6f4n II interest,
: svep;tentha, Of xhich;is eslesiedifromI
i farmers, is but litttl}h less. thar legapzed
robbery. They formed permanent
State Organization, tot be Known as the
Farmers "Cu.operaslve Association, and
pledge themselves to support only such
persons toroIaee as. arsknown to be true
TO 1.-THE ,fafher lnterests,H A similar
movement took pfune at the same time
in Peoria. Illinois, and the farmers
pledged themselves to:a war on rail.
roads, and to the assertion aad mainte-
nance of their rights.
Farmers must protect themselves. and
in union is strength. The movement
whose beginnings We have noticed, is
destined to grow and spread. It is ne
cessary for seIf.defence. It is needed as
q: check to eonscienceless companies and
sonlIess corporations. They aud the
politicians may disregard The complaints,
and be unwilling to consider the indivi-
.:dnal farmers wrongs; but once the agri-
cultural Interests unite as q class. they
will be respected, and2 may exert no in
considerable. degree of'inauenoe ON po.
;litical affairs and, PSrties:s, The Western
farmers. who raise, breadstuffs, and the
Eastern working g-mep' and meohanios.
who are interested In cheap bread, have
APPOINT of union, in the desire and the
necessity OF each Of liberation from the
oppression which 'stiassIit. One raises
what the other needs; but the power Of
capitalists weighs upon the energies Of
the one,. and the oppression Of monopoly
and special LEGISLATION oyersba1ows the