The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-06
Ghe 9aiIg Arans.
Friday, June 6, 1879.
Tho ruluois Furmsr, and the Juaioi.rv


The hostility Of the Grant newspapers
and politicians 10 the Farmers Oranges of
the Northwest is betrayed ON slight occa-
sion. As vet RETAINING from A thick and
thin defence Of the Railroads and
their exactions, even now they de-
ny or disparage the harm done TO
the Farming classes by the monop-
olists Of Protection. And they denounce
the Oranges as secret societies, toward
which political parties can do nothing but
turn the cold shoulder. The hostility Of
the Grant party TO the Oranges is ill-con-
cealed, we cannot say that it is unintelligi-
Bile But we regret TO see the N. Y. Tn
6uRe leaning the same way, and doing in
justice 10 the Farmers alike in their griey-
anees and their remedies.
Doubtless it is one Of che vices ofan elect
i've judiciary that decision which an hon
est Judge may most honestly render, or
even a decision most sound in law, may
cost him his reelection. But so long as
any Judiciary is elective the voters protest
against law which he dislikes, expressed
BY vote against the Judge who declares
it. unwise or illogical as the protest may
be is quite certain to be uttered, and at
least shows that public spirit is not dead.
The messenger whom Cleopatra knocked
down and dragged about by the hair, did
not procure Antony's marriage 30 Octavia,
He was merely the bringer Of unwelcOme
news. And IL the Farmers of Illinois get
Judge Lawrence down from the bench, the
constitution of that State will still be in NO
more peril than the constitution Of human
nature.
When the Tribune tells the Farmers Of
Illinois that they are making war upon the
courts, and that their mischievOus poll
"cy can lead 10 nothing but evil and disap.
"pointment, or when 1t advises them Il
insist that the transportation question
shall have its due place among State and
national problems It imparts new sense
Of the Impertinence of closet-rhetoric ana
the inadequacy Of cologne water to quencl
political confagration. The blind fury OF I
struggling giant has already sent all the
small politicians of Illinois 10 their holes
What more natural than that hi,
first blow should fall where i
seemed 10 b. said that no relic
could be had from his bondage. 1t is yer,
possible that Judge Lawrence construed
the law sOundly it is quite certain tina
all the exactions, mismanagement and in
justice Of the Railroads, great or little a,
they may be, are but as dust upon the
wheels which have crushed the giant farm
ing interest of the West 10 the earth But
neither is human nature so perfected that
it perceives at once with accuracy the
causes Of any suffering, nor is our politica
system in its workings so glib and precise
that, suffering being felt and its causes be
inV perceived, fit and adequate remedie,
are at once applied The Farmers of the
Northwest may err In deposing a Judge
who has merely delivered sound law, they
may blunder in assailing the Railroads
whose enormous extension in the last quar-.
ter century is the most momentUus factor
m the causes Of our unprecedented pros,
perlty, yet the Farmers do not want from
their Judges anything but sound law, MOI
from their Railroads anything but fair deal
ing Aud the fundamental fact is no
their blunders Of policy, nor their mis-
taken opinions, but the fact that they arr
arousing and that they know their strength
They will correct their blmders and re
wise their opinions, but the fac, u b,
taken note Of is that they viii prevail
Out of our l2,j0O.OOO workers OF ever,
sort, T. 900, 900 till the suil While subjected
toadebaseu ana nuctuatlng paper currency
these G,OOO,OOO get and will get no NOR,
return tor all they sell than they got thir
teen years ago. While subjected 10 tn,
protectionists plundering tariff thes,
G,OOO,OOO will pay much more for all the
buy than they paid thirteen years ago
Our unjust tariff and our irredeemabl,
currency are the two wheels that hav,
crushed beneath them the interests of IN
American Farmer. The knowledge of thesi
facts and such as these if our Democratic
statesmen and journalists comprehend thci
epoch and are faithful to their trust, will
ere long correct whatever injustice TO rail
roads now seems afoot, viii ere long revis
and determine the policy of the Farmer
and Of the party whose principles oblige
10 redress their wrongs. But Free Trad
and Farmers Rights are destined to
speedy vict0ry.--N J. World.