The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-16

rASoS Drawn anu muscle; yet by the Applca-
ton OF an Intelligent device, insect though he
be- he Can cause that train to leap into the
ar and strew its fragments a. his feet Under
stand me- beg of you, as speaking fgurative-
ly, rather than literally, for none but o W.
age would seek the redress of q wrong in the
wreck of train. But TO such intelligent
restraint, lawfully and legtimateIy exercised,
must that train ultimately submit, or govern
ment by the people, for the people, in this coun-
try and all others. is at an end
However we may criticise or doubt as to de-
tails, il must be conc eded that the principle
represented in the farmers movem emit con-
t4lns the only elements which Can be combin ID
TO meet the cloud of evils ut present menac-
ing US as people. But let nothing beseech
you, which | have said or may say in praise
OF the farmer, Cause any of you to don his as
cension robes to-day. ] have no mention, if |
possess ed the power, of sending any of you
high instanter, or Of serving you IS the young
man did ''his girl when he said he IA altered
her AMI hattered her, till the derned thing
got so proud she would not speak 80 him u
wishing to remain on speaking terms with you
all, | have no idea OF telling YOU when it
comes to matters of absolute perfection, that
''you are the chiefest among ten thousand, and
the one altogether lovely" [ suspect, when
you put men into communities and classes,
that you will find the general average very
much the same. An honest man will be hon
est any where, and dishonest one will be
crooked and slippery no IN alter where you
place him. have heard lawyer say that he
had tried many q trfling laweuit be ween bis
neighbors, when be had been almost led 10 de-
spise some of the duties of his pro 'ession. He
had even doubted whether sumo of its petit
Jogging practices were just right, and had
never felt quite treasured and at peace with
his own conscience and all the world till he
came 10 pay his scanty fee for some little
peaked-up load of ffe- rood with straight
sticks on the outside, and rotten chunks and
crooked limbs on the inside, delivered at his
house by some honest farmer! In the Ian
guage of the immortal Bedott: 1--WE are all
poor crttterSp
l have said thus much by way Of reminder,
that IN considering any evil or ass of evils,
by which we chance to be confronted, we are
to deal with principles rather than with PER-
sons. Speaking o. persons, if a. all, only for
the purpose of testing the practical applica-
ton of principles, and always remembering
that aggregate classes of men placed under
like conditions produce like results. So, in
dealing with these questions of labor, capital
and monopoly, if We select the true princi
pie, if we hit upon the true line of
movement, although we may not in the first
instance grasp all the details, yet We feel
tolerably assured of the re~ut.
1t is vaunungly asked: "What does all this
commotion among the farmers amount
to?" What do they proposes"
What have they accomplished thus
far?n Well; there is one first essential
condition to the redress of public wrong, and
that is to arouse the public attention, and fix
in the public mind the fact of its exis,ence
This first essential con 1Ition the farm ers,
movement has already met, and met it we'll.
1t has stirred this country as it has not been
stirred before since the days of rebellion
and civil wal. There is no mistake here.
When subject becomes the constant theme
of the EDITORS leader, the POLITICAL Is 4rangue,
the philosophers thought, the writer's essay,
the preachers sermon, and the schoolboys
com position, you may safely conclude that that
subject is the issue of the hour And
whatever its difficulties may be with the com.
bined thought of the age brought to bear upon
it, some solution will be found to meet the case
in hand
Does any one suppose that the leading mo-
nepotsts OF the country have not thought of
these things, or that they are Indifferent to
this wave rising higher and higher, and
rolling and on? Without appearing to
yield to it-shreWd meu as they are-do you
not suppose they would give much to see is
subside and rest forevermOre But do they
expect this? Fellow-citizens, do you expect it?
When the vassals and kinds of Europe,
pinched with hunger, from hot and duty
fields, seized their hoes and shovels, AMI
flung themselves 10 rage against castle walls,
the feudal lord had only to take in his draw
bridge, bring out his soldiery, and fill the moat
with mangled bodies, to have all quiet again;
for it was the quiet of death, or of mere brute
force controlled.
But is this movem mt like one of those
Have these steam cars been moving and ming
ling all the people, these wires been flashing
ideas, these power presses been scattering the
seeds Of thought AMI dropping them into quick
and virgin soil ali over the land, and shall
there be no fruit There, you saw the first
dim animal instinct of tight; the germ, per-
haps, Of things hoped for. but with no discipline
to rule itself and no faculty to govern others.
Here, you perceive the Gro wing glones of
free and sovereign people, accus omed not only
to rule tn emselves, but to govern their country.
No matter In what form wrong or oppres sion
may present itself, deep in the purposes of
the people, high on the SUBMITS of their faith,
ls the mistaken belief that relief DO only mag,
but must come. Both blind and mad should be
the single interest, however slrong, which
dare thrust itself In the face of this feeling.
/ said the leading monopolst5 do not expect
to prevail; but will they, therefore, surrender
without s:rugge7 Was arbitrary power
ever called upon to surren Ter a prerogative
that 1t did not fly as naturally, as quickly. into
rage and fury, as Ignorance resorts to brute
force2 Here extremes meet again, and rea-
son, as ever, triumphs over both.
Farmers You have only to keep right,
coolness, courage. on your side, and the result
OF your movement is as clear as the sun in the
heavens. Will there, then, be farmers
millennium Will farmers fill all the halls Of
legislation, occupy all the seats of justice,
stand behind the bankers counter, or Fer
chants desk. and guide the course OF COM
merce by wind and wave? Such is the cheap
talk of the demagogue everywhere, the froth
and vapor of arraDt humbug since the world
began. You may take all the quacks which
have existed from the dawn Of time; you may
boil all their empiricism and nostrums dowa
into one concrete essence, and the whole CON-
bined cAnnot set up better world than God
has made uar nh Il 10 ,ndo &c