Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-07
RIM FARMERS PARTY.
In onr dispatches yesterday appeared

In onr dispatches yesterday appeared
m Item stating that the State Farmers
Association Of Illinois, which met at
Bloomington on Tuesday last, and
which was attended BY representatives
from 81 ca q the 1o2 counties In the
State, had adopted = resolution BY
vote nearly unanimous to organize q
new Political party, independent OF
both existing Political organizations.
They have called = Convention, to
meet June 10th. The regular RsPub-
lican State Convention will BE- held
June goth, ten days thereafter. This
will DO q Simou-pure farmers party
and a. such can never be = formidable
rival to the sxisting political srgani-
cations In National politics. This 10
apparent from the fact that the inter-
csts Of the farmers In Illinois and
other States OF the Misslsslppi Valley
arc not those Of the far Eastern States
and those Of the Pacific Coast. II
there 10 need Of = farmers party, Ii Is
to regulate the transportation qus'-
ton. While the great grain producing
sections lying In the vast valleys OF
the Mlssisslppi aud Missouri rivers are
far removed from market, and must
depend upon the ci,iss Of the East and
foreign demand fer the sale Of their
products, New York, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, New Jersey and the New
England States are great consumers,
and the farmers OF those sections are
not fsvorsbly Interested In seeing
Western grain come In composition
with their home products. Just go 1t
4, In this State. Nevada is net agri-
cultural. We do net raise the bread
stutfs we consume. Exorbltant
transportation OF these products iss
gain TO eur farmers. Were freights
reduced and the farmers Of Nevada
put In competition with the Mississippi
Valley, or with our sister State VI
California, prices would DO lessened
and the consumer, not the producer.
be the party benefited. IL Is plain
enough that = farmers party In Ne
vada Oh the theory Of Illinois could
not succeed. The friends VI chsap
transportation In Nevada are i.oi o.
ducers, but consumers. IL Ia ogr -
chants, mine owners, mill ovIsrs,
miners aud laborsrs on whom the cost
Of transportation falls most heavily.
IL Is they whom it Injuries, not those
who raise u %brsadstuits.
But there are other reasons why n
farmers party per sc, should not and
cannst become q national power. IL
proposes to classify by occupations
the politics OF this nation ; to array
u Industrial pursuit against others.
As we'll might there DO an engineers
or a b~rirk-lsyers' a, a farmers party.
The only difference Is In the numbers
engaged In these difTsren: branches Of
business. Because the business Of
farming Is followed BY = larger num-
Der Of our citizens than any other, 1t
does not follow that thess other have
not equal claims to national control.
This farmers party would be sec
floral, would array the people Of
the vai.,s. ~ have mentioned against
the mana cturlng aud mining States.
Not only would 1t aus 4 detrimental
struggle for political control between
the farmer aud the artisan, b.. IL
would invoke a tectional bitterness
which should DO carefully avolLsd.
II there are grsa. principles, OF wei
faro to the whole nation, As such, not
to classes or localities, and existing
parties DO not all the popular demand,
another ! ~ will spring up. But 1t
must not 10 based upon n idea or
ch,mpione5 By a single class Of citl-
zens. Such organizations are always
detrimental aud have never yet effect
cd the Ell. -sught.