The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-27


the toiing consumer, but he will never es-
tablish the price any more than we. We
invite another party to do ths-thc very
party who has his fortune to make out of
the difference between what he pays and
what we pay him. When we farmers go
into the market TO sell, we ask, softly,
"What will you givef" and when we buy,
We say, "What do you ask?' All our lives
have we done this and have come to regard
it rs legitimate, but 1t is actually as ridicu-
lous as it would sound to us to hear the mer-
chant say to us, "Sir, / have some dry
goods | must sell and they are ready for the
market. | am anxious to dispose of them.
What are you giving to-. day for prints and
jeans" "Well, sir, have been giving
from 10 to IL l-2 cts for prints and GO to
soc for jeans; but have been looking
through the market and find immense stocks
moro than this community will want. |
cannot offer you more than cts. for prints
and Acc for jeane." 'But my goods cost
me more than that's how can ! sell them Mt
such figurcs?" ~ don't know, sir, but |
know that there is a large stock in the mark
ct. that you are owing and must sell to meet
your bils--eycn for whatyo can get. 9th
crs will sell me all | want at cost" Every
well. Mr. Farmer, take them perhaps can
live by dressing my family in calico and
feeding them on corn meal and bacon"
Now if this scene was of everyday occur
renee, we should think ourselves in bedam,
but can any one tell why it is fitting for
farmers and not for other class?
What shall be done to remedy the evil
United action of farmers will do it-and is
it possible that farmers are the only human
beings who cannot act in united capacity
Farming is wholly indvidualizcd, which
accounts for its prostration at the feet of
every other craft 1t is not credtablc to
farmers that they should thus pod along
when they own a larger portion ofthe coun-
try than all other classes combined. They
have been willing to be controlled by art
ful schemcrs in legislation, r9aping princcly
revenues. For want of organization the
farmers are taken in detail. These who
own the country should ruetit. Gen Banks
said in Congress, in 1872: "rhere are men
in this House yho would be glad to have all
the lcgis ative powers ofthe country thrown
into the hands of bankers, merchant princes,
spectators, monopoiSt>, robbers and
thieves Mark well and if that is true,
let us send better men. MI great humah
achievements are the result of Union, and
for farmers to ignore the agencies that are
moving the rest of the world forward, is
more sensclcss than to attempt the cul,iva
ton of their fields without the plow. If
over-production is the trouble, let us do less
hard work. hut when conditions are normal,
the whole world, ourselves included, will
be benefited by all we can produce.
We want union to protect our
interests a. farmers; to elect lcgis-
latorS who are honest and pledged to see
that expenses and salaries are cut down to
a farming basis to exercise what little pow
cr is left us over railroad charges, so that
roads that we have mortgaged our farms to
build may be compelled to recognize that
they exist for us as well as we for them.
Farmers complain that they are in bond
age. We must be free. Some one has
said that "lIeli hath no fury like woman
scorncd,' and it can be said with equal
truth that there is no fury equal to that Of
the great industrial masses when they are
once aroused in earnest. Farmers are
honest, orderly and quiet Their highest
ambition is to build churches, educate their
children, and perform all the duties of good
citizens. They are as still rs the breeze.
but when once aroused they may become
as terrible as the storm king Like a well
behaved pack horse. they endure all the
burdens plundering dcmagogues pile upon
them, but when they begin to staggcr under
like mighty and awful tornado
The speaker here paid an eloquent tri-
butte to the patriotism and public spirit of
the farmer and the necessity of his avoca-
ton to the existence of other classes. He
has no one to blame but himself for not
giving an exalted dignity to the profession
upon which all the world depends. The
man who respects himself will be respected
by others. But the humility of the avoca-
ton has become so proverbial that if a pol
itcan makes Il stupid speech, nine in ten
will say she had better 90 back to the
plow," thereby acknowledging that infe-
riority OF talent is sufficient for the great
science of farming. But an organized pol
icy will give dignity and that power which
the farmers should long since have welded
everywhere. Why is he not successful
Because he has not harncssed science to his
plow; because unj ust laws have discrimin-
atcd against him and diminished his means
of support nearly one-hnlf. This shrnks
the entire business of tho country. The
laws and the monopoly power they create
and protect have been sent to impoverish
the people, and now he hoped they would
begin to feel that they have killed the goose
that laid the golden egg When will farm.
ers begin to consider the operation of these
Hew Stare ldWS'
Here the speaker followed with a state
ment of the actual cost and the selling price
Of many patented articles, such rs sewing
machines, costing Sl2 and selling for so,
the same being sold in Europe for S32 ,
reapers costing $50 and selling for $500 /;
thrcshng machines costing 500 and SELL
ing for 500 Now we nay the difference
for being the most patient and gnlliblc fools
that ever pretended to be frcemrn and far
mcrs too Let II. agree to send honest
men - the State and National legislatures,
ignore all party polite, and put the right
men in the right place.
Farmers need union because capital is
being steadily and surely conc, ntrated.
The few who hold it, use it to make more,
and they often look upon the farmer as their
lnborcr servant. slave 1t cxcmuts itself