Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-02-12
The Issues Of the Farmers Movement.
From tho Ipdustrial ARe

Since the I" Farmers Movement " is
no longer a shadow of coming events.
but thing of life," it has become q
matter of national anxiety and interest
that it's growth be healthy one. And
% it had it's origin in general desire
to eliminate the glaring abuses of the
day, We hope it will keep it's parentage
in mind /; and since it wages an honest
war against corruption in high places,
and the tangible and conspicuous
abuses of power in Legislative and Ju.
dietary quarters, and on the lncorpo-
rated monopolies of the land our hope
10 that moderation aud temperance in
all things will characterize all it's coun-
ellis and increase its power
One of the most prominent abuses
sought to be remedied is but the nat
ural fruit of legislation in the interest
Of class, such as railroad legislation.
or such as fosters lnOnopolies in any
direction. We see how unreliable Is
poor humanity when. at Albany, Har-
risburg, Springfield or Washington, it
is tempted by the demon of this mate
rial age-money-or it's kindred de-
mon. We see how extensively the
lesson of corruption has worked in our
Legislatures, and our courts, and how
oil classes and conditions of men are
subject to sad shortcomings under
temptation. We know that the ''price
Of liberty il eternal vigilance" as
much now as j. ever was. And
- the evils We seek to remove have
20 many features of distempered DO
litical parentage, we must look we'll to
1t that our proposed remedies are not
az bad as the diseases: that our new
doctors understand their subjects.
these diseases are dcep.seated and
malignant, and huve been developing
for the past three generations, and it
will require time and nerue and skill to
master them without in uring the gen.
eral health of our government. 1t will
not be simply the work of few weeks
or months, of few fine speeches or
we'll written articles, but it must be
the work of years, the work of we'll
drilled, we'll seasoned, and ably gener-
aled armies that will work the desired
change.
The school for each crusader against
these: and all wrongs, must be the vir-
tuous and honest homes of the " com.
ing man." There must be a full ap-
probation OF the eternal fitness of
things" and the Unborn and inbred
principle Of justice to all men, and the
inwoven elements of competent knowl-
edge, and an unfailing purpose to deal
justly at all times, in every man IT.
tempting to serve his country as q
reformer, or injury to the cause and
disgrace to himself will probably b.
the fruit of his effort.
Good law making is like good book
making, more difficult than is generally
and it cannot be success.
fully performed without knowledge
and skill, aud more than farming, or
the invention and construction of ma
chinery. A very worthy cause may be
brought into contempt if it is not ad-
voeated by mel whose zeal is accord
ing to knowledge. And all honest far
mers and working men will agree with
me IN the proposed reforms =" gift of
gab, and long winded platitudes of
self elected mouth-pieces are neither
desired, or even tolerable, and thew
should not be mistaken Tor the skill
knowledge, and value required. They
will agree, too, that it is with some
anxiety We look along the political
horizon for the coming man, who will
combine, not only the will, but the
ability to serve us in this work, the
knowledge and skill to steer us clear