River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-06-23
AttnckinR the i.rnnRers.

ehAAh'hhhH NHEuuktTHs
The Industrial Age, in commenting
on the recent malignant attacks of
Chas. w Greene, editor of the National
Crop Reporter, upon the Granger move
ment, which are endorsed by the Chica-
go Tribune, says
But thousand Greenes and Trib-
unes cannot make the public, and es-
pecially the farmers, believe that the
organization of the Oranges has not
conferred vast benefits upon those in
whose behalf they were formed. Not
among the least of these is, il has
brought the farmers together-it has
caused them to discuss and reason on
matters they were deeply interested in
lit has made the halls of our mis-
called courts of Justice and legisla-
ton pause and reflect that there are
other interests than those of moneyed
monopolies that should command their
attention-it has influenced the farmers
TO take steps to get and keep out of
debt it has brought the cost of agri-
cultural implements and merchandise
down from 20 to 30 per cent, and con-
ferred numerous other benefits that we
have not time to advertise this week. )"
Western Farmers and Enstern Money
The Illinois Granger, in an article
about money that had been sent west
for investment ut ten per cent, being
returned for want of takers, comments
rs follows
eve have no doubt but many farm
ers in this and adjoining counties would
be much better off to-day if they had
refused to- borrow the thousands of dol
lars that were sent from the east TO be
loaned at 10 and II per cent, some
years ego. II is an indisputable fact
that farming does not pay 10 per cent.
and it necessarily follows that if q
farmer pays 10 per cent for the use of
money, which he can only get from to
per cent. for when invested in land
or stock, that the hess he borrows at
that rate of interest the better it will
be for him. We are well satisfied that
farmers are getting their eyes opened
TO this fact, and will, in the future, be
more careful about going into debt.
Hundreds of western farmers have
learned by sad experience, that capital,
in the shape of money, is favored above
all other species of capital, and that
there is no part of their business that
will pay the interest that holders of
money demand.
This is all wrong, there should be no
distinction. no one species of capital
should be favored above another. Cap.
ital, in the shape of labor, should com
r,ant,I an h.r+h tr,AarneN
Is that, and that only, which produces
money, but the product is made to
command a much higher rate of interest
than the labor which produces it.
Farmers and Mechanics Alone Can DO IL.
The New Haven, Conn, Union, in
commenting on an article in the World,
on the Farmers Movement. has the fol-
lowing:
"When the Farmers Movement
against the monopohsts was started,
and showed itself to be formidable, ~
very soon secured the Establishments of
many pretended friends from both the
rotten old parties. If Won go into
politics, 1T will ruin your movement,
said the spies of the enemy. And yet
nothing can be clearer TO the sensible
farmer than this, that his movements
OF no avail short of what is promised II
through legislation, the courts and the
changes sought for in reform in all the
public offices. And "a corol-
larry TO this, it follows that nothing can
come of this movement until it takes
the shape of a compact and very deter
mined separate political organization !;
for there can he no reform i'm admins.
tration nor IN legislation, but by the
defe,t Of the rotten parties now ruled
by the corporations. The farmers and
mechanics alone can do this, and they
have no choice of method. The move
ment is either a political one, OF IL is a
farce, ut which the monopolies and
their demagogues and hireling press
can afford to laugh under their sleeves.
The farmers IN the west have seen and
seized the strong point IN the contest.
Illinois but follows Iowa and Wiscon-
sin. II will not be long till Indiana,
Ohio. Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky
and all the agricultural states will hold
like conventions, nor long, we hope
till the mechanics and other producers
of this country will unite with the new
political party and sweep the Union. 4"