The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

BY so doing, much delay and trouble will
be avoided.
THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PLACE
mEN-WHAT THE ORANGES Pro
POSE AND May ACCOMPLISH.
The cooperation sought TO be effected
between the Oranges of this country and
trades people of England excites not a lit
tie attention and animadversion in the East.
II European goods may be imported on YES
sells coming to St. Louis or New Orleans or
Galveston to return freighted with wheat or
cotton or beeves, the Oranges have at once
achieved one great end of their existence.
Not only are middle-men and great cities,
standing in the place of middle-men,
avoided, all they charge and all that they
steal being saved, but the people of two
worlds, absolutely knowing nothing of one
another, are brought face to face. Immi-
grants from Europe will land first in South
ern, rather than in Northern cities, and it
becomes apparent why the East evinces,
just now, this inordinate anxiety to fasten
on US the bondholders scheme of paying in
terest forever on more than two thousand
millions of United States paper held by the
East. Direct trade involves, through the
consolidated action of the Oranges, the
demolition of custom houses, the main
tenance of the Federal government by di
minution, by more than one-half, of the
mighty multitude of vampires that prey,
as officeholders, upon popular industry.
The same men who collect State and county
taxes should collect the tax to support the
Federal system, and trade among the ma
tions should be as free as among the States.
II free trade be desirable in the one case
can its universal applicability in the other
be questioned!
We know not what we pay to uphold
the army of sixty or seventy thousand
idlers living in opulence, while these inno-
cent Changers toll in poverty. Knaves rob
them whenever they expend a copper in
purchasing any single article not produced
upon farme. The very hats and shoes
they wear ure than doubled in Prioo
and lessened one-half in value by the tariff
system. The Changers need only learn
how to exert the terrible power they might
WELD to reform the American system of
government, restoring even that simplicity
that distinguished it one hundred years ago.
Associated effort is Indispensable in the at
tainment of any great public good. Through
these Oranges, farming populations, learn
ing something of their own strength, learn
also how to WELD it, and we are not amazed
when old party bummers and organ-grind-
ers and party hacks tremble lest the Gran
gers embark in politics. just so surely as
Mr.. Lang and others having access to the
Oranges, once teach them the extent of
their authority and show how they have
been plundered and robbed and remorseless-
ly viotimized by placemen of high and low
degree, and how they are taxed in all things
and protected +" III nothing, that they
pay all tariffs and all bonds, and are paid
nothing-when all these facts are clearly UNI
folded, there will be great reason for that ter
ror which overmasters that godly, pious
organ, the Telegraph when the farmers of
Texas, as class, manifest an interest in
the course of public events, and declare
their purpose to control these events
These of the South are agricultural com.
munities, and only rs numbers, and never
in intelligence or legislation, have they been
felt. 1t is time they had thrown off the
yoke and defed their accustomed task
masters. Direct trade with Europe would
be q grand consummation, but worthier
than this of the toll and energies of the
Oranges is the dethronement Of their task
masters-the overthrow of custom houses
and extinction of bondhollers.s The toll
ing multitude who fed the armies of the
North and South, and they who dug bitches
and bore muskets, aud the widows and
orphans of those who fill million graves
these must still fight perjury and haggard
want and pel.ing, pitiless storms, and en-
dure heat and cold that remorseless specu-
lators, who rule the empire through pro
letarida president, may make this people
their bondsmen forever Newspapers are
bribed, banks exhibit their power, elo-
quence is hired, Congressman betray con-
stituencies and pirate of the beauty of gold
and silver currency, and all That the inno-
cent Changers -thesc plundered, tax-ridden
farmers may be induced to consent to the
payment in gold of paper that cost from
thirty TO seventy cents. Let the Changers
beware. Their own leaders may be bought.
Fifty millions could be probably expended
by tho bondholders and banks to perpetuate
the present slavery of the farmers of the
West and South. ~