The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30
THE pfMOGaACY AVID The FARMERS.

Energies in the fruilesa task Of making
political distinctions between urban and
'ural democracy Is hardly entitled 10
notice. yet We have the idea that many
honest people are being deceived by the
rant Of tho Examiner, and hence we
deem IL u bounden duty TO show up It's
Inconsistencies, The original proposi-
ton of that paper, In It's issue Of March
20, was, that the farmers Of Texas
should have fair representation In the
government Of the state There are
lew cities IN Texas no very large ones
like New York. Nine out Of every ten
votes cast In the state are cast by farms
ers, How comes II thon that the 'agri
cultural classes" arc pining and dying
for official recognition Such an idea
could have had iis birth in no other
brain thar that Of demagogue who
meant to ride the dea INTO office II
possible The Examiner misrepresents
tho agricultural classes" wolully when
II assumes that they cannot see through
the thin covering which cnvelops the
whole scheme,
All attempts to array class against
GLASS; or TO make political distinctions
among classes, IL communists in its
tendencies, aud IL M odlous to the
American mind ~ IL ngrarianism,
socialism or radicalsm, because IL
inevitably leads TO the same lcveling
plane OF license and lawlessncss
Texas il an agricultural state, and Its
governors aud policy are MI, with one
exception, and ever have been, the
work Of the farmers, and they have but
little 10 blush for But to come at this
late day aud urge that because man
has been soldier, II sailor, II lawyer, u
carpenter, or because he Is deniaen
OF city or town, no is therefore unfit
TO fill an Office Of trust or honor, ~ the
governorshlp for instance, or is unfit TO
logislate, make laws or execute them, is
IA untenable and M illogical M il would
be to say that simply because man is
farmer therefore ae only is fitted for
such tasks ~ these The Examiner does
not believe anything OF the kind, and
therefore Is attempt 10 excite such SEN
timents in the breasts OF the farmers il
odious, purely and simply odious, be.
cause IL IL dangerous, selfish and unjust
The position Of the Ecdmiacr is that
heretofore tho farmers Of Texas have
| not had n lair representation in the legs
islature and the executive Offices, when
the exact reverse il true, 1t in n fact,
and one not ut all singular either or
differing from any other canvass of the
state that nearly every aspirant for u
state Office next fall is farmer, or is
moro or less interested directly in agris
cultural operations, What would be
said, what ought to be said, of tho laws
yer, physician or carpenter, if he obs
jected to either or all upon this score
alone? Think you the people, farmers
and all, would not call it odious2
1t does not dignity the farmers of the
state, or serve any good purpose con.
nected withag agriculture, to suppose them
in accord with any such position az
that assumed by tho Examiner. They
are not, and can not so become as long
as TRUTH virtue and patriotism, as well
as common sense and reason, distin>
guish them in the future as in the
past, A man is either good
man or u bad one, II patriot or
or traitor, intelligent or an ignorant
man, and what he happens to do for liv~
ing, what his hand is engaged at, 80 his
pursuit is honest, cuts no sort of a fig
rein the case. Washington was
farmer, Eligha Burritt n shoemaker,
Putnam was farmer John Hancock
merchant, Arnold was druggist, and
so 1t goes, the good and the bad, the
wise and the simple, the patriot and the
traitor comes from no particular class
but are found in all. Class legisl alton,
class preference or class ostracism is
odious, and better fitted for the times
when the people burnt witches, than
it is for the evening of tho ninteenth
century, and the age of telegraphs,
steamships and almost universal intel
ligence.
The Examiners tears flow because
'the farmer Is looked down uoon,n
not recognized, is apoor orphan, and
legitimate game for the sharp de,
signing carpenter, the ruthless shoe.
maker, and the bloody lawyer fit is
true the grange and the farmers
who are not grangers should imbruo
their organ with little of their own
common sense, or put the non>political
rule of the order in force as to their
worthy master and be rid of the odium
OF fostering such an unholy combina-
ton as this, by which the E,cdminer
seeks to make Lang governor, and
Downs lieutenant governor not be,
cause of their merits as men, but be,
cause forsooth, they are farmers who
have never ploughed furrow in all
their lives