The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-23
Some Extracts.

The spirit of the grange in New
Jersey, where it Is a thoroughly live
institution may be inferred from
the following extracts from an adj
dress of the Worthy Master, on thu
relations of farmers to questions o.
political economy.
Money is like any other commod'
| ity. 10 is cheap ,ohen IL is plenty
and dear achen IL is scarce. True
wisdom-the political economy that
weighs out, measures justly for al
classes of laborers-demands thai
the money of a country should be il
amount to render 1t cheap.
American manufactures cannot
compete in the open markets Of thu
world with our rate of ten per cent
for capital, with manufacturers Of
countries that pay two and one-hali
per cent. The same is true of agri.
cultural production. American
farmers could defy every part of the
civilized world to make the articles
of human subsistence at as low rates
as they could, obtaining the use OF
money at the same price paid on the
Eastern continent.
Farmers cannot longer afford to
be controlled by political party eau
cuses and party conventions. The
action of our farmers must be indie
pendent of the machine that grinds
out a lawyer at every revolution, for
every representative or executive of
flee In our government.
You all know the obligation of a
lawyer to his client-then how is II
possible for the attorneys of our rail-
road corporations to be representa-
tives of the people? The assump-
ton that lawyers are better qualified
from education training to make
laws Is not warranted, If the past
history of American statutory law
should be referred to as proof.
FARMERS OF THE PAST AND PRES
/ EMIT.
Tho people who first settled TIM
country were farmers. There wa
| no occasion for men of other avoca
tons, until the wilderness had giveI
way before the sturdy blows of tn
farmer, and the earth made to yielt
the golden harvest. The sayag
tribes who inhabited this countr.
were held in allegiance by the farmer
The rise and progress of the Repub
lie was the work of farmers. Itwa
the farmers of New England VIII
fought the battles of Lexington an
Bunker Hill. The heroic farmers Q
the colonies can truthfully claim I
have been.the.real founders of Amel
lean liberty. Win farmers sit quiet
ly by and see rich heritage OF r.
publican equality, obligated by
system of partial LAVISH BY custom
law. or usage, shall the rewards {
: labor flow steadily into the Golfer
, of the wealthy idlers, while the re
producers of wealth shall be loade
down with the expenses OF mail
, tanning a government which dl
penses its blessings for the opulei
(. few? Shall the proprietorship
the American farmer be crushed on
and men who follow application
: protected by special laws finally SUI
! plant the farmer and consign him
[ the fate of his brothers of Englar
4 who are tenants-whose inferiori
is more degrading than any 9TH
!, form of human slavery that ey
4 cursed the prospect of manl II SUI
4 Is TO be the finale of the Americ;
v Republic, Il would certainly ha'
; been better for our gallant forefat
i ers 10 have submitted TO the Britt
n yoke in the beginning of the Color
Is al history of America.
IL Come what may, for one ! W
stand a sentinel 10 warn my follo'
l. men of the impending danger that
e, certain TO follow the surrender of Z
"a government 10 the management
"a those who employ its sacred fun
j tions to degrade the masses in ord
~ the better to aggrandize the few.
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