The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-05-15

RIVERSIDE FARM, May y, 1879.
MIR. EDITOR :-"Mine enemies would
daily swallow me up. Dogs are gather
ed against me, and compass me about.
Not for my transgressiOn, nor for my
sin. They run and prepare themselves
without my fault. Their poison is like
the poison of serpent. The make a
noise like dogs and so round about the
city,"
go, Pope, had thy satire's darts,
To gle the rascals their deserts
I'd rip their rotten. hollow hearts,
And tell aloud
Their jugglin' hOcus-pocus arts
To cheat the crowd"
can only compare labor of to-day TO
Sampaon. that giant of old, and the
flunkies of the ''money power" the base
Delilah who. finding out wherein lay
his weakness. seduccd him to sleep in
her lap that he might be bound hand
and foot and delivered into the hands of
the Philistincs. But it will he well to
remember the sequel: Sampson afllict-
ed and goaded on to desperation, APP
pcaled to heaven for strength whereby
he might be avenged. In his blind and
furious rage he tore down the temple
and slew more at his death than he did
in all his life. Capital is playing a high
handed game; its emissarics are daily
becoming more numerous every meas
ure that il undertakes is forced through
and any man who dares to step out
from the ranks of labor and record his
protest against its wholesale plumber is
Immediately signaled out as target for
villification-is held up before the eyes
of his fellOwmen as public enemy, eve
nv jackal in their service sets up howl
and the meaner the cur the louder the
nOise-always taking care to yelp at a
safe distance. 1t is determined to 'reap
where il has not sown, TO gather where
il has not strewn." Ii takes its victims
to the summit of the Flint Ridge, and
shows them the road to 81. Louis, and
the pincries. and coal fields, and wealth
and abundance, and says, ''all these
things wilt give unto thee if thou wilt
fall down and worship me-" And they
say: "True. oh king! live forever we
are at thy feet" And they will get all
these things when the poor, deluded
African gets his forty acres and mule.
To tax people to build or uphold that
which they have no part in controlling
is tyranny-it is taxation without rep
resentatiOn. 1t is rolling back the wheels
of Time to barbaric lust for power, to
brute force. Mammon still clings to
love Of power as if it was his god, to
domination as if il was his religion, to
inhumanity rs if it was his nature.
Those who think they can ever profit by
yielding to the behests of accumulated
wealth are choosing a phantom-it is a
delusiOn and a snare it is apitfall from
which there is no escaping and from
which they do not deserve to escape.
Labor makes all improvements and pays
all taxes. II has developed the wealth
of this rs well as all other countries and
is scarcely represented. 1t institutes
measures looking toward continued
happiness and prosperity. only to have
those measures nullified by capitalists
and professional politicians who steal
the means of prosperity, civilization
and harmony to serve the devil with.
Farmers cannot longer afford TO be con-
troled by railroads or any other inter
csts. They must retain control OF the
products of their industry or go under.
They are generally true and honest 10
everybody Dut themselves. III thcy
would make rs much effort to secure
some little justice to themselves as they
do TO secure bonds for nabobs who
set themselves up as their
lega!izcd piunderers they would be
"io.c ,ssP.c I,:. ',e! mou'u I'M. NOR
tolerable There is one thing certain
the more bondage they get into the
more they are degraded and despiscd. !
was. as man DRAINED ,ne siase OF man 70 .oii
in the tyrant'- balance with his
goia'
She babe no wretch his thankIess labor urge
Ana tremonng take the p'''ahce ana Inc
xCnvarror c.,ro.T .n.horx
that ..Farmers we're base slaves to earrh |
and worthy of their bondage Will the
farmers OF Sedgwick county 90 any &C,
none s ,ha, ,ho halle, hnx vii, never
again be polluted for such purpose in
this county. WV. Ross.
[Our wordy correspondent attempts
two points, the one that voting aid TO