Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-30

tue country. AIter QlecUeslOD oil Inc reSO-
luiiou il WAS laid oxOr ill fo-morrow.
The session will continue 1--we or -tl,ree
days, and The members will stop over 10 at
tend the fair next week.
f----A- <-e~s- movement.
Special Correspondence OF the Appeal
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, September 2S.-
Tomorrow a body OF men representing the
largest and most important industry in
the United States will quietly meet in
the city of st. Louis. The Mercha ants
Exchange has secured for The holding
of their sessions the hall Of the CT y
Council, and the LacIede Hotel mss been
chosen for their headquarters. Each con-
gressionSl district in the Union will be
Represented by at least one delegate, and the
governors of the several States; all of whom
are ez ofcio member, are expected TO be
present either in person or by deputy. There
will be no beating of drums or sounding of
Humpets. On the contrary, this meeting
will appear as quietly upon the horizon OF
events as comet upon that of the heavens;
| and just as a comet appeared to the med avai
European will this congress appear TO all
| who thoroughly understand its objects and
purposes-in her words, as grave sign of
the times, portendiDg, perhaps, 10 The few
| disasier and gloom; 10 The many the doom OF
ancient and rooted expressions and the dawn
: of better day. The representatives. farmers
+; OF the United States will meet in n national
congress, and their proceedings cannot fail
| 10 have a deep and abiding influence upoa
the future course of both State and Federal
i-gislailon. as we'll IS upon every other vital
I interest of Ameaican agriculture.
! What, then, ii will be asked, is the object
OF this Congress? Is it another grange move
ment? Did not the great excitement copse-
| quent upon the organization of the National
Grange subside as rapidly as it arose? Are
not the American farmers, as q class, the
nPOnlA N he W0rld2 Will
not this Congress, as did the grange, die after
few sessions and be heard of no more?
Not 60. Though in no wise antagonistic
| to the grange, this Congress has been organ
iz-d for different reasons, with other objects
in view, and for other purposes. The farmers
of America have long sin been aroused to
The Importance OF organization. By their
conservatism, their very reluctance to Join
orders or societies of any kind, they have
failed TO make their power felt, failed to re-
ceive the attention and consideration at the |
hands OF the government that their vast |
numbers, their tremendous possessions, the |
indispensable importance of their work, and |
their overpowering interest in the State all |
demand, Nor is this all. Not only has |
the government refused to do Them nj ain |
justice, but it has in many instances |
treated them with the grossest in |
justice and wrong. The existing tariff has |
illustr afed The manner IN which they are an
nnally robbed in the name of "protection to |
American industries" This outrageous tax /
is in itself justi6able cause for revolution,
no matter in what manner accomplished |
This infamous system compels the Ameri-
oan- people ts pay 81 goo, ,0oo, 600 every year
BY far the greater par OF which is taken |
from ti1~ faE iz5cs
facturers. A very small proportion of this |
stupendous sum is collected in revenue, the /
remainder swells the Golfers of milionaires. |
Nor is this annual robbery carried on, as
many of our demsgogues boldly claim, in |
order that other less important industries |
may thrive, but, il we are permitted to Judge |
of the object of law by its results, it is for |
the purpose OF impoyerishipg the many in |
order iha. the few may roll in wealth end |
luxury. But the fleet of The tariff upon the |
prosperity of the farmers does not eud |
here. The annual payment of this vast |
sum is 10 them the least of its evil re. |
suits. Among the direct results of this |
robbery is the closing of many of the great |
markets Of the world to the productions of |
the American farm. The addition of this |
colossal sum each year TO the cost of his |
productions, makes that cost tco great sue |
cessfully 10 compete in many foreign mar |
kets with The farmers OF Other nstious. If |
the policy Of the government for the past |
twenty years had beep, and if it were today, |
10 impoverish the farmers, who constitute |
the majority of the population, in order |
that the few manufacturing monopolisis of |
Pennsylvania and New England might |
build up priucely fortunes, they could not |
have chosen surer method of carrying out |
their purposes.
The causes OF the imppnity with which |
this systematic robbery has been conducted |
are not in .he least esoteric. They lie upon |
the surfsee, and may be seen OF all men. OOr
national Legislature, like those OF the several /
States, is composed almost wholly OF law
e al L. laa har1 Nf hnfh
houses, ss well SIS many OF less prominence,
are the private attorneys, at fixed salaries.
of these very manufacturing monopolies:
Even Il all these attorneys were honest and 1
dIsinierested statesmen, bHt few Of their
number are awsre of the true interests OF the
farmers OF The country, save from such op-
scure and partial information vouchsafed
them in the crude eosiPlsints OF indiVidusl
tilleTs of the soil.
The farmers of this country have long !
been chsfng in silence under these and many
other burdens which they have been, and are
nov, compelled by the government 10 bear.
But they have at last been aroused 10 their |
situation. They begin TO perceive the ad-
vantages Of organization. They see that TO-
dividuals are weak, that men in the aggre-
gate only are powerful. They have found |
that while every other interest, no matter
how Insignificant, has been awake, through |
national organization, to its own general /
prosperity and progress, the farmer, like |
Samson has fallen asleep, and the govern
meut, Delilah-like, has bound him in the |
meshes of taxation more unjust than has |
ever before been suffered by free people. |
But the locks of his strength have not yet |
been shorn, aud he is about TO arise in his |
might and snap asun Ter his bonds, did |
CULVER the petty Iithes of the Lilliputisns. |
The first step toward emancipation has al |
ready been taken. A national representa- |
tive association of the American farmers has |
been organized. The absolute necessity for |
snch an organization lnsures success, and the |
resulis flowing from it cannot be other
wise than benefcent. The annual meet |
ing of the representative farmers OF 1
the North and South will in itself |
resnlt in sufficient good to justify the organ
ization of such sociey. Not only will
This prove true from an agricultural and
scono, .Sicsi point of view, but also from
scJn aI;';c.I standpoint. The interchange of |
IDEAS the coyuparisoB of the several modes
Of employipg laScr, Of the methods OF cultI-
1,t;on Of the use o. fertilizers, of labor
ssving machinery, of the one crop and di-
var.i6ed-c -crop plans: and in addition TO the
discussion Of these subjects, the mere concert
OF action in the support OF measures pene-
6eial is both, will prove OF inestlmaole vsiue
to the whole country. The annuai meeting
and amicabls Intercourse between the tarm-
ers of both sections, working side by side IN
a common cause, caHEot fail TO bripg them
closer together in sentimeat, snd give them
broader views and wider sympsihies. Paru-
sans on either side will see that the interests
of both are identical. A broad, generous,
fraiernAl, national feeling, and higher
pride in the progress of ther common |
country will fll the breasts of all.
In letter to Col. Thomas J. Hudson, of !,
Lamar, Miss, the founder and president of |
the Farmers Congress, the venerable Horatio |
Seymour, of New York, declared the orgsni- |
zalion of this body to be "great democratic |
movement" and some of the grand OF of the |
age" And, indeed, all true patriots should |
bid "God-speed" TO any movement which has |
among its objects the overthrow OF monopoly, |
the reformatio of the infamous protective |
system, the purifcatio of politics, and the |
Eiping out of the lest vestige of sectional |
anInosity between the Nor.h asd South. |
These are a few Of the objects of the Con-
gress which in 3 few days will meet in the
city Of st. Louis. zoRAB-
POLITICAL.