The Russellville Democrat., 1884-01-03
CORRESPONDENCE.

j claim TO be .'slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy" but farmer
| cannot read Revenue No. 4" in
your Issue Of the 18th ult, without
virtuous indignation.
"yerulam" appears to have holy
horror Of demagogues whose ways
he understands like an old hand.
The great dread appears to be that
| farmers and laborers will be enlight-
ened concerning the. taxes they pay,
and the burdens they bear. and viii
arise in their might and deliver
themselves. He takes great pains
| to obscure the matter of the tariff,
mixing the low. tariff on wool with
the high tariff on manufactured
goods, 90 as to reduce the general
average, but overlooks the fact that
| for all these years the laboring men
have PAID both these taxes.
"Verulamn then enters into . la
bored effort to show that the number
of farmers Is Insignificant any way,
and to this end arrays all other
classes, csllings and professions I'M
der the sun, against the farmer, and
calls them all .Bread winners.r Oh!
this beautiful army OF sbread win
ners." The clown, the trickster, the
soap peddler, the prize package man.
and even the saloon keeper are in
this glorious lot OF abread winners.
The tramp, the gambler, the pick
pocket, thief. robber and murderer.
all these claim profession when the
census taker comes, and swell the
number of .Verulam's" great army
of .bread winners" and some of
these .bread winners" be says, are
women. All. Six millions more
than the farmers he says, all told.
Just so, but he forgets TO note that
the little remnant Of farmers he has
LEFT must feed the world and grow
the material TO clothe them all, and
then their products must be pressed
down so low in price that Europe
will take them IN exchange for gold
L TO pay the bond holders interest and
ill the purse OF the monopolist-
"Verulam" and various other politl
cal ramrods may find in the, not far
distant future, that the farmers and
laborlng men of this country greatly
out number all other classes, snd
also, that many Of these '.bread win
ners" can be entirely dispensed with
to the great and everlasting benefit
OF the human race. But be says
Farmers thrive only As the classes
prosper who demand their supplies" "
| Ii this we're true, our farmers ought
to be the most prosperous set of men
on earth, for there appears to be .
few prosperous classes who, not only
demand, but have q very successful
way OF enforcing their demand, for
all the farmers products. All other
classes appear to prosper more than
the farmers, mechanics and laborers,
aud these have so long been lawful
prey for these @bread winners" that
they have come to regard as much
as the farmer does his geese, only to
grow feathers that they may be
plucked. II is no doubt the earnest
prayer of many Of the other classes
that laboring men may never be en-.
lightened, hence the cry OF ''dema-
gogue" At The farmer who joins the
Brothers Of Freedom.
Merchants in the cities hare their
union, lawyers. doctors and teachers
their association, where they meet to
consider matters for their own inter
est Bankers, manufacturers and
capitalists, all have their associa-
tions, where they discuss and devise
the best means for wining the last
dollar from the farmer and oppress-
ing the laboring man, and there is
no cry OF Wicked" 'Demagogue"
raised against them, but when the
farmers and mechanics begin to meet
and discuss matters appertaining to
their best interests. the hue and cry
goes forth, that we are trying 20
break down the whole commercial
and business fabric OF the country.
Capital has undoubtedly determined
10 own this country IS it does EGG
land, and to reduce the farmers 10
tenants at will Already some Of
the leading newspapers have declar-
ed that farmers should not own lands
but should rent then from capital
lists TO whom all lands should Of
right belong. or in other words. farm
ers should belong to master like
the slave. Year after year they draw
the net tighter around US. Week
after week the papers tell ne Of mil
lions Of acres OF land taken BY CAPT
talists- Year afser year the farmer
is being pressed oh his lands by
debts and mortgage. Lawyers, doc
tors and merchants are not affected
directly like the farmer, and are 20
busy picking their geese that they
cannot think OF these matterx Un-
less the lsboring class Of men take
this matter in hand. our children
will surely rent OF capitalists, the