Nevada County picayune., 1888-03-07
Our Agricultural lntere sts.

Our Agricultural lntere sts.
 In q very able speech delivered by Hon. James k. Jones in the United States senate on 23rd of Febuary,
 1887. he thus showed the importance ' of close organization among the ag
 rcultur"l classess:
 The great and successful organi
 the iron and steel. and other like as- sociation never prostitute themselves to the mere political or pecuniary ad
 vancements of a member but are al- ways careful to keep clear of person. ments. and leave their members free to act for themselves in all matters
 not affecting the purposes of their organization. and the farmers should profit by their success.
 have for years urged the necessi- ty of organization among the farmers. [ Scattered and disorganized as they
 are and have been, they have no more chance in their contest with the other and thorougly organized inter ests than raw undisciplined militia, armed with shot guns. would have in conflict with regular troops. drilled
 and equipped with modern weap- ons.
 The railroads. banks. lawyers. doctors. manufacturers. commercial men. laborers of every class. except !, themselves. have local. State. and
 national organizations. because they !, find they are thereby more powerful, , that bv this they render their com paratively small numbers more inn . portant and influential. and that in union there is strength. Hence they pool their issues and unite in accomplishing the advancement of . their general good. while they leave each individual member to pursue r his own convictions in the prosecution of his own business and in the exer- else of his political views.
 [ By this union some of these have been enabled to procure legislation | which has greatly and think. un- fairly swelled their wealth and power , while others by similar means have prevented legislation which. if enac-
 ted. would have put an end to prac- tices bv which they were "reaping | where they had not sown."
 We learn on high authority that ! those who haste to be rich shall not be innocent = and this truth applies with more force if possible to organ- cations than individuals. no one feel
 ing himself personally so much res ponsible for wrongs done in the name of and for the benefit of an associate as if he were the sole beneficiary. We have less of the check of individ- ual conscience. in the shrewd schemes of associated interests than had they been prosecuted by indi- viduals alone and for individual ben : eft.
 There are laws now upon the stat utc books of this country, the result of unity of action by associated inter- ests. which were intended to and do yearly enhance the fortune of certain classes at the expense of much great CT numbers of others who are each bv nature and the unalterable laws are of God their equals. .and yet under the operation of unequal laws are practically theirabondmen; this. too, in country the constitution of which declares there shall he "neith-
 CT slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
 Whenever clear understanding of the natural rights and equality of man shall force its way through the labyrinth or sophistry that now mys- tiIies and misleads people who are assured and seem to believe that they are rendered prosperous by be- ing taxed. when we all learn the simble truth, that taxation which
 gives one man a dollar must of nee cessitv take it from another. then these laws will he looked upon as a system of slavery. more cunning of course hut not less absolute than its
 African twin.
 Parsons. the Greek scholar. could repeat Milton's Paradise Lost. '
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