The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-04-26
THE FARMERS ORGANIZING.

The farmers are organizing Farm
ers' Alliance lodges in this county
and every county in the State. We
presume this worthy and noble class
of our population see necessity for
such action or they wouldn't enter
into this compact. They find many
of their farmer brothers in debt, and
poverty and hardship stalks in reali-
ty in to their homes. They hope to
ameliorate each others condition and
to some extent remove the cause.
To get at the true cause would be
difficult where so many causes con-
tribute to their unhappy condition.
Misfortune, sickness, bereavements,
plaques, bad management, debt, in
dolence, drouth, freezes, freshets,
fire, monopolists, trusts" ETC., effect
different individuals, in whole or
IN part, apparently unavoidable
IN disastrous consequences, while
the planting of too much cotton, high
tariff and bad collection laws, are not
the least in the catalogue of happen
ings that contribute to the source
from which spring the ills that afflict
the farming class. To lessen the
burdens OF our fellow man, too free
him from debt and to render him
more selt-sustaining and prosperous,
is worthy of our best endeavors, not
forgetting however that every man is
the architect of his own fortune"
and that "there is as much in the
man as there is in the land" After
he gets all the help that can be rem
dered from an Organization" he
must not lose sight of the fact that
he must rely principally upon God,
his own industry, good management
and economy. While the farmer has
many adverse things to contend
against, it will require the highest
craftsmanship and wisdom to regulate
the customs, commerce and traffic of
a people, to make everything con-
spire to the prosperity and success
of every individual, for Christ looked
beyond, into the future of unborn
generations, and said, the "poor you
will have with you always" The
curse of sin will always blight the
earth, and thorns and briars will
grow as well as fruits and flowers,
and by the 'sweat of his face shall
man earn his bread" To escape
this Divine curse is as impossible as
to build ''tower" to heaven. But it
is mans duty to take a common sense
view OF these perplexities and diverse
conditions, and make them as easy
and tolerable as his intelligence, in
genuity and honesty will allow. We
are our "brothers keeper" to large
extent, and no man, whether he be
purse-proud or poverty-humble can
escape the responsibility of aiding his
weaker brother at all times, consistent
with his obligation to his own de-
pendent household.
The Farmers Alliance propose, as
we learn, to adopt the best methods
of co-opera ton, working injury to
no class Of their fellow-men. They
hope to be of mutual benefit to each
other, to build up and not to tear
down. With these worthy aims in
view, the well-wisher of his race can
have no opposition. Wisdom, JUS
tice and moderation should actuate
every member, where the social fab
ric, good government and industrial
prosperity are involved.
All classes are in need of each
other, being mutually dependent
creatures, and there should be nc
strife between them. The merchant
the farmer, the lawyer, the doctor,
the mechanic, &C., all find use, con-
venience and assistance in each 9th
er. All are of one great social and
commercial body, making a complete
and indispensable whole. The foot
cannot say to the hand 81 have nc
use for you," neither can the hand
say the same to the foot, or the body
claim that it can get along without
the eye. Harmony, completeness
and use go together. With a wise
and conservative use of mans facul-
ties and the best impulses of his ma
ture, he can work out happy desti-
NY; otherwise the problem of lite
and its labors will precipitate demon
alization, discord and ruin. GLOW
blessed it is for brethren to dwell to-
getherin unity" is not only good
theology, but sound sense, as we'll.
CLEVELAND.
In SDpakino of Mr. Clavalond +ba