Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-05-03
Agricultural Wheel Matters.

Agricultural Wheel Matters.
The Agricultural Wheel is es-
sentially % farmers, mechanics,
and laboring mans institution. Its
object is to unite fraternally all ac-
ceptable persons ave Is years of
age, who are engaged in farming,
also all mechanics who are engag-
ed in their trade. It excludes from
membership, bankers, merchants,
lawyers and all manufacturers who
employ more than three hands. 1t
seeks to educate the laboriIlg mass
es to think and act for themselves,
so as to free them, SO far as pos
sible, from the wiles of the politi-
clan and the trickery of the design
ing demagogue. 1t holds to the
principle of equal and exact justice
to all classes ofsour fellow citizens,
and special privileges to none.
That the farmers shall have some
voice in the management ofhis own
business and not have the price of.
produce limited by a nefarious sys-
tenn of gambling in produce Us is
now the case. Itlolds to the prin-
ciple that its members have a right
to sell and buy when and wher-
ever their interests are best served,
and to patronize none who dare by
word or deed, oppose a just, fair
and equitable exchange of the pro-
ducts of our labor. 1t holds that
all monopolies are dangerous, tend
ing to enslave a free people and
ultimately to subvert and over
throw our republican form Of gov
eminent. 1t promotes industry !!
It encourages economy and dis
courages running in debt. 1t seeks
to improve it's members in the prac-
tiee of agriculture and the me-
ehanic arts, and to alleviate the
condition of its members in every
possible manner. The manner of
Organization is first subordinate
wheels organized at all suitable
points in each county. When as
many as five of these have been
organized in any one county, then
ia County Wheel composed of two
delegates from each subordinate
Wheel. A State Wheel, composed
of it's officers, and one delegate for
each 600 members and majority
fraction thereof. The grand Ma
tional Wheel, to which body all
final appeals are carried, and all
questions of national importance
considered. The County Wheel
is the head and mouthpiece of the
subordinate Wheels. The State
Wheel of the county Wheels, and
the Grand National Wheel is the
head and mouth-piece of all, and
through it are voiced the senti-
ments and demands of the millions
of brawny armed freemen, who
compose this order. In this way,
speaking as with one voice, they
are enabled to express themselves
with such power as to command
the attention and respect of the
powers that be, and to cope with
those who, by gambling in the
necessaries of life depreciate the
product of our labor and those who
hope by the centralizing power OF
money to enslave free people.
The Wheel, in every possible
way, seeks to stop the flow OF
western capital to the east, there
to be used in swelling a hatetn'
monopoly which we regard as O
standing menace to our liberty.
This can be done in many ways.
By building up home manufactures;
by stopping the borrowing of East.
ern money, and perhaps most oil
all by entirely ignoring our pres
ent system of fire and tornado in
snrance. This latter item alone is
exhaustlng the county of Pike,
about $4,000 annually. This
money can all be kept at home,
and much oft saved to the people
by a system of home mutual in
snrance, which can be vely easily
accomplished through the Wheel.
Subordinate Wheels can send up
to the County Wheel the names oil
those members who wish to go in
to the arrangement. The County
Wheel Is already a head center fol-
transacting their business. Officers
are then chosen, articles of eonfed-
Grafton filed and a charter obtained
Each mans property should then
be put in at an agreed per cent. o
its valuation, say % or 81 of its
value. By the articles of agree.
raent no money should be pstid IN.
til an actual loss occurs, then eael
risk should be assessed pro rats
such amount as will make good thu
loss. This is insurance at actua.
cost. It has been tested and founs
to work well, and the beauty of til,