Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1888-10-19
Who il to Blame.

lt IS u idCt NhiSh SesANs
hould not be- longer disguised,
hat there is among the laborlng {
md producing people an alarming
restitution of the means of main
aiming progressive civilization.
The masses of the people who are
in productive industries,
are being driven, year byyearand
day by day, nearer a condition OF
serfdom and tenantry. Where is
responsibility for this condition?
Is it the failing energy and enter
prise of the people? Has the in
crease of population out stripped
the industry, intelligence and en-
terprise of the toilers ofthis nation,
upon a continent rich IN all the
natural elements Of production,
blessed by Providence with every
variety of climate and soil demand
ed for the successful cultivation Of
the most delicate, rs we'll as thc
most hardy plants, whether fruit
cereal of tibra? In addition to
these favorable conditions of soil
and climate, we have the most
magnificent river system on the
globe, in the Mississippi river and
It's navigable tributaries We have
thousands of miles of sea and lake
coast with innumcrable harbors,
affording facilities for most con-
ycnient and economical inter
change of products between the
different sections of our erandIy
magnificent country; all this sup
plemented by opo hundred and
twenty-five thousand one hundred
and eighty-fiye miles of railways
We clip the above from the re
port of the committee appointed
by the Texas Alliance, to enquire
into the causes of the industrial
depression which prevailed
, throughout the State. And whll
9 the report presents no natura
: cause for the Impoverished condl
G ton of the farming community
e bnt on the contrary presents q
a array of facts which would ind
d cate the reverse. 1t truthful
:. concludes that each succcedin
It year finds the agriculturists sinl
ing deeper and fast approachin
serfdom. Who is to blame II
l. this? Surely not the soil and cl
= mate, so rich in all the elcmen
of production. Not Providenc
VI because "God helps him who he'll
himself" Not lack ofintelligen
n because we live in an age of il
Of proyment, with the experience
s. the past prominently before .
ps Not lack of energy, because
IS, toll as diligently as possible to
We leyiate our condition. Notextr:
of agance, we use all the econol
1T. possible and only purchase tt
IRE which we absolutely need.
IN Then there must be somethl
ne wrong, radically wrong, otherw
ed our condition would be much
ms proved. We, producing peol
.be blessed with a soil and climate r
vo il all the elements of product
- and with the various industries
/, 20 the earth dependant upon US 70
will support, we approaching serfd
az Then there must certainly be so
md thing wrong. Perhaps we b
cal solved it, it is not the lack OF CO
;on dence in each other, which t
ho, certain extent has DISTRACTED
70; measures looking forward to a
formation and which preclude
-, concert of action and causes Il
,wn view each other With susplc
tbe hence we fall an easy prey to c
,o.t 5inations? If this is the ca
,.od let as strive to remove it, we
the means within our own NJ
and cannot blame any one but
selves for this condition OF at
us A little more determination b
lo'' ed by little more contiden'
'oly each other and a full realizatl'
! the kindred ties that bind u
'een one grand brotherhood, would
ac1s remove these Obstacles and
IN the farmer in q condition ex'
Oers the reverse to the above. Rel
atea Der that 80 house divided ag
'.'er itself cannot stand,--far
'l0'. Uaion.
and