Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-12-11
The Moral Importer the Farm
erS Alliance.
BY REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR-

The real sensation Of the year
1890 is the advent Of the National
Farmers Alllaoce and Industrial
| Union 1t is no mushroom growth.
It's here 10 stay. 1t is the resist
less movement OF millions under
the expressions of cenfuries. Its
motive power is social, economic.
religious and political The advent
OF these embattled hosts is the most
| pregnant event of this generation.
1t Is beginning of
A REVOLUTION
/ that will shake this continent and
move the world.
ihe first time they gathered
around the ballot box was the 4th
day of last November. They polled
between 100000 and 8 GOO, 900
votes. elected the.Governors of ,hree
States, sent forty men TO Congress
and scared the life out of hundreds
they did not send.
What Is moral meaning of this
| great movement?
/. 1t is the protest of the patient
burden bearers of the world who
have toiled through weary years.
struggling beneath the wrongs Of
economic and political superstiilons.
In America the farmers haze ilter-
ally become the beasts of buYdsn Of
tie nation. Their business hasal,een
70 feed over 65,000,00 people, to-
/ geiher with the hosts OF the world
with the products of tho year. 3
work, and then through the winter
exc out miserable existence wrest.
ling with their
MORTGAGES, CYCLONES AND FLOODS.
Whlle they are doing this. we laugh
and grow tat, dance and make mer-
ry in the city and bet how much
they will make next year, buy and
svll their crops fifty times before
they are planted and Charge old
sHayseeds" with all our losses.
z. This movement NEAR the
EDUCATION OF THE MASSES,
as masses-of the farmer as a farm
er. 1t means the assertion of The
manhood Of The y,oman Of the Ma,
t4en. This is real education. Tht
accent of our education has hitherto
been to get on, sto rise.' We have
been Taught to cllmo out of the
humble sphere in which we were
born into some so-caIled higher
sphere. The smith learns to despise
his anvil and the clodhopper to lock
With contempt npon the piuw. They
rise to higher things, They Le-
come lawyers and doctors and
preache aud bankers, railroad men
and POLITICIANS. 70 now have fully
I 10000 men IN tins country educa-
ted to be Presidents of the United
States We only need abou, IL
dozen Presidents IN hundred
years-an awful waste of raw ma
rial.
TIE farmers are learning and
teaching il to their ehildren IN this
ori aniz4tlon, that the work Of the
farm is as sacred, AS noble, as honor
able as that OF any sphere in life
Women loo are admitted 10 the
Order. Well they may There are
more farmers wives in the insane
asylums Of Ameriel than any other
class. They have actually recog-
hized the fac, that
WOMAN is A HUMAN BEING.
A reporter once asked an old far
mer IN the West what he thought
about the qscstion SIS marriage a
ta'lure?' He replied, "Whst. mar
riage? Wen, le,'s see. There is
Lucindy gifts up IN the morning,
kindles the FIRE, milks six COWS,
starts four children off 10 schooI,
tends to three Others, skins twenty
pans of mink, leeds the hens liks- :
wise the hogs, looks after some
motherless sheep, gifts breakfast,
washes np the dishes, gifts dinner, Il
cetera- why mon, do you think
could hire anybody to do all that (, +
what she gitoy Not mn.l! Itx a
great success, sii!' All these,pa-
uc"', rau-iateu, weary mtilionS ui
womei! The palhos IF their lives!
| They have entered this org,tn;zHticn
with checks flushed with hope,
many OF them TOR the first time ia
life. May God Lead and HESS them!
3. This movement means
COOPERATION AS AGAINST COMPETITION
1t is in this principle of Spcialil m
,ha. the Order has it's strongest
foundation. They are pledged 10
co-operate with each other in the
! production Of economic goods al d
not only 50 but 70 cooperate in the
distribution of these goods. TIE
Alliance Atore for suppliss sre a
prominent feature Of their work
These stores contain the germ idea
Of the great Industrial Co-operasivs
Societies OF Workirgmen in Grea1