The advocate., 1890-01-30
industrial Progress and Science.

EDITOR Ol Lle AFOCAIh'
The combinations which are now taking
place among the various labor organ
izarlons are analogousto that famous Dec
laration which was flung to the world on
the 4th Of July 177O. II the farmers and
other laborers follow up their declarations
rs vigorously, persistantly and aggres-
sively as their forelathers did in TITO,
they will obtain all they demand. All
successful generals take the offensive.
A general who never fights except on the
defensive in generally whipped. For
the last twenty-five years farmers have
been on the defensive, and very negative
at that. rejoice TO see that they now
propose to take the bull by the horns aSd
say, clay on McDuf." Those who read
The Fature, l used to publish, will re-
member that / repeatedly advised farm
ers and all laborors to organize and take
the aggressive with a bold front and
Macedonian phalanx. Every general
and every skilled politician knows that
II Is u simple matter TO attrack and con-
quer a disorganlzed rabblej but they fear
organized and we'll drilled battations.
The present contest Is to be no child's
play. All history shows that men who
have been in the habit Of living upon the
sweat Of slaves, whether white or black,
do not rellnquish their grip without
struggle. All history shows that polite
ians and writer's on political economy,
from Adam Smith, Ricardo and Mill down
to the time Of Gladstone and Blaine have
habitually spoken Of farmers and all
other laborers as a distinct and separate
class, who did not constitute human
society nor political society, but who
we're tolerated as a sort Of necessary evil
to act as servants for the real members Of
society. All Of these writer's, In discus
ing political economy in Its various
phases, speak Of farmers and other labor
ers patronizingly, and as though what
little they are permitted to retain Of the
results of their own labor was by the
grace Of the aforesaid real members Of
society, for which the "lqboring classes"
should be duly thankful. In l776 our
sires did not dsb anything by the grace Of
King George III, but they demanded as
Of right and proceeded to take 1t at the
point of the bayonet. When we do like
wise, we will no longer be looked down
upon as mere adiunots Of society. Then
IL will be seen whetherthe non-producers
control the laborers or whether the labor
ers as the majority Of society control the
bankers and other non-producing minori-
ties. Free Trade and High Protective
Tariff are nice foot balls for politicians
and capitalists to kick back and forth
while they catch farmers votes and rob
the people, But the people who earn
all the wealth of the country are begin
ming to see that both the Democratic and
Republican parties are their deadly enc
mics, that said parties are now nothing
but the bats and hooks with which said
"real members of society" catch us
gudgeons. England wants free trade
80 that all Americans can devote their
time to raising cheap raw material to
ship to Englandat heavy freights and
middlemens charges, and then pay big
prices for q return cargo of manufact-
ured stuff, with all the incidental charges
and profits of trade of mlddlemen (eal
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