Thomas County cat., 1890-07-24
LABOR and ALLIANCE.



The course of the baccalaureate
sermon before the graduating class at
tho Massachusetts, agricultural college
Prot. C. s. Walker, whose text was
Luke, xxi, g, Strengthen Thy Breth-
ren, ," and topic, @The Duty of tho Edu-
Gated Farmer" said: Heretofore, in
all parts of the world the farmer has
been no match for his adversary. He
has never held his o Nh against the sol
dier or the priest, against the politician
or the statesman. In ancient times
he was the slave; in the middle ages
the serf. In the nineteenth century
he is the slave, the serf. the peasant OF
the propritOr, according to location
American farmers, as class, are face
to face with crisis. They have sub
dued q continent and furnished the
raw material for our factories, bread
for our operatives and manhood for
our civilization. They have sustained
the nations credit with their hard
earned dollars, rescued and engender-
ed liberty with their conscientious bal
lots and defended time and again, the
stars and stripes with their loyal blood
Vigorous in body, strong in character,
striking in individuality, lover Of
home, massive in common sense, fer
tile in resources, devout believers in
Providence, the farmers of America
will never allow themselves to be over
whelmed by the fate that sunk the til
lers of the soil in India, in Egypt, in
Europe.
"From all parts of this land farmers
are coming together. Organization
ana cooperation are the wonderful
ideas that have, awakened them as
never before. They are grasping
hands with grip that means some
thing, comparing ways and means,
uniting upon ends to be gained. They
demand for themselves and their chill
dren an education equal to the best
They insist upon fair share of the
profits of the American industry, claim
ing that no state can long exist in
which the tillers Of the soil bear most
of the burdens and share little of the
blessings of advancing civilization. But
they are in, danger of making mistakes
in the struggle that shall turn back
the progress of the movement. They
demand leaders. To supply this de-
mand is the Imperative duty of the
educated farmer. Whatsoever of bodily
vigor, mental power and heroism the
educated farmer may have acquired
from ancestors, college or university,
he will need it that he may consecrate
it to the great work of strengthening
his brethren, the farmer of America, SO
that they shall ever remain An immov-
able foundation of this, the only re-
public whose empire has not been rap
idly undermined"
Women's Wages
Few of the readets of The Citizen
have any idea of the pitifully small
wages paid our working girls. They
toll from early morning till late at
night, in many instances working
harder than fathers or brothers. They
60 to the shops after the work, carry
it home, work till late at night and re-
ceive the munificent wages of from 80
to 81 week! Think of it, strong men.
Two dollars a week, barley enough to
keep you in tobacco and beer. And
yet the competition is so great they
are only too glad to get it. They
usually work from fourteen to twenty
hours day, in close rooms, taking no
comfort at all out of life and living
like veritable slaves.
1t may interest some of the fashion
able danes who rustic into stores clad
in purple and fine linen to hear a few
of the prices pad by consc en.iOus-
stOrekeepers, men enIlreiy ABOVE re-
prOach. Overalls with three or four
pockets, six button-holes, strap and
buckle, are worth from so to 80 cents a |
dozen, and outing cloth shirts, with two
plaitS in fpDnt, seams all filled, cuffs and |
collars double stitched, are worth ex-
actly 80 cents dozen. The wrappers |
Wu1Cu AoNACC Uuy III tIC StUIcS, WIFI 1
yoke and ruffle round the bottom, are
made for % cents piece, and the seam
stress furnishes her own pattern, cuts |
and makes completely
Is not this crying shame? Should
not this be remedied? Is there not
something radically wrong which will
permit such a monstrous outrage az
this?
Workingmen arise in your might
Citizens think of your daughters and
do not wonder if they 60 astray.-The
Citizen Seattle, w. T.
Don't BE Deceived.
But we earnestly advise the farm
ers of the country not to wax too ex-
over their newly discovered
Don't get the big-head,
and whatever you do, keep on your
shirts, if the banded monopOlists
have left you any of those useful ar
ticles of wearing apparel 1t is our
private opinion that all bills now
before congress. looking to the relief
Of the farmers, as well as all proposed
10 help him, now being
discussed by senatorial piutocrats
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