The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
THE SITUATION FROM THE FARMERS
STANDPOINT.
PRESIDENTS OFFICE,
FARMERS AND LABORERS' ALLIANCE
on K ANSAC

editor of a paper called the Rock Is
lander" I contributed a short article to
his paper on the subject of the Taxation
of Mexican Ores" For some cause the
article has been printed in a circular and
widely distributed over the country,
since which my life has been made a
burden by some fellows who have little
one horse interests, and are so afraid of
'pauper labor"
l had seized my pen in desperation to
write an answer to one of them who
writes me from indianapolis, Ind, and
who is presumably friend of young
''Tppecanoe and Tyler too" was ask
ing him lot of ''hard questions" such
as, ''who protects the American farmer
from the 'pauper' farmer of India who
gets his farm engine for 5000 while we
pay $1,000, and who gets all his imple-
ments at 80 per cent. less than we,
whether they are made in the w. l. or
not; and who gets his 'pauper wheattrans-
ported at the rate of three mills per mile
for what costs us fourteen mills per mile:
and why our government debaSed our
L,
almost exclusively, and sent it tramping
over the earth and this pauper farmer OF
Europe and Asia making money of 1t:
and how with all these disadvantages
are we to meet that ''pauper' in the
markets of the world and successfully
compete!
l will probably 5e told when I get his
answer that 1.-The Mckinley bill" has put
an import duty on eggs and hay and in
creased the duty on corn and wheat
O! God, how long must we suffer these
insults for the sake of party o!
justice, justice, how many crimes have
been committed against thee in the
name of party"
But reform is an ''irideScent dream"
is it? We shall see.
And now, as if to add insult to injury,
our manufacturers are to have a rebate
of all the tariff paid for material on
goods sent abroad. Everybody is to
have cheap clothing, implements, etc,
but the ''millionaire" farmers of Amer
lea. Mckinley says so, and every
whipped whelp" says amen. ''Upon
what meat doth this, cur CaeSer, feed"
etc.
AS 1 said, was just asking this manu-
facturer few questions and told him
that they had the dalnedest lot of
ready made paupers on hand that l ever
heard of and that we couldn't throw an
ear of Kansas corn or a bacon rind in
any direction without hitting some of
their pauper labOrers, and was Just tell
ing him that IL our western newspapers
had lick of sense or an inch of back
bone they would see the indignities heap
ed on the western farmers and come to
their rescue, when, 10 and behold, here
came the mail boy with the EAGLE of
the Goth and had to take it back as far
as the EAGLE is concerned when | cast
my eye on the column and a half of
Gods truth and full grown, independent
manhood entitled 1.-The Sluss Interview,
or the Mckinley Fraud and Republican
Responsibility"
The EAGLL is right about endorsing the
judge. Judge Sluss, like Col. Crockett,
makes room for himself" He don't
need endorsement" There is no
law against Republican hav-
ing brains and using them.
A man don't have to be a Democrat be-
fore he can talk sense, nor he don't I
cease to be a Republican because he re- /
fuses to follow the dictates of crowd of /
''fat frying" political shysters, whose |
mouths are mOrtgaged to monopoly and /
who have stolen the livery of Lincoln to |
serve the devil of oppression in. ThOus- !
ands of us have served our party" far /
better than it has served us, and are all I
ready to declare that she serves his party /
best who preserves its great principles in |
their purity" and that "a government Of /
the people, for the people and by the |
people, is the best and only safety for |
human liberty.
You say 1.-The burthens heaped upon |
the producing classes of this country by |
powers alone are mOnstrOus /
enough to incite a revolution" l should |
say so. If these burthens had come upon /
Us in any other way except by the /
of cur party there .
would be an Instruction before sun
down land the sun is only thirty min
Ites high now.
The revolutionary fathers threw the .
tea overheard for less than one-tenth of
the expressions put upon their ignOble or
2owardly sons. And then they marched
)Ut to Lexington, Concord and Bunker
Hill and stood up for their rights, and
their sons dare not go 70 the polls and
vote against their party" when the
thing calling itself the ''party' Is
nothing but gang of infamous dema-
gOgues who care no more for the inter
ests Of the people than the devil does for
.he plan of salvation.
Free COINAGE and Harrison says he
won't sign the bill, and congress says
hey won't pass it, and the business end
If the whole political machine Is at that
md of the line. And from Cleveland.
good Lord deliver us. True, he wanted
per cent tariff reduction. But hear
aim below about silver coinage, and
constant wall went up for more vault
Dom, and at one time the secretary I'M
Ter him stopped coming the 100000 /
Ger month. the least allowed
o be coined by law, and he had 10 be
lriven to it by threats Of prosecution. /
so far as relief for the agricultural and
business depression Of the country Is
Wall street Democracy and
Wall street Republicanism are sausages /
rom the same dog.
Thank God there is one man in con
,re5s who seems 10 be getting into the
harness. and he hasn't an election right
on hand either.
| hope the EAGLE Is right where II
avs that no more VIII an s.. 900 machine
made majority, for DR.. Warmers patent
advertisement and protection !
e had.
Now, Mr.. EAGLE how much longer ]
re we going to hide OUT with our
loneSt convictions.
How long are We going 70 ''preach
hem in mild, soft, cautious sort Of a
yay:'
How Io-1 arc vra -oirv m sr7hr,it n
lavInC platforms made IN Kansas To BE
-oted against in Washington, al the
iCtation Of the bloated aristOcrats Of