The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-06-12
soMh WORDS 10 THn FAhMnRs
AALIAmOm,

AALiAMbmf
The Farmers Alliance OF htafk
county 10 now organized, and IL rapid
ly increasing In numbers
We think II viii do good " may
not accomplish all II aims 70 accom-
pliAh, but II Is certain 10 ala Ia ednehl
ing the farmers on tho causes OF the
depaelAed condition OF Agriculture
throughout tho country, We arc GLAD
20 know that tho organization ID pollt'
leal in its character, Wedo not mean
by this that II ia partisan, or that "
proposes 10 organize a new party. but
that II proposes 10 aot, Ia voting for
men for offices of trust and power, who
arc In touch aud sympathy with the
demands Of the farmers,
That the farmersO Of this country are
worse of than they we're twenty-five
years ago, every middle aged farmer
knowa, And during These twenty i've
years this country has advanced
ia population aud wealth with
gigantic strides, We have
been blessed year after year,
with abundant crops and we have had
no wars 10 sap the yltala OF the Nation
and hill of our wealth producers
Ia 1860, before we were ever afflicted
with A Protective tariff, tho farmers
owned one halfof all the wealth OF the
country, and theyconstItuted aboutone
half of the population, Since 1861, we
have had tho benefits OF the sooalled
Protective system, and In the two de-
eadeS from 1860 10 1870 we increaaed.ln
wealth almost tNenty'aeyen thousand
millions of dollars, Had this wealth
been equally or eQulIably distributed,
40 II would have been under equal and
Just laws, the farmers Of the country
who produced the bulk Of this wealth,
would have owned the most OF II, but
what do the statistics dlacloae After 10
years Of Protection, from 1861 10 1880,
the Federal census atatlatlca (of 1880
disclosed the startling fact that OF this
enormous increase Of wealth, (ss7O00,'
OOOCOO) the farmers only owned seven
thousand mllliona,a and furthermore, this
Increase was largely due 20 the deyel'
opment and settlement OF the new ylr
gin lands OF the west In the older
states, whore the farmers had had Che
benefit Of the So'oalled home market Of
thrifty cities, there was an absolute
loss OF wealth among the farming
classes from 1861 TO 1880.
When we inquire who owns this
enormous wealth, that was produced In
this country In those memorable 10
years, what dove andY We find that
il was largely owned by a very few
men, who, through debauch'
ing the ballot and controlling the poll
cy of the party In power had made the
laws, by which one class Of men, who
produced all the wealth, had been
robbed Of II, IN order that another class
could absorb II, without earning IL,
From 1880 20 1890 the robbery Of the
farmers has been more rapid and all
absorbing than ever before, All the
trusts aud combines have been In un-
disturbed operation, .and the wealth
producers have been more greedlly and
systematically skinned than ever be-
fore known,
And what do we see nowY After
over quartero Of century Of onerous
taxation, IN which we see the enormous
wealth produced by labor and the pro-
ducts of the farm, gathered into the
hands of trusts and combines, we are
now confronted with new tariff BILL
which Is exclusively In the interest OF
the trust sharks, and constructed TO
rob the farmers more greedily than be-
fore.
A bill has Just passed the House OF
Representatives, which was largely
prepared IN a private room Of hotel
In Washington by VIM, Mckinley, Jr,
aud rushed through the House under
the dictation of party caucus, which
largely increases taxation on all the
neeessarles of life, even above the enor'
nous war tariff OF 1861 Asingl6 spec
linen from the record willsulllce Take
the tin plate swindle. Here is the
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