The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-05-15
To the Farmers Of Highland County.

To the Farmers Of Highland County.
BY the time this article comes to your
notice the majority viii, be about done
planting and the next two weeks Will
be favorable time tO talk and organ
ize subordinate Alliances In your diff
ferent townships.
While we have great faith In regard
to what the Alliance will do for 'ne
farmers II they will take hold OF II, Yet
we must not neglect our farming inter-
ests and trust tO the Alliance alone
We should plant just az many scres OF
corn, potatoes, &C, and cuittvate them
better, If possible, than we have ever
done before.
We not only need good prices for our
products. but we need good crops also.
We not only want to reduce the cost Of
a great many things we have to buy, but
we must reduce the cost Of raising farm
products by raising better crops ut less
cost than we have ever done before.
The prospect for . wheat crop In this
county has not been 80 good for mum.
Der OF years, while the grass and oats
hid fsir for an excellent yield. Now,
II we can beat the grub worms and get
q large crop Of corn, II will do n great
deal towards removing the burdens
that are resting upon US. But while
pla anting and cultivating large crops ~
something that we can, and should do,
within ourselves, yet there are great
many things that we can not do alone
and for this reason we would urge upon
every farmer, farm Iaborer and me-
chanic the necessity of coming into the
Alliance.
Every other class of labor il organ
lied for it's protection and they are win.
ming in almost every conflict with cap
ital The latest statistics show that
farm labor receives but 62 cents per
day in Highland county for twelve
hours work, while unskilled labor that
il organized receives, on an average
throughout the State, $l.3O for ten
hours work.
It is useless for farm hands, country
mechanics and merchants to expect
the farmer to give them more WORK,
better wages or buy more goods while
they remain In their present condition
Every class that has any thing to 90
with the farmer In the way OF labor or
trade, should be In favor OF the Alliance
ifit will be the means Of placing the
farmer on the road to prosperity. Ii
the farmers do not get enough for their
products they can not hire the man
that depends for living by working
on the farm, or employ the carpenter
to build new houses and barns or even
repair the old ones.
II the farmer has to pay two dollars
in taxes, where one ought to suffice. or
nav as much for one barrel of sugar, or
one sack of coffee as he should for two,
It is plain tn every merchant that he
can only buy half as much with the
same amount OF money.
1t is to the interest ot every class OF
men in this county that the farmers
should prosper, except the nlonopolist,
money. loaner and salarieG officers.
Now, farmers, while we are asking
other classes to help US, we must take
the lead and as soon as they see we are
in earnest they are ready and willing
to help us But we must not stand
back and say that uothing can be done,
for we can accomplish wonders II we
will but work together.
Let US organize an Alliance In each
township In the county, lay aside oil
partisa n spirit and say to Office holders
and office seek ers, Stand back, when we
need you we will send for you. They
have been proposing to US long enough,
let us propose to dispose of SOME Of
them and especially of part OF their
salaries.
five, as farmers, can get but 81 cents
per day for our labor through all kinds
of weather, let US stop giving i've 10
ten times that amount to the men we
hire to sit ir comfortable offices, fur.
nished, heated and lighted at our ex-
pense, to do our writing for us. Surely,
1.-THE servant should not be greater
than his master.'
Now go to work at once. We intend
to organize the County Alliance the
second Saturday In June and each sub
ordinate Alliance that Is organized in
May will be entitled to a representa-
tion of one delegate to each ten mem.
bers or fraction Of ten to the County
Alliance.
Send either to myself or G. A. Barry,
Hillsboro. O., for blank applications
Get seven names at least and rs many
more as you can, appoint meeting
and let me know by letter and will be
pleased to meet and organize your AL
lance and, as hope, start you ON the
road to better times.
G. N. PULSE, D0dsonvtlle, y.
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