The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-12-10

sion the lecturer was greatly |
applauded.
THE real sensation of the
year." said DR.. Dixon, lis the
advent of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial
Union. 1t is no mushroom.
growth. tits the resistless move
ment of millions who have suf-
fered under the aggressions of
centuries. The advent of these
embattled hosts is the most pre-
gnant event of this generation.
1t is the beginning of a revolu-
ton that will shake this CONT
nent and the world. The first
time they gathered around the
ballot box was Nov. last. They
polled between two and three
million votes, elected Governors
of three States and sent forty
men to Congress.
"What is the moral meaning
of this great movement?
"First-It is the protest of
patient burden bearer of the
world, who have toiled through
weary years, struggling be-
meath the wrongs of economic
and political superstitions. In
America the farmers have be-
come the beast Of burden of the
Nation. Their business has
been to feed over sixty-five mil
lions people, and then through
the Winter exc out a miserable
existence wrestling with their
mortgages, cyclones and floods.
While they are doing this we
laugh and grow fat, dance and
make merry in the city, and
gamble how much they will
make next year, buy and sell
their crops fifty times before
they are planted, and charge
old 'Hayseed' with all our losses.
"Second-This movement
} means the education of the mas.
ses, of the farmer as a farmer
1t means the assertion of the
, manhood of the yoemen of thu
: nation. This is real education
r We have to climb out of tn,
5 humble sphere in which we Were
: born int the so.called highe
t sphere. The smith learns I,
despise his anvil and the clod
3 hopper to look with contemp
: on the pillow. They rise to high
! er things. They become law
d yers and doctors and preacher
y and bankers, railroad me
r and politicians. We now hav
h fully 5000, 900 men in this cour
S try educated to be President
It of the United States. We onl
n need about a dozen in a hur
le bred years-an awful waste {
y raw material.
le 1.-The farmers are learnin
s. and teaching to their childre
v in this organization that ii
T. work of the farm is as sacret
re as noble, as honorable as thi
70 of any sphere in life. Womel
u too, are admitted to the orde
is Well they may. There are mo-
" farmers wives in the insar
asglums of America than ar
a other class. They have act
ye ally recognized the fact tn;
X woman is a human being.
q, "a reporter once asked an o
id farmer in the West what
ae thought about the question: /"
J, marriage a failure? He reptile
IL, What marriage: Well, lei
no see. There's Lucindy gifts |
gu in the mornin', kindles the fir
ne milks six cows, starts four CHI
lie dren off to school, tends to thr
|" others, skins twenty pans
10 milk, feeds the hens, likewi
We the hogs, looks after some mot
Ter erless sheep, gifts breakfai
ie- washes up the dishes, gifts di
OF ner, etc-why man, do y
he think l could hire anybody
ny do all that for what she ri
10, Not much. lisa great succei
100 SIR
Il "Third-This moveme
-, means cooperation as again
"a competition. 1t is this prin
'e 20 pie OF socialism that the Orc
.u " has as strongest foundatiC
'he They are all pledged TO coop
' ate with each other in the p
III duction vi economic goods, a
IL not only 50, but to cooperate
&c the distribution of these goo
w. They are learning the secret
~, associated p0wer-that in uni
.aI there is strength.
-, ..i "Fourth-1'he organizati
~: means brotherhood. 1t is a
. ,.n nevOlent and fraternal ord
' ,H with principles Of love and {
- n ternity, wide as the world, l
iversal as the race.
W 1.-The fifth and sixth artic
, o in their st. Louis declaration
'ON purposes, a second declarati
of independence, reads thus:
"'To constantly strive to
cure entire harmony and 20,
will to all mankind, and bro
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