Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-20

gress of thirty-eight representatives.
These come from the South anda West.
He adds also what Is of no II tie import
ance, that while there Is not Ut present
any union between the Alliances Of the
South and West, a union will be effected
tins winter. and the farmers of both
sections will beuceforth work In unison
for ameliorGtiou of the hardships under
which they groau. As one of the re-
suits of the election, this industrial af-
tiliat!on, if 1t comes to pass. will be no
trifing matter. More speedily than
anything else will such a union antagon-
ize and destroy the fell spirit of section
aiism that has initiated for years against
the best interests Of the farming classes
IN both sections. That spirit has made
the Western farmer the compliment dupe
of the tarl!lte and the monopolst.
1t has made him as blind as a bat to the
fact that he was paying an annual tri-
butte TO monopoly that would put to
shame the tribute paid the tax-gatherer
by the Egyptian Fellaheen or the Hndoo
RIOT. That shameful and degrading
tribute was the price he paid for hating
the South and the Democratic party. a
puerile animosity blinded him to the fact
That he was chopping of his nose TO spite
his face. He took unusual pride in
"'votine as he shot," just % though he
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tariff that would make beggar of him.
or to establish an Industrial oligarchy
that would sneer contemptuously at him
for being such stupid gull. Voting az
he shot was exhilPrating and exciting
enough, but il resulted ultimately in FIX
ing M unmanageable mortgage on his
farm. his house, his farming imple-
ments, his COW. his horse, his ass, and
everything that is his.
Coeval with the birth of radical pro-
tec.ionsm, he fed from the less fertile
more productive plains OF the West. In
that way he hoped to keep ahead OF
tariff exactons and make something be-
sides. His calculations all tell to the
ground under the whitening tariff blight
that invaded all sections alike. He be-
came in time poorer and poorer, and II
he will look back to, say Connecticut,
he will find that, according to official
estimates made by the state board Of
statistics, or the labor bureau, the aver
age annual return of farm proprietor
of that state is only SlSl.S2. while the
average annual wages OF farmland is
1855. SO. The conditions East and West
are similar. Losses or inadequate re-
turns everywhere. If there existed in
this country an oppressive monarchy |
with primogeniture, a landed aristoc-
racy. and a church establishment with |
its system OF tirhes, how much worse |
could the situation of the average farmer |
be? These things are the curse OF |
some European countries. 1t was |
supposed that exemption from them |
in this country would enable the aeri- |
culturist TO approximate at least, other |
classes in contentment and mode Of liv- |
ing. Has it done so?
Let the Western farmer ponder further
this question of industrial reform and |
Democratic methods of ruling and gov
eruing, as he now seems TO be doing, |
and he will get the upper hand of the !
after q while. Let him put |
away that baleful spirit of sectional ami
mostly, and join his brethren Of the
Democratic party for reform and equal
rights. -
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