The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31
The RECIPROCITY BUNCo.
Over One Mllliel Who Do Not Own
tho Lald They TIL.
AND FOUR MILLIONS MORE 10 JOIN
THEN IN THB NEXT TEN TEARS.

Reciprocity Bojd hid 70 Furnish tho
United states With spanish-Amsric.n
Farm Produces IN Exchange Tor Our
Machine Preducts-Machinery Com
trolIed BY ospital % Destroy tho
Demand for Manual Labor and En-
slave the Poe.
There were In tie United States In 1850
322,357 tenant farmers paying rent and
7O2.244 tenant farmers, v1lle1ns Or metayers,
farming on sna1ps-a total OF 1y034 y001
tenant farmers. Fhe total number Of tenant
farmers in Rnglahd, Ireland, scotland and
Wales Is ,O6D. 12..
II the 81, 222 Irish tenant farmers should
be compelled to snare their crops equally
with their landlosds, - 702, 244 American
farmers must, such m outcry would 60 up to
heaven As was lever before heard IN the
world.
II the 414,so4 Ing1ish tenant farmers were
required 70 do II, they would take only nom
thirty-six to fOFtJ Height hours ID which to
wipe out tho whde system OF land tenures
The greatest shaic ever asked OF them was
one-fourth.
This condition has been brought about with
the consent and st the desire pf the Republic
can farmers Of tn country, who have heartily
approved and supported tho conspiracy en-
tered into BY tho chiefs OF their party with
the Plutocrats to change this nee Republic
Into PlutocracI. In pursuance OF this con-
spiracy Republican Congress
!. Gave IN twO years TO dozen corpora
tlons over 100000. 600 acres o. tho best
farming land In the country, and locked up
for plutocratic purchase a. much more, In
alternate sections.
2. Granted to 14.5o0 owners Of machines
protection for the product Of their machinery
from the competition Of American farm labor.
3. Increased the value OF machines and
plant and decreased the value OF labor and all
products OF labor BY demonetizing silver.
Z. Decreed that Europe, now paying US for
our surplus farm products In Spanish
American checks Tor Dills Of exchange) given
BY Spanish-Amertca for European mill pro
ducts, which, when transferred to us, we use
to buy Spanish-Ameri tropical products,
shall be deprived or these checks by supply
ing 6panish-A America with American machine
products, and that the payment for these
South American products shall be transferred
from American farm labor to American ma
chine labor. The Brazilian note now sent
from Rio to London to pay for British cloth,
then sent from London TO New York to pay
for American wheat, and finally sent from
New York TO Rio for cancellation after pay
ment In Brazilian coffee, must hereafter be
sent nom Rio to New York TO pay for Ameri-
can cloth, and returned from New York for
cancellation after payment In Brazilian COT
fee The American farmer must ma d new
customer and new market for his farm pro
ducts-if he can. The one he has now must
go 70 the American mill-Owner.
Thirty years ago, when this conspiracy was
formed, we boosted that every American
owned his own farm, and We called upon the
oppressed to como nom every nation-to
come nom every way-believfng Uncle Sam
farm The census Of 1890 win show one-stxth
the farmers OF the United States reduced tc
vassalage, tenants 1t will. farming on shares
giving one-half the crop to the landlord, and
one-half the remainder nominal owners only
mortgaged to tho nun value, struggling
against foreclosure.
The Plutocraflc machlnA-oWnAen hayA in.
vaded farming. SO rapid has been thi, inya
sion that, while In 1870 there were only
1873 farms between 500 ana 900 acres
In 1850 there were 7S.o7a: ana az farm,
over 1000 acres. 3.72O In 1870 and n III
in 1880.
Thesa homan1A farms ransa from so0 Il
300. 600 acres. They haye "a nome ana !.
horne-life-only harracka. where ! rev htre
llnrs l,ye for / new montha il the year
Machinory ana animals do the work. ana tn,
only labor il for. machine.tAnders ana nerd
err. When tina harvest n over thesa machine
tenders are turned adrfft. 4 dozen az them no
having earned enough "a support one fam,l,
/ for 4 year. ana 4 nav rang il hired when IN,
NEXT harvest comes. The land that xou,,
support 1fty families ia comfort does NOT fnr
ntsh wages I'd support i1yo. and furniehes en-
nloyment only Tor tramns without families.
II q the machine labor On our ION. 40
honan1a farms-hnnanxaa - the canataltst
owning fhem-that haa brought the cost a
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