Montgomery County sentinel., 1890-07-04
AGAINST THE FARMER.

1t is very evident that the eyes of the
farmers have been opened to the way in
which they have been fooled by the Repub
lican politicians and that they do not intend
being made cats paws of again. 1t is also
evident that the Republican politicians have
discovered the TACT and are sore about it.
That is why they are constantly sneering
and snarling at the Farmers Alliances,
ridiculing or denouncing their resolutions
and insisting that these alliances are an
nexes to the Democratic party. The parti-
san wrath is especially kindled at the op.
position displayed by organized farmers to
the Mckinley bill
That the Republican partisans should be
enraged at the Farmers Alliances for their
protests against the Mckinley high tariff
bill is but natural. The bill was proclaimed
to be in the interest of the farmer. Pro-
hibitory duties were put on corn, wheat
and rye for his benefit. The fact that we
do not import corn, wheat or rye, and would
not be likely to even if bounty were of.
tered for importations, is immateria. The
duties are imposed by the bill and that PRO
tects the farmer" His cabbage patch is to
be protected by duty of three cents a head
on foreign pauper-grown cabbages and for
these favors is expected to be grateful and to
thankfully pay higher price for his imple-
ments, his furniture, his clothes and every
thing to eat, wear and work with that he
does not grow on his own farm and make
with own hands. He is further expected
TO vote blindly for every Republican candis,
date who comes up for office, just as he has
voted for the past thirty years. For the
farmers to organize outside of the Republi-
can party is treason and conspiracy, TO de-
n5u6ce the Mckinley bin is utter rank
basphemy.
Perhaps the farmers will be lashed into
silence and submission by the whips of the
Republican politicians. Perhaps they will
disband their alliances and meekly fall in
at the tail of the Republican procession as
Of yore. Possibly they will not. The farmers
are usually very conservative. They change
their views slowly and reluctantly 1t takes
them n good while to realize that they have
been "played for suckers" by those in whom
they reposed confidence. But when they
have studied the matter and discovered the
truth their indignation is deep and abiding.
1t is useless after that to coax or threaten.
They distrust the words OF those who de-
ceived them before and bullying only makes
them more powerfully not in their ways"
The farmers say that their condition is bad,
that the prices for their products are low,
their expenses of farming and living high and
their mortgage burdens growing heavier.
The Republican organs say the farmers are
prosperous, their expenses smaller than be-
fore and the mortgages evidences either of
extensions and improvements caused by
and causing prosperity or shiftlessness. The
ton best. The Republican organs tell them
the high tariff has made farmers prosperous
and it is proposed to make it still higher so
AS to increase their prosperity. The farm.
ers have learned by bitter experience to
take statements of Republican politicians
by contraries, reason that high tariff is a
cause of their adversely and still higher
tariff would complete their ruin, therefore
their organizations are condemning the Nc
Kinley bill which the Republican Congress
is endeavoring to thrust upon them. That
is why the Republican party organs are
kicking spitefully at the Farmers Alliances