Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-06-13

to do. Won't you have to have SOM
other class legislation to fill their place
What better can you find than that base'
on the products of the soil of the land? L
it is class legislation, it is legislation in th
interest of the people that maintain tn
government.
Another objection is that such a plal
wouldput in an army Of office holders. Blu
that may not be SO bad after all. If such ;
bill is passed, we farmers may be able tt
control these offices, and we may be able tt
give some of them to farmers who hav'
bankrupted themselves trying to make boil
ends meet under the present system. W.
may not get this bill. don't say that W.
will, but the country is being stirred up OF
the ills it is intended to alleviate, as it ha'
never been stirred before. And the poll
ticians are beginning to see it.
THE POLITICIANS AND THE ALLIANCE.
Joe Brown of Georgia, will not be sent
back to the Senate. He is a railroad MAI
and that settles it for him. voorhees, Of
Indiana, who made that splendid speech
for the farmers will 60 back. and so will
Vance who introduced the warehouse bill
and so will Stanford. The Alliance al
over this country knows it's friends. We
are getting there. Not only the politicians
but the prominent newspapers are begin.
ming to see that there is something in this
great movement. I am sorry to see that
Mills of Texas is opposed to the bill. He
will have to retire, for Texas is all Alliance
THE LAST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
What did the last Virginia legislature dc
for the farmers? Little OF nothing. It
passed meat bill which 1 believe was pur-
posely amended SO as to make it unconsti-
tutional and kill it. The bill we wanted was
only to enforce the inspection of meat, but
some one put in an amendment skilled over
one hundred miles OF more from where sold, >
and that settled it. The legislature passed
a resolution asking Congress to pass the
bill for loaning the farmers money at per
cent. on land, but they passed it because
they knew Congress wouldn't pass it and
if they had thought Congress would, the
resolution would never have gotten through
in the Virginia legislature. When the
farmers of Virginia asked for railroad leg
islation they could get none.. A man
explained this to me. He said the
Speaker of the House was a rail
road man and he appointed a railroad man
Chairman of the Committee on Corpora
lions. So we got no railroad legisla-
ton. And this, while such a state of
affairs in Virginia as this has occurred and
is occurring-Mr. Craun in this Valley,
had car load of cattle ON a train bound
for Richmond, for which he paid 1927. Just
back OF his car in the same train was a car
of cattle going from Cincinnati to Rich
mond at $25, just two dollars less. And
yet We couldn It get any railroad legislation
at Richmond to stop thatsort OF thing.
NO THIRD PARTY.
They tell us that ''the Alliance is very
good thing if it will let politics alone d
Well, what are we to do? At the door OF
our lodges politics is dropped and in here
we know no Democrat and no Republican.
But politics affects every man s living and
in this free country every man is a polite
ian, and outside of our lodges we are going
to make the Alliance count in politics.
Don't misunderstood me. I say we are
not going to have any third party. We
have not the remotest idea of it. We have
too much sense for that, and if we hadn It,
the fate of the Grange has taught us. That
was the mistake the Grange made and we
will profit by it. We intend to 60 into the
primaries of our own parties and see to it
that men who have not the interest of the
farmer at heart do not get the nomination.
We can find plenty of farmers fit to go to the
legislature. We intend to 60 into the pri.
maries and nominate member of the AL
lance. When the politicians are getting
up ticket you hear them asking how will
this ticket suit the Irish, how will it suit
the Germans, how will it suit the Tunk.
it suit the farmer. Now ace are going tc
put up ticket and let them say how it will
suit them, and not let then, nominate q
a ticket and ask how it will suit u.s. The
politicians don't understand what the far.
mer is Oh what he wants. Why, to read
what that politician at Washington who il
Secretary of Agriculture, said the Other
day is enough to make man swear. Hif
remedy for all the farmers troubles is a
rotation of crops 1t is enough to make
even member of the church swear to hear
such stuff as that from an officer of the
government.
POLITICAL PARTIES RUN BY MONEY.
We want them to Try another term OF
that old Roman Cincinnatus who made a
big change in a short time. He was taken
from the plow, and we must find another
at the pillow handle in this day. What can
we do as long as the parties are buying uI
voters at the polls. When men can buy the
Presidency of the United States is it any
wonder that you can buy the Ignorant
voters. What the Republicans did 1888 with
three millions of dollars was only what the
Democrats would have done if they had ha6
four millions. Look at the election Of
millionaire Bryce to the Senate from Ohio
He is Democrat, and am Democrat
too, but it makes me ashamed to see sucI
things done.
Wefarmers must stand together. Wemust
not be discouraged bv the fate of the Grange
There was no such pressing necessity tt
hold the Grange together when it was il
existence, as there is binding us to each othe
to-day. Noao we are compelled to holt
together. 1t has gotten so in this countr.
that the farmer mast do something.
THE ALLIANCE AND THE MERCHANTS.
The speaker in concluding, dwelt Oh tn