Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-10-03
KEEP UP THE FIGHT.
Let Not tho Attack Cease Un.Ii ths Farm
ers' Rights arr Recognized.

Let Not tho Attack Cease Until tho Farm
ers' Rights ar, Recognized.
II Colonel Ingersoll's belief in the
non-existence of hot and lurid future
| is correct the politician who has been
| deceiving the farmer for so many year,
will never get what no richly deserves.
There are crimes for which there are nc
adequate punishment in this world
Even 'electrocuting" some men would
be entirely too mild. OF all crimes that
men have ever committed against so.
ciety, the crimes OF the doublc-faced
politician agai INST the farmer have been
the BLACKLIST The agent OF monopolies,
the slave OF the rich conSplrators
against tho rights Of the people, this
smooth tongued hypocrito has nearly
beggared agriculture under the distinct
promise OF being its faithful friend.
lie has Como to tho farm and Rugged
the farmer while he induced him to
help the political tricksters to rob him;
he has kissed his children, snd while
doing IL def:ly took the bread from their
hands and their mouths; he has compli.
mented his wife, while he was laying
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man who held .,ie mortgage on the
farm. and TO lay such burdens upon her
shoulders that she would be borne down
into an untimely grave. lie has been n
cruel, brutal enemy OF his fellow men
who were toiling to feed him.
OIt is in the halls Of legislation that is
to be found the fertile cause of the
present unprosperous condition OF agri-
culture. 1t is the man who told the
farmer that no was his friend before
election and, forgetting all his promises,
became his enemy after election. who
has permitted the railroad to rob the
farmer, the oil monopoly to plumber
him, trusts OF various kinds to fleece
him, the tax assessor to overtax him
and the patent scoundrel TO Cypress
him. IL the politician had unmasked
himself before going among our farms,
and showed just what he was-a tool OF
monopoly and wcIlth-there would
have been no class Legislation to place
tho heavy weight OF monopoly d.
rectly upon our folds and the
hearts OF our producers. There has
never been in all the worlds history,
such an amount and such artistic lying,
as has been done by the American poll
tician to the American farmer.
But the game is about out The farm
ers have been learning Years ago they
were ignorant about public affairs.
With no organization to bring them to-
gether for consultation and united
action, they were at the mercy OF the
trained partisan liar. In the last TWEEN
ty years they have become posted upon
public questions and public men, and
as sure as fate. they will never stop
their effort TO protect themselves, until
they have won the victory. They
may not always succeed in what
they undertake, but they arc now
In the condition OF General Jack
son, who, 1t was sand, never knew
when he was whipped. The farmers
will keep on organizing and 1t is likely
that they will continue to organize new
political movemeDts--unless the old
parties give them what they demand
until they have smashed the political
caste OF the country. Go 1t, friends;
strike out in any direction that promises
to benefit you; and regardless OF all
else but tho good OF your country and
your own rights, march forward, over
every obstacle, crushing old methods
and stepping upon the politicians, until
they have experienced change OF heart
and say TO you: .'LoolS hero, what do yos
want? "-Wcstorn Rural.