Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-09-15
HE HIT THE BULLS EYE.
PLAIN TALK OF n. r. WORK TO THE
FARMERS NATIONAL CONGRESS.

Trusts and MOnOpOlies Scored without
Mercy-The Every Day Hypocrites" at
Washington and Political SpOilsmen
Beautifully Excoriated.
In the course Of brilliant address de-
livered before the Farmers congress at
Councn Bluffs Hon. II. F. Work, of In
diana, made the following remarks:
The agricultural interests of the United
States become more depressed each year,
and the farmer becomes more depend
emit The monopolies and corporations
which fatten off of the farmer grow
rich. We grow poorer. and our mort
gage debt grows larger Eastern cap
italists hold the mortgages on our farms.
Our railroads are owned by eastern
shareholders our property insured in
eastern companies If the present sys-
tenn OF affairs continues much longer the
capitalists of the east will be the land
lords of the west; we the tenants. We
are preyed upon by all the vampires in
Christendom. from the corruptionist and
politician down to the Colorado beetle
and wheat nudge A farmer should
have fair compensation for his toll
Does he get it? And while we are toll
ing almost without hope to get those
mortgages off our farms there are those
who absorb our earnings.
Laughing at lis who toll in vain
To getwhat must be lost again
These corruptionists and monopolists
who are robbing the farmer think the
farmers are 30 honest and ignorant as to
climb the tree and beat bOughs while
they take possession of the golden fruit
as it falls.
During each succeeding political cam
palgn class of corruptionists with po-
litical aspirations go bunco steering
through the agricultural states. telling
ns that there is an overproduction OF
farm products: that other countries do
not want our staples and we will create
q home market for all we raise.
HOME MARKETS"
What! A home market for % per cent
of the worlds cotton. of which we ex-
ported to the amount Of $3.50. 1858. 1872 last
year. A home market for one-fifth OF
all the wheat produced on the globe. We
sent away $l55.000. 900 worth OF bread
stuffs last year: of provisions. $l36, 00O.-
900: while other agricultural products
swell the amount to the enormous sum
of $592. 1854. 3l6 Talk about the opera
tives in protected industries consuming
all these exportationsl If they and each
member of their families were as large
as Jumbo and had fifty times the means
for paying for the same they could not
consume it.
The south. which last year exported
enough cotton to buy any state in the
rotton belt. except Texas. at it's assessed
value. is advised to go into sheep hus-
bandry and the production OF wool. A
climate no mild that even if they had
the grass the production Of wool would
be against nature. After the sheep be-
came acclimated the wool which they
would net need would not grow. and If
il did they would rub it off. If you peo-
pie of the south 60 into the raising OF
wool you will have to keep stocking up
from colder climate. or the bodies of
your sheep will become as bare as the
back OF a Mexican dog. But then we
people at the north will furnish you the
sheep at a good round price. You can
have the experience and we the profits.
Of course there are many localities in
the south where sheep can be raised with
profit, but not on cotton lands. This
proposition of wool raising as southern
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