The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-22

lOrsaKe the country Tor the city. by adj
ding to the productive capacity of the
farms, increasing its fertility, improving
its processes, enhancing its profits, diver
styling its crops and lessening their cost.
BY protecting the producers against
combinations whereby he is deprived of
the fruits of his labor, and securing for
him fair and free market for his COM
modities, and to labor for the education
of the agricultural classes in the science
of economical government in a strictly
non-partisan spirit.
We have made little progress in the
improvement of civil government, either
as to efficiency or economy. Have yet to
realize government "of the people, for
the people and by the people" We now
have government of the people, by
class and for class. We do not all real
ize that we are governed by an oligarchy
composed of professional Office holders
and Office seekers, that our elections are
usually money contests between two Sec
tons of this class, and the result merely
decision as to which section of the oil
garchy shall govern and enjoy the emol-
uments arising from the control of gov
eminent. Neither do we sufficiently re-
alize that government of the people by
the real representatives of all classes is
practicable, under which the various in
terests, opinions and desires of all are
proportionately represented, system un-
der which law-making bodies become So
ciety in miniature and laws the accurate
and orderly expressions of public opin-
ion. Today it would be sheerest folly
to deny that there is an existing condi-
ton which demands a remedy. 1t would
be worse than folly to deny that the ag.
ricultuarl interests of the country are in
a depressed and suffering condition, and
when we consider that eight-tenths of
our population are engaged in mechanic
al pursuits, we have some idea of the
magnitude of the interests at stake.
Whenever the interests of these are en-
dangered the whole country suffers, for
the farmers must provide for ALL"
The farmers are making no money-no
matter what they produce; whether it be
tobacco, wheat, cotton, corn or sugar;
they are all suffering. The cost of pro-
duction and living is greater than the
cost of the product.
1t is almost universally admitted that
the scarcity of money is the case of the
depression-in fact, there can be no 9th
er cause. Our manufactures are turn
ing out finished products of all kinds,
and yet the people are not prosperous,
and are becoming poorer and poorer day
bv day; that, too, when they have pro-
duced in the last twenty years fifty bill
ions of dollars; and yet they are poor
and suffering. What then has been the
cause that the returns for labor are so
small, and that discomfort is abroad in
the land, when there ought to be peace,
contentment and plentyH This condi-
tion is scarcity of money, which ena-
bles the few to control what there is, to the |
detriment of the many. This being so,
what is the remedyY We believe that it
is the making of more money. Gold and
silver have always been money-but they |
are only money when some government
puts its stamp upon them, and says this
piece of gold and that piece of silver
shall have certain value. As it comes
from the mines, it is simply a cOmmodi-
ty, like wheat, corn or tobacco, and is
not money, but when the government
puts stamp upon it and says this is SO,
it becomes money, and neither of these
metals ever has been or will ever be mon
ey, until some government does this act.
And while we have produced more of
these metals than any other nation in
the world, yet at the request of English
money lenders whom we owel and man
ufactories, who fear our rivalry, Congress
tramples it under foot and makes mer-
chandise of it, instead of coming it into
money. The first movement for the re-
lief of the people should be the restora-
ton of silver as money. Silver is the
money of the people. 1t is the money of
trade. II permeates every section, every
town, every hamlet and every household.
Gold is the money of the bankers, specu-