News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-16
Vermont and Kansas,

1t is admitted that the late conven-
ton at Cincinnati was controlled by
western and chiefly Kansas men, as
we'll as that the South and East failed
to take any part in the proceedings.
The South do not want q third party,
nor will it's farmers favor such q
movement, because there the race
question absorbs all other of politi-
cal nature. The South wants more
money and the pawnshop feature of
the alliance and free coinage of silver,
but not if to get them, or any of them,
is to unfavorably effect the Demo-
cratic party of the South. The South
wants to keep it's cake and also to
eat it, and any party relying on the
South for aid will have to part
with the cake. The farmers of Yer
mont have formed a league and for
INFLATED a platform. This platform
demands a sound currency, compul-
sorry education, rigid limitation of
mOnopolies, equitable passenger and
freight rates, the prohibition of the
| liquor traffic and of the adulteratiOn
of food, restriction of alien land hold
ing, the prohibition of immigration
Of paupers and criminals and of class
legislation, favOring an equal system
of taxation, strict economy of Ma
tional and State government, and
graded income, with salaries to cor
respond to the financial condition of
the taxpayers. The president of the
league said that the farmers of the
East were opposed to free silver coin
age and the sub-treasury schemep pro-
mulgated at Cincinnati. Thus Yer
mont farmers present q horse OF
another color, and a horse that can
not be yoked with a breed offered by
the farmers of the West. 1t will also
be observed that the Vermont far
mers do not demand "money, more
money" but only a sound currency,
which we have already. The differ
ence in the demand of the Kansas and
Vermont farmer is striking. Nor is
the reason far to seek. The Vermont
farmers are all around " far
mers, who have not gone to
market with their eggs all in
one basket, but have varied their
products so that on the failure of one
crop others have succeeded and ena-
bled them to live. And having small
farms they own them. They have
not bought more land than they can
pay for, nor have they cropped what
they have so as to exhaust the vital
ity of the soil. The Kansas farmers
havestart' Z with landthat would yield
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre,
and, finding it profitable, have run in
debt for more land and kept on crop
ping with wheat until they only get
twelve to eighteen bushels per acre.
They have farmed badly. Finding
themselves in debt, they turn upon
the country and charge it with having
done what they have done them
selves. Had they diversified their
crops-had they not run wild on
wheat futures-they would not to-day
be demanding more money and ar
raigning everybody for getting
along in the world while they have
gone backward. The remedy for the
evils they have brought on themselves
lies in rational farming. 1t is not
money they want, but sound Judge
ment. They can by degrees restore
the fertility of their land, and by di-
versifying their crops can become
prosperous. Neither free coinage nor
loans on their crops can medicine
their ills away. They must rally
their ills away. They must rally
their common sense and farm with
judgement. And they must diversi-
fly industry also They must create
handy markets for their products
Philadelphia North America.