The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03
THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1891.
FALSE LIGHT FOR THE FAITH
Full.

In order to build up new political
organization the Peoples party lead
ers deem it necessary to encourage
the belief that farmers are swlndled,
deceived and plundered by every one
with whom they come in contact.
The money lenders, the railroads,
retail merchants and grain and stock
buyers are the objects of most fire.
quent attack by newspapers and
speakers Of this party. We know it
is the tendency of people of all kinds
and classes in dealing with each other
to take all they can get for the money
expended, and that farmers in mod
crate circumstances are often COM
PEELED by tLeir necessities to sell live
stock and other staple products at a
sacrifice, OF to pay an exorbitant rate
Of interest or commission for the
use of money, The real facts and
actual conditions are sufficient to
Justify tillers of the soil in organic
ing for the purpose of protecting their
interests from injustice. They ought
TO be united for their mutual good
and stand together for what is fair
and lust to themselves, as do other
classes. In order that they may ar
rive at a correct conclusion as to
what should be done to better their
condition, it is necessary that they
have knowledge of the real
facts concerning those matters which
pertain to their affairs. The Peoples
party orators and newspapers are
self appointed guardians Of the Farm
ers' Alliance. They claim to have a
monopoly on the right to shed the
light of truth upon those within the
Alliance fold, that they are the true
shepherds and that he who comes not
with the Peoples party brand and ear
marks, ''the same is a thief and a
robber," and the faithful should avoid
him as they would a pestilence.
Those whose duty it is to gather and
promulgate information therefore
stand under especial obligation not to
deceive and mislead the people who
look to them for information to
guide them in matters pertaining to
their business affairs and political
privileges. 1t is as detrimental to an
intelligent man to exaggerate wrongs
done him as to underestimate the
same. Yet the new party press and
speakers deliberately do this. They
seem to think it necessary to magni
fy the real wrongs and invent tales of
evil where none exist in order to stir
up the husban,lman to q sense of his
duty, and make him frantically rush
into the new political organization
for redress. As sample of this sort
of missionary work we reproduce the
following characteristic statement
from last week issue of our esteemed
contemporary, the Dodge City Times:
Last week wheat sold in Chicago for
% to IS cents per bushel. In Dodge
City it sold for GO to 65 cents per bushel'
Total number of bushels produced in
Ford county. 0.000: at 95 cents per
bushel. 100000: ut 65 cents per bushel.
$4,000 the difference. 100000. is the
enormous amouDt paid for tranSporta
ton and handling. In other words. the
grain spectators and the railroads get
100000 for handling and transporting
this crop TO market, while the farmer.
the man who produces it, receives only
1900 above the actual cost Of produc-
ton. Almost third of the value of
the crop is thus eaten up. and to forever
and effeetually put stop to this eating
process is one of the many things for
which the alliance is founded.
The above paragraph appears yer
batim in the principal editorial arti
Gle of the paper. Its evident purpose
is to convince farmers that they are
being robbed by grain dealers and
the railroads Many farmers take no
other paper and rely upon that
as their party organ, to keep them
posted upon passing events. They
are entitled to the exact truth, pure
and simple, but their political high