The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
The Moral Import of the Movement
Reviewed and Thoroughly Elk
planned From Baptist
Pulpit.

| Dattleu nOStS Is the most pregnant event
of this generation. 1t Is the beginning
| of
| REVOLUTION
that will shake this continent and move
the world
The first time they gathered around the
ballot-boX was the 4th day Of last No
vcmber. They pollcd between two and
three million votes, elected the Governors
of three States, sent forty men to Con-
gress and scared the life out of hundreds
they did not send. What is
THE MORAL MEANING
of this great movement?
| I. 1t is the protest of the patient bur.
den bearers of the world, who have toll
ed through weary years, struggling be-
meath the wrongs of economic and politi-
cal superstitions. In America the farmers
have literally become the beasts of bur-
den of the nation. Their business has
been to feed over 90, 600, 600 people, to-
| gether with the hosts of the old world.
with the products of the years work, and
then through the winter eke out q miser-
able existence wrestling with their
MORTGAGES, CYCLONES AND FLOODS.
While they are doing this, we laugh
and grow fat, dance and make merry in
the city and bet how much they will
! make next year, buy and sell their crops
fifty times before they arc planted and
charge old "hay seeders" with our losses.
The question is whether these men, the
froest of the free, the authors of this coun-
try's liberty, shall assert their rights and
obtain justice, or degenerate into the con-
dition of tenants and serfs The condi.
tion of labor in all other industries have
| changes in the past hundred years. The
farmer works under the same stern condi-
tions, perishing in the midst of boundless
prosperity, for others. He has determined
to effect change in these conditions, and
III, s,mssa q living basis t2 ses
4 . Tbs kSJeaaxsfegmqs JWaxegmseeet ut meapsi the :,
& ossos-of the farmer as farmer. =,
I as mass tho assertion of the manhoEo II u
meano oomen of the nation. This Is rea' I" Iao
.ho Tbe accent of our educa',o' wv. W.
,:.horto been to get on, ITO risS. ,,.
n" hl.n' hccu taught to climb out OF the 'l" ;ntr
nav ,,horc in which we were pori ,';,, ~
ple spo.called higher sphere. INC sun aind
some so.c" 1n.n;sc hia anvil, and the cloa
learns " 20 look with contempt upon 'i
, h0pp'' rSev raise to 'higher tmnsS
, pioM become lawyers, and doctors, III,
G nv. and bankers, railroad nen aH
c PIeat Pn,;o;ans We now have fully cign' III,
is nan in this country educa'Tu ' !"
r nom n.ns; dents of the United States w" wv
n ia ahnut dozen Presidents III ~"
r dred years-an awful waste Vi '"
NC rial. ,.,;no and teachi
'rc 90 their children, i'll their orSand Samod
tIot the work Of the farm Is as saei.
,n M as-that OF lay any sp' 70
'D % Gf, Women, too, are a1i,i.ae ,s are n,
III nndor ,eac' We'll they may. lhe'o s",vm " n
'ar- 1armcrs, wives in the INSANE TIev \
Ell hnerica than any other ciass .,,at
M aotmallv recognized the fact 'ha'
l.. l. " WOMEN Is HUMAN BEING.
the o,orter once asked an old farm
!, tbe rePo' w. i,at bc thought about the
SScod I the Wes' a"r;ace mma; m failurc?" He reI
" the ton 10 .arr;aGc? Well, let's see. i i; !
John VIVA. d,' ,'', n;ts up in the mornin X,
mes. lucinuS Se;lLs six cows, starts 1out
>, fnr the nir, -, school. tends TO three o.
drch On ,,.sntv mans O. milk, feeds the
,c,,ite, sKinhs ';so thc hogs looks after some
ccrtifi- iiho" ,.'. ,hrcn, dts breakfast, WASH
, Hen eilcss ,hoo ,,;ts dinner, etc, ,-whS,
Inc an the uSn ,I;nt | could hire anybody
q" So" t Cow what she gifts NO.
non the al, '"" ,ro,t success, sir An, .h
,,rouoht us sasIfoc, d, weary millions OIL V
llitcrate 5rtn' mhn ,athos of their lives; Ihey IL
ial COM !,od ,m this organization with cheeh, :,
= clergy .e; ;u, home many Of them LOT
Castle MrSn t;n,n in life. May God leao an'
and his them
assault 3. This movement "i''"'
rv,r,oS As AGAINST coMri
# is in this principle oil s"cl"' era,
In our ,ho order has its strongest wv"
atoms il They arc pledged 10
ucr cent. atbcr in the production ol
,outh CAP r,oods and not ohiS ~ - r.,
Of the o. the distribution o' tncse :"
= country, Auancc stor,s of supp'i'S arI ,r,,
The negro cont feature of then woik; ~ IL
a increas- nontain the germ idea ci : :,e
austrial cooperative soc s',.'
oOO noun. ;ngmep in Great Britain. ihey
half cannot inc in life the principle tna'
,;,drcn, less foT men to fight J0r cach =
ne Chinese ooninst one another. hoy
!, represent .Se secret of associated power
the globe. ION there is strength. IL Is III .
- this fact that we solve '''c "Pl
adox that while they cry
~ enchar- ts,,sts and monovN''"'' III
Boothbay, hrea,h they demand ina. WV -
,r day and nress its functions 10 'nu nr;ee
wenty men State socialism. ~, asse
the beach, , consistent. Ihey ;Ios an The
, be not the dameotal pIlho,ttht pfant that Cover
10 o' the bow s s.ometfng separate from ?assrn u
om "a ~. seven wben normally admln,s'ere' .Soyns
end :, S to end. the people goye1olhhe he forced
TO be utilized for the happr 'apms
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