Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-09-18
FARMERS ALLIANCE COLUMN.
Ponder This.

Ponder ms.
How much more Of your products
will the dollar OF to-day buy than the
dollar OF twenty years ago! How
much more Of your debts, your tax
es, your officers salaries, your inter
est. your mortgages or your doctor
and lawyer fees will il pay' That is
the way 10 look AT the financial ques-
ton. Look at the relation OF what
you have to sell, as producers, sus-
tains TO what you have TO pay for the
items which enter into your daily and
yearly expense account. Have sal
aries decreased. Has interest been
reduced, Are taxes lower, Have
mortgages been curtailed' How
does the price OF land, Of wheat and
corn, Of cotton, OF everything you
raise, compare with the value OF the
purchasing agent, money Interest,
taxes. mortgages, salaries and pro
fessional fees are as high as ever
while wheat, corn, cotton aud all ag-
ricultural stamps are from one TO two
hundred per cent. lower. How can
YOU hope for prosperity while this
condition prevails Are you SO blind
that YOU can't see that the holders OF
mortgages, the drawers OF salaries
and the receivers OF taxes are the ones
most benefited by the enhanced value
OF money and the reduced prices of
every thing il buys The drawer OF n
/ -, 900 salary can buy three times as
much OF your wheat a. he could when
his salary was established, and henc"
il follows that il will take three times
as much OF your wheat TO pay your
proportion OF his salary. Is this
equalization lt strikes us that We
farmers are the most patient, long
suffering set OF fools on the face of
the earth TO submit TO this state OF al
fairs IA minute. Just think that the
dollar YOU get for your products buys
three times as much Of them as II
ever did, but when YOU come to pay
your obligations Of the above named
characters il does not go any further
than il ever did. Think over this
question, and YOU must at once con
clude that the money question Is the
one which overshadows all others,
aud l. the problem that must Ice
solved and that speedily. To simplify
the matter, you can state II thus as n
matter OF cause and effect: Because
interest, taxes. &c, have not de
creased in the same proportion as the
values OF agricultural products II the
reason OF the prosperity Of the one
class and the poverty OF the other
Farmers AdpOcdfe
The war declared by the Alliance II
not upon parties, but upon the cor
rupt politicians who shape the poll
cies and formulate the platforms Of
the parties. 1t is war upon the
miserable selishness and Unsuitable
D
greed for Offices and the spoils Incl
dent to the opportunities afforded for
dishonesty. To these politicians and
Office seekers the Alliance says: Il
AIN your implacable foe, aud II your
defeat can he accomplished you may
rely upon me TO compass it," 1t has
demonstrated it's faith by It's works.
and 1t will not surprise rejecting
people il number OF similar demon
strations follow. Ridiculc will no
longer answer. Sophistry will not
stay the tide, and IL our above refer
red TO political friends don't know
when high tide comes they had better
get out OF the surf Several in the
past fingered too long and filed
watery graves. Life preservers are no
account at all The only way to get
to shore II to get on the Alliance plat
form -Fdymers' Adrocdte.