The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-10-15
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE,.
Monopoly Papers Publish as

Monopoly Papers Publish as Little True
News as sPossible-Expericnce OF II Peo-
pies Correspondent.
An explanation is due my friends
among the Farmers Alliance and in the
peoples party as to why | cannot any
longer publish in the Cincinnati Daily
Post and Cleveland Daily Press the
news sent me by secretaries and others.
[ was invited by the management Of
those papers to become state cores
pondent for peoples party and alliance
news and was told | could take charge
of the department, and whatever l
sent in would be published as l sent
it, without editorial supervision, ex-
cept alone that libelous matter could
not be published and that lack of
space might sometimes prevent.
Accordingly, l prepared circular
letters, which were approved by the
papers, and sent to the secretaries and
others, asking their help in making a
live department of peoples party and
alliance news.
1t went we'll for few weeks, and
then articles | sent the Post did not
appear. and there was no statement
that they were Ibelous Or that there
was lack of space. l could not afford
to have correspondents send me as
pointed letters as some of them did
and then be unable myself to keep my
promise to have the news published.
| was getting a good salary for the
work, but l at once sent i'll my resig
nation.
] make no charges against the sin
cerity of those papers. l know of no
daily papers in Ohio that have shown
the courage and independence that
they have, and | honor them for it.
But they. like all of us, feel the tre-
mendous social pressure of the eco
noInic system under which we live. 1t
has been said that there is some point
at which the strongest will break
down. That must be decided by each
one for himself.
The managing editor of the Post said
to me as reason for not publishing
all of what l sent: "You have no idea
Of the pressure that comes from the
business department against publish
ing rs much as we have done. 1t
doesn't pay"
If YOU do not understand what is
meant by ''pressure from the business
department" read the following Ma
tional banks circular" issued nearly
thirty years ago. and remember that
the boycott then established against t
all papers that do not support the
national banking system is still in
force.
NATIONAL BANKERS CIRCULAR.
DEAR SIR:-It is advisable to do all
in your power to sustain such daily
and prominent weekly newspapers, es-
pecially the agricultural and religious
press, rs will oppose the issuing of
greenback paper money, and that you
withhold patronage or favors from all
applicants who are not willing to OPP
pose the government issue of money.
Let the government issue the coin and
she banks issue the paper money OF
country, for then we can better protect
each other. To repeal the law Great
ing the national banks, or to restore to
circulation the government issue OF
money, will be to provide the people
with money, and will therefore seri.
ously affect our individual profits as
banker and lender. See your member
Of congsess at once and engage him tc
support our interests, that We may
control legislation. Signed by the
secretary. JAS. BUELL.,
147 Broadway, room 4, n. Y.
All, yes, it is the pressure of the bus
mess department that stands in the
way of the people, whose pockets arc
empty and whose homes are mortgaged
''It doesn't pay" to give the alliance
and the peoples party news.
Then, by the starving workman (
family, by the million of mortgaget
homes, hy the reeking, steaming tene
ments. human beehives of filth anG
| vice and destitution, by the stunte(
children that poverty drives to the fac
tories in spite of the mothers love OF
fathers pride, or the child labor law
| by the million and q balf of tramps
that stalk, ragged and hungry, through
| the land, we say that the farmers anG
the laborers should rise en- masse, ant
with old Andrew Jackson's solemn
oath thundered forth: "Then by the
eternal, Well make it pay to publish
| the news and the facts concerning ou1
homes, our firesides, and our children
| welfare"
Shame, shame, on the cowardly, ig
norant, Indifferent multitudes. Ha:
the blood of historic ages dried NJ
within their veins? Are we on the
backward sweep of evolutions cycle
bringing proud men again to the brut
isll condition from which Darwin say,
they sprang? Nay, even the dove, to
say nothing of the ioness or the ii
gress, fight iercely for the tiny hedg.
lings of the nest. Does the man par
ent care nothing for the children?
New York judge says: "There are mul
titudes, had almost said majority
of the families in this city to whom tn,
coming of two additional childre,
means inevitably boy for the peni
tentiary or girl for the brothel.
| Those conditions are closing like thu
coffin pail around the children every
where of the poor man, ON the farm OF
in the city. All, yes, and even the pa
pers that profess to be on the peoples
side dare not publish the tidings t.
the world, because of sordid worshi,
of almighty Mammon-the "pressur,
from the business department" forbid
| it,
Workmen! farmers! start your ow,
daily papers in the chief cities in Ohio
and throughout the land, and make i
possible for the truth to be told. lie
there be cyclone from the people
department that will make the pressure
from the business department unfelt
Shall the dollar lord it over you