The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-03-24
THE ADVOCATE.
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Arise, Look. Ponder, Act.

1t is very gratifying to know that a
paper of such wide circulation and
reputation as The Enquirer has taken
such a bold stand in defense of the
farmers organization. Your action
in the matter should gain for your pa
per thousands of new SUBJ cribers.
MAY it long live to defend the right
and redress the wrong. The farmer
has been the pack horse long enough
the under dog, as Eli Perkins calls
him. Eli talks big to the Journal re-
porter about the good times coming,
and the farmers all going to glory by
and by. Yes, all going to glory
through high protection been going
that way long time, and we amt
got there yet.
Bosh, Ely. Can't get that bug in
our ear. You had better be singing
psalms to a dead mule, we have been
fed on rotten eggs long enough. The
farmers realize that the tariff is only
an indirect tax on the consumer, and
if the good times come, as Eli predicts
they will, it will be through organiza-
ton, and not through high tarsff laws.
The Republican party has been prac-
ticing salvation through high tariff
protection for the last twenty-five
years, and none but the elect have re-
ccived the blessing, viz: manufact-
urers, bankers and corporations; the
. ''under dogs" having been left to
ss now ooesS-Sfe borct The doctrine Of
election won't do in this enlightened
age, we want free salvation to all.
Don't talk to us farmers about relief
from our false industrial system, when
we realize that bankers, manufact-
nrers and corporations have grown
rich and corpulent through unjust
discrimination.
No wonder the Alliance is coming
to the front with vim and energy
that is making the Doodle politicians
tremblc with fearful forebodings
when they realize that nearly all the
wealth and industry of the country
are being rapidly centralized into the
hands of the English capitalists. In
view of this astonishing fact organi-
cation on the part of the farmers is
imperatively necessary, realizing, as
they do, that they are completely
hemmed in by monopoly and the Gen
eral Government, with her loving
arms around the money-loving imps.
The fact is, the times are out of joint,
and the best method of adjusting
them seems to be the order of the day.
szzs - - Z $50 =. y. y .,lv
we are moving is to comiifN
serious error. There is cause TO- -
the farmers grievances, and the cause 7
is obvious. Monopoly and class legis-
lation cause the contraction in our
currency. The General Government
has failed to protect her agricultural
interest, which is her chief element Of
strength and stability. No protection
for the under dog, left out in the cold,
exposed TO all the cold blasts of mo.
nopoly. Our markets in the hands
and under control of the money kings,
who have scaled the price Of all COM
to suit themselves, causing a
contraction of our currency. Hence
onc widespread and alarming condi-
ion of agricultural depression.
/ am not opposed to the free coin
lge of silver or the issue Of legal ten
ler notes to do the business of the
country, but under the false industrial |
ystem the money kings will gobble |
ID the last dollar of it, within three |
ears. And now last, but not least, s
he money sharks are plastering our
ountry with mortgages; have got Il
Dan agents established all over the g
ountry loaning money to our farmers Ii
n tirst-class mortgages; got control u
f our industries, and when they get II
Ontrol of the farmers they will reduce
8 to serfs and tenants as they did IL
nc poor Hindoos. Old Britain could 81
OF snbdue us with the bayonet, and II
ow she seeks to buy us out through is
'crecy, operating through trusts and cl
'an associations, our own people act VI
lg as their agents. Flee from loan CT
gent, brother farmer, as you would Il
'om an Infatuated lion; it is no lon IL
er the wolf at the door, but it is the SC
on in among us, ST
Arise, stand by yoXkassts, Farmers e'
.lliance, the time for decisive action i,'
ls' come delay is ruinous. Our in 81
ustries and markets are in the hands a.
mOnopolists, with the power to M \,
'gulate the prices by their own arbi- VI
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