The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-15
THE FARMER MUST GO.
HE HAS SOLD OUT HIS BlRTHRIeHT
And IL in Bondage to the MIL Owner-Reci-
proclty IL But scheme to Further
the Machine Mans Interests at
the Farmers Expense.

shares-a total OF Oh, 1Ol tenant farmers.
The total number OF tenant farmers in
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is
1,069, l27.
If the 574,222 Irish tenant farmers
should be compelled to share their crops
equally with their landlords, as 702, 244
American farmers must, such an outcry
would go up to heaven as was never be-
fore heard in the world.
II the 414,S04 English tenant farmers
were required to do it, they would take
only from thirty-six to fortv-eight hours
in which to wipe out the whole system of
land teuures. The greatest share ever
asked of them was one-fourth.
This condt ton has been brought about
with the consent and at the desire of the
republican farmers OF the country, who
have heartily approved and supported
the conspiracy entered into by the chiefs
of their party with the plutocrats TO
change this free republic into plutOcracy.
In pursuance of this conspiracy q repub-
lican congress
!. Gave in two years TO a dozen cor
porations over two hundred million acres
of the best farming land in the country,
and locked up for plutocratic purchase as
much more, in alternate sections.
10 lt,OUO Vi
protection for the product of their ma
chinery from the competition of American
farm labor.
8. Increased the value of machines and
plant and decreased the value of labor
and all products OF labor by demonetizing
silver.
4. Decreed that Europe, now paying us
for our surplus farm products in Spanish
American checks Tor bills of exchangel,
given by Spanish-America for European
mill products. which, when transferred TO
us, we use TO buy Spanish-American tropi-
cal products, shall be deprived OF these
| checks by supplying Spanish-Ame
with American machine products, and
that the payment of these South Amerl-
can products shall be transferred from
American farm labor to American ma
chine labor. The Brazilian note now
sent from Rio to London to pay for Brit
ish cloth, then sent from London to New
York to pay for American wheat, and
finally sent from New York to Rio for cam
collation. after payment in Brazilian coffee,
must hereafter be sent from Rio to New
York to paw for American cloth, and re-
turned from New York for cancellation
after payment in Brazilian coffee. The
American farmer must find a new custo-
mer and new market for his farm prod
ucts-if he can. The one he has now must
go to the American mill-owners.
Thirty years ago, when this conspiracy
was formed. we boosted that every Amerl-
can owned his own farm. and we called
upon the oppressed to come from every
nation, to come from every way, believing
| Uncle Sam to be rich enough to give them
| each and all farm. The census OF 1890
will show one-sixth the farmers of the
United States reduced to vassalage, ten
| ants at will, farming on shares, giving
one-half the crop to the landlord and
one-haif the remainder nominal owners
| only, mortgaged to the full value, strug-
! Cling against foreclosure.
The putocratic machine-owners have
| invaded farming. So rapid has been this
| invasion that, while in 1870 there were
only Is. S73 farms between 500 and 1000
acres, in 1880 there were 1892; and Of
! farms over ] 900 acres, 1920 in 1870 and
| 2S,57S in 1880.
These bonanza farms range from 500 to
| 500, 900 acres. They have no homes and
no home life-only barracks where few
| hireings live for a few months in the
year. Machinery and animals do the
work, and the only labor is for machine
tenders and herders. When the harvest
is over these machine-tenders are turned
! adrift, dozen of them not having earned
enough 10 support one family for year,
and a new gang is hired when the next
harvest comes. The land that would sup
| port fifty families in comfort does not fur
nish wages to support five, and furnishes
employment only for tramps without fam
| lies.
1t is the machine labor on our 100000
bonanza TRANSFORMERS to the capitalists
owning them-that has brought the cost
OF an acre of wheat to $500, OF corn to
S3.15, of barley and oats to S2.87, as
against four times that cost when cult
waited by men and not machines.
The plutocrats who have bought this
government from the republican farmers
of the country-paying for it by pander-
ing to their ignorance and their bigotry-
do not intend to let one independent
farmer remain upon the land. Plutocracy
has enslaved wage labor. 1t proposes to
enslave and will enslave our independent
farm labor.
The plutocratic mill-owners demanded
and obtained in 1868 a decree that the
surplus products of nearly 100000 farm
ers shall be shut off from an exchange
abroad for products that will compete
with American mill machinery. The
screws which at first were hardly felt have
been put on harder and harder, and now,
| LIE
are tenant farmers only, while twice that
number are too heavily mortgaged to hold
on for five years more under the sharp
turn given by the Mckinley tariff. Can
any man doubt that the order will be
fully carried out, that our farm surplus
will be destroyed and this number forced
out of farming? Can any one point a
way of salvatiou-A method OF escape for
them?
The plutocratic farm owners, using ma
chinery entirely, who have driven the
cost of producing wheat down to Is cents
per bushel, will continue the battle with
those who remain. Farm by farm will
pass into their hands until a few thousand
men will own the farming land of the
United States. and the villeinage of the
sixth century in Europe will be repeated
here in America.
Reciprocity a Bunoo.
Reciprocity is a bunco. It's avowed OBJ
ject is 10 have the 500, 100000 in tropical
products annually sent from South Amer
lea TO this country Ito pay the notes held
by our American farmers or their agents,
and taken by them in payment for their
farm products sent to Europe) paid for in
American machine products; but its real
OBJ ect is not so much to steal this small
market from the farmer as to steal his
home market Here is the balance sheet
| for 1900.