The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-04-16

1t is quite interesting to read the edi-
torial ''sllsh" now being indulgcd in by
the partisan papers of the north and
south. If the northern papers are to be
believed, the rebel brigadiers are again
in the saddle. This time they are mar
Shaling the hosts of alliance men prepar-
atory to SuppreSsing the negro and hurl-
ing the republican party from power
According to the fertile imagination of
these frightcned-Out-ofthe north
crn scribes. the so%alled brigad~rs are
constant and vigilant in their efforts to
prosc:yte the the republican voter in the
north and overthrow the supremacy of
that party in its very stronghold. Why.
the Variable Scamps, ''all booted and
spurrcd." invade the republican strong
hold and turn down majority of s., 900.
What is to be done? The people won't
listen to tariff discussion. What next?
The ''old soldier racket Vote as you
shot, The "bloody shirt But what?
Shades of the immortal Lincoln. They
won't listen to that either. But how is
it in the south? The scene is shifted.
Presto. change. The northern carpet
baggcrs are invading the sacred soil of
the .'sunny south" Listen to the song
of the metropolitan editor Of southern
newspapers, They are going to place
..black heels upon white neckS" They
are going to discriminate against south
ern Industries. They are going to pre-
cipitate race war. They are going 10
split the democratic party and let in the
northern carpet baggrrs. The tcrrors
of reconstruction are to be revived and
the horrors of the days Immediately fol-
lowing the war are to be re-enacted.
The ..od soldier" racket is to br re-
yived here also. But what. Shades of
the immortal Jefferson. The people
wort listen. They turn down Hampton
in South Carolina. They frighten Cor
don out Of his wits in Georgia. They
break the old machine in North Carolina
and capture it in Tennessee. Why this
revolution of sentiment and feeling? II
these lopsided editors would wake up ont
of their nightmare, pull few feathers
out of the wings of their imagination and
stick them in the tail of their Judgment,
and study the statistics relating to the rel
ative condition of the producer now and
twenty years ago, they would soon per-
ceive the cause of this change which has
come over the people within the last few
years. They have "asked Tor bread,
| and been given a stone: for fish and been
given serpent" They arc losing their
homes; their children are clothed in
rags and growing up in ignorance; their
property has dwindled to less than one
half its original valse; they see ruin,
poverty, wretchedness, starvation and
| industrial slavery staring them in the
face: the sight destroys the happiness of
| their waking hours: it diSturbs their
midnish slumbers; they live in 1erpct-
| al ,f ho n
| they are tired of nursing sectional
| hate, even when accompanied with
the soul-stirring tunes of ".Iohn
| Browns Body" or Dixie" to the end
| that the game OF plund-r may continue.
| They realize that the war is over, that
| the past is behind us: that we are one
people under one flag: that we have one
common cause, the prosperity OF our
whole country and the welfare of our
! posterity Hate is gone, Whoever at
| tempts to revive it is a back number, an
| enemy to the human race: let his name
| be Anathema The work of plumber
has gone far enough; the people cry,
halt. And they mean it. The feelings OF
| a man who realizes that he has been
| Numbered knows who
| did il. will not do to be tampercd with,
especially by those who have done the
plundering, or held the coats OF
the thieves who did it. The best
thing for politicians to do, the best
thing for plutocracy to do is to make
peace with the people whom they have
wronged by an immediate concession tt
their demands.
The temper Of the people is aroused
and they have no patience with any class
of individuals who attempt to mislcat
them or turn them from their purpose by
vile misrepresentation or an appeal tt
their passions. The day may come wher
the country will have cause to regre
that the passions of the people have beer
stirred to the extent they have. II WI
"sow to the wind,' we may expect Il
'reap the whrlwind.' Let justice b.
done. and ali is well: hut let the en-
croachments Of the money power con
tinuc and we only need to read the his
tory of the past to foresee the future o
the repnblic.-Si. Louis National re
| former.