The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-09
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
"The Farmers and the Coming Rev
OlutiOn,'
Discussed From the Baptist Pulpit by
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of
New York City.

Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr., according TO
| his usual custom, before the delivery If
his sermon. discOurscd to his large con-
gregation in New York city. Sunday
morning, on the following review Of car
rent events:
The farmers have always been the fore.
most representatives Of conservatism
They have overwhelmed the voice of the
OF the restless, dreaming city again and
agoin. On this rural content or stupidi-
| ty, men who believe in the divinity Of
that which is have long reckoncd with
| certainty
| At last the farmer has broken the spell
that has bound him. He has smashed
the traditions of centuries. lie has brok.
Gu the dash board kicked ont of the
shafts and is running away. The men
who have driven him with tight rein from
their traditional seats are being hurled
into the ditch and ground beneath the
wheels. 1t has been so sudden they hard
! ly know what has struck them. Some
say IT is cyclone. and will soon blow
over. They think it is too severe to
last. Old man Tradition rubs his hands
forces a smile through his chattcrinn
teeth, says he knows it is cold day now,
| but then he looks for warmer weather TO
morrow and things will move on as usu.
nj. Says he has seen granger move.
mcuts" before, you know, and nothin.
ever came of it. Aud yet while he rctails
10 you these stale observations. YOU will
note that from the restless uncertain man
nor in which he glanccs at the tlarkcu
ing sky, he is not sure of his own proph
rcy.
The trouble is, the people have begun
to :hink-thc masses Of the pcoplc--thc
old farmer, the patient beast of burden
throught the years Of plenty and pros
pcrity for others who have rcaped wha,
he has sOwed. When masses Of people
begin to think, it shakes the world
1t is this mighty movement of the
masses that is shaking, to-day. the very
foundations of the civilization of the
nineteenth century, and even now draw
ing in dim outline the new civilization of
the nineteenth century The time was
when all eyes were fixed on the great and
powerful. Kings and mobiles and mighty
warriors only could make history. Poets
sang only Of them and for them I.itcia-
,ure fawned i'll tile dirt at their feet. The
poet spoke thankfully of the crumbs that
fell from their table, and was proud to be
called slave of the great.
To-day all of this is changed. The eyes
,IS5 & shs Story 81 yhsiYa RaY c6ndtisn aR fhs
millions into new life. They are them
selves at last becoming conscious of their
capacitics and needs, aud with their Ca
pacjties as the lever and their needs rs
Tie fulcrum, they arc tugging away a
: thc very foundations of social, economic
and political life Our civilization, Il"
doy. ouivers from foundation to flag
staff beneath these assaults.
The nations of earth all feel this nc>
power. :.
l. The Car of Russia shivcrs in his pa
> ace nuts a new lock on the do I, add
another regiment to his body guard, an
: trembling awaits the next explosion |
: see whether he is dead OF alive.
J. The Emperor of Germany, seeing II
handwriting on the wall, has,ens
.make friends of the mammon oi IL
. righteousness.
Z, THE drum beat of the Salvation Arm
h' echoes around the world, calling ma
T. kind to the rescue of the submerged IN
: lions of England all the earth.
4, The Farmers Alliance OF America Is
Ell o;oontic wave of this world wide m"y
not only fhhse fihhe P555estult1hSo 55est II holds d IN ,1s han
lc tor this seneration-it holds the hopes
". unnumbcred generations yet unhor
o.: Their organization is superb. 1t is
III strongest social and political machl
hg built in America in the last twenty Yea
g Tbcy arc determined TO lift up the t'
IA. i'm, hosts and maka their life worth
e. living. They are teaching and will tea
we more cmphatically than ever, that II
i,,s, as honorable to hcw wood and d,
no water and plow mule, as to make la'
hat practice medicine. run II bank or n II
o' rud They have doubtless many cI'
'n' ideas as vet about law and iinS nee.
81 81 whose fault is it that they are lgno'a
.no They will learn as they 60 along.
thc surj demands will take reasonable sf
III in the red hot forge Of public debate
education. Demagogucs Will m'siead
n time: but they will kill two dcmago
Where they nourish one. Their
, Of danger lies in the possibility of scltisl
rue tripues in politics. in which their
was principles will be forgotten in a
state struggle for immediate power. Hoi
ming ;o;,1o, ,bov will &,
. "a this ration ultimately in triumph
.h. ycp,escnt the gtandest moral issues @
,aH age. Standing firmly on those is
"Po" they are as sure to win as that Gt
ad., sH.S and that good shall ultimately trl'
~ over evil.
to ef. eS Wv. r. Gre irving ever 10
TO at. o:u -, .ho Mod blows that the,
q the VIZ ~ tha;r sa;ls io NEE, It. take war
mt jn un miui aI bos onlv bcoun The
con- better seek shelter.