The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-22
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The colored preacher Jasper declared
$ The sun do move,' but it does not. This
is not true ofihe Alliance movement. It
/" do move." Everywhere, even in the
"etfeteo east, the farmers are aroused and
1892 viii probably see such tidal wave in
politics as has never yet been seen in this
country.
The farmers are realizing their strength.
They haye been ground between the "Up-
per and the Neither millstone"-the poll
tician and the money lender-uniil patience
can endure no mo e. Hence the deter
mination to no longer be led by these parties
whose sole object is 10 bleed them of all
that can be obtained.
Almost every great thing accomplished
IN the world has been accomplished -or at
least inaugurated-hy crank, and sorue
cranks are the most sensible of men. Gal
lileo, Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson,
Morse, Secretary Chase, we're all cranks.
But it is not from such as t..ese the farmers
are in danger, but from political cranks who
join the order for one CT two objects, one
being TO advance their own interests, the
other 10 lead the Alliance into excuses that
will endanger its existance and enure 10 the
benefit of one or the other Of the late polit-
ical parties. Some Of these latter have
already gotten in their work.
But the farmers should know their own
strength. Without the vote of man not
engaged in farming or the owner ola farm,
the agriculturists would carry twenty four
states with 226 out Of APO electoral votes
With 3 per cent Of the other voters, they
would also capture the electoral votes oil
Illinois, Ohio and Maine, that is fifty.one
more.
1t has been said that the rural population
is decreasing and the urban increasing.
This is true only in the states where the
farmers were in a minority. There is no
decrease in the farm vote, and under the
new apportionment, which gives the cleo
toral college 444 members, the farmers can
elect 238 out Of 444.
In the twenty four states which the farm
ers cotnrol and in which they can elect 238
electoral votes of the next college, they can
also elect It's members of the next house of
representatives. In Illinois and Ohio they
can elect rs more, making 200 out of total
of 1856. In four years, that is, by 1895,
they can have control Of the senate and,
with their President in the White House,
have six of the nine judges Of the supreme
court, who believe as they do in regard to
the powers Of the nation being used for the
benefit of the people instead of for the ben
eft Of spectators, bankers and Wall street
gamblers.
1t only remains for the farmers of the
country to organize themselves, act together,
and the inevitable result will be that they
will beyond the shadow ola donbt, control
the legislation of the country. As they are
not the only class suffering from the legis-
lation which has heretofore been enacted, it
may be the policy of wisdom to unite with
other classes in general movement. But
that is for future consideration, and in a
subsequent letter the strength of the other
classes in the various states will be shown.
The first bulletin of The census bureau,
relative 10 farm mortgages, has been issued.
AS usual with all such papers, the attempt
has been made to hefog the statements SO as
to place them beyond the comprehension Of
the people. But these shall be properly
analysed and placed before your readers in
due time. One thing in this connection
should be stated now, the census commits.
sioner says, "Attention has been attracted
to the alarming extentto which usury is
practiced." That is what the farmers have
been saying for some years and at last an
examination has proven their statements to
be true.
The farmers and the working men-the
toilers-the creators of wealth-should re-
feet on the facts and consider whether they
will longer consent to put men in power,
who legislate to keep them in poverty and
give their hard earned dollars to those
"Who toll not, neither do they spin"