The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-04-16
THE COMING CRISIS.
LET PEOPLE PREPARE FOR II
BY ORGANIZATION.
Education In the Duties of Truo Citizen
ship Will bring About . Peaceful Revo-
iution-Organize -OrSani Ao-Orga anize.

Education In the Duties of True Citizen
ship Will Bring About . Peaceful Revo-
iution-Org ize--OrSanizo-Organiz
There was never a time in the history
Of our nation, when the minds of the
great producing masses were In so un-
present. Labor and capital are growing
constantly wider apart more and more
antagonistic to each other.
Organized capital is continually max
ing cncroachmcnts: unorganized labor,
through its various methods, seeks re-
dress.
Pinkerton thugs, hired by rich railroad
corporations to protect their rights,
shoot wantonly into inoffenSive women
and children to intimidate the people.
There are strikes from one end of the
great public railways to the other.
Human rights are invaded.
Business is delayed.
Property is endangered.
Arbitration is out of the question.
Appealing to the higher sense is as
'throwing pearls before swine
When two pigs stand feasting at the
same trough the stronger IS always
robbing the weaker one. Moral suasion
is thrown away upon them. There must
be a board in the middle of the trough
that the two may share evenly. This
board is the congressional and statute
laws. The congressional and statute
laws that we now have are Intellectual.
There is great hole made in the board
and all the feast is in the other end of the
trough. The weaker party squeals and
tries TO get over on the other side to
share with the stronger. The stronger
drives him back and holds him, arbi-
trarly, in his place.
What is to be done? Capital and
labor are at variance. Legislation is the
only true remedy. Through the enact
ment of statute laws the laboring and
producing classes can, il they will, snyol
utioniZe and reclaim our country from
the great financial maelstrom into which
it has been so mercilcSSly drawn. Their
united name is legion; yet they suffer
and submit. And why? They lack Or
ganization. One faction goes off in one
direction: another faction in another.
Many, knowing the great wrong to
which they are subjected go right on
voting each year upon themselves
greater wrong. Thus they scatter their
forces. Thus they prove their weak
ness: their inegectivenesS: ta2ir lack of
power to accomplish results.
There can be no reform without a
thorough and systematic revolution in
the statute laws. There can be no
change Of laws without a new set Of leg
iSlatorS. There can be no new legisla-
tors who will work for the people with
ont organization on the part of the peo-
pie.
Great corporations influence the peo-
pie TO elect the attorneys and agents Of
those corporations to state legislatures
and to congress. there to serve the in-
tcrests they are paid TO represent: at the
same time drawing pay from the people
for what they do against the people
When their terms as law makers expire
they. or others Of the same class are re-
elected.
The contiscation of the property of
the laborng element goes steadily On,
and the people growing poorer each year,
still refuse to unite, to organize, to act
as one man in the methods of elccting a
different class of men to Office: then find
fault because they, the people, suffer
from their own inaction.
Not 4 man or woman among their
number but knows of the great wrongs
the cause or the LEGAL remedy.
What. then. is the next step forward ?
Organization.
A harmonzing and a unifying of all
the various elements that constitute the
lahoring and producing masses.
The coming together for political work
| of every element that produces wealth
by producing wealth, rather than by
| contiscation Of property or wealth pro-
duced by others.
Of all who occupy places called homes
and who desire the Improvement of these
homes and the bettcrment of the condi-
tion of those who occupy them.
OF those who would preserve and ex-
tend civil and religious liberties, ard
who would stcadil- advance thought in
every direction that can bring spiritual
or mental growth, physical comforts and
increasing prosperity and happiness to
all, instead of those, who. by combina-
| tions and organization control the legiS-
| lative and administrative machinery of
the country and the volume of money
| and rate of interest, an overworked and
greatly oyertaxed Industrial element
| must pay as at present.
Casting aside all personal preferences
and preiudices and all uniting as one
| man for the common good of ALL
| There need be no more Pinkerton
| thugs, no more bullets and bayonrts, no
more bloodshed.
Only a little good practical common
: sense on the part OF the people.
| And the time is ripe for action.
| Are you ready to meet the emergency?
No.
! Only a cyclone can meet and destroy
another cyclone.
| Only organized labor can meet organ
! lied capital.
Until the industrial element of this
! country can rise above the prejudces
and political differences which keep
good men apart, organize and act for
the good of all. every change in political
affairs will be for the still further en-
! slavemcnt and degradation of every
| farmer, mechanic and other laborer in
this country.
| Organize and let this united organiza-
, tion elect its officers and march on 10
victory for all.-Inhic ID. Wearcr i1
1drdnce Thought.