St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
The Farmers Alliance.

Whoever makes two ears of corn or two
blades of grass to grow upon spot OF
ground where only one grew before de-
serves better of mankind and does more
essential service to his country than the
whole race of politicians together Dean
Suitt.
IL is really refreshing to the soul of the
thinker to contemplate the few movements
of the prudent, industrious, landed veo-
many of our country. And what does 1t
mean? Yes, and what does it mean
There is an innate manhood in the tiller OF
sell. Since the fall Of the man Adam and
the blushing Eve. and the >pontsneous
blossoms of the fruits of Eden under the
Establishments of The footed boa. whose
curse was to crawl o, his belly till the end
of time, aud who still. carries as The only
species among the many formed snake
family his rudimentary legs (as the scient-
lists call them), under his gaudy and Shiny
skin-since the fall, man has launched on
to the great world farm. a full-hedged
monarch of the entire globe. a rounded-up
being, knowing good from evil; and as
worker, finishing master of this prolific
footstool of the Mighty Creator of the I'M
mum bered golden pattlns of the boundless
universe.
And what ought this decorator, this
adorner, this mighty master of the world
to do while developing thus g;eat round
farm? He ought to be the digni6ed states
man; the steering pilot of the ship of
Stats the club-armed Hercules. to regu
late the laggards of the field and the
drones of the hive and to say to them and
the coming crowds that roam amid the
trees of the forest and rob the fruitful
fields of their labor, HE that will not
work, neither shall he eat
As it is, our civilization would not have
been known but for the Cincinnatian re-
cruits who took their bands from the
pillow, and welded. amid the terrible dam
gers of the new dawn unsheathed swords
of patriotism, and shaped, like Pitt, the
mighty edcts for the preservation of the
State! And this is their destiny; not emily
as the impoverished saviors of the nation,
but as their choren fashions, their execu
tive servants, their honored civil captains.
And why should they become thus? 1t
is because their ears are close to the heart
of nature, and listen with the deepest
ouestioning s to it's everlasting inspirations
and declare to the world it's instructions
and wonderful revelations Be We wise as
the serpent oh, children of nature, SO
that sophistries of unproducing idlers
shall no longer charm your ears or sway
your experienced Judgments, and as harm
less as the dove that shall pleadingly -isug
the nations home to the peaceful fields OF
labor, of love- of eternal improvement IN
the dominion of national life, free from
the fostering curses of corruption and idle
ness and blear eyed and rotten passions,
that have reduced the nations into the
filthy stves of swinish debauchery and
crime.
And what good shall this change be to
the nation? 1t shall say to tile Iampered
officials of the nation and the kings and
princes of trusts and mbinations Come
down from your lofty mountains of su-
periority and artificial lives; be content
With the comforts, the necessities and the
unassuming virtues and moral diguities of
human life; leave your banquetings and
extravsgances to the moribund houses of
the passing away princedoms, and stand
as the wolthy representatives of the men
of labor, the surfeits of luxury may re-
main for the struggling strivers of suffer
ing industry, to lift them up into the
happy home band of human equality IN
physical wants and the spiritual and men
tai aspirations that proclaim men one in
purpose, in achievements, in fruitions and
in tae inspiring, ennobling and everlasting
| destiny.
| What mental heights of contemplation
and observation should be occupied by the
men of horticulture, and embedded, en-
bosomed and empowered in the frsgrsnt
blooming and undisturbed solitudes es
pecially in this, our bluegrass Ken
tucky. where the feathered songsters fly
and trip from bough to bough where the
trembling leaves of springtime are as
green as emerald and the roses bloom and
breath their fragrant incense and smile IL
beauty adown the years, and the green
carpets of lawns and fields and meadows
remind one of the land of the blessed
-. What lives, what man hood, what womanly
intelligence ar chastities ana usefulness
of industries, and beauties of form and
face and soul. should spring up here to
bless the advancing souls or men !
Behold here the alma mater and the EN-
broidered cradle of the advancing race
whose star of empire is in the hig hes;
empyrean amid the galaxies of the new
discoveriesl Here the eye can scarcely
open it's fIinged curtains but it beholds the
glory of the day, and the beauty, and tht
air, like wine, invigorates the weary form
of labor, and the evening zephyrs sine
their restful lullaby Observe the con
trast Cities built up of granite and gold
climbing flats and pentup tenemen
houses; costly palaces, basement dungeons
banqueting halls, pest houses; great tenn
| Piles of worship and lazar houses of weep
ing and despair; places of princely prid