The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-01

! that the cost Of hauling their grain t.
market should be reduced to low figure
Had the bill passed, it would have com
PEELED the railroad companies, in ordel
| to avoid bankruptcy, to have saved
themselves by reducing the wages O
laboring men employed in operating the
railroad employees united in monster
petition to the legislature, praying it no
to pass the bill.
The printers of Kansas are laborine
men, who have done more to develoT
Kansas than the farmers themselves
yet the branch of the legislature repre-
senting those farmers attempted to GU
down the wages of printers almost one
half, and did cut down the wages Of
laboring men and women employed il
the state Institutions, in order that ex
tortionate pay might be given to officer:
who belonged to their order.
These farmers contend as one of theil
"great principles for system of mon
ey loaning by the government to farm
ers, at rate Of interest lower than Car
be had by any other class, and under
which system no class but farmers and
land owners could receive government
aid.
These farmers demand, as another
''great principle" that the government
shall establish, at the expense of all the
taxpayers, great warehouses in every
county, where the farmers may store
their grain, and receive advances oil
money from the government on it, until
such time as a scarcity of grain in the
market forced the price sufficiently high
to satisfy their avarice. In other words
the government should supply the farm
ers with money to 1--we on. to enable them
TO realize price on their grain that
would double the cost of living to every
laboring man and to every person who
eats bread.
These farmers demand the suppression
of all trusts and combines by which the
cost Of farm machinery. binding Irvine,
or other articles used by farmers is in
creased; and vet, at every time when
wheat, and corn, and potatoes. and cat
tie, and hogs, are selling for better
price than they have for many years,
he farmers here in Kansas are forming
a trust for the purpose of forcing the
price of grain still higher, by withhold
ing it from market, and by its scarcity
augmenting the price.
In short, the demands of the farmers
in the Alliance, if carried to success,
would result in .oublng the price of
every article of produce they raise. thus
increasing the cost of living to the
laboring man: while the price of every
thing produced by every other class, in
Guiding the laborer, would be largely
reduced, in many cases more than one
half. The Farmers Alliance has never
yet attempted the passage Of law that
would benefit the labOring man, or any
other man except the farmer: and every
measure they advocate is such as would
increase the cost of living and reduce
the wages of the laboring man.
Another point upon which these farm
ers are in favor of justice and equal
rights, is exemplified in the boycott.
Whenever railroad company, trades
man, or newspaper does not do just ac-
cording to their ideas, their first thought
is to boycott them, by Withdrawing pat
ronage, and passing resolutions demand
ing that all Alliance men do likewise. A
newspaper may criticise the Republican
or Democratic party, or denounce it in
the severest terms, as the Alliance organs
love to do; but when a Republican or a
Democratic paper does the same thing
with the Alliance, it is an outrage, sin
against the Holy Ghost, and at once the
order goes up, boycott him. break him
Down,
And finally, while railing continually
against monopolies, these farmers are
he greatest monopolists in America.
They are monopolizing all the first-class
logs in the country, and getting them
nto the Farmers Alliance. They are
lie kind of hogs that are in favor of jus
ice to all men. and who do not ask for
lnything that they are unwilling to grant
o others-in hogs eye.