The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-02-04
CORRESPONDENTS.
Mr.. EDITOR:

MR.. EDITOR:
When friends enter into wOrdy
war upon any subject, no matter how
important the subject may be, they
re very liable to carry it beyond
being profitable to the general pub
lie, and when that point is reached it
should by mutual consent Of the COM
'atants, be dropped.
Now, my cuticle is reasonably thick
MI seldom ct on my ear at trifles.
For instance, Zone Who Reads The
SUM-" makes me say that wealth is
'lE Injury 10 the people, when what
lid say was, that taking the wealth
Of the wealth producers and gather
ng it together in the hands of syn-
icates, corporations aud trusts; and
y class legislation making million
tires out of the few; you placed the
snoney in bondage to the few and en-
iangered our free institutions. To
take it with perfect equanimity it
gives me another opportunity to
again enumerate the above rock
ribed truths, and they should be
terated and reiterated into the ears
f the sleeping industralists until
they awake and scan the gathering
clouds in our political HORIZON, from
which forked lightning IS shooting
in every direction. Both of my
critics would seem to imply that l
dlscoura re good farming, which l do
MT, but / am ready to admit that
there is small inducement for the
farmer to try to increase his yield of
wheat, t"r we all know but for the
failure of the crops in Europe, but
about half our crop would Lave been
needed tor consuml ton.
Now when the manufacturers of
any kin of goods, find that they
are pr oducinG SO much of that article
as to reduce the price below profit
able production, they combine and
curtail the output ard restore the
price. On the other hand. what do
the fool farmers do! If we fii.d that
we can not live eff of one hundred
acres of wheat, We next yearincrease
it tD two hundred acres, with the
hope Of ~, ttering our condition, but
our condition does not improve; and
though the "Farmer' and Zone
Who Reads The SUM- may continue
to declare tn t the farmers are pros
porous, the bald headed fact remains,
that few decades back the farmers
owned eighty erceLt Of all the prop
erty in the United States, and to-day
they nominally "wn twenty per cent,
which is nearly half covered by mort
gage. Here is prosperity that would
make political economist gasp for
breath, and ought TO make the
Farmer" who would try to Iull his
drousy neigh5ors to sleep with the
captilists siren song Of prosperity,
blush with shame.
Again 1 am accused Of advocating
leveling process. Now, if advc-
eating equal rights to all and especial
privileges to none, is leveling pro-
cess, then l plead guilty, other wise
not; for except by special privileges
NO man ever became II millionaire.
Again l am told, that while he
does not call me an ANARCHIST, my
political dogmas lead to anarchy.
Now if firm determination to or
pose the encroachments Of the few
upon the rights of the many, and by
calling theft an robbery by their
right names, constitutes an an
archist, then ! am an anarchist and
the world can make the most of 1t.
Abraham Lincoln siad in 1855: Il
see, in the near future, a crisis aris-
ing that unnerves me and causes me
to tremhle for the safety of my
country. AS result Of the war. cor
rotations have been enthroned, and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow; and the money power of
the~country will endeavor to proIong
it's reign by working upon the preju-
d ces of the people until all wealth s
aggregated in few hands and the