Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-07-21
Letter from Farmer JuniuS.
TO MY FELLOW CITIZENS

10 MY FELLOW CITIZENs:-
Again I return to my text, the
DonnelIy calamity gospel which
since my last letter has been incorpo-
rated in the platform OF the calnln-
ity party that met in convention
at Omaha. 1.-The newspapers are
subsidized or muzzle.l, public opinion
silenced, business Frustrated, our
homes covered with mortgages, Ia
Dor impoverished and the land con-
centratinS in the hands OF capital
ists." Now anyone but u denl,l-
gogue whose business it is to mislead
the public to satisfy his own selfish
ends. knows that the above sentence
is a lie from beginning to end Free
dom of speech and freedom OF the
press have always been enjoyed by
the citizens of this country and are
guaranteed to US in the first amend.
ment to the constitution. Every
body is free to criticise, malign and
even lie about the government all he
chooses. The acts of every public
man from president down may be
criticised by the humblest citizen. No
one will be arrested and cast into
prison for cursing the president of
the United States Anybody who
reads an alliance paper knows, il he
knows anything at all, that the
newspapers are not muzzled. Are
thay not free to print all they want
to, criticising our government and
I.,xx fO hnS hx,s, ,,.ks t., A1,x>
Great West muzzletl? 1t might be
subsidized but it is certainly not
mnzzled. Public opinion in this
country is given free expression.
Why we are even SO liberal that we
extend to anarchists. the arcl, enc
mics OF all government, liberty and
law, permission to air their views.
Donnellv and others Of his stamp
may dtnounce the great statesman
and honOretl senator from the great
state OF Ohio, John Sherman, and
call him an '';,rcll-fiend" without fear
OF molestation. TO say that public
opinion is silenced in this country is
to inter Il bare faced liz. That may
be true in Russi;t but not in the Unit
ed States. That business is pros
trated is another f,lsehOod. The
country has never been more pros
porous than it is today. aud there
are fewer failures in proportion to
business done thnn ever before. The
mortgage scare is always advanced
by the calamity hOwlprs, and yet in
no country i'll the world do the la
borers and common people own in
their own right as many happy
homes rs in the United States. IL
other countries it is almost impOssi-
ble for Il poor man to earn q home
OF his own in u whole lifetime. The
mortgnge statistics Of tile last Gems
lis show that most of the mortgage
indebtedness in this country has been
incurred in building new homes, max
ing improvements ON old homes, buy
inc more lind or making other iln-
prOvesMel,ts. The money that has
been advanced for these purposes is
not always tile money Of capitalists
either, but represents the combined
earnings Of lnbore.s and farmers in
older communities. Instead Of wnit-
ing until he has earned enosgh mon
ey to buy IL home the young man
will buy one with borrowed cnpitnl,
and trust tn success in the future to
make the payments. And he geler-
ally succeeds. Every honest, tenn
perate and Industrious man in Mar
shall county, whether his farm i.
mortgaged or not. is better off nnd
is worth more money than when lie
came here Farmer .Jnnius makes
this statement without fear 0f con-
tradiction. In spite Of drought and
short crops ut times all have pros
pered in this county. When the cal
,,mity lowlpr comes around and tells
you that you arerohbed and all that,
ask him how many days honest Ia
Dor he hns done since he came to the
county, then how much property he
owns, next To what extent he is i'll
terested in politics for himself, and
then draw your own conclusions.
FARMER JUNIUs.