The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1892-05-04
A WORD TO THE WHEELERs.

A WORD TO THE wHEELERs.
The HERALD is not insensible to
the responsibility which the Peoples
party claims, both by reason of its
numbers and the character of its
members. Many of the leaders of
the movement are good farmers
honest men and men who have long
been among the sensible class who
take their county paper and who are
and have long been the personal
friends of the editors of this paper.
Therefore, both because they are
sensible and because they are our
friends, we feel that we can come to
them in candor and with them dis,
cuss matters Of so great common in.
terest as those which now confront us.
We are not blind to our own in
terests. We know that upon the
prosperity of the farmers of this
country must inevitably depend the
hope of every institution which finds
a home among us. We have no in.
terest that is not the farmers inter-
est. We would be greater fools
than Samson should we by any act
or speech of ours do anything to de-
tract from the success of our farming
community and thus, while aiding to
crush our neighbor, also pull the
temple down upon our own defense
less heads. We state these sugges.
tons of the inseparable interests
which the HERALD holds with the
men who are its patrons and yet
who may differ from us in political
way, even to the extent of belong.
ing to the Third Party-we state
them that we may the more candidly
come to the discussion of our com.
mon interests, and we believe that
however much we may differ as to
policy, we shall not fai to be credit.
ed with sincerity by the sensible
gentlemen with whom we may differ
in views.
That the farmers and laborers of |
the West and South have for years
been laboring under conditions which
have brought them at last to con-
dition verging upon vassalage, there
can be no doubt. In our short life
time we have observed the prices of
our farms and their products go down
and down, until in many instances
prices have fallen below the cost
Of production. OF the outrages which
have been perpetrated upon us in
the name of law, there is and
can be no dispute. Pernicious legis,
ation, dictated by those to be d.
rectly benefited, has marked with
signal uniformity the conduct Of
public affairs these last twenty
years, eliminating, as we conceive,
n the burdensome Tariff law known
Is the Mckinley bill, which, with
is terrible exactions laid upon our
clothing, our agricultural imple-
nents and our tinwdre, takes mil
ions from the farmer to give to the
manufacturer.
For this reason we can understand
low Republican, observing the
'vils which that party has wrought,
would be ready to turn from it to
my promise Of relief. But for
twenty-five years, through constant
md often overwhelming defeat, the
Democratic party has had its face
ct sternly against these evils of
which you complain. There has not
'een within that time an hour in
which Democracy has controlled the
Government. Confronted by a
triumphant and powerful party
which was entrenched behind the
rejudices born of the war and fur.
ished with unlimited wealth by
hose whom it was pledged to
protect" the Democracy has
TODD for quarter Of century
ghting back the encroachments of {
he Republican party, whether they
anne in the form of Force Bills to
trike at the very root of our liberty, !
r of Mckinley Tariffs, to levy trib-
tie on the products of our toll.
At last the people were aroused,
nd in the late elections the hosts of a.,
rejection were put to fight. Eco /
omical public service and low taxes t
ecame the battlecry of an army /