The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-07-27
WORDS OF WARNING.
A DEADLiNE ESTABLISHED FOR
CONSPIRATORS.
.he Right O. Sclf-GOVernment at Stake
Shall the People or Money Kings Rule
4 strong Protest Against u Forced Gold
Standard.
Public Patience Exhausted.


Public Patience Exhausted.
Bancroft. Nebraska, correspon-
dent sets forth the situation in the
following strong language: To John
Sherman and Grover Cleveland: Over
$4,000 men in the state OF Nebraska,
most Of whom are capable of bearing
arms, have taken a most solemn oath
that they will die fighting before they
will submit to be robbed by being
forced to pay debts. interest and taxes
in dearer money. or be disgraced by
pal ing in a cheaper money than the
money of the contract.
Furthermore you are undertaking to
decide the most momentous political
question that ever confronted a civ
ilized nation, without submitting that
question to u vote of the people. In
the last campaign every one of your
speakers declared that the financial
question was not Il question at issue.
\ large majority of the members of
ho;h Houses of Congress were elected
for the sole purpose of reforming the
tariff. Now, through the agency Of
| financial literary bureau located in
Wall Street, you have instructed the
bankers;in every state in the Union,
and all the daily newspapers which
your syndicate owns: on certain
specified day to flood Washington
with petitions and demands for an ex
ira session of Congress to establish Il
new money standard in this country,
and pass laws that will affect the vel
fare of every human being residing in
the United States. This demand is
made exclusively by bankers and
few great commercial organizations
whom the bankers could ruin in week
by the refusal of credit. The agricul-
tural and labor interests, being ma
jority of three-fourths of the people,
have not sent even one petition ind
are opposed to any such laws as YOU
propose to enact. BY this device YOU
propose to govern this country 10y a
very small minority of the people, and
thus undermine the constitution and
destroy Government by majority.
You propose that syndicate of bank
ers. largely made up Of foreigners and
aliens, shall, by these Vaccinations,
enact the laws that shall govern q
heretofore government people.
We give yOu fair warming that So,
600 men in this state alone, prefer to
die fighting on the field of carnage
rather tnan to submit to laws enacted
through the agency of aliens, and
which have never been submitted to us
in any manner for rejection or APP
self-governing. We will not give up
.1,%r. /,
to raise hand in self-defense. To
every law enacted by the consent Of a
majority of the people We will give
loyal adherence, but laws in direct VIC
lation of the known will of the people,
which have never been proclaimed in
any party platform, or openly advocat-
ed by any political party or discussed
in any political campaign the enact
ment of which has been secured by
brides of money or Office, is the de-
struction Of free government and the
enslavemert OF the people. Eighty
thousand of us say to you: We prefer
death to enslavement.
II YOU had announced to the people
before your last election that YOU in
tended to call an extra session of Con
| Sits'S AoA VIZ l'"A k'ci'S Va CAACtAhs 11A " :
to stop the use Of silver as money and
to change the present bi-metallic
standard of the single gold standard,
and make money permanently dearer,
and the people had voted on that issue
and elected YOU, whatever loss it might
have caused lis We would have sup
p rted the laws thus enacted with tn c
last drop of our blood, until they were
lawfully repealed. But both Of your
platforms We're understood by the peo-
pie to mean bi-metallism. Your pres
ent plan proves that You We're liars and
; traitors. that vou were in scheme to
overthrow free government, and that
You intended that majorities should
!. no longer rule in this nation. To the
principle that all laws must have the
assent Of the majority of the governed
eighty Thousand of Us pledge our lives
and our sacred honor.
No, In II Now.