The Progress., 1893-09-30
A HORRIBLE CRlME.

DrB-IHg thet time New Orleans super
iGutEment OF police was assassiDated
by = committee from the Malta gang
~hich Infested that city These were
SIlIed in broad day after jury had
made farce of the trial Later AL
sa.yt Terrogano, a sergeant of the
,ru0I.ce Gorce, was murdered by some
negro ,oughs, while numerous other
'GrImes have been enacted there cf
, aasnre which were revolving Ia the
extreme
Nor has lawlessness been cJnfiUpd
fo the Crescent City. Other localities
1u our State have furnished their
q Iuota Of horrible enactments which
'vxsre contrary to the laws of both
God ,aDs man, Shreveport herself
,d@vIng taken prominent place. But
all these, repulsiv'. blood-curdling
and heioous as they we're, pale into a
fnIut shadow in com srison with that
nj Captain John Pickett, president of
SAne State Farmers Alliance
N,s.' this gentleman has been
, syvSYy of would make the boldest
laetgt ,luail and faint from nausea.
ElT all the offences known to civiliza-
SIn1, or barbarism this act of Captain
P5ehGrs excels all. Society has been
Outraged 10y him. Manhood prosti-
6ntad. and the Commonwealth insult
qd
~Hst.pGfore we have had an exalted
. 1p5uion of him, but that was wheh
ne thought him a man of moral coul-
~,x,e, good Judgment and an exponent
OF Justice and manly department But
,-YuS- we have discovered him to be
.rrDliaSl of that nature which we de
nominate treason, which is punishable
WITH death. 1t is like tearing from
..uy heart cherished idol, but truth
forces us to tell of his unpardonable
action. which vas to ask the farmers
,Isx finis State to organize. Was ever
-st1rl arrogance and assumption OF
prsuilcge displayed or demanded be-
,ssore in the history of our Nation!
SWbat new born theory is this, that
Earners have any rights or preroga-
e5rrst How dare President Pickett
/: ryvs ex preston to such seditious sug-
xrsfsious as those? What reasonable
afswances are we encounterng IN
.Esss latter day? Who before has
.lsKpred to assume that farmers are
,xrght else except "hewers OF wood
sod drawers of water" in the public
.N9fairs of our State?
Why should farmer desire to vote
except ashe is toldi
NNsee care. President Pickett, o'
~sslse from your own pen will we fur
sursh proof to ostracise you from al
'rpsIisical or social parties. Do moi
-ssxre to again give expression to any
tdiug that will teach the farmer the
xzIue of his strength by organization
ar out of all parties will you bt
xsad. We want you to understand
skstShe politicians need the farmer'
Ssw their votes, but the right to organ
are aud act for themselves will not bt
Showed: and il you continueto teacl
chem TO organize for their own pro
4sction, you will be branded as pub
INC traitor and stigmatized by all de
fxsstable, narrow minded, bigotted
sssliish creatures called men, who ar,
srysng TO pose as statesmen, and as I
rnle have about as much sense as ;
hed bug and less courage.
President Pickett's stone has mad,
several dogs in the bunch howl anC
easy will continue to yelp as long as h,
~r-Sufinues the throwing process, ant
vxe bope he will until every miserable
political triekster is bruised and beat
.sD from public life.
His address, which some of the
uress seem to think criminal of
snse. and which is the missile thrown
szaong the CANNES, VIII be found il
sShfs issue of our paper aud The Proc
--xyss joins him in saying, ORGANIZE.