The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-14
LET US GET TOGETHER.

men, and suggesting in very forCIble
manner the fact that time is being
wasted and money and energy equan
dered in maintainingso many different
organic 4tions of the various industrial
classes that time and experience have
shown to be moving in the same direc
tion with q common obj~ct in view
There is wisdom in this advice.
Just now there is great solicitude ex
pressed by editors, Senators and Con
gressmen about the various Organiza
tiOns Of the working mon They are
advised not to strike any more These
organizations are a good thing and
should be encouraged, but they must
not meddle with politics, and they
must not combine with other labor or
ganizatiOns for that purpose The old
time political tricksters of the old par
ties know that they are perfectly safe
so long as they can keep the laboring
men split up into forty Or fifty socie-
! ties, with no connection between them.
and with their members bound to the
old parties and their constitutions and
by laws binding all the members to be
and remain neutral il politics and re
igion; that is TO say, they shall have
nothing to say or do about earth or
heaven or the things pertaining there
| to
AS Pos derly says: IF you strike
you are an anarchist; if you vote as
you talk, you will disrupt your organ
IL atom "
Has not the time come when the toll
ers, the creators of al wealth should
say we are one and will work ana vote
! together, whether our labor is on steel,
iron, wood, or On the farm, or in any
ether field of labor? The body of labor
is one body, and no member OF that
body can suffer or receive a benefit
without the whole body suffering or re-
! j0icing with it. The great trouble IN
| the past has been that VIXEN The time
Of election approaches the whips Of the
old political parties enter all the vari
| Gus organizations of the labOrirg men
| and press them into the ranks of the
old formations and form them into two
lines, opposing each other on the old
issues and on the old lines of battle
Laboring men have never appeared to
see that while professedly they have
nothing to do with politics, practically
politics has everything to do with
them, and disrupts them for It's own
purposes, arraying them against each
other for the benefit of politicians and
parties AS long as parties are able to
do this they will disregard the inter
ests Of the worker, and tramp!e upon
the rights Of the laboring man.
The history Of the past clearly shows
this as the outcome of the policy of
first dividing and then conquering the
mighty host Of laboring men, and af-
terwards driving the spoil ''by addi
tion and silence" among the politicians,
miIIionaires, land graobers and char
tered public and private monopolies,
exercising public function, and exclu
ding all competition. The unwisdom
and folly of this mode of procedure was
well illustrated in a speech made by
member of Congress during the session
of Congress preceding the one that has
Just expired.
The exact language is not remem-
bered, and there is not ready access to
the record, but its substance is cor
rectly given, and its moral and practi-
cal lesson is very clearly Set forth IN
the speech. After the discovery of
South America and its settlement by
the Spaniards, the first settlers brought
over from Spain small herds of don
keys, properly called now jack asses,
and politely John horses, Spain being
then as now, famous for the excellence
of the breeds of these animals. Alarge
portion of these South American cOun
tries were spread out into ''Pampas, "
or as we call them here ''prairie5. AS
the country was now very sparsely set
tied, and the grass on these pampas
abundent during all seasons, it come
to pass that some Of these donkeys as
we'll as horses, strayed into these grass
lands, and multiplying rapidly under
favoring conditions, soon formed large
herds They were often followed and
beset by ravenous wild beasts of prey;
suckers, wolves and tigers, and in or
der to protect themselves and defeat
their enemies, they always, while feed
ing on the plain, stationed sentries or
outdoor guards on some near eminence,
and when these sentries saw the enemy
approaching, they gave the alarm
watchword or danger signal to the