Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-10-25
best situated for observing the course
rf II. rs. e

DeSG sltuateu IOr OBSERVING the course
OF public opinion and the shifting Of
political feeling among the masses. thst
the Populist strength is already deolin-
ing rapidly from day to day. The only
hope of that party lay in fusion. Bat
the Democrats have had enough of that
dose. Fusion has gone out of fashion
everywhere In Minnesota, in the Da-
kotas, everywhere throughout the
Northwest, the party has put mp a
straight ticket of its own, and left the
Populists to founder in the mire. This
IS the part of wise party policy and 0:
true public spirit. Any decent Demo
GRAFT prefers Republican and any de-
cent Republican prefers Democrat in
Office TO crazy, law-dsfying, anarch-
lstic Populist. The day of fusion is
over; and as f r the Populists carrying
any state this year outside of the
Rocky Mountain tier, where patriotism
and even love of liberty have been sac
rliiced to the interests Of the mine own
ers, it is ont of the question In Mime
sofa the party is badly torn up The
tight between the representatives of
rival candidates for the senatorship and
rival aspirants to the position Of news.
paper representative of the organic alton
grows more bitter instead of becoming
composed. The latest issue of Donnelly's
representative is full of the foul
mouthed abuse for which he is noted;
but turned this tins with as much
energy against his Populist associates
as against the members of either of the
other parties. He roasts Tom Lucas
and J l.. Macdonald in good SHAPE, re-
CARELESS of the fact that the latter is
chairman of the Populist committee,
and entitled therefore to titular respect.
1t IS impossible, in the nature of
things, that the hoped for alliance be.
tween the farmers vote i'll the country
and the labor vote in the great cities
can be brought about. Either Of these
two elements has but to stop and think
Tor q moment to seq that its interests
are dian,etrically opposed to those of
the other What the farmer wants is
cheap laho' ana high prices fer
agricultural prolusts. Wat the city
uorlSinsas,slaa wants is high wages and
low rficss fos. the necessar:es OF
life. It is as useless to try to harmonic
these clements as to bring the American
Association Of Bankers and a free silver
convention into line on the money
question. Every farmer in the State of
Minnesota knows that the NJ ost serious
expense to which he is PIT is that for
the labor rsq1irea to help him put in
and gather his cops. The wages OF his
help have baen rising constantly for the
last twenty TO thirty years. They mnst
be paid ia cash. On the other hand.
the only source from which he can get
cash is the sale Of his farm products;
and these have been bringing him ia
less money year after year Anything
that would INCREASE this tendency must
be simply ruinous to him.
The aim of the labor unions, on the
other side, isto raise wages steadily in
all employm snts. Their work reflects
powerfully upon farm labor. For,
while the unions them selves do not in
clude farm workers, they establish
scale to which the farmer must conform.
II man feels that, by going to one Of
the cities, he can command certain
daily wage, even as a common daily
laborer, he will not remain upon the
farm unless at least an equal amount is
offered toshim. In the fact of the in.
creased wages in cities lies the explana.
ton Of the growing scarcity Of fan
labor and the decreased profits OF the
farmer. But the mechanic and artisan
is bent upon accelerating this tendency;
while any increase in the price Of -four
or beef or pork or anything that the
farm produces would be a serious mis-.
fortune to him. No thoughtful man
can fail to preceive that all the antag-
onisns that have been pointed ont be.
tween capital and labor are less serious
than those existing between tho man
who tills the farm and the man who
works in the shop or factory. It is
these irrecoHcileab.eel elements that the
Peoples party hopes to mite by appeal
ing to ignorance aud pseius lice. Bat.
the result could be only to make one
faction a cats paw to pull chestnnts
out Of the fire for the other. The legis.
slation that either asks would be rninous
to the other. And as the city element
lis the stronger, tho better organized
and the more determined, it is that
which would prevail in the end. Every
farmer who votes for the Peoples party
under present conai tions may rest as.
sured that he is voting for c.leapar
farm products and higher prices for
labor Of all kinds; not only farm labor.
but the labor employed III producing
the articles which he has to buy. neces-
stating higher prices for them. Let
him ask any Populsst how these con.
f1ieting principles ara to be reccnoiled,
and give to thus branch Of the question
some hours Of serious Thought before
Sleotio;s day zones around.