The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-01

The Rich Have Been Made Richer with
the FUN knowledge that It Would Make
the Poor Poorer--Is ldoIatry 10 Party
Worth It's Cost?
Starving In a Land Of PLENTY.
Starving in q land Of plenty
ina yr- at and growing natlOnl
Men ana wO,nen--uttle children
Cry ,DE out in desOlat.On.
Starving In u land Of plenty
Harvests rich and rip" ana Golden
Leap:Hg forth from fruitful acres
Safely stored III vaults that hold them:
Starving IN u land of plenty
Are whole families together
Turn thy tender ear. .. Father!
Turn u sprlHS this winter weather.
Starving IN a land OF plenty
Workess, where r.4. work Is needed.
Can 1t be tho iiLult o! freedom:
HAS cur system not surceeGed'
Starving n land OF plenty.
t@nlrkc!C-A mills, aud iactOrc, c!OStu3;
l.aiors !cE. Ons standing idle
Idle without wish or chOOsin;I
Storving in Il land OF plenty.
Hunger lines on haXGard faces!
Thousands tralnping on ana on
III search of work, to far-oT places!
Starving IN "a land OF plenty.
Many who We're sclf-slstaininS.
Forced by want, must turn to b-sgars-
Price At last ~ UNDERSTANDING
Starving in u land OF plenty,
Seek the back stree Us and the alleys.
S4ua!.d homes and sQti:,iid inmates
Lost pect that never rallies:
Starving IN u land Of plenty.
Are the wives and weeping mothers.
Little ones close cl1ngtnH to them
DO ye mark them, o. my brothers:
Starving IN d land OF plenty
See the woman and the maiden.
Standing 'twixt death and dishonor.
Seek the waters, sorrow laden!
Starving In a land OF plenty
sweeping streets In garments tattered-
What il chilling blasts are blowing:
5hiverlng, too, rs II 1t mnttered.,
Starving In a land Of plenty.
Good men some. and some degraded
Souls immortal all, God tells IA.
Though the bloom OF life BE- faded.
Starving in a land of plenty.
Milkiess breasts press pale-lipped babies.
Fam,shcd mothers try to still them
DO ye heed thein lords and ladies:
Starving in . land az plenty.
There Is menace. there i, danger,
Lest i'll building pauper classes.
Liberty be made stranger.
Starving in u land OF plenty,
statesmen, note the signs o! warning:
Nutterlng tones tell OF the tempest.
Shun Il people righteous scOrnlnS!
Starving il Il land Of plenty.
Give us wisdom. God. and tighten
Human hearts that sit in darkness,
Lead us liz the ways that brighten:
ELLA Dare.
The above pathetic lines we find in
the Chicago lnter-Ocean. Satlder
lines were seldom committed to the
cold face of type, a more unutterable
vail Of despair never tremblcd and
shivered upon northern wind.
And why this misery. this unwar-
ranted starving in land of plenty?'
II the InterO Ocean will take the trout
bic to study it own files of eighteen or
twenty years ago. it may learn, for it
was not always marshalleu with the
hosts of oppression. Once its voice
rang out sharp and clear in opposition
to the measures that have led to this
starving in the land of plenty"
We assert here and now. and We
defy contradiction or any grounds of
argument, logic or reason, that this
starving in the land Of plenty" has
been brought about designedly and
purposely to make the rich richer,
with full knowledge that 1t would
make the poor poorer. We do not
even accord the instigators of these
ting that they were mistaken rs to the
results that would follow their action.
Shev were not mistaken. They under
stood it. They could not succeed in
the one without producing the other
1t was not an experiment. The same
kind of legislation had been had in
England three-quartcrs of century
before. The saIne gigantic fortunes
were built up, and the same despair
ing cry Of starvation swept over the
land--it is there yet, has settled down
toll Of starvation pittance, while their
lords and masters. the dukes and
mobiles, revel and tatten above them.
1t began in England in 1916, in the
abolition Of the Scottish one pound
note, corresponding measurably to our
greenback; it proceeded through all
the graduation OF contraction and the
concentration Of the wealth Of the
country into the hands of the few. un-
its damnable schemes into other coun-
tries.
1t began in this country with con-
traction OF the currency, the destruc-
ton of the greenbacks, replacing them
with bonds OF tine false and hvpocriti-
cal claim of return tc specie pay
ments-a pretense of thing that has
never benefited a living soul hut the
gold gamblers. and incidentally. all
who have fixed salaries or incomes. 4
part OF the scheme also was the act Of
1869. pretending to strengthen the
public credit ut 4 time wien that
credit was better than it had ever been
ON earth, the real pur; ose being to
make the governments obligations
gold debts. anil thus add to the value
of gold in the hands OF the gol,,
brokers. 1t passed on through the
various reiunding acts. leading to in
creased issues of bonds, and sill en-
,haneing the value Of gold. Prices
were .-oiner down all this time. remem-