The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-24

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en-, galley-slaves; tnd that out of their
potatoes and CORN and cows and pigs
and sweat and toibt they will come
cheerfully, joyfulty, and bring him a
share Of their money! so that he may
write articles to shoiy them that they
are just the jolliest, happiest. best-fed,
best-clothed set ofIeElig htened Ameri-
can citizens that ever danced jigs to
the tune of Yankee Doodle.
/ Isn't it pretty?a And a great many
of those chaps, sthat get up at 4
o'clock, and bring ja the kindlings
with lantern, WILL 30 out and vote to
perpetuate their condition until the
end of their lives.j They sort of admit
that they are not made of the same
choice porcelain as the lawyer, and
the merchant, and the editor, and the
preacher. and the miller, and the ma
chine man; but are moulded out Of
coarser kind of cheap clay; and that
they ought to be happy to work like
slaves that others may dawdle and
snore and feast and enjoy themselves.
Christ said, there are vessels of h on
or and vessels of dishonor," and the
old-party farmers are tickled to Death
to think that Christ referred to them
when he spoke of the latter class.
They are the nameless utensils into
which the injustice Of the ages has
been poured, and which feel happy to
hold it!
Now there are lots of farmers in
Douglas county who will be really
proud to scrape together enough, out
of their little earnings, to keep the
editor of that POst-News alive for an
other year, by subscribing for his choice
sheet; so that he can assign them to
their proper lot in life,-four O'Clock
and the lantern and all the rest of it.
And he says that the Cincinnati of
Douglas county will learn that they
can't make something out of nothing
Well, this may be true. But nature
came as near to it when she created
the editor of the Post-News as it was
possible to come without performing
an absolute miracle. And now if the
o'clock farmers will only keep him
alive everything may be happy yet.
sOh, brother farmers! Why should
you be the pariahs Of, society! To be
told by editorial whipper-snappers,
who live off you, that your lives must
be lives of ceaseless toll and suffering!
And to sheer at your calling and mock
the name of the grand old Roman
the matchless commander of men, to
whom all the city thingumbobs fled in
their hour of mortal terror, before the
conquering Kqui and VOlsci. Do
these men not remember that there
was time, in the grand old days, be-
fore this age of sharks and sharpers
and usurers, when the title farmer"
conveyed the highest honor. Was not
Washington farmer, and Jefferson,
and Madison, and Patrick Henry. and
| Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay, and
Daniel Webster, and all the rest of
the brightest luminarieS Of our glori-
GUS past? On what kind Of evil days
have we fallen when the word "farm-
other country but this the landowner
is the gentleman,-th aristocrat
Here he is serf, who is to work for
| sixteen hours out of the twenty-four,
| to maintain an army of sl1alewags and
plunderers; and then be Knocked and
insulted by them.
When will the farmers get their
eyes open and demand their share Of
the blessings Of life?
| VIII the time come when the owners
of the farms will not have to rise at
o'clock in the morning, and bring in
the kindlings by lantern-light: but the
fellows who live off them will have to
do the liveliest kind Of hustlings to
get enough of the farmers bread to
maintain life? Why should not those,
who annually add one hundred million
dollars to the wealth of the state,
have chance to enjoy the good things
Of this life,-quiet slumber. the luxur-
les of civilization, travel, domestic
happiness, books, newspapers, and
that long twilight evening of pleasant
existence which comes to those who
have not been overworked? Why
should the fellows who produce moth
ing, smoke their cigars and read
novels, with their heels cooked up in
the air; and tell the farmers to rise at
O'Clock and hustle with the cows and
pigs? Why are most of the oyster and
fruit cans found around the back
yards of the men who don't add a dol
lar in the year to the real wealth of
the commonwealth, but are mere
parasites on the body polite?
l tell you, brethren, all this thing
needs reconstruction, and the Peoples
party, with your help, will do the re-
constructing. I'D.
SSnu In o.usis l.A ,A> Ma cIitlon
| of the Representative for Oct. 81
| with the cash. They should reach us
by Oct. 2S if we are to address them.