Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-08-30
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years, noting tho growth of the
country in population and wealth to
show how each generation added to
the dangers, from the rings and
tricksters, how the power Of money
has gradually driven back the people
until by combinations aud monopoles
and the moneyed rings of the country
dictate laws aud control Legislation
in this interest," would be an impossi-
BILE task.
The public domain has been recls-
lessly given to spectators, the public
treasury has become the bank on
which the gamblers Of Wall Street
speculate, aud while the people
wrthe under heavy taYaton they
have seen their servants reaching
deeper down into their empty pockets
for salary steal Patronage has be-
come the machine TO execute party
will, to reward the claims for political
suOterfuge and chicaueory,
The Bidders, the pweeds, the Pom
eroys have ruled, not with a rod OF
iron, but with money aud official pat
ronage, Ii it surprising that the
people are demanding change?
II
1t is useless, sir, for men to say
that there ID nothing the NATTER that
the farmers of the whole country are
laborng under " deIuson, that this
great organization Is a force. 1t has
received Ia the past and may expect
TO receive in tho future all the sneers
aud opposition that malice and fraud
can invent, The organized cliques
and rings, political aud financial, will
continue to give it the most consistent
aud united opposition. Why, we ask
is tins persistent aud intense antag-
onlsm? Why are the farmers not
permitted to raise an organization for
their own protection aud advantage,
without arousng bitter opposition?
Why Is every effort yet made by lab
orng people met with rdcule and
denuuciauon? What is the meaning
of all farmers movements? What
are the causes that led to its wonder
full growth?
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In the great west here, it is the
first protest against dong all the
work while others take all the profit.
1t IL with us simply the first express
cd determination to think and act for
ourselves, without the aid or hind
rance of others When year after
year we can witness immense for
tunes accumulated upon the handling
of our products, three or four classes
of citizens living upon the profits
which are made between the producer
and consumer, when we can witness
a systematic combination to secure
our staple crops, reaching from the
east to the west, which places the
farmers of the country at Its mercy
and makes it q necessity for the pro-
Queer to take less THAI the cost OF
production, even when he knows that
the supply is not equal to the de-
mand, has it not become the plain
duty of every producer to defend
himself? Have we not seen these
common place facts every year?
Have we not been made to pay Il llv-
ing profit TO all with whom we dealt?
A profit which permits the accumula-
ton Of competence without the
privilege in return II asking the cost
Of our own preduc,ltionsY
The presumption Of farmers in as
sertlng their right to think for them
selves, to clam fair share OF profits,
and to assert opinions upon public
issues, is departure from time hon
ored custom
Il
This movement is not peculiar
manifestation of unrest, or the spirit
of communism, on the part of the
farmers of the great west, but part,
and we can truthfully say, the most
intelligent part Of the universal move
ment by manual workers throughout
the world, who are seeking more
light and taking step in advance OF