The advocate., 1894-09-12

political affairs and treated beings of an inferior
order to that of the masters of mankind The free re-
public of Athens consisted of twenty thousand citizens and
four hundred thousand slaves hundred years ago the
WOrkngmen and the farmers of France acquired
the right of suffrage They the first of their class in
all history to acquire that right and it snstChed
from them again not to be restored till less than half
tuy ago. Manhood suffrage has prevailed England for only
quarter of century The people of Belgium rebellion
won qualified form of suffrage onys short time ago. Until
the civil the aborers of the South chae slaves In
at least state Of this Union the workngmen remained
unenfranchised till within the present decade. But the
people extOrting this right from their masters
everywhere and at the me learning that they
have been robbed through all the centuries The poor
many, the rich are few The poCer Of government has
passed to the Millions and they have but to unite in order
to WELD it for the good And shall they be told
that in their hands, government shall still remain of
Odan instrument for their subecton to the will of self
sh schemingt Shall government by the common people
be administered for the purpose of holding the common peO
pie in check while they pundered? No The hour when
the people shall obtain supreme control of the ma
chnery of government that hour paternalsm will defra
ternaism will spring fullpanoped into vigorous life
Let US take glance at this state of things What
ss the farmerH Did it strike you remarkable my
reader that although without what the farmer raises the
world would sarVe the farmer must take his products long
distance from home and hunt somebody to buy hem The
hungry world does not humb to the farmhouse door
and beg for bread but the farmer takes his bread dis
ant city and begs the world to eat The farmer needs cloth
ing lumber furniture and many other things which he can
not produce These things all products Of labor and
hungry abores with their deft fingers and cunning BRAIN
rudge the highways and permission to supply these
products in exchange for bread They pass at all hours the
farmers house tramps, begging to be allowed to do
what he needs DONE But he leaves them unheeded while
he takes his grain to remote city in order to exchange it
for money with which to buy those very things Why
he pursue this roundabout course? Because the aborer
has nothing but his labor he has products to give in
change All the coal fast it from the minep all
the cotton and the cloth as soon woven and all the
shoes soon they made, belong to the "mOney
making class The who actually operate the railroads
do not control them So the farmer cannot exchange d
ecy with other producers but must deal with the owning
for products but the money making class gives him money
which he then gives back to that class for other products
and toll is taken both ways in the transaction. The work
ngmans products sold to the farmer at profit and his
products sold to the workingman at profit The labor
es wages always much less than the value of what
he prOducefOr otherwise the employer could get profit
that the Workngman cannot buy back the Of their
products nor enough of what the farmer has to SELL The
result constantly gutted Market overprOduction" in
the midst of the unclad starving shiVering multitude
This odd state of hinesis due to the circumstance that all
the materials and the tools the aborer must oWned
by those who do not work and will not allow him to work
for their profit The farmer needs little legislation for
himself What he needs is legislation which will raise the
abOTers to his evemake them independent producers
of things they will when produced; then he
change with them instead of moneymakng class which
thrVes only by robbng both him and the urban aborer
Continued
1t appears that the only man on the republican state
ticket Excepting the candidate for superintendent who is