The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-13

try, wool was to be placed on the free
list that profit of ten cents a pound
may be secured in the syndicate. An
other combination secured the option
on coal fields of Nova Scotia and Brit
ish Columbia. and coal was to become
free. Still another with options on
the iron mines of Cuba, this country
was to be treated with free iron. that
the syndicate might reap larger pro-
fits from the foreign operations. So on
through the lis. OF the Wilson bill, in
Guiding the bounty on sugar.
The rights and Liberties of the peo-
pie are imperiled SO long as Congress
has the power to destroy the indus
tries of our own people, to enable II
gang of plunlerers to become rich III
a single day. even though the slave
delivers whip is cracked over the
heads of the law makers by the chief
executive.
"The Nicaragua Canal will be con
structed and paid for by Government
money. not bonds. The ports OF
Savannah, Charleston, Pensacola,
Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston
will supply the doorway to the TEEN
ing population OF Asia, the West In
dies, Venezuela. the Columbian
States and Central America with the
products of our mines, farms and fac
tories.
"Subsidized railroads will be fore
closed and restored 70 the people. The
stocking and bonding of railroads and
other corporations for many times
their values and realizing par on these
watered issues by false pretense, then
contscating the property by foreclos
ure, then restocking and rebonding at
fictitious values and intinitum will be
prohibited by statute.
And commission will be appointed
| by the general Government to scale
down the debts to correspond with the
decline in the price Of labor and the
products of labor, as was done in Tur-
key Il few years ago. where conditions
similar to ours existed. There, under
an equitable accounting the debtors
were mostly freed from debt 10y an
edicts of the Porte. A fair account
ing in this country would result SINH
larl>.
Executive sessions of theIUnited
States Senate should be abolished.
\ number of other radical measures
are suggested. President Fisk says
the views submitted express the senti-
ment Of 165J. 900 members of the assoc
citation.
| The Guilty Flee.
Is it guilty conscience that causes
the ruling classes to feel a disturbance
of the peace when the unemployed as
sembled to consider existing condi-
tons? What else car it be? Are la
boring men more dangerous to the
peace of the community than the rich
criminal classes, as certain represent
atives of wealth have been called by
high authority? Is even Il poor chronic
idler more dangerous than q rich idler
The masses have never shown an in
clination to resort to force. They are
as peaceable rs lambs. Five thousand
Of the unemployed gathered in Min
neapolis Il short time since, many of
them suffering with hunger and many
of them from poverty stricken homes,
in which children were crying for
bread, and the authorities were half
scared to death. They seemed to
think that the streets were about to
flow deep with blood. But there was
no disturbance, no threats, nothing
but Il graphic description of the de-
plorable mistakes of somebody that
had caused willing hands to be idle
and human hearts to bleed. One man
only among the multitude was drunk
and noisy and he was State Senator.
The farmers of the country have suf-
fered long and patiently from wretched
systems and miserable Legislation have
actually shown the most brilliant pa
triotism andlove Of peace that,,was even
exhibited in the whole history of the
world. They have relied upon the
justice of their cause for final victory
and their conduct. under ex;lsperatinG
circumstances, has been the admira-
ton of all thinking men: and now the
masses will appeal to the ballot box tC
accomplish Il revolution, for this coun-
try to-day is just as truly in the midst
of II revolution as it was in 1876. but
it is and will be a peaceuble one.
l. 4 Pretty Fight.
Editor Kosewater of the Omaha Bee
is doing some noble work for the PEG
pie by exposing the trickerv of the