The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
WHAT IT'SCOMING TO.
A VAST SCHEME is SLOWLY UN.
FOLDING ITSELF.
Industries to- BE RevOlut iOniz ed-Farm
Owners Will BE Tenants and Wage
Farmers vassals-The New Bond Issue

Whicr Shall 1t BE:
4 vast scheme is unfolding itself in
Ibis country that Is, destined, If sue
cessful, to revolut!onize our Industries,
transform our wage earners into VAS
sails, our small farm owners into ten
ants and our merchants into clerks or
menials, thus COMPRISING those who
perform the actual labor. in Ill OF our
divisions of labor, into landiess, house,
less slaves TO vast moneyed moEopo-
lies.
In the mining regions the modus OPP
".andl is to buy or lease up not only all
TAX mineral lands, but all the lands
vi hin IL zee or four miles OF the mines,
the. ,-lild cheap ho,:ses upon these
lands, and then rent them to the mine
operatives at such prices as to pay for
tbs improvements, at farthest III two
years. After they have filled these
cabins with tenants who nave large
i,aIo,.ies of Young children, then to
-7rect q mammoth store in which every
thing is sold that the masters intend
their operatives shall consume, then
compel them to buy of them ut such
prices as will consume every cent the
laborer receives, and keep him little
in debt for the actual necessities of
life: owning the roads, they can pro-
nibit any one from putting up store
within competing distance. This will
convert every mine operator and his
posterity into All abject and perpetual
slave
In che department OF manufacture
the plan is to buy, or lease. all the land
within miles OF the plant. If it is the
manufacture of wood they will erect
cheap huts, in as the mining sections
put their operatives in them, at monop-
olv rents, furnish them tools, then
make them work hard and perpetuallv,
and absorb every cent they receive for
it at the corporation great pluck me
store" Even in all kinds of manufac
lures, prac ically the same course will
lie pursued. Even these corporations
VIII own the farms and drive the poor
helpless operatives and farmers to
slave worse than the negroes did prior
to 1860.
The railway corporations will ere
long begin the erection of large com
partment stores, III which everything
from Corliss engine to Il cambria
needle will be sold. and, by cutting
freight rates. enable their store to
drive every competitor into bankrupt
cy. and then, employ them as clerks or
send them toathe rock pile. BY this
means the railway will own the lands
tributary to their roads, put up cheap
tenement houses upon them, fill them
with tenants, make them clean up and
till these lands, turn over their prod
acts to these large pluck me stores
for neagre supplies, and thus the
farmers will also become the perpetual
slaves of these corporations.
Every department of industry will
then be run on pure scientific princl-
pies, in which human flesh and blood
male and temale--will be as much of
an integral part of the machinery as
the material out of which the machines
are made. and will he used for the
same purpose-to accumulate money
and upon the same principles that
steam and electricity will drive the
wood and metal machines. hunger and
cold will rs effectuallv drive these hui
man machines.
In fact, the human part of the ma
cblnery of these vast machines will be
less respected and cared for than the
metal and wood machinery, from the
simple fact that they cost less, and
Just rs soon as one collapses from over
work, exposure and hunger. there will
be a new crop on hand, that don't cost
cent. anxious to accept any place
that will furnish them with clothes
and food. Any one who fails to see
these plans unfolding with open eyes,
are indeed very Gull OF comprehen-
sion.
There is but one way under heaven
to prevent this co!d.blooded. snake
like. iron-bound slavery enveloping the
American working people IN its cold.
mercilsss and death-dealing grasp. and
this is for the people to unite at the
ballot box. defeat the tools of these
schemers at the polls. elect Populists
TO TIL their places and convert the Gov
eminent. State and National into a
friend of the people. >ubservient to the
masses Enact such laws as will secure
10 each Industrious and economical
person home and permit him and his
to enjoy the fruits OF his own labor.
This the Peoples larty is pledged &c
do. while the former conditions are
what the Republican and Democratic
parties are pledged to secure.
The New Bond Issue.
Now that new bond issue is being
urged, We are receiving letters asking
what mas become Of the 81 900, 900 OF
gold borrowed last winter
Since it remains for the Popuiist
press to give the people information
upon such matters. We will explain
how this game il played.
Take the situation as it stands now.
The so called gold reserve in the Treas
ury has been reduced to about $5O,-
OOO. 900. and the Government ia being