The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-08-09

trlOuS t8rln OeO8terS: NO matter II
l do lose my home, I'll be dod blasted
if I 'aint getting my sugar for 2 cents
q pound less. Chicago Sentinel.
Times do Change.
There was a time in the history of
this country when if q President had
written o letter to the chairman Of the
Ways and. Means Committe to influence
Legislation, as Cleveland did last week,
he would have been impeachei. Dur
ing Madison's administration, one OF
his friends indiscreetly stated on the
floor that it would be agreeable to the
President for certain thing to be done.
This raised such u storm that the
abashed member fastened to apologize
and was forced to say that he had no
authority to speak as he did. John
Randolph, with fiery Indignation, de-
nounced it as "back-stairs influence
and said free people would not tole-
rate the sending of one message to the
public and another in whispers to this
house." While Adams was President,
he sent a short message to the Senate
during the discussion Of the Panama
mission, in which he limited that the
motives of the Senate in q certain
transaction were questionable. A ire
mendous storm broke out and one of
the fiercest debates ever heard in the
body. The President was denoudced
for daring to question the motives of
the Senate. One Senator went SO far
as to say that if they were all Catholi cs
and the President was their father-con-
fessor and they had all confessed to
him that their motives were bad yet
he, as President of the United States,
would not dare to question their mo-
tives though he knew them to be bad.
How far we have departed from the
sensitive feelings as to the respective
rights and duties of the great depart
ments of government may be Judged
by the tame manner in which Cleve-
lands frequent anil open dictations to
and pressure upon coordinate branch
are submitted to. Can such things
be and overcome us like summer
cloud without exciting our specie,
wonder "-Nonconformist.
Railroads Will Not Arb,trate.
Speaking of compulsory arbitration,
the interstate commerce. commission
is practically board of that kind, and
it is armed with powers to hold trials
and enforce it's DEGREES. Yet it has
proved wholly ineffective in checking
railroad abuses, The railroad bosses
laugh at it, disobey it, cheat it and
beat it. Its history proves conclusively
that mere control will never answer
The government must own the roads
and then it will be able both to fix and
carry out policy as it choos, IS. Wher
the government, which is the people
owns the roads there will be no motive
for cheating, because the owners and
patrons will be one and the same
Remove all motive for rascality and
there will be none.
Stray Shots.
GROVER keeps getting harder to en-
dure every day.
CAEL1sLE's lolicy is a $4,000. OO'
contraction of the currency monthly
| NEXT November is the time for labo
to organize general strike against tn,
old parties.
| If organized labor had been vo:in,
the Populist ticket for the past few
years there would be no cause TO
strikes now.
How ARE the crops to he moved thi.
fall with Secretary Carlisle contract
ing the currency sixteen million dol
lars per month?
If Cleveland can't arbitrate the tar
if muddle in Congress what chance
there for his being able to arbi,rat
the Pullman strike.
THEEL appears TO be a decided lacl
of pa,l- Y between the two contprenc
committees on the tariff bill. Grove
should call out the federal soldiers.
The Pullmsn's have nothing to al
bitrate. Plutocracv never has any
thing to arbitrate. It is the laborinI
men who must do all the arbitratine
The farmers are organizing q strik
and it is going to be pretty genera
strike too. All farmers will be OF
dered out at the polls this fall arme,
with ballots.
As SOON as plutocracy sees that it
lost at the ballot ON q fair election tn
money power will destroy the parity Q
the ballot. Look out for dishones
counts. They are coming.
If the farmers should strike agains
five cent cotton and thirty cent whes
the standing army would force ther
to submit and the combines would re
ward them by forcing prices still
lower.
THERE are many people all over tn
country who claim that there is plent
of money in this country. There i
also plenty of fire in the hot place. bu
it will not warm the poor who hav
nothing with which to purchase COZ