The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-07-26
THE FARMER PAYS 1T
COST OF ANNIE GOULD'S WE'D.
DING TROUSSEAU.
Strong Contrast Between this Elaborate
Outfit and the Dress Your Hard " 0rk Ing
Wife Is Wearing Something About the
Gold l.eserve-KefOrm Notes.
Comes Out Of Your Pocket.

4 Comes Out Of Your Pocket.
Miss Annie Gould, daughter of the
late Jay Gould. is about to be married.
The wedding rousseau will be grand
beyond conception. 1t is said that
Miss Annie is to spend $1,OOO,OO in
the purchase of her wedding clothes.
What sight of distress and poverty
this sum of money would remove.
Why it would feed The whole Coxey
army for months. 1t would furnish
500, 900 men 100000 days work, at the
very good wages for Cleveland time of
81 per day. 1t would buy land
enough i'll Texas to supply thousand
wealth producers with means to make
comfortable living, and add very ma
teriallv to the national wealth each
year. This million dollars will all be
spent i'll Europe, as there is nothing in
this country good enough for the plu-
tOcrats. No matter if the articles are
inferior to American production, these
nabobs think everything they wear
must come from Europe. Miss Annies
dresses will likely be made in Paris,
and will be the very latest, as we'll as
the finest Worth can turn out, and
she will have more OF them than all of
the dresses in Il county in Texas would
enumerate.
Ii farmers wife has a black luster
to wear to church, cent calico for
Sundays at home, and two work dress
es, She thinks she is we'll supplied
with dresses. What 4 trouble it will
be for Annie Gould to decide each day
which one of her one hundred dresses
she will wear. Then just think of the
army of trunks necessary to carry them
around: really she will need bag
gage car Of her own. If she travels in
this country she can have all the cars
she wants, as her brother, George,
owns, or has an interest III most of the
roads. The farmers have been con-
trlbuting about half their crops for
the last thirty years for the benefit Of
the Goulds.
This one million dollars that Annie
proposes to spend on wedding outfit
is some of the money YOU old hay
seeds have dug ont of the ground and
produced by the sweat of your faces.
1t took you long time to earn it and
required lots of hard labor. Miss An
ME can spend it Just as easy, and it
won't take much time either. What
does she care about little sum of
$l.OOO,OOO? She has plenty more
millions. You farmers are still chop
ping cotton aud sowing aud reaping
for the benefit of the Goulds and Van
derbilts. You will keep ut 1t until
you die unless the Government steps
in and does the railroating for the
people at cost Of running expenses.
There are more of the Gould girls,
and they will want to marry some Of
these days. and then the next genera
ton of Goulds will also have to be
supported. Oh. you farmers are in
for It for life. You need not think you
will get off when you pay for Miss An
MES wedding. 1t is only II beginning.
Your products don't bring rs much
money as they did before business all
went Democratic. 1t will take sight
Of labor now to tit out one of the
younger Goulds with \ million dollar
outfit.
Don't he discouraged though, you
sun-burnt, horny-handed farmers.
Our Minister to England says men
were not born equal. You can see the
truth OF that every day of your lives.
You We're born to slave for the Goulds,
and II few other plutocrats. SO they
can get married in million dollar
clothes. You are not equal to such rs
these. You are just n common sort of
clod-hopper. in reality slave, but
YOU imagine YOU are free. You are no
more free than was the Southern
negro before the war of the rebellion.
Don't YOU like your condition? fyou
don't You had better try voting to bet
ter your lot in this world. That is all
the weapon you have to fight with.
The ballot is effective if it is properly
loaded. Try voting right for few
times and see if it does not prove
beneficial. Dallas Mercury.