Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-08-09


bletely brush away the faliacies OF
modern reformers. The address in full
is here published, and every man in
Minnes0ta, especially the farmers.
should study it well:
Hard times and industrial and economic
depression, in various forms and from
various causes, have been in our midst
during the past sixteen months In the
wake of these times and as an incident
thereto are a number of tOld-you-so''
Feformers who have an easy; fiippant and
demagogic way of diagnosing and &c
counting for all our troubles and all our
ailments. and who have NO difficulty at
all to suggest and tender, in connection
with their own personal services. a variety
OF reforms OF q social aud economic char
acter as swift and sure relief for all in
dustrial congestion and stagnation. It Is
the aim OF these refOrmers, first of all, to
breed AS much alarm, suspicion and dis
trust as possible and to array class against
class, poor against rich and capital against
labor, and. above all, to make our farmers
restless with the idea that they are now
suffering chiefly from the oppressiuns Of
the other classes Of society, especially from
those who have accumulated more than
the ordinary level of wealth and are there
fore termed capitalists. 1t is openly
CHARGED or in come torn ;ns;nnotod th.t
our leaislation has ali alone h.a, f-an,sia
10 as to oDpress the farmers and to
enrich. at their exnense thosa who ara not
engaged In such pursuits. 1t Is assumed
that all other classes have combined to
despoil and impoyerish the farmer. that
he has been the neglected stenson az or.
Qanized society. on whom trihnte has been
levied without stint or reason Il i.
assumed that while most other classes
have been prosperous to greater OF less
degree the farmer has not prospered at ali.
but, on the contrary. has become more
and more IMPOVERISHED. and that he 10 IN.
flay mere serf at the foot Of the economic
ladder It is assumed that this denior-
able condition thus assigned ia the farmer
is wholly the offspring of economic and
financial legislation hostile to him and
calculated specially to enrich the 80 called
capitalists. TO substantiate these assumn,
tions and insinuations statistics are an
peal ID to. s'Up to 1890" we are told.
sour national wealth was ennallv dis.
tributed between the farm ers and the rect
of the peopie.n In other words. that
The Wealth of Our Farmers
os .. .ho+ 49, -. ,o.a
~ re an.;" - ' en ny 'es IMAM ~ per cens
th ~ w.. s;naa tI.t aaa;ad u ~ 'n ne. na.:o ana
Of wealth has been e,adna,,u ~ tha d;s
advantage of the farmer, until in 1890 the
WINS only 20 per cent In short the farm
ers have not increased nc rani1llv in wenhh
since ls.D NO the rest of tho nat;nn This
NAV be trme lint Il ant;ralv fa;Is - as.ah'
lish that mr. farmers have not i.ssn thr;s.r
and nrosnerons Tn tn 1sao va ws-a -
an unusaal degree an acric,ltnra1 ,ao.
ME Omr aoricmltnrai nnnniatinn ,uop n
that year - I'M nm ont ~ . total - =, 40
OOO, while in 1soO + was d nm nm ont If
total Of - ON nO0 Tn 1sao tha,non,,,.t;on
If nnr cit;as was < con no0. IN 1900 rua. 10
OO0 600 Tn 1siiO orr mannfa u we-.. IN
their infancy In th.t yea thers ,,.-a
", noo r,.,, =, ~. sa.ta.,. 80"
ooainst ais an men on omr fa-ros. ,rn;,s
En- Ism there vvas OK Ens mon an,ninvs.a
n onr factor;es no aua;n.t ano IN ~.
m onr farms n 1aeO fhare wss an n,o No.,
|n our observation-disclosures a canital Of HI "a |
s55. us. as against Sc. 81. A.. sO5 in 1880 In
1880 the value of the products Of orr man