The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-09-06

utterance was the same as the others.
All the prisoners were hauled off,
without being taken before a magis-
trate, and locked up in Jail over night,
the meeting being broken up before
the deputies. who were led by the
town marshall. left with their prison
ers. At the hearing before justice
| Of the peace, the next morning, the
men who had spent the night in Jail
! We're ut once released, the prosecuting
attorney denouncing their arrest as il
legal, without warrant, and outrage
Gus.
1t is almost impossible TO conceive
of the possibility Of such an outrage
being perpetratc1 in an American
community. Free speech is guaran-
teed to all men: by the constitution,
and there is no law which limits it to
six days in the week. Men lave
right to discuss politics. publicly on
Sunday, as they have right to discuss
religion in public on any other day,
and any such invasion Of that right
is Il crime against the law, the consti
tuition, American institutions, and the
common rights of man. Such inya-
sion becomes Il double crime when it
is perpetrated by officers. whose sworn
duty is to project citizens in the
peaceable enjoyment of their constitu
tIonal rights, and a heinous enOrmlty
when such misuse Of official power is
made for the purpose of preventing
law-abiding citizens from discussing
those political questions in which all
are equally interested. - Chicago
Times.
Concerning this same matter the
Southern Mercury says: Grover
Cleveland's federal courts have made
it crime to be out of employment.
and it appears the next thing is to
prevent peaceably gatherings of the
people to discuss their grievances and
| educate the masses on political qnes-
tions. The country is moving towards
n condition of revolution at a gallop.
The people will submit to just so
much OF this sort of tyranny and then
they will fight.
Which DO You Prefer:
1t is either Il big pound of cotton
or big dollar.
Either big bushel of wheat or a
large piece of money.
Which one would you prefer. farm
ers. a big commodity or big dollar? ?
| The pound of cotton and the bush
el of wheat has been getting smaller
and smaller for years.
On the other hand, the dollar has
| been growing and becoming btoated
more and more each year.
a few years ago dollar would only
buy about half bushel Of wheat.
| Now it buys something over three
bushels
| Therefore the dollar has been grow
ing large and the bushel of wheat
shrinking to one-third of it's former
size.
! Not many years ago between three
and four pounds of cotton was as big
as dollar. Now cotton has shrunA
until it takes twenty pounds to run up
to IL dollar.
| Now the cotton and wheat have
sllriveled up or the dollar has ex-
banded, for the conditions as COM
pared with fifteen years ago are re-
versed
| Which do you like best, farmer, a
small dollar or big dollar, small
bnshel of wheat Or a big bushel of
wheat? Evidently the dollar has
grown too fast. 1t has tiourished at
the sacrifice of the products of labor.
A dollar is like gold gambler-it
fattees up the misery and suffering of
the people. If you farmers want these
conditions righted. join in with the
Porulists and help reverse this Grim
inal order of things. Southern Ex-
| fhauue