Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-14
the respect of its enemies, let i
get in the habit of "hustling.''

| GrClSt, OF 0Hy tEusG tudl ude LII
hand of the thief in our pockets
you would find the farmer rally
ing to our support just as they dit
when we were choking the stifen
ing out of the jute trust.
The price of cotton seed ha
been 10 to - cents per bushe
more in Mississippi than in South
Carolina the past season and l an
informed that the price Of coffee
is about double what it would bf
were it not for the coffee trust.
Il is true that Edgefeld county
alone is powerless, but why cam
we take steps that will start the
bali rolling all the way through
the State Alliance up to the Ma
tional? Depend upon it Bro
President, the farmer will never
take off his hat and enthusiast.
cally whoop for the great Farmers
Alliance so long as we sit on the
stool of do-nothing.
Don't understand me to mean
harsh criticism, but we must con-
fess the truth before we can expect
q profitable change. While all
thinking Alllancemen know that
our troubles are constitutional
(political) in their nature, and
that it will take constitutional (po-
litical) treatment to remedy them,
my opinion is that we must make
it pay as we 60 along, or we won't
have the forces to administer the
constitutional (political) treat
ment.
Bro. President, if We should
tackle and whip the sugar, or some
other truss, it would only serve to
sharpen the steel of the farmer,
and put tie stiffening in his back
that would give him the check to
tackle the gold trust, the trust
above all others that is sapping
the vitals of his progress and his
the trust that has
the fruits of the past,
that is robbing us of the oppor-
tunities of the present, and that is
about to shatter one of the greatest
Of the gifts Of God, the hope OF the
future.
We must make it ''pay as we go"
to gain the ear of the farmer to
show him that the reins OF MS
national government are IN the
hand of the thief.
Make it "pay as we go" while
we show him the subtle influences
of gold-bug legislature.
But, Bro. President, our friends
the enemy tell us that we can't IN
Auence legislation without going
into politics and that we have no
right to do that. They tell us that
that explains the retrogression OF
the Alliance, that politics has
"busted' it.
Our political stand may have
caused some of our weakened
brethren to drop off, but if it has,
it is our fault.
We should be careful to teacn
our members that the only polltl'
cal feature in the Alliance as an
organization is purely educational
that we only strive to educate our
selves up to a sense of our rights
and then have each member tt
select the party of his choice II
which to work for those rights
That we do not intend to build W
or pull down any political party
unless shedding the light of trutt
Oh it does so. AS to Our right be
Jig questioned to go into politics
we must teach the farmer that tn
right of the city democrats is no
questioned to join that infamou
Tammany organization. That tn
right of the boards of trade an
the chambers of commerce IS no
questioned to 60 into politics an
make political demands that vii
enable them to thrust the robber
hand deeper into car pockets. Tha
the right of town and city demo
Gratis is not questioned to 60 int
politics or the wage-workers league
q political institution gotten up b
moss-back politicians to use th
industrial laborer to further thel
selfish purposes. Yes, Bro. Pres
dent, if we make it "pay as VIC go
we can hold the ear of the farme
while we show him that ever
class of citizens has the right
90 into politics except himself:
In conclusion 1 repeat that II "
will only "get a move on US" an
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