New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-05-20

its assumptions can be endorsed, but be-
cause of the novel manner in which they
are presented.
Everything looks nice as far as the
crops are concerned. For years they
have not grown and prospered as they
are doing at present, and yet the farmer
is asking, and not without reason, if any
real benefit is to be derived from large
crops. If the yield is large, work is
heavier, wages for labor are higher and
prices lower. -~.-
It augurs no good for country whe n
its leading producers begin to survey
their own work with despair. It seems
to be belief, very prevalent among the
majority of city people, that the farmers
chief destiny is to work and to work We
ry hard too. 1t has always been so,
even in the most brilliant epochs of the
greatest nations. The Roman plebeian
must be satisfied with "panis and Green
ses''-bread and amusement in a
while; the peasants of the middle ages
were compelled to work themselves to
death for idle knights; the flower of the
French people must toll Ill the sweat of
their faces to sustain kings, noblemen
and gilded mistresses; the workingmen
of our own time have the ungrateful task
of making multi -millionaires.
There is no exaggeration in this.
Taking into consideration that we are
living in republic and under consti-
tuition that is permeated with the doc
trine of equality, I really believe that the
laboring classes of our own country suf-
er by the comparison.
The plutocracy of this country is like
unto the kings of the Bourbon dynasty
they learn nothing and forget nothing.
Louis XIV said: ''Let the deluge come
after me-" Vanderbilt said 'sThe pub
lie be damned" Where IS the differ
ence?
Among the laborers nobody is more
poorly situated than farmers, and all be-
cause of lack of combination. SOmebo-
dy will point to the Peoples Party as an
effort to combine, but it is mistake to
claim that the Peoples Party is speci6-
cally rural. 1t counts its adherents as
we'll in the cities as in the country and
its programme is for the benefit of the
whole commonwealth and not of any par
ticular class. Therein is to be found the
reason FOR it's rapid growth. True, the
initiative was taken outside of the cities
and the party received its first support
from the farmers and was upheld by
them when it passed through It's baptism
of insult and ignominy. But the bugle
| now has another sound.
remember how harshly the leading
| papers treated the members of the first
| convention. They resorted to most a.
bnsive and taunting names-and now !
| what difference. Today the best peri
odicals give portraits of Populistic rep
resentatives, eulogize them and even con-
slider them in connection with nomina-
ton for the presidency.
The best proof of the growing impor-
tance of Populism is the eagerness With
which the people in the city are trying
to secure the upper hand in leadership.
That's the beginning of the end. The
old parties will in the course of time a.
dopt the Populistic principles and when
suficiency in numbers has been secured
some sleight-of-hand performance will
be rescrted to IN order to secure the spoils
for those did not bear the burden of the
work. 1t seems to be growing Amerl-
can principle that tone must do the work,
while another reaps the wages"
In view of all this is it not about time
that our system "f government and poll
tical economy be turned in new direc-
ton? Nobody can deny that the spirit
of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln is
yielding; no one can compare our latter
day presidents with those who held Of
fee when the doctrines of the nation we're
being formulated, Harrison found safe
shelter under his grandfather's hat and
Cleveland is hunting ducks while the
people are starving, Nero fddled while
Rome burned.
| Where is the difference?
Garibaldi said: s'There Will be no peace
on earth while there ale kings and
priests a. .>> !. ~.
We have too many of both kinds. The
priest supports the king and the king the
priest, while both of them unite in fight.
ing the people. ~.
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