The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-11
FARM WAGONS RoHERTs

ticians they elected their own represen-
tatives to Office, SO that they now con-
troll the legislative, executive and judic-
ial machinery Of government, and as a
result they have hurled the politicians
and corporation representatives from
the legislative halls and judicial
benches into oblivion and elected their
own agricultural representatives to
represent our agricultural state. They
have in the brief period of four years
raised their state from the clutch OF
the money power into the prosperous
state which the citizens of Kansas to-
day enjoy.
They went to work with will and
passed laws that controlled and regu-
lated the railroad charges of the whole
state, and today instead of being forced
to deliver one-third OF the entire crop
to the railroads to get the crop to mar
ket, they have reduced the railroad
rates to a point where railroading is
profitable in the state and the difference
in what is used to cost the farmer to
market his crop and the present prices
which he pays and which amounts to
a fraction over 80 per cent less for the
past four years, remains in his pocket
and has been used for the past three
years in paying off his Indebtedness on
the farm.
| The farmer of Kansas has now about
reached the point where he can afford
| to be Independent and drive the money
loaner and money-shark, who held him
| in bondage so long, out of the state
as they have no further use for them.
| 1t was only possible to bring about
| this condition by the farmers of the
/ entire state rising up as one man and
standing by each other through their
Farmers Alliances, which was the
medium whereby the means of education
! and agitation was presented to them.
! Kansas is the most thoroughly or
! gained Alliance state in the union,
and as result of this, through its many
and diversified cooperative enterprises
dollar will go as far within the Ali
ance organization as a dollar and a
half outside, while through system OF
intelligent buying and selling of the
crops of the members where they all
act as a unit, they save millions OF
! dollars each year, which under the old
| system would be absorbed by the bucket
shop manipulation or the board Of trade
gambler. They have their own Farm
ers' Board Of Trade at certain point,
| where they receive the bids Of the
| wheat buyers and accept any such bids
as are satisfactory to them, while they
save the difference in the fluctuations
J of the wheat market through the day
AS it is the usual custom for board OF
trade men to settle with the country
elevator or customer at or near the low
est point that the market dropped on
that day, and pocket the difference on
what he really got for the wheat and
the price he said he got. This saving
alone has been estimated at about one
cent per bushel, and some idea may be
given of this amount when we see in
that state it would amount to a hall
million dollars annually.
Kansas has paid off her debt and II
now out of the grasp of the money
power and consequently on the way t.
/ prosperity and happiness. All her stat,
institutions are made up of the repre-
sentatives of agriculture. 1t is al
agricultural state, run by farmers and
is the most peaceable, happy, contentei
and best governed state in the union.
Will Minnesota farmers be wise, IN,
follow the example of their Kansa
brethren, and organize and maintain
compact and united organization
through their Alliances, and get con
troll of the machinery of government
that is now reducing them to tenant
and paupers, and enact wise and pa
triotic laws that will benefit the Who'll
people; commence to lay the founda
ton of paying off their indebtedness
and rid the state of the grasp of tn
money power, then, and not till ther
will there be peace, prosperity and hap
piness in our beloved state Farmers
on you, and you alone, depend the DIES
tiny of the laboring classes OF the city
who are reduced to poverty and distres:
You are called upon to save us, Will
you save yourselves. Organize! o.
! ganize!