The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-04

money idol. Shall succeed? Perhaps not
always What truly worthy undertaking in
AL the word has ever succeeded without its
farmers--i,s hour Of doubt 1t, agony OF lea
But few pioneer branches. our little
ouTPosTS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
amidst the wilderness of financial ignorance,
are struggling right braveiy to keep their
campfres burning against the day of indus
trial de,iverance What misconceptions,
what fatal indifference at times, what SOU
trying obstacles always. these apostles Of
equity and justice and self-iiberation nett with
and contend again@t, no records, save the in
scrutable records of life, will ever show The
true worth of their trials and joys. their
lost or gained their failures or successes
will be written fully only in the results Of
the future
Sometimes they have undertaken more
than they accomplish, and then they are
constrained to lay their burden down; tempt
ed, it may be; to stray OFF down some by
and SO dsisertng their work before it is even
begun; often and often, however, only resting
by the wayside until renewed strength bids
a return to the higher duty of the journey
Failures, indeed, sometimes in the eye Of
an unprophetic world, looking only at the
weary distance between them and their
eventual goal, but of such failures has the
golden Cloth of success been woven through
all time.
AS well Judge the Revolution by its Valley
Forge, the creation by it's Eden lost the
gospel of eternal love by it's Calvary on
earth; as to judge our hope of industrial
freedom by its standings on It's way. Let
US not be of the pessmists who, looking upon
battered lifeboat. judge the whole ship
lost Let us take our lessons from the glorious
failures OF the past, and SO attain our goal.
What are the farmers?
On they answer. they are fellows who
live out yonder somewhere and raise corn,
potatoes, wheat. beef, pork and pou!try-they
are a Kind Of a necessary evi-they are The
uncivilized part OF society, but no more fit
for self-government than the negroes of the
South. . Through the deusion of the found
ers of this nation we are constrained to LET
them go through the form of holding cleo
tons and selecting men to make their laws.
But our great men, our millionaires will
see to it that when the representatives as
semble at the capitol we will either humbug
them or buy them up outright, and have
things our own way.
In the South they keep men away from
! the ballot box with shotguns. We can't
quite do that, the farmers might shoot back
! But we corrupt their representatives. IL is
! 1t is a clean, sweet, nice transaction-so
| many dollars for many votes This is a
commercial age and capital must rule. The
| South cries orr to US, This is white man s
country and we echo back, This is a
rich mans country. And between us both
we have things Just about right. And if
any man objects he is demagogue, COM
munist, an anarchist nihilist, the devil
| himself
The members of the alliance should re-
member that. as rule. they cannot expect
| money lenders; they will naturally work for
/ the interest of their class. Neither should we
very much blame them for SO doing The
blame rests with the fools who elect repre-
sentatfves of the creditor class to make laws
| for communities, nne-tenths OF the voters
In which are in debt. They might just as
well put their sheep in charge of the wolves
! and then be astonished to find dead sheep and
| fat wolves.
WHAT FARMERS, SHOULD DO.
! I do not say that no bankers or LAWYERS
should be elected to the legislature; the cities
will attend to that anyhow. What 1 urge is
that wherever there is a farming community
1t should elect one of its own class to repre-
sent it.
If they are not elected in the agricultural
region most assuredly they never will be
elected anywhere else
/ AS to the horrible cruelties that have been
pracuced upon the people of the state under
the guise of usury no pen can adequately de-
scribe them and no imagination sum them up.
me state has been a battle field a scene
of slaughter. Homes destroyed, hearts crush
! ed, lives darkened by the excessive greed
of man for. the substance of his neighbors.
/ City aldermen and councilmen, state legs.
lators and congressman, tax the people; the
| money is spent wastefully, profigately for
| the enrichment Of the creatures of the poiti-
i cal machines, and the people are robbed. But
this robbery, great as it is, is email COM
pared to the robbery Of the people by corpo-
rations to which municipal and state leeis-
lators are induced to vote special privileges
special grants, and confer valuable rights
to the prejudice OF the many denied the RICH,
to the enjoyment, the use of such rights save
upon payment OF such tribute as the corpora
lions may choose to exact
And, again, this robbery Of the people by
the corporations is as far exceeded by the
robbery of the people by the speculat. ,e
clique, as does the robbery by the corpora
tons exceed the robbery by the political ma
chimes. Thus the speculative CLIQUE and
largely through the instrumantality of the
corporations rob the people, not only of theil
| earnings, but Of their savings, and what is
the greatest robbery of all, the chance tc
earn living, for the man robbed of this
right becomes a slave
I And this the speculative CLIQUE do: the,
carry out the most stupt ndous of robberies
and this robbery is tolerated by our leglsa
tors, for in our legislative halls the specula
tive cl1Ques exert the terrible and far-reach.
ing influence OF corruption, an influence thai
cam only be rendered nugatory by the knowl.
edge that people is watchful of their repre-.
sentatives, ready to reward work well done
but swift to scourge the representative faith.
less to his trust. And this check our peopIt
are not exerting. They slumber while the,
are robbed ' 10y
And on top of this robbery there Is a los
TO our people greater than all the robbery
1t Is the loss Of labor, of production powe,
coming from the paralysis Of industry. O
enterprise caused by the robbery Of the peo
pie by the speculative cliQus. The robber,