The representative., 1900-04-19
Farmers and Socialism,.
Editor e. A. Twitchell.

Farmers and Socialism,.
Editor e. A. Twitchell.
Dear Brother: In the Representativ.
Of March % you print an article from
Eugene Hough, and say of it, "In tht
foregoing Mr.. Hough paints realistic
picture Of the average American farm.
er, we do not believe he has overdrawr
it." I read Mr.. Hough's article care
fully and, being an American farme,
myself, I know a like picture can be
seen in most every farm home Of Goods
best country on EARTH
l have been reading after you for sew
eral years and like you very much, but
in your review of Mr. Hough you show
your heart is all right, but your head
has little of the golden calf still in it.
May I work on your head just little ?
You greatly fear public ownership OF
homes" that fear is of the head, your
heart says, ''The sentiment in Home,
Sweet Home is no dream"
Home is where the heart is, somebody
has said; pretty sentiment say we,
but it isn't more than sentiment.
Isn't there in it the fact that ''home"
right here on earth now is spiritual
state. The place." home my
ranch" theatrical structure we strive
SO hard to own, and though by our
labor we many times create it we as
often fail to possess it.
American farmers who have toiled '15
years" day and night in the capitalists
field of competition should continue in
the same line, stimulated by the re-
mote possibility (don't lose sight of the
remote) of owning a home though they
be bare-headed and bare-footed?"
After trying the remote" for Is years
just offer those farmers a public-owned
home (they have already many times
paid for it, mind you) free from indus
trial competition, sheriff's raids and
mortgage fiends, where they can hold
for private use nine-tenths of all their
labor produces, and see if you do not
find ready, willing, happy workers to
occupy them, whose incentive to good
citizenship is above that Of the tramp
you picture s'who knows no defeat"
You say, Socialists are compelled to
admit that they can never realize any
of their proposed reforms until support
ed by majority VOTE True. Now
please tell us the reform the Peoples
party are going to realize without a
majority vote.
You object to the Socialists motto,
"The whole thing or nothing"
If the Peoples party had stuck to
that motto, sub-treasury plank and all,
it would now be in shape to elect the
next president. You and l and all Mid
Readers agree on that.
Garrison, Phillips, Ben Wade and a
host of others went for the whole
thing and got It, In the fight for in
iustrial freedom the Socialists will
never indorse a Mason and Dixon line:
\ Missouri compromise, nor any other
We expect Dred-Scott decisions and
fugitive slave laws; in fact, we have
hem now, but 'tis the whole thing, in
lustrial freedom, we are after and we
ire going to have it, too.
It is class against class, there is no
lodging it.
When the wage-slave learns to vote
Is solid for his class as the capitalist
lass vote for themselves, the battle is
Won and Socialism writes the terms of
,eace.
In this county there are 1000 Re-
publican voters, 1,50O Populists and 600
Democrats. Two Pop candidates at our
asst election announced that they did not
want the Democratic vote. They got
200 straight Pop votes-a big per cent
# that 1000 are very near being So
ialists.
One hundred and twenty copies of the
Appeal to Reason come to this town,
0 went to the county, all yearly SUBJ
criptions. l know it, for l took them
n the streets of Abeline in less than
o hours work. Probably 300 copies
re taken in this county.
Now, unless you and Bro. Donnelly
top swiping the Socialists, we will be |
bliged to treat you both as did the |
Iaine preacher his backward flock. He |
i'd services for a double-ended parish |
nd announced that next Sabbath there !
1ould be preaching at 10 a. M at the |
asst end and at p. m. at the west end,
nd he hoped there would be a full at !
enhance at both meetings, Gs there |
,ould be repentant sinners baptized at |
9th ends!
We Socialists who have graduated |
-om the Populist party are expert inn
lersionists. Look out for them.
JOHN D. HASKELL,
AhilArA II