Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-21
JUSTICE FOR THE FARMERS
Thew Need To Be Organized L'k
Other Interests.

Both the Republican and the Demo-
cratic party organization leaders
might as well make up their minds to
accept the leagues Of farmers ana
workers and producers generaii!
forming throughout the country as
already strong factors In nationai
poli,ics and as factors that bid fair
TO grow to be the strongest influence
in the politics of the nation.
The farmers have at last come 10
understand that the politicians nave
treated their pleas for justice with
contempt, simply because those pleas
were the pleas of individuals and not
of a compact organization, united IN
common purpose and In common
resolve to have justice from their
public servants. or to put men in their
places who will give them justice
weakness has been fatXs-slT ofsanlza-
ton. And knowing this, they are or
ganizing with an enthusiasm and a
rapidity which are truly remarkable.
II is needless to say that the Hearst
papers are in fullest sympathy with
the purposes of the farmers. No class
of men are more absolutely vital to
the life and to prosperity. OF the ma
ton, no class of men perform their
obligation to the nation and do their
duty to the nation with more labor
and with less reward than these men
who till the farms and SOW and reap
the crops and provide for all the rest
of us the food upon which our lives
depend.
II is easy enough for POLITICALLY in
clined journalists and orators to pic
ture the bliss Of n farmers life. But
nobody knows better than the farmer
what tommyrot that poetic stun Is.
The average farmer lives a hard
life, and his family lives a hard life.
Thousands and thousands OF farm
crs and their families practically work
the whole year round for a little
more than clothes to wear and enough
to eat and n place to sleep.
Every farmer and his family sup
port a city man and his family. And.
as n rule, the city man and his family
work less and live better and have
more advantages and more pleasures
than do the farmer and the farmers
family.
Now, the farmer is not an unfair
man. He does not want the whole
earth. But he does want to have. and
he has the right to have. a better and
"A plcaSanter living for himself and
his family than he and his family now
have. And the trusts and the middle
men and the politicians have finally
taught the farmer the way to get
better living for himself and his
family.
The farmer has discovered that the
way to get that better living Is TO
abolish the exploiters and the para
sites who live fat at his expense.
He has discovered that his ex-
ploiters have been enabled to cheat
and to despoil him because they were
cunning enough to control elections
and to put in office senators and rep
resentatives and members Of state
legislatures and judges to protect
trusts and monopolies and middlemen
in their enjoyable task of preying
upon the farmer who produces the ma
tion's food. and upon the wage earn
ers who must have their share Of
that food.
And so the farmers. having learned
this lesson. are going to put their in
formation to practical use.
They are going to unite their
strength to the strength OF the wage
earners.
And between them they are going to
put men In office from top to bottom
who will be the willing and active
and obedient servants. not Of trusts
and corporations and plutocrats and
consumers of the nation and of the
farmers and OF the wage -earners-of
the masses instead Of the classes.
We bid the farmers Godspeed in
their work Of organization:
The Hearst papers. covering the
whole breadth Of the nation with their
immense circulation, are at the ser
,-fn ~ foy- "a 60 hay n
them. We believe that their purposes
are right. purposes.
We are absolutely confident that
the farmers can attain their just and
rightful purposes II they continue
their work Of organization-f they
stick together as one man and II they
let nothing shake their firm resolu-
tion to win.-New York American.