Year: 1874

in the air. VIII men so deceive them
selves2 Youare all ready in its grasp.
His Royal Highness King Shoddy is
even now on his throne in this land,
with the Duke OF Looms as Master Of
the Robes; the Marquse peTrain,
Master OF the horse; and Uriah Heep
Baron de Banker, Master Of the Bed
Chamber and Presidentof the Council;
and you, ye SONS o. the soil and of toll,
YOU are the menials and serfs Of their
Royal Highnessesl


these facts considered, is it cause
for wonder thai agriculture is languish-
ing in this country Who engages in
tilIing the soil? Only those who have
no capital in hand, for other and more
profitable pursuits. The farmers Of
the country, with eleven thousand mil
lions of dollars invested in land, farm
ing implements and live stock, eke out
bare subsistence, unslstained and for
gotten by the Government, by labori-
Gus planting and reaping but still,
annually send forward their products
to be manipulated by Others, protected
by Government, into gigantic fortunes
II is time to pause it is time for


EARNEST PROTEST


by the people. The Patrons of Hus-
bandry make that protest, let it result
as it may at the present time; but
while the legitimate robbery of the
consumers Of the land by the Govern
ment, AID its robbery of the people
everywhere by its princely subsidies to
railroad lords, Systematically carried
on for years, are facts which shall here
after excite the especial wonder of the
chroniclcr of these times; still the re-
suits now produced by the concentra-
ton of wealth and power by these
means, in the hands of so few, and in
favored places, should attract the at
tention and protest not only of Patrons,
but Of all men who hope for the per-
petuity Of American Republicanism, as
well as the safety and honor of Ameri-
can agriculture.


1t is the certain deduction from all
experience, that the concentration of
wealth is the concentration of power,
and its legitimate and historical con
clusion is


- DEsPoTIsM;


while general diffusion is the liberty
and prosperity; while it is equally true
that unlimited democracy is anarchy.
What is the injured interest here, when
despotism certainly triumphsP Agri.
culture; for the tillers of the soil then
become the serfs of Government.
And such will be the near result of
the persistent effort of the Govern
ment to force manufacturing industry
to the exclusion of other interests, upon
this country, the very home of agri-
culture, and in opposition to the gigan-
tic manufacturing power of England.
The plainest proposition of political
economy is, that the young States can
never rival the old ones in manufac-
tured articles, nor can the old ever
rival the youngin the production of sub
sistence. And yet, in the face of this,
the Congress of the United States have
for years given, by special legislation,
unlimited protection to commerce and
manufactures, silently permitting our
rich and splendid soil to be worn and
wasted in the unequal burdens pressed
upon agriculture. What is to be the
result Of the continuance of


PoLICY LIKE THIS?


Aye! what is already the evident re-
sult2 Excrescences like Boston, New /
York, Philadelphia and Washington,
blooming with simulated greatness and
rioting in corruption, where men in their
Exchange marts and Gold rooms, by
the powerof t e combination of wealth,
can corner the industries of the coun.
try aud send thrill of distress to the
remotest spot in the land: can count
the bales of cotton and the bushels Of
grain our broad fields will produce,
before the seeds germinate in the soil,
and sell the same in the wild game of
gambling on futures: can, with a
money circulation of over seven hun
dred millions of dollars, concentrate
three-fourths of that vast sum into the
vaults of National and Saving banks
under their immediate control, and By
means of their Clearing House Asso-
citation and banks in connection with
IT, suspend currency payment, crampl
the energies and trade Of all, and re-
tain that suspension at will for the
benefit Of whom they please and can,
through their banks, borrow the hum
BILE deposits of honest men and women,
loan the same at a fearful per cent. to
corrupt SPECTATORS on a pledge of
watered stocks, AID through the blum
ders and criminality Of few men,