Year: 1873

N
ers meeting at this place was held in the
beautiful camp meeting ground, and prov
ed great success. By O'Clock in the
morning the roads leading TO the grove
were crowded with people, and full 5000
farmers were in council by the time the
exercises commenced. A noticeable Tea
ture was the absence Of the too tamillar
faces of the county politicians who usually
run these meetings, and their places were
supplied by farmers fresh from the hay
fields


The meeting was presided over by Al
phonze Miller, an everyday practical
farmer, and the usual complement OF Vice
Presidents, every one OF whom Is now an
active farmer.


After speaking of the reasons that led TO
the formation of oranges and clubs, the
President said But Representatives in
Congress have thrust their hands into the
National Treasury; our Legislatures are
bought and sold by monopolies OF every
kind that want to use them; our Chief
Magistrate has an itching palm and takes
his share Of the back action forward acting
salary-steal Corruption, fraud and brib-
cry are stalking abroad in the land. The
patriots Of I1T6, being oppressed until
oppression became uncomfortable, entered
into a combination defensive, set forth
/ their grievances in a declaration of indie
/ pendence, signed it and sealed IT with their
/ blood. The patriotic farmers Of 1873, be
! ing oppressed by King Railroad, King
Tariff, and like King monopolies, have en-
tered into a combination. have set forth
their grievances in a declaration Of inde-
pendence, and will fight until their just
rights are secured. We make no war with
railroads as roads, but we will wage unre-
lenting warfare with all salary steals
Credit Mobilier frauds, and all class legis


latiOn that make monopoles possible that
enrich the few at the expense of the peo


pie. ! believe it to be libel on humanity


to say every man has his price. We have


men good and true whom we can elect a,
our servants yet we shall never get then


until we smoke out the party politician,


that are going around begging for office |


matters not from what party we seek gu


good and true men from among the people
/, In other words, the office must seek tn


man, and not the man the office


The applause which greeted this pith.
, address made the few chronic office seeker
who were there look exceedingly blue
: They can see the handwriting on the wall
t Any fool can The Farmers Declaratio


was ably read by Willard Dixon, tarme


boy.


g A glee club, under the leadership c
Misses Fannie Bentley and Alta Donavar
D furnished many beautiful songs.


p The first address was made by Charlie


j. Ollie, farmer of this county for thirt


years. There was none of the good Lor
and good devil. i'll his address, but in
l. square, straightforward manner he wer
o down to the root of the evils that are de-
r troying the agricultural body OF the natlor
{ taking substantially the positions enumera
> ted by the President in his speech, an
e calculating them in an hour address.
, An adjournment Of two hours was ha


FOR dinner, which was served up in trU
: farmer style of hospitality and abundanc
e In the afternoon S. NJ, Smith, Secretal
Of the State organization, was called OF


and for two hours held the vast audient
lie by his plain, logical statements of the grie
:, ances borne by the farmers and the moo
II of redress. He took the ground that Il
- farmers are responsible for some of Il


evils of which they complain Let
N first cast out the beam from our own ey


before we look for the mote in our neig





wood and drawers of water that many


us have been born to believe that theI


was nothing else for us to do. One gre
u fault with us is that we get into debt al


mortgage our crops of corn, pork, and be


before it is raised Then we are at Il
mercy Of our grocer and merchant, al
OF we must sell for any price they fix upon


pay us We should get clear of debt
&C. we have to wear out our pants until tn
It. have as many coiors by reason Of t
Il patches, as Joseph's coat, SO let it b
ne but get out of debt, and be in a conditi
y to hold your produce until the consume
D. will be willing to pay you fair remunel
he ton for your labor. If the pork men MT
III in September, ,and set price on your POI
ID as they did last year, and say they v
ol give "a for it, then meet them by holdi
'iS on to it until they will be willing to g
T 1ie you So There is no excess Of breadstu
Vi over what the world wants to eonsun
- If there is a surplus one year there will
4. deficit in the second or third year, anC
I'm I'm will all be wanted at renumerative pric
ii'' Get out Of debt, and keep out Of debt, q
assert your true manhood, and do not sta
at the mercy of every combination that
. formed to fatten on you.


- Then, again, another beam that is
e your eye is the vast amount of machin
Z that you let lay out of doors and rust
!. am using reaper and mower that
:. been in use fifteen years, and it is do
- service yet, and the same is true of


plows aud planters. You leave them


in the field, and there is more machin
-. that rusts out than is worn out Take c
- of it. Stop paying so much for unnet
!. sary machines, and get out of debt. y
bic. The speaker then went for the profie
tch- expenditure of the peoples money, ur


the farmers to reduce their town and &C