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Farmers, What Aro Voo doing to Dqf
Farmers, how does tho price of wheat
suit you? What about the inorease in
your taxes? What are you going to do?
’Can you pay tho interest on that mort¬
gage? Can you hope for relief uuless
you ask it? What are yon going to do?
You have the power to free yonrsolves.
Now, in the name of humanity, what are
you going to do?
Farners, what aro you going to do?
What, will you do if the bauker’* candi¬
date is thrust before you to vote for?
What are you going to do if you
are only offered seventy-live cents for
wheat and cannot hold it? Wlmt will
you do if you hold it and got no more for
it? How will you help yourself if your
masters see proper to oontinuo tho bur¬
dens imposed upon you to sustain the
growth of cities and manufactories?
Suppose you farmers get together your
hired labor, pay them 50 ceuts per day,
buy your machinery, put them to work¬
ing your Helds, and thou ask tho govern¬
ment to tax our manufactured products
to enable you to come out. at a protlt and
pay your laborers bettor prices. Suppose
you did. What then? Yon would be
laughed to scorn, spit upon,’called a dog.
•You ask such redicnlons things.” You,
the slaves of American industries, tax the
immense capital invested in this rich
■country to help you farm! Oh. what fools
these mortals be.”
No, you are wrong, farmers. You have
the cart before the horse. It iB you who
must be taxed to support tho price of
manufactured goods, pay tho banker hia
interest and sustain this wild and reckless
government in making its millions. Run!
the circular is up; tho bell rings at tho
hall or school house. They have sent
you a man from the city; he will lead
you; he will tell you how to vote and
why. It is fixed; it is determined
upon; the policy you must support. You
are ignorant, but you vote. Your vote
counts one, and one hundred votes counts
one hundred, and one thousand votes
one thousand, So many cabbage
heads grow upon an acre; so many votes
are scattered around the circuit. They are
worth seeing. They eat tho cabbage and
shake the hand of the voter; they want to
tell how fast you are getting rich; that
the tariff has been raised and you will
now boom; only raise it a little higher
and your wheat will bring one dollar and
a half per bushel; a little higher and you
are a rich man.” Oh! farmer, how low
you have fallen; from SO per cent, cf our
wealth down to 25. Two and one
quarter million mortgaged homes aud
farms in the country, so says our lastcen
sus report. Milliouares multiplying/
The beauties of nature surround you.
In the spring the forests array them¬
selves in robes of green; upon the mead¬
ows the youg lambs sport themselves iu
festive play; tho summer comes and the
flowers, and among their heaven sented
oders the humiug birds and tho bees
gather and regale theselves with its fra
grant honey; tho golden wheat bends its
graceful head laden with grain, and from
the embryo ears of corn, the silken
strands count the grains within. Friuts
of luscious taste abound, and all nature
seemingly rises up to bless yon. But not
so. These luxuries are not for you.
Yours they aro by every right, yctanoth
ers they are taxed and taxed to death.
Hie you away to the mountains and in
some lone and shady cove plant your
crops and od some mountain steep grow
your fruits and still the assessor of taxes
will spy you out. No bonds, no stocks
have you to hide in treasury vaults. For¬
eign vessels aro waiting at the shores to
boar your grain to foreign markets, aud
tbcie, not beside the labor of convicts;
not with civilized couyicts, but along¬
side the grain of barbarous holds from
all the earth, who war upon the light of
Christianity. There your maiket must
be made and there the grain sold. With
these your gracious and kind and enlight¬
ened government says compete and bring
back the gold to stimulate our manufac¬
tories. The vessel returns. Around these
sboros a cordon is established a wall is
raised,lest the intelligent and enlightened
citizens of Europe send to our poverty
stricken farinor goods cheaper than the
lordly baron will sell them here. Havo
yon eyes and see not, ears and hear not?
Protection, is it? Yes, wo are for protec¬
tion, but for the farmers. Away with
your infamous tariff, away with your
infamous bauking system, put tho screws
of the law upon tho railways, set tho
mints to coining silver, tax the income of
rich, take your hand from tho throat of
labor and touch lightly the earnings of
tho poor. Give humanity a chance to
live. Men are born of trouble and the
grave is always Dear. While the sun
shines lot itwarin all. What God has crea¬
ted,lot His creatures have a chance to on
joy. Protect the weak, compel justice to
the strong. To secure this let the labor¬
ers aud farmers remember that God only
helps those who help themselves.
What aro you going to do?
W. S. Ridge.
Louisville, Tenn.
‘‘Moses” on Democracy
Mr. Editou.—P sboen redin’ vonr most
valubel paper, au I seed a peace in it
signed by Democrat dat kinder made me
sick. He is pretendin’ to be a democrat
an fight de lianauco an Oscar Wild, but
lera mo tel! you what’s de God’s truf, dat
feller got him hands full sho as you born
chile. He may be abiger man, than I
think he is, but de liance is a whoppor
chile. It is too big for any one man in (lis
yero country to kick around. Democrat
say ho would liko for Oscar to state what
hisidy of democracy is. Well don, Mr.
Democrat, you dunno den what is demo¬
crat, else you wouldn’t care for Oscar’s
idy, case Webster chin said what is dem¬
ocrat, don’t make no diffence what ha
say. I spook you dunno, sho nough. Case
you think a few ob do big men claims to
bo democrats dat don’t make you one,
case democracy is a principle and not a
set of hard headed, big headed, gurap
beaded, slow headed, high headed, hot
headed men, dat don’t care for anything
but to rule or ruin.
I’s a democrat some, too, but I ain’t
gone crazy over it just case I’s black, au
I speck I better tell dat feller what is
democrat, but den recoil he can read, so
I will just tell hjm whare he can find it.
You look, frind, in Webstor’s Booktiona
ry in do D’s and yon will find what it is
au what kind of a Jelly I am an I speck
Oscar, too. It ain’t leaving de old party
and goin’ after u few soro heads, nor it
ain’t stayin’ wid a few old demagogues,
but a government by de people, des like
defiance wants it, an dey is a.guino to
hab it too. Now you see I dun an told
you. Who is you, Mr. Democrat, any¬
how? dat you call de sub-treasury plan a
will-o’the-wisp (or sumthin’). I speck
you dunno what yous talkin’ bout. Case
J. B. Gordon said it is unconstitutional
dat don’t make it so. I speck you dunno
what do sub-treasury is. Your name
sounds raity big but dat peace in do paper
looks mity little when you gms to consid
der such men as Polk, Macune and Liv
ingston an alladcm big lawyers dat dun
said it is constitutional an dat it is a good
thing an de hope ob de country. I speck
you better get de plan an read it an see
if you is a democrat. I speck the 3rd
party has got some pretty good democrat¬
ic planks in deir platform an if dey is I
think you had better put some tacks in
your shoes or you will slip clear off the
whole concern.
He say Oscar calls him a crank an if ho
is Oscar can’t turn him. Well den, ho
must be a very short crank, case Oscar
is mighty stout an can pull on a crank
mighty hard if he got any lever power,
but den I speck ho don’t care bout tumin
you, case when you convince a-against
his will he is of the same opinion still.
You say you sympatise wid de farmers as
much as any liance mau, or even Oscar
Wild will, (len why ain’t you m de field
fightin for um if you is. Old Master call’
us good when we do good. You say
you’s for de liance an you oppose their
measures of relief. Who is you dat you
dun larn so much more an all de farmers
in Georgia or de most ob dem? You
make out like you know lots an de liance
is fools, but you ain’t proved it by dat
little blnff you dun throwed at Oscar
Wild, but I speck Oscar will give yon a
bit of opinion ere long for himself. So
what I say is not representin’ him, but
my own self. Y ou say yon is a democrat
an will bo as long as dey is what (ley is.
Well den, how long has dey been what
dey is? If dey ain’t goiu’ to do no more
for do laborin’ people an deys been a do¬
in’ it don’t make do difrenoe whoddor
dey be a democratic party or not I’s
dun got shamed of what deys been doin’
aud I is shamod of yoursef fur trying td
uphold such a corupt set ob loaders. I
love democracy, but spises dis way do
democrats and publicans has been do¬
in’fur de las 25 years or 2 an if de third
party can change it I’ll certinly be wid
dera sho. Do banco wants de sub-treas¬
ury, but you is a prayin’ fnr dern to fail.
Well, if dey fail it will be becsse dey
Lab got up somethin’ better, fur de dom
cratic party won’t do it, only in your own
way an dat is not to do anything at all.
You kuow what de publicans promised
de poor cnllud peoples an dey nebber dan
noffin yet, and it is de same way wid de
democrat*. Dey ain’t guiuetexl don’t
Weave. Now, friend, you say you sym
pothiso wid de poor an yo would stick to
doin. Let your scrutinizin’ wisdum go
to work an formulate sum plan of relief
dat is so deep an sensible, dat it wont bo
critasized by de wiso and de prudent ob
de lan. I specks when you git don ebry
body in de wholo lan will laf at it 'just
like dey do to see a few little constitu¬
tional lawyers an big demagogues come
out gainst do people’s measures ob re¬
lief.
Now, Hr. Editor, I specks Mr. Demo¬
crat will git mad bout dis old servant
talkin’ an plain, but den dis is »• free
country an de black an do white all say
what dey please, so if he gits much mad¬
der clan he is now he will smere his ink
all over his paper, so I speck I had bet¬
ter stop an let him alone.
Well, do bailee is still growing and de
people Beems to liko it better all de time
an since de summer done cum de people
got more iigious. I was at meetin’ not
long ago au Uncle Billy Walton preached
au brudder Nathan was sitin out side au
he didn’t know who itwasapreachin, an
when ho como out Nathan say, well, dat
was a good sormiut sho, an it was good
too, but it is raity hard ,fur Uncle Billy to
to preach widout say fiance a few times.
De white folks had a mrty meetiu’ an dey
joyed it mity well, too.
Corn an cotton lookin’ mity good and
it needs rain bad too, an I specks it will
git it to day. Bo tell Congress to make
hasto an pass de sub-treasury bill so wo
wont hab to build cribs for our corn.
Success to the Farmers’ Alliance, the
People’s Party, the Basnkb-Messengee
and every other good cause.
More anon,
MO BBS.
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