Show THE MOVEMENT the timid still whistle when passing through a graveyard to their courage so the adherents keep heep it up 1 n li rants of old parties laugh 0 with great I 1 pi cat gusto to the labors of tile the farmers mutual Beile benefit fit members of tile tho illinois legisla and tile national alliance members of the he kansas legislature as sure signs of their disruption and their unfit liess for duties ivell even tile lie most indifferent reader of history if lie he can call free his mind temporarily from part izan prejudices will discern cern in the various phases of tile farmers movement tile the evolution of tile the stable mass of americans to a point where here they are arc destined to control of course the gran granges granes C es failed as have other organizations of far farmers 1 but it is noteworthy that they have reappeared an and with ill each cach reappearance in new form they have conic come with t greater strength have displayed greater endurance and not only a much more intelligent understanding of the evils to be but of the way in which to c them it lias has never been contended bv intelligent tell igent cut friends of the that it will not nol cli chance anac that it will not make errors but in one form forin or another tile movement illo will reappear until it will sallas smash 11 to items atoma tile the parties that exist we hear of the principles of the republican and democratic 1 parties antics so the drunkard prea preached chei of 0 sobriety o the libertine of virtue the thief of honesty and tile tho liar of the lie profound value of truth it is what parties ire are what they do that discovers their worth and it an bo be said of both democrats and I 1 republicans that they are as corrupt as hell theone the one aim and end is power the principles of these parties are like the rotten platitudes of tile the utah commission Commis fion when discussing the villainous lots acts of its appointees as registrars chairman godfrey prated about sacred right of suffrage 0 and liow low carefully it should be guar guarded deI and respected coni commission mission would not remove the scoundrels it had emp employed loved because it wanted those same scoundrels to do just as they were doing 0 the declaration of principles of a party is the guff the tanil that is thrown out to satisfy app appa appearances arances E every very man mail with avith a grain of sense knows that logi legislation in the united states is not in the interest of the people but of classes and of parties of the two we prefer Denio democracy cravy by long odds but it is rough to force any honest man to make a choice between the parties as they now low exist for these reasons because the old parties are controlled by older and keener rogues a now new party i is s necessary there is no redemption outside of it and they are easily satisfied fied that ima imagine 0 inc the blunders of the recent legislatures will disrupt the alic movement and destroy it its form may change 0 but the movement is oil en onward one the herald speaks of some of tile acts passed by the alie kansas legislature as line unconstitutional that fit at depends the fact that republicans and democrats so declaire them is hardly a fair test and even were they contrary to tho the spirit of the constitution it does not lot follow that they will be so declared M kven ven the tribune conceded that eliat the confiscation fis cation of church pro prop city was unconstitutional and the attack on this property was sustained on oil the 1 ground that the case was special and therefore required special action that the usual forms and rules could not be observed in fit lie case so it is with tho the idaho test oath the will of the alie majority is the constitution of tile united states today to day and we lye have bave no less an authority than senator edmunds to this effect and if his lii s opinion does docs not inspire confidence we have but to point to the history of the country its legislation and the decrees of the supreme court the wieh bieh is farther to the belief of those who hold that the Fa farmers alliance is disrupted what in ifie economy of god is the secular destiny of this nation none of us know cilmi but if this thia sanie same farmers g movement does commit suicide it will be as the former sampson who pulled doivo own the lie pillars of the temple of liberty and tile the nation will perish with it the giant with members ir 6 not no t dead nor disrupted either cither |