Show THE FAUMKtta 1 RUST We fear the farmers of this country and more particularly those of them who are members of that numerous organization known as the Farmers Alliance are not as good politicians as they would like to be and then if they nhould come to be good politicians we fear they would not be rood farmers The Alliance was the outgrowth of very widespread knowledge among the agricultural classes that there were corruption corrup-tion in politics dishonesty in government favoritism in enacting and enforcing laws and that much of the evil complained of fell upon the farmeIs themselves they being quiet noncombative people who liked peace and quiet and did not take kindly to tho strife and turmoil and schemes of the politicians The farmers knew of the existence of these evils and how they suffered from them but they didnt know how to cure them and it maybe may-be doubted that they will ever learn In Kansas they formed themselves into apolitical a-political party and set out to bring the relief re-lief which they wanted but they set out to do this much as a bull would undortaKO to arrange the gcoJs in a china shop They sent a widomouthed blatherskite tho now notorious Sockless SIMPSON to Congress where he will be the lauhinsstock of his brother Representatives and the butt for their jokes They elected to the Senate the loawhiskeroJ PEFFEU whose only recommendation for the place seems to have consisted in the fact that he had edited a country weakly in the columns col-umns of which he had portrayed the grievances griev-ances and sufferings of the farmers Both these men aro cranks in the popular acceptation ac-ceptation of the term and they wilt be able to do nothing for the cause thoy represent even if they know what to do which is doubtfuL Thu3 far the farmers in politics so far at least as Kansas is i concerned baa been a failure no from lack of numbers num-bers but becauso they were ignorant of what to do and how to do it Now the Alliance leaders have devised a scheme for their relief which they are pushing in several stares and which is more ridiculous than the sending of PEFFER to the Senate and SIMIVOV to the House because of the whiskers of our I and the avoidance of SOCKS by the other I I Tue schemeato tvhich we refer ii that of I I I IItrust the farmers to vithhod tneir wheat from the market until such time a the necessities of tho people will compel them to pay fair or even exorbitant p1 ices This would be very shrewd and would soon make the farmers rich provided the plan would work But how laughable it seems when looked at from the standpoint of common sense and viewed from tint position ot ordinary and welumicrstood business rules ibo wheat provers ii > this country number millions and they extend from New York to California a id Washington Now how is it pfiaible lor M u lorm 4 coinomef lijw could any consideraolo number of them got together I to-gether and organize a trust which could be effective The farmers of Kansas might I hold their wheat for time but it could QU for only a little while for those of Colorado Colo-rado and Nebraska and Missouri and Iowa would soon send enough wheat into Kansas I to supply the demand Unfortunately the great majority of tho farmers are not in a I position financially to withhold their wheat from the market In too many cases the grain has been inortiaged before it matures II ma-tures and must be turned over to creditors as soon as harvested to pay debts and stop interest la too many other ca533 tnts farmers have to sMl promptly or their families will suffer for clothing and other necessaries Do the Alliance politicians who have devioJ this wonderful senciie propose that a central bureau shall carry tho farmers during this 0 dnu pjrioJ loaning them money for exponsj until tim wheat can be sold for suufactor price f This would have to bu tftue in orutr to make the plan a bucccs und it would require re-quire more tmney than all tno faruiorj in the country could borrow In ttiii matter as ii the election of PnpFii and other things tho farmers who aro turning turn-ing politicians are displaying an ig i uorauce which would be lau liable were it not for the deplorable comMioa of the agriculturists thjsitelves racy is sume that because men can gJt to etuur and form an oil trust a sugar trust a whisky trust or a trust of any other kind for controlling and regulating the prico of any article they can also form u ionoiiio and put up the price of their products It is simply ludicrous What the farmers should do and in doincr that will they find the relief wuica they seek is to unite with the political party I which in trying to amend the infamous II I tariff laws which tax the agriculturists for I I the benefit of the trusts d the protected few to unite with the party which is bent on finding a market for the surplus which the farmer raises marKet in which he can get a fair price for what ho has to sell and where ho will be required to pay only fair price for what he has to buy Tim farmers will get relief through the Democratic party but never through the granges and alliances or other organizations organiza-tions of a similar nature |