Show UNREST OF FARMERS paper my BY IR DB NERT or OF JOHNS case impartially conflict ond end rural eural communities it om parmor farmers a and tho th a the farmers move movement ment goes back to the beginning of 0 city lire life and rests on tho the struggle between urban and rural ruml communizes social case ond and readiness make the dweller in towns ridicule ridle ule the country crackers and country jakes thit raillery nia and contempt typify the contest always going on the farmer ID ia undoubtedly overreached by hn his city competitor but ho 1 0 has bas no just ground tor for complaint except in those c azes m where here tho the governing n 9 powers aid the municipalities to fleece him ile he ties lias loudly sounded hlo his grievance against at middlemen commis commission slon dealers but lie lins has here no lie cauro calme to murmur except at hla big own oun obstinacy and ruinous independence he can cooperate with his neighbors neigh bos and ship to an all appointed agent and reap all the profits himself it it he e will not adopt 6 2 xe ag k a S 4 V 4 ai 9 I 1 I 1 IT iiii a t a x 0 1 11 I 1 11 1 4 1 li 1 I 1 1 az i 41 I 1 I 1 na it k r t J 1 s I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 s N 1 1 1 1 4 4 I 1 jc e 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 dr C Nort this plan of combining against the tacit combinations of cities then he N ITT have lave to phew in his igli ignorant Isnor orant ant fumes until poverty brings him to his senses the standard of life la Is higher in cities and the man in turn has a commanding position in the lie giggling hig gling in the markets undoubtedly trusts are it heavy discrimination against the fanner no combine can call arzabe the price of tits his wheat hla big beef or his cattle for him and yet nearly every implement lie buys ties a fictitious value on it and ll it la Is put there mainly through the aid of the ro verning power trusts rest on two things the tariff and patents both of these ore are vs matter of legal regula alon in such buch instances the turner has his only genuine grievance a grievance against his government covern ment because it exi tends special favors to sonic some 1 tion la Is so HO often for special classes with I 1 a go sop p now and then to the great bulk 0 of f the people the patient agricultural masses tho the halls and carrl dois of the capitol a at t washington are being worn born smooth by the projectionists protectionists latt crowding crowd lne and clamoring for pet schemes but the solid tread of the ploughman Is 13 never heard there I 1 it ls Is only when the supreme authority that we all support turns its beneficent ray rayfl ii upon a chosen few that the farmer should balna als voice lit in outside of government his contest with cities Is on an unequal plane and it if he to la beaten by cunning and compact voluntary organization he can only blame himself for not uniti ir into an industrial army hut but when his representatives se senta rita tives are hoodwinked and bam by shrewd lobbyists hobbyists and imposing delegations and cooked up petitions to pass statutes tes that gently but merel levidy nich alch from hla his pocket the hard earnings of ilia its labor then theft he has a righteous cause ot of indignation ile he has hag made fin an outcry about his mortgages but their amount and number only show hla its distress under our present social and industrial lie ile ties has no of attack in this matter as he frealy ait ly assumed ill those se obligations p ao under the law ot of supply and domard domand tho of these claims so no largely by eastern capitalists on southern and weiters Wei tern farms Is en an e n unfortunate occasion tor for the development ot of EL a optional feeling but the farmer claims that hla his chief b burden cornea comes from he ing 1 help C carry a other vocations that the gai government looks on with partial eye the establishment lish ment of banks Is pecullar lv iv facilitated and groat great power la Is put lit in their i hands tile the expensive requirements I 1 make au auch ch 11 bugin esq hopelessly beyond the reach of nearly farmer armer in tho the land their control over ever the volume of currency Is complete suph suh way la it too potent for ell to be delegated to another agency but it Is on the sliver silver question that the farmer of tho the south and west Is I 1 stirred most deeply and resentfully lie HB knows only too well that there has been a sad tall fall in the bricea of commodities since the of 0 silver by the leading leadlie nations of the world lie ha argues that this fall Is because of the previous government action aol aal no ono one can disprove this ile he has ha s not lost heart in his light fight tor for free silver lie ile has hail KOI got his second wind the tha repeal repe A I 1 liv law last tall fall no more ended the ali strife than ihan cleveland Clev elands defeat in 1883 was the death of tariff reform but the lie strongest counts in his ini against the govern ment are j corrected cornec ted with the general r fa 1 T eions find and the rall poad rosi in the past cities have been created by the breath ot of rulers bt petersburg burg bills sprung out of tle the marches of tho 33 baltic a 1 berlin has vilen on it a second growth through the confederation of 0 ketmany many what Is washington Washl neton itself but the stroke of a presidents pen how much havo have the vast sums bums voted by congress aided in the up building of 0 new york then thell add the millions that have bet been put in public into river and harbor improvements the halt half million people in baltimore have buildings many times the vein of such structures in a rural community of tile tho adine population down t south or out west ot of course in nil all internal improvements Improve menta the farmer indirectly gets the hie benc liti but he profits which are arc sometimes enor moin nil all po go to a urban contractors and dwellers we a roust must have those the i a expenditures c x tures but they ought to be ns no widely din 31 as 15 possible po tile congestion of the people at a few points lit 14 a portentous evil and the engine of domination should be careful not to encourage this con centralization in the post postoffice office there la Is much tender solicitude to serve the city patron A carrier airings his mall mail lefore before breakfast and keeps up till his kind plaits till all through the day hut dut the farmer fanner who at bottom pays pay 9 for or at least halt half of this luxury can plod through slush blush and snow in winter I 1 n to r heat beat and dust dual in summer for NII one n 0 t three if roe 1 live ve ten left twenty miles to get bet ills big MAIL there Is some need for an energetic wholesale merchant to 10 locelso life his letters three or four times a 11 day but no one ona can satisfactorily explain why deliveries should be made r n a I 1 oftener often 0 r than once it a day in the th a resident res 1 d e n E portions of a large city the th e average friendly letter Is a very airy affair rind and it Is safe bate to say cay that nol not more inore than one in a million of them grows state by being a day older jt it a country family can watt wait not one day only but one week or one month tor for such ca nothings surely a city family ought to bo be satisfied with one daily mall mail the money thus saved paved could be spread for or better advantages in the farming farm lne districts it a farmer wants a boole he be must mist pay postage at the rate ot of 8 9 cents a round pound on cheap paper bound volumes this Is very serious additional percentage hut but people in cities have the bookstore and can buy without a cent 0 f po postigo efforts have been made to reduce the postage but the express lobbies hae always been strong enough to head oft off the farmer for millions of these farmers the only higher education they can got get Is to read rood good literature literature to Is a university in itself public schools are arc freo free and the malls ought to be as near free as possible the farmer has absolutely no safe means of bonding money through the malls I 1 at his little neighborhood post onice om c e he can ret get no money older H he duct mu vt trust his money to a registered letter and it if this Is lost log t the postal officials clala complacently complacent ty try to trace the loss but very seldom or ever do but in cities a man can obtain a money order and be guaranteed against even it a shadow ot of loss 1043 but the ei evil 11 of evils tor for the farmer la 13 the railroad it wag waa against this enemy that lie he first organized and this ill la Is the most vulnerable point of f assault today to day the farmer to Is tied to one spot and bell all his crops at one season he Is bound liand hand and foot anil and cast into the lions den of shifting railway rates competition in rates tor for him li IS a malodorous I 1 5 failure the gr cran angers roade made the alie first avoe arwe tor for breaking up the feudalistic regime ot of transportation boss boualam liam the keynote sounded then has furnished the strain to the present the farmers only salvation Is in government ownership or strict government supervision the ra rall rols came from the government anti and they can be controlled hy by the government tho the farmers movement has been sneered fit at find and as and anarchistic but the farmer ii 19 neither a socialist or an anarchist he Is of all men the conservative member of society xie ile does docs not ask for of distribution but he does docs ask ank for equity of treatment lie he does not want revolution but he does want reform C johns hopkins university |