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Show rinl tn llener. Without wishing to dlsctnt In llinig mtumna the eiptdlency of any of the pilltlcalor oconoinlcal proptNuils male at tho late convention of the Farmers Alliance we cannot but alnro the aatls fsctlonof dUlnterratoil patriots at the reawakened Interest evinced by Atncrl cn farmers In state an 1 federal govern'1 unit Kartnsrs aro now, as tin y havo always been the bone an I sinew of tho American people. They fel us, anl they furnish llielulk of the products wherewith wo pnriliae Varopean com tnclltlm, In thefr ban Is Is the main rrlng tho great drltlng wheel of our euutal marhinery Through them we reap tlw bounty of our genial mother earth at whose breasts wemuHlwiiiour tsliwlfiotn the ra lie lathe grave Uf til honorable vocatli ns the tlllsge t f Uie soil litheArstln date anl the first In honor Opttdallr weighty Is the debt owed to farmers hy tho American cominuiilty, fur the first Millers hi thlscountry, on like Anitlohston Invaders if Ilrttaln, lial to ly tlra av an 1 lsel the 'ihnevnl font iMfore they oouH I nsh the low Moreover, tlio tillers of the soil have continued to play n il imlnant role In the United BUtes fnen the time when nt fetington "the einhattle-1 f irmersrtooil ' up to a compsntlvely reoent period (f the drat Ave prM lents, four were farmers In the muse that they depended for a livelihood on tho returns f Mm Ian I tilled unler their supervision anl at their eijwi"-. It was not until after the overthrow of the so tailed Virginia dynasty" tint farmirswero grodnaily tlbowcd out if tho federal congress and the etata legls latun-s until at one time the aitrlcnlt ural Interest seeme-1 almost citlnct as a factor In American lltlc. In the grtat criils o( tho dll war, however, the farmers fully ncogutsed their duty to the stale, an I they formed tho main stay of the armies on illhtr si )e of that fratrh.1 Ul conflict. Thelrt resintai tivlty Is the Inevitable outcomootthelrnwakeu liUtothepmfounl social changes uudir-gone uudir-gone by our country within a gini ration. Ihey Ml the Imminence of ecouoin leal prublcmsln whose solution farmers, as well as all otht r tneuib rs ( f the com munlty, are litally concerned Their alliances anl combinations arc simply efforts to hive thciuMlvf a lolce In leg. Ulatlon ropotth nato to their numlwn and to the inagnltulo of their social functions New York Ledger |
