| Show TOILS AND aristocracy the old time masters of the farmers who laid the foundation of and instituted the feudal landed aristocracy to com commence PV nee with were generally freebooters bo oters As soon BOOB as they had the power to do so they made the whole farming population their subject yes yea in those times and almost without exception all farmers were serfs the sea robbers pirates and captains of those marauding ma filibustering murdering raiders were of cour course aggressive despotic grasping cruel reckless and bloodthirsty they put themselves in possession of the land and compelled farmers to be their slaves and by degrees under a system of feudal aristocratic rule the enthralled farmers wore were put in a kind of moderate slavery that admitted of the possibility of a continuing to rob them of the fruits of their labors sometimes these warlike and plundering captains were called kings some of them it is true were benefactors to their fellows but such were few and far between Oe tween the tillers of the soil gain their living peacefully and without contention with the great giver of the proceeds of their toil hence the far farmers merls occupation as a general thing does not engender a disposition for combat tive ness strife greed etc and what today is sometimes called progression therefore considering the utmost difference of these two classes of people in a commonwealth is i it 1 t any wonder that what they have written on the pages of history are just ut as they are I 1 and therefore as long as farmers do not dot acquire a more equal intellectual social and political standing compared with the money borders and do not organize fur for self protection they will be imposed upon by that other class clan in our time there are filibusters ma marauders and aad raiders on the welfare of our commonwealths also but with some exceptions more or less mystifying in their outward mainer mahner but they have in a new form taken up exactly the same line of business as their prototypes of old to rob the producer of the fruit of his toil now as in feudal times but bat with a goud good deal more fraudulent financial and commercial skill in manipulation of course legislation can do some ihirg thir g against the extortion of trusts railway canal telegraph aud other companies buethe but the main remedy at the the present time if there be any is 19 in having the producers unite organize and work for self protection C CAM A M |
