Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1873, Page 5

make that speach of tho 7th, that when I saw thosa small 'F or_homes, scatterad all over this bonutifal 1and, and saw that they wers surronnd- od with immonne corn flolds and immonso shocks of grain, I also saw anothor thing, that the mon who handled' tho produots of ihat farmor who was oconpylug that poor dwotling, woro Living in splendid mansions a lifo of ease and luxury, and I raid thero was somothing wrong thero, and I would right t by giving to th.dwailer In that hovol a fair ehare of the produots of his lalor, and I would lovel that Lovel up to the palnco. That was what 1 enid. Inovor sald nor hinted what I wad chargod with," "I nevor had an agra- rian thought in my lifo. I would not Iavel the palace down, but g\'ull!d lavel the hovet up, TROPORTION OF MORTGAGED FATIME. Now, I said thoro waa somothing wrong in all 4his, Lot us sco in whot that wrong - conolate, Wheneo arines that wrong which forces that man 40 live in that hovel, for many of them aro sim« ply such, whore, a8 $Vhittior 6858, artreo onat tho tremulous sliadow of ita loavos aoross tho cnr- tainless windows, from whoso broken panes flut- tor tho signal.Tags of povorty, while ho who bandlos tho corn that this poor man produces is Yviug o lifo of easo and luxury in an elogant mausion? Whon Icouplo the faot that the mon who do this labor, who help to food tho . world,,* end without whom it could not oxist fo-day, with another fack, which in also-donied for & purposs, that soven- tenths of the farms in this beautiful Btate of ours, with as rich a soil a8 God's sun over shone apon, and though tho land is annually groaung bonoath the acoumulated offorts of humnn Iabor, aro to-day undor morigago. Whon comos this wrong, this faot that. notwithalanding all this immetco production’ of il tho nocossaries of humay lite, that still our farms aro undar mort- gogo? Inko anothor faot and put ft with this one, that o caroful ostimate, mado in_ 1868, whon wo woro mnearor out of dobt than we bave over boen in tho history of this country, sinco tho high pricos of the war onabled us Lo pay off more mortgages snd por- sonal debts than during nnyl!)rav:onu oriod of our oxiatonco, the porsonal debt of tho United States was_$1,000,000,000. Three-quartors of that, or about $1,600,000,000, was boruo by tho agrionituriots of tho United’ Blatos. Whon you considor that this lattor sum hna to bo oarried, at on ovorago rato of 10 por cont per an pum;, da it sny wonder that ‘wo sro poor? Couplo with this nnother fack that' tho nannunl incromse of = tho wealth of tho United Blates for sny docado during tho very bost poriod of our existonce Las nover oxcoodod 8% por cont. ‘That 18, tho agricultur- 18t are sctually carrying $1,5600,000,000 at 10 por cont, whilo the products of 'induatry no- Sehoro, taking it all through, nover havo oxcoed- ed S}g por cont. 1Is it, then, any wondor you are 2 i THE NEVOLUTION HE WANTA. Now, this ia all donlod_for s purposo, 'They eay that such men as Col. Colomun and mysolt go around the country lying, and they say our intention is to show that the farmers are actually in natato of starvation, and really Iscking tho nocosaarios of life, in order to excito a fooling of indignation on your part and get up what they call a revolution. Thoy slso assert that onr spoechios aro lncomuuri in ‘their character and will eveutually incite the poople to ravolution, and, in truth, that la my object in boing hero to- day. Itisto incite you to n rovolution, but a penceful ono which we can aud muat have, for Tiin stato of things eannot go on, Look it square in the face and it cannot continue to ox- jat. With onch yoar tho whole agricultural popu~ Iatlon of the United States Is growing poorer and poorer, whilo those who handlo the products of our Iabor aro growing richer and richer. WEALTI LAS QOME FROM PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY, Now bear this in mind that all tho wealth of tho world comes from productive industry, Tho man who handles tho products botwoon us and the consumer, and who handles the products that wo must iave in oxchange for ours, adds nothing to the wealth of tho world, while ne who took s sheet of tin worth a dime and put it into & basin worth two has nddoed mora to the wealth of the world than all tho modiumsa of exahange that ever existod, pecauso tho latter creato noth- fng. Wo who labor, we who till the soil and dolve in the 08, the factorics, tho work-shops, and the foundries, we aro the creators of wealth, Thoe mon who handle it, croato nothing. 1If Iwore to fix thofr status, I should, using & common oxprossion, ohargo thom to tho expono sccount, whon I was posting up the books and marking up the balance of the country. WHO IIAB IT? Agnin, it has beon ascertained that the in- crongo of woalth nocumulsted through produc- tivo industry in the last soventy yoars, exceods that accumulated during the whole provious existonce of the buman race, and that the Inst twonty years have oxcooded the precod- ing 'Kfly 56 much as tho ffty aid the whole preceding poriod. This ia undoubt- pdly die to the dovelopment in agriculturo and tho arts and sclences, and.othor modes by which wo can acoumulato wealth fuster than wo did undor the old systoma ond boforo railroads ; Jbut who has.got that wonlth ? 1f itisin tho ‘hands of those who produced it, in_our hands, then it i whero it slionld bej but if it is in thoso ,of men who produce nothing, then it is whero it \should not bo and wo haye heen wronged. Tako Commodore Vauderbilt, for oxamplo, nd suppone that Cwonsiy yenrs ngo ho was worth five m.\Ill on dollars and that to-day ho is worth ‘oighty. Now, how Lss Lo sccumulated mixty millious in twonty yoars? Markit, honover ‘earnod n dollar 1 his Jifo, and yet ho bas gotten futo his houds sixty millions in twenty yoars. § might stop right Liore and not say arother word on tho subjact, for hero is suflicient proof thnt thero is something wrong in this business, pwing 10 which this man lns accumulated g0 much. How did he do Hps ho renderod an equivalent in the sorvice ho Das performed for us in transportin our products to market, or has he not? Thatis tho question. If ho bas not, then wo have boon wronged of just so much monoy. For every- thing beyond o fair and reasonablo oquivalont for &Ie servioe ronderod is just as much stolon. from ug a8 if he had held & pistol at your hoad, and said : * Your monoy or your lifa;" taking it because you had no pistol, and he was tho strongor. 1t in useless to try to dodgo thia prop- ogition, for it cannot be done, hen a man who hins earned nothing by_productive industry, but who has simply handled the products of Inbor, has accumulated that amount of money in that numbor of years, itis & proof that somo- thing Is wrong. HAVE THE FARMERS GROWN WEALTHY Yot they turn upon w, sud nay that thore lsno proporty {n tho Unitod Statos that pays so poor o profit a8 railroad property, while, said & rail- road Prosident in Chicago, thore are no_pooplo sl aro mukfug moncy a8 fast as tho Westom formers, * Why,” said ho, “ hero a farmer starts .oubat 20 years of age on a farm which cost him §1.25 por acre, 8 quartor-scotion which cost Liim £200, and now it is worth £8,000, Think of .that,” paid this railrond Prosidont, “ Novor was .such a thing known,_as property enlmmin% in waluo at that rate, In somo cases it is ovon 2100 :an acro.” Nov that seems vory startling whon yon look atitin that light, and esy that tho man has .grown vostly rich, bocause his property Lins on- anced in value 5,000 or 6,000 per cont. But lot us look at that proposition & moment from an- .othor point of view. A man starts in at 20 yoars .of ago, snd purchases this farm for 8200, and ot €0, whon his head is blossoming for tho gravo, e hay £8,000 to show for his forty yonrs' B Just think of this amount, and then re- Alact that the snme man who mndo that atate- mont, and said wo were thus growing rich, sits in an elogantly sppointed office in the City of Obicsgo six houra in tho day, end gots 916,000 s yoar for that kind of gorvico, He eays that wo have grown rich b) the enbancement In valuo of our property, an: that in forty years we have actually ncoumulated 28,000, While o i galtlng twice that sum_for sitting in that Ano Olicago officesix hoursaday | , Ilay down tho E;opusltlon that thoro ‘s someth! nfi wrong in this matter, when you and I must boil onp from wunrise to sundown, year In and ionr out, and afor our eixtoon hours o dny of work on the farm, must milk, and feed tho hafu, year after year, winter and summer; with- out rest or vacation, and whon our hends aro groy for tho grave, we have laid up $8,000, pro- vided tho land is worth $50 an acro. ‘Then we are met in anothor way, and they tell aa ea glibly as o parrot aays what 1t ns loarned, that 75 por cent of tho business mon of the «ountry everywhore fail, and 05 por cent of the Aarmora succeod and ;zvro\v rich, ‘And right hera i want to say to you, that no man's life is & suc- cea wheu ho plarted on o farm at 20, and st 00 Lio ia unablo to show moro than §:8,000 or §10,000, —tlay lifo is o failuro in tho brosdest sud rtrongest yonse of the word, 8o far as poouniary meany aro concorned, It i a fajluro if his forty {um of sorvico cau show only that accumuln- {on of money, losu by balf tho amount that tho man who lhandles tho products in many in~ ptancos lnys by in a singlo yoar, . WHEREIN THE EVIL 1128, Tho whole wroug lies in this: We are getting toolittlo for our products, and those who handlo thom aro gotting too much, (ol Coloman Lias shown you what It costs to got a bushel of corn or whont to market, from whero he lives in Mis- sourl, and we all know whol it costs hero, and that we pay throe-tourths of the product of our Iabor to gut the other fourth to market. If this {8 80, Whio fixes the pricoupon your labor? What have you -.to eny fn -rogard -to ita price, apy mora -“than- ~did-'the alave -of tho Houth, in tho days of his worat estate ? Wo 420, in faot, in & poudition of sluvery, unloss wo supply THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1873, 5 can oontrol the prico of our own labor. It you fix tho prico of my Iabor, you ciroumsaribe my actions, and fix mo to one P]nu for my lifotims, without opportunity for rost or reoroation. PROSPECTS OF TIUE POOR-HOUSE, Now, 1f I could et you to thinking, if I could only sot you to figuring, or oyphering, as wo used to call it whon I was a boy, I copld romed; ono of tho ovils undor whioh wo labor. I could mot you to thinking . what it cost to produco a bushel of corn, whoat, or oats, or & pound of pork or beot, ot would nsnmmlf stop produoing, becsusa 0w long oan you or I stand it to raise corn whioh costs na 33 conts a buahol, and put iu tho mar~ kot and soll i for 207 \Wo gob nnary ot tha Buporvisors in my county bocause thoy votod 806,000 to bufld & new poor-houso with, But when I look tho mattor over, Iam vory glad Lhc:‘y did, as that wo might pay for it whon we coul and have tho housa provided for ns, for wo shall Ro thora assure sa you live, And you mon in Groono Gounty, you had better build a big poore liouse too, if you are golog on in this way, for you will have to como to it. Dut the bosuty of this transaotion ts, that whon they have stolen all wo havo, and turnod us out of houso aud. homo, thoy Lave to furnish s house for you, aud food you whon you got thoro. "Wrmt will they foed us on ?"] T hardly know, oxLit wo stop produolug, tho world would die oul LAWS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND A HUMDUG, “But,” says ono, and this ia roally put for- ward as an argument, *‘You havo proditced too much corn; ths laws of supply nnd demand govorn this wholo matter, How long, oh how long, shall mankind bo hum- bugged with this story that the laws of snd dowand govern tho prico of breadstuffa? Thoro novor has boen and nover will bo & time, In tho history of the world, whon, taking o series of yoars, - thore was produced in thin or any othor country, a surplus of the neo- osaariun of life. Bupposs thoro was a surplus of corn, boyond 'tho wants of the \mrld—bn{'tl.\ure was not, oven lnst yoar, for thoro wore many who woro starving, but the high ratos of trans- portation proventod the supplying thom—what would wiso dpnupln do under such circumstances ? ‘What would common wisdom diotato? Waste it or givo it nway ? No such thing; we should hosrd it to fill'tho vaonm, if wo should. haye s short orop tho next yoar. Mankind osnnot live without provisions. " Thoy must have broad and meat and othor things, 80 necessary to the hap- pinoss, weltaro, and fifo of tho wholo human amily, Tho supply of thoso things, thon, should novor bo uncortain, but always Lo cortain, and what is more, they should nevor in this land, be at starvation or famine prices, because tho poor euffor, but should be “hoard- od year aftor year, and tlic surplua of one, carried ovor to eke out tho deflolenoy of tho noxt, The prices should be equal all tho time, and fairly romunorativo to thoso who pro- duce, and thoso who carry the- produce to tha markot, Thore has nover beon a timo in tho lustory of this country where you could find throe succesaivo {OM‘I of plenty, and thoso of you who live till next fall, will'seo corn. n.very geareo and doar artiole in this land,ZHence, I say, wo .should not bave given away and wasted - our corn a8 we did, even if thero had boon an absolnto "~ surplus nboye what was nooded ? Bupposo, youraieed n hundred bushols whero only fifty woro nooded, is this a renson for selling at 20 cents what cost youss? WIIAT CONBTITUTES VALUE. ‘What govorus the prics of labor? One man seys, “ What fools thoso farmora are ; they are going to logislato about prices ; thoy aro golng to fix the price tho railroads shall chargo them for carrying their products to market.,” *What fixos values " n{ls one smart man, Y Why thoy all rogulate thomuolves, ‘as water mocka'its lovel,” Do they? ‘That is one of the smart sayings with whicli they meet us old fool- ish farmors. I sk you, in heaven’s name, what conatitutes value, what ocoustitutes tho valuo of your pound of "pork or bushel of corn? What constituted tho value of those pieces of broadoloth whioh I usod to menufacturo in the woollen-mill for twonty-cight years of my life ? I reckaned the cost of tho material and added to that tho cost of tho Jabor by which I turned that materinl into the piece of finished broadcloth, Then it cost mo &0 much, what then? Why, L am ontitled to o {alr, reasonnble percentage of profit over that, in order to livo sud koop my machinory wholo,. Just go with yon, That conastitutea the valuo of your bushel of corn or pound of pork, or what- ovor may be tho product of your farm. Thon find out accordingly what it coats you to produce n,h‘l}ihul of corn, and fix & price upon it, and gol TIHE PRESENT ADSURD BITUATION. But hore comes the difiloulty, which some folks think is unsurmountablo, and they laugh ot tho idea that you are going to ix & price up- on your labor, and say that somebody else must doit, Think amomont. When you ladics want a calico dross, you go to a dry goods merchant, and you find aun article that suits ou, yon ssk what the prico, upposé you wers to ssy to = him you ‘would him 9 conts ivo o yard for it when 8 oost Bim 19, do you ima- gino you could buy that print ot that rato? Do you not know you could not have it ? Do you not know 10“ would bo hooted out of the store ? And yot doos ho not act so to you whon yon sey, “I want you to take some of my butter, product of my dairy, in exchnngo ~for this print"? Ho ssys in xeBlv, “T will give you so much for the butter." Did you evor thinkof the pasitive ridiculousnoss, bo say tho least of it, of ihe position in which wo plnce outselves? Wo havo to get what wo necd of our grocery or hordware merchant and pay him his prico, and then hoe gets your produots at his prico also, Did you ever stop to thinl of the position in whioh that places you ? -Allow mo to uso an cxpression 1 have often omployed- in speaking of this mat- tor, I hayo said that whon I haye acted in this way I have felt 50 small, my mavhood had sunk 80 low, that I wanted to oreop into n emall hole snd pull the holse in after mo. DUT TILE FARMELS ARE IN DEDT, But they esy wo cannot thus fix a price ufiun our products bocauso we aro in dobt, and they say we must soll anyhow, That is tho smartest thing they havo eid, bocause tho fact is, wo aro in debt. “But I would not give very much to como 150 miles to talk to ffl\l, unless we could be mutually benefited. I brought no grist here to grind, X have nothing to make out of this; my only hope is, that you and I may bo mutually benefited by these meotings and talks that wo Liave hore together, Thoy meot us and eay, #You cannot hold your corn, because you are in debt,” and X admit it. Thon hero comos tho question, Was that dobt o nocossity? or Could wo by some oconony, somchow, Lave got along withont making the dobt or mortgage on our oorn and pork, which is what wo do whon we incur these debts for reapers, mowers, and corn- ghutura, for whon tho notds are due the corn olongs to tho man who holds tho note? This is 1air dealing, and, whon your note becomos duo, you have no businoss ti By, 4 My corn is only 20 conts, nnd I cannot sbttle.,” You must pay it. But it was not your duty to give the noto. That is whero the wrong comos in. TUEIR CARELESENESS WITH THEIR IMPLEMENTS, When I have traveled over your prairies, as Intely, I havo secen, I will not eay how many, but many more than I thought, of reapers, mow- ora, and plows, right out in tho fleld where you otk o work, whord you took tho olip of whaat, corn, oatg, or hay, 'There they lay, and are rusc- ing or rotting out-maohines whiah, with propor caro and houeing, should last fifteon yonrs, I know, for I have run m{x own that time, and thoy ‘did very well lapt harvest. But you lob thom rust "and wear out, unf the time osmo whon you wantod anothor reaper, and then you went & man who hed ono which cost 845 and you agreed to pay 180 in six months, and gave your noto at 10 per oent intereat ; and thon pay for it in corn at 20 cents, whioh cost 88, Did " not I tell you thoro was uomu(hlnxf wrong and am not I ‘proving it now? But this is our wrong, We ought not to have bought that machino at that prica. The great wrong is, we are paying too much for what wo buy, and getting to little for what wo soll, Doos nob that cover the wholo ground? If corn coatg you 83 couts and oats 26, and you gell the one for 20 and tho other for 18, how in heaven's name do you oxpoct to pay for a reapor whioh costs a man $45, but which ho sells at 2807 B, doing that you aro preparivg for that houso ; apoke of, will all fotch up thers au wure as you livo, PAY NO MORE EXTRAVAGANT PROYITS, Sinco this s our wrong, let us right it, and in this way ; 1f a man offors (o scll you anything, no matfor what, if you huye good reason to Hu[y- Fuuo that he {8 making a protit of from threa to our bundred par cont onit, do mot touch it, loave it alone no mattor how muoh you need it. All that wo can regulate 1f wo will, I do not care how much a man charges o for a reaper, & pound of tea, coffee oF augar, or tho oloth for s coat, provided the profit on what I am to ppy biip with is oqual to the [iram he makos upon what I buy of lim, AN T gsk in Ehis country Is simply an equality; that while I am producing corn and tho various nocessarios of lifo on my farm, and am obliged to eoll thom at Jewp than the ocost of production,” I must not continue to Ely euch prices to thoso manufacturors snd “monopoliots, Tako ~tep, for iustance, for whioh you pay 81.60 for the best Hyson. ‘Chero ia 400 por cent profit betwoon the almand-oyed producer and the man who solly it to you.- It has beon msnipulated, and oxobanged from ono to th other, and by the time it gets to you, it haa boou oubanced fu val- uo that muoh, without adding anythiog tois, t is only & question of time, and you | oxoopt & littlo down and the willow loaves thoy put with it to make it go a littlo furthor, HUOW PLOW MEN COMDINE, How do thoy got thoso pricos? The plow mén of this Stale all have thelr annnal convon- tlons, Thoy como togothor and sgroo that thoy will bave just so much for plows during that ar no mattor what wo may got for our pro- luots, and for the lant two yoars thoy havo arked a 100 por cont on the coat of “production. Thun that combination make a monopoly of tha plow busfnoss ; and no mdttor what ngout or manufactory you buyof you lhave to pay tho 8amo por cenk, THX LADIEZS' COMBINATION ON DUTTER, “Bupposing, than, you wora to do fust liko them?"" *‘But," says ono, *wo oaunot; wo aro %00 far apart ; sonttored nll ovor this brond land and isolated,” Wo connot combine.” Cannob we ?, Aro you quito suro of this? Buppose wo tarn upon tho world in the samo way, and look up our gorn-oriba, and whon pooplo want corn, let thom como and Ect it. Ts this posaiblo? Lol mo show you liow it bno heon done on o smsll goalo, by tholadies of & county less than' 100 miles from horo, Whore thoy aro colebrated for ood grapes, and whero thoy make good uttor,. which the morchant wore buy- ihg st twolvo and a half centa a pound, Tho Iadies thought it over, and thoy agrood that it wag worth more than that to muko buttor, 80 they daclded, in a littls circlo around that coun- li, not to tnko loss than 26 cents, In a fow days tho grocorios ran out. A man came in and eaid " Havo you any buttor?' *Why, mo, tho farmors ‘somehow have not brought in any.” To-morrow and the next day, thorowore the samo quostion and roply, and tho thing was fimwlng aorlous, for people_cannat live without uttor,” yon understand. Bo the grocory-man gogs “I will jump_ into my wagon, sud go out and #gs Nrs. Bo and Bo and ot some, Thoy have forgotton to bring t in, or somothing of that kind.” So ho drove out to the lady from whom ho bou{;ht splondid buttor, and agked if sho had any. **No.” Ho went to the next, and slio ind nono, Ho drove around o Jittle more, but got no butter, ‘Tha noxt day thomen in the town said *‘ Wo must hinve buttor; you must got some,” DBy that timoe tho grocory man began to small o rat and ha drovo out again, and asid, **Madamo, what will you take for your butter o " Twonty-five conts aponnd.” Ho took it; and mnow, whon thoy want butter 1n that town, they take tholr wagons and go and got it, and whon theso ladios want grocories thoy talte tholr teams and go and got thom, and that makos it equal. ECONOMY AND NON-INTERCOURSE, Now I havo brought this 1\1!& where I wantod it. Tind whot will bo n fair, reasonable prico for your products, and hold them at that. -But thoy turn around in this bugbear stylo, and sny we nro in dobt. Lot us got out of debt. Any- thing short of freszing and starvation, for s couplo of years, that wo mayown ourselves hore- aftor, is proferabls to going on in the way wo aro. Do not buy anything that you can do with- out. Cannot wo do without somo of the lux- uries wo havo? Oaunot wo do without ten, sugar, coffos, ~tobacco, or whisky, if nocessary ? I will agroo to do all that for n cuuplo of yoars, it you will turn in and holp mo, and let the saving accumulate. If it is tho surplus that roduces tho prico of our products, let us mako a nurplus of theirs, Will not that mako it oqual again? ~That is the true remedy to bogin , and until wo como fo that point we uro simply slaves. So long as wo allow other poople to tix u prite upon our labor, just 50 long aro we slnvos, hoving the semblance, aud nothing olso, of froomion.d Bo Iany thoro is & necessity for organization, for combination to meot combination. We can ain by concortod action just what thoso wemon fim with their butter. Boe how easily wo can ‘meat combination with combination provided wo nllnfimu; but how are you going to agree in anything unless you como together, united in o common bond with a common purpose? [f wo have union of action in thia matter, the viotory is ours, It is won in & moment. ACTION OF TUE PORK PACKERS, Thoro aro my friends tho pork packers from ll tho principal oities in this union, who lnst oar mot and combined to fix the prico of pork. ;ml know thatas woll as I. Bt. Louis, Milwau- keo, Ohicago, Loulsvillo, and Cincinnati came togather, 1\15[ 43 thoy aro going to convono noxt weok at Oincinnati, and fixed the prico of our pork for the coming year, just as coolly ag tho master sold the slavo or tho produots of his la- bor, Last your thoy fixed tho price upon your pork at $4 o huudred, livo_ ioight, and they would buy all thore was in tho Weut ot that, OF conrao they got it, and if they lind fixed the prico at $2 thoy would Lavo bad it. [*“I only got §3.25. "] robably the high price for froight ‘made the diiference in your case. What right had they to do this? Cortsin poo-~ plo donounce me bocanco I use strong languago. Ool. Coloman called these pork men scouudrels, and I beliovo it is a good word ; for tho maa who robs me I8 & scoundrel. They combined to rob us. Tho scoundrols came togother and fixed thelr price, and tho pork bogau coming in. ‘Lho mon who wore in debt, and whoso notes for thoso rospers and mowors bad matured, sold first, and whon thoy wero through, the stream stopod. 1t cosls 3 much to run n proking- house _half timo na it doos wholo, and as the pork did mot como in, thoy put tho prico up 40 conts & hundrod, and that startod the stronm again, and tho nokt uet of men, whoso notes for respors and cornplanters had ‘matured, sont in nnother lot. When that was worked up, the pork-packora put up tho price anothier 40 conts, and anothor 1ot camo nlong, WIAT FIXES TOE PRICE OF PONK AND CORN. 1 pdmit that thoro aro vory many rich farmers in our country ; but the richi ones aro the oxccg- tion, and the poor ones arc the rula; that is the diffdronce. Butdid your rich men, who do not owondollar in the world, and who have your farms stockod and paid for, stop to think who tizod the prico on your pork? Why tho men who owed the firat notos for roapers, and sold the first lot of hogs, fixed the prico of yours. “The price of your products; be it what it may, is determined by tho figura at which those who must soll disposo of theira, Those who must soll fix the price for thoso who nced not. Is it not, then, worth whilo to have an_union of all intorestod, to come together and bo brothers in fact ne in namo ? Wo can protect oach othor; and, whilo we protect our poor noighbor, an assist him over o tight pleco, wo aro protocting oursolvos, bocause, if ho must gell at 20 conts, that fixes the prico upon our corn. This s in- ovitabla ; for, supposo you have n deflcit of a million bushols of whost in this Btate, and bavo tonend out of Illinols to buy it, the price at which you can lay it down whors it la wantod for consumption” fixes the prico of all thoro is in tho Stato for homo consumption, It thero is o eurplus of » million, in just tho samo way tho price at which you buy corn ond pork of those who must soll fixes tho price for thouo who nood not soll. Thon it ia your intorost to come togothor in theso Farmors' Olubs and Granges, orgnuizations and combina- tions for & common purposio, which is tho mutual solf-protection of the wholo pooplo. I donot be- liove there i8 anything impossiblo in this world it wo only say wo will, I nover found the words % I can't" in any book Ievor eaw. OM UP AND JOIN TILE ORGANIZATION, Iknow somo of you aro &tanding mloof, that thers aro thousands and tens of thousands in this and_other Btates who aro Longing back, gaying, ** I do not sco that it ia any use to pay dollar to got into this organization, aud nitond . those olub meotings, becauso it will not amount to snything. I will not got my money baok." So long as you eay that, this reform of ours will drag. Remembor the fablo of tha bundlo of rods, for that tells tha wholo story. The father handod o hia quarroling sona s bundlo of ruds, and aald: * Pull ono out, and sco how easily you can broak it, but put them il togethor and our united stroogth caunot bresk them,” go our numorical strongth makes us [rresiatiblo if you will use the power you lave., Combina~ tlon will beat combination, When those villalng ond secoundrels combined ab 84 for ynur‘xark, how easily you could hayvo met thom, Did you evor stop to think, my frionds, that not o aingle lacomotivo nor car aan be ruu over these prairios of ours without tho oil manufactured from tho hog, and with which thoy groaso thojr wheols. Bhut down on your pork for ons senson, and youy dry up overy locomotivo in the Btate, “hoy cannot run a day without you, nor can peoplo do without porlk aa an articlo of food, without lard, or your other products. The wheels of the world vu{ not go, unloss you groaso them with the producta of your toil, Then why will inu glve it eway, and Aol for $4 o hundred what cost you 86 or 67 It is for want of this combination, fust because you aro scattorod all over thoso brond prairios and do not soe anything boyoud the lu.t}’u patch of real estato that you call your own,and bsyond which you nover east a thought, TThers yousro tugging away for vory lifo yonr after fion to aso how muoh moro you can produce,in or- for to fatton the cormorants whoare wringiuy the very lito out of you und taking threc-quartors of tho profits of our lalor. Amf! you koop tll[:{(h)g onjh that way without a thought ag to whothor :?em laany poasibility of bettering your condi- on, AND VIOTORY.10 YOUDS, But when you come togethor and entor Into a combination of this sort by your Stute, county, awnship, or procinct sssociations, ono auxilinry o the ol.&uxu all the way np, snd when tho ma- binary 18 perfoot, I uay you ‘have &_pombination ihut {4 irropistible, for the ronson that you hold In your hauds the broadstuffs which food the world, and when you look up your corn-orlbs and raparies, and refuso to opon them, youbring file world to your feel at onoy, becauso it vanuot oxist ono duy without you, You ueo tho proof of it, on & nmnll soalo, in"whnt bappenod abont tho butter. The thing 1a fonsiblo right thore. Ono of theno raitrond lords, swho lives fn comfort and eato, onnnot oat o meal without nomo of that golden luxury that your wife and mino manipulate for him, for it la positive nocossity, I linve soen my wito worlk over that rofractory cream that would not como, and put in a littlo cold wator, and o hitle hot wator, until I could have pitchod the wholo thing_into tho hop-pon_aud lot it go. I have looked by tho hour and wondorod at hor pa- tlanco, and admirod that (nllunh'i which would stick to that crenm, and produce by her manipu- Intlons that golden luxury fit for a King; and ‘thon I liavo had to take it to town, aud go into & storo with o hint undor my arm, and say, ** What will you plonso givo me for this "butter?” Who ‘doos not know that this is all wrong with hat woman, after having stopped to give this subjoct a momont's thought 2 18 1T WRONG FOR FATMENS' WIVES TO WEAR BILE But this remind Dns“;m? thor this It ut this reminda mo of nuother thing, Itlis only a month sinco o rallrosd I(lnE, in %hn City of Ohicago, told o gontloman ho had found out what wag tho matter with tho farmors. The rollronds wero carrying corn as low ns thoy ocould, but the tronblo was that wo had got ox- travagant, and somo of un werd actually dressin our wives and daughtors in silk, That wag wha was the mattor,—wo hod notually boon guilty of tho orimo of dresaing our wives and daughtors insilkl Can you imagino with what a sncor ho sald it? Can yon imagino with what contempt ho looked down wupon wus poor clods of -earth, who had worked and toiled through the hot sun of summoer, and the cold of wintor, who had worn rags oud patches, who had sulfored privations snd bardships, until wo woro gremntum!y sgod, oldor than wo ought to have beon at a Dundrod, whilo our wives had labored on through the 'hummg summor days, with worlk nover consing whon tho sun wenl down, 60 that ovorything m(ght Do rondy for tha morrow ¢ And thoso scoundrols snoer at us bo- cnuso wo givo our wives & silk dross, ‘Think of that! That Is the way thoy spoak of us, They look down upon us aftor they havo robbod us by tholr oxtortions, and by taxing ms throo- ql:m-knrn of tho prico of our products to take the other _quator ~ to = morket, and well thoy may look down on us, whon I como to think of it. "It strikea mo tho firat groat law is this: if wo would bavo othors respoct us, wo must bave somo self-rospect, Now, in God's namo, from this day on, lot us stand right up in tho prido of our manhood and agsort our God- givon right to fix & price upon our own labor, and that honceforth and foroyar no banleer, rail~ rond King,or manufaoturor of whatoyor materinl, shall evor do ft for ua. Tho momont wo como to thn:{ we get right out of tho hovel of which I spoke. TRY THE EXPERIMENT OF ORGANIZATION, - You and I, my frionds, knowitis true, note withatanding thoso politicians,—men who would destroy the influence of those of us who aro go- !fif about the country talking about thoso thinga. 0] wnu{m destroy it, bocause they think we aro stirring you up to broak th chaing with which thoey bave bound you in slayery down through thongos. Itisnrolic of barbariem that has como down to us from tho feudal ages, whan wo wero howors.of wood and_ drawors of wator, and whon, s Hammond, of South Carolina, called +us, wo woro tho mudsills of socloty, Wo have furnished half tho monoy to build thoso ronds, and thon thoy have taxed us throo-quar- tors of our producta to onrry what was loft to markot, Iknow you will boar plain talk from o, for T sm ong of you Hhoro s not w singlo thing connected with farming, that I do mot know. Iknow how moanly I have folt whon 1 hiavo gono to ask mon what they would giva for my wife's butter, and when I bavo sold for 20 conts corn that cost me 80. This ianot all. I Xknow how hard {t {a to oarn monoy on s farm, and pay for thet farm, It is impossiblo; you cannot do it, What is the consoquenco ? hy gou toil on till your hond blossoms for tho gravo, aud thon the man who holds tho morigages takes the farm. That is what woare coming to speedily, unloss wa chango it soon. Come up, thon, an oin theas organizations. Do not stand back, as saw mon doing ot your mooting this morning, who, whon invited to como up aud pay thair dol- 1ar, wont down siairs, It will bo tho bost dollar you over spent in your lives, if yougot upa olub or Grango in evory procinot in your county, and attond thoso gathorings as faithfully as you do your religlous meotings, Mako thatthohomo whero you come togethor, with your wives and daughfers, and consult ' about theso thinga, Bring them there, and bo wlat you never havo boen bofore,—saocial hoings, “Abandon that fsolation in’ which you have been Eo long that tho milk of human kindness hag all'soured ordricd up, Como togethor eociably, and tall aver thoso matters which concorn ua all aliko, and lot us concoct a schome to moot those who are robbing us, Lot us moot thom by countor- schomes, sud fix the price upon our “products, and have it overy time. Tho moment wo_make this orgonization goneral all over the United States, and bring the farmors all togother in ovo common bond, the victory {8 won, and we have no moro to do. This is all fonsible, *‘Go thou anddo likewiso,” like the Jadies with their buttor. Justtrythooxperiment. Bhutrightdown on thom, “Ifyou want my buttor, you car havo it for & uartor ; if not, lot italona.” I toll you, in & weok they would come after it, and this s what I want them to comoe to. hoye boon running after thom long onough. I want thom to Litoh u their teama and come and say, * Mr. Smith, want & bushol of potatoos; what do you ask?” I want that, instond of myshouldoring them into town, and their nnymg, “Y will give yon 18 contd for thom.” Ny old back has been bont doublo many & day carrying potatoes and flonr to the wagon, and then up sommo throe or four gnir of stairs, and thon solllng 6,000 pounds for §18, 1s that sufliciont pay for such sorvice? INOREASE IN TAXATION, Thon thorois anothor wrong which wo have brought upon oursolves, and wo might as woll look it aquarely in tho face and right it. When 1 wont on tho farm, soventoon yoars ago, it took s 810 gold-ploce fo pay the taxos, and mow it takos goven and n half of thom, which is an sdvanco of a littlo ovor 700 por cont; but what corresponding beneflt have I, in God's name, for that incronso of toxes? Is 1t not timo for us to look into it, and inquire of our publio seryants how it happona that our taxes increase, and whot they givo s in oxchango for_thom Did you know that thoy aro multiplying officos and oxponsos, and voting away thousands upon thousands of dollars, wl&x o porfect disro- gard of the interests of the tax-payors? Iam told that o county not 100 miles from horo used to be run for $300 a year, and now it coats 32,600. Did yon ovor stop to think that it takes the product of & whole township to feod o Judge? Our Cirouit Jnd%gonm up all we onrn in our townehip in o yoar. s not ho a monstrons eotor? Ia not it timo wo tried to look into this mattor, and soe if wo gould not got some man who would eat logs? It aoats too much to board thot kiud of cattlo, Think of what you aro gat- ting for your produots, and of what you are pay=- ing for his sorvices ! Ys thoro any Teason, jus- tice, or right, in all this ? THE BALARY GIAW, *“All wo ask is justice.” Ithink that was the motto on ono of your banners. Wo ask that the sorvica ronderad to me shall bear a fair propor~ tion to tho servico that 1!rendor, or tho pay I give, Thatis a pmvuamnn which almost auy ot us can work out. Will you toll mn why I should work thirty months to an & member of Con- f"“ for workiu(i ono in the publio service, for bt is just what the salary amounts to acoord- ing to thia now steal thoy have mado, with its baokward and forward pay. Is it right that you can earn just 88 much and no more, in iwo snd & half yoars, as ono of theso— what do you Tcsll thom ? — scoundrels, oarnd in a month? No, not “earns”; I will tako that back, for they do not do any such thing, ‘Chey do not earn & dollar of it. Thoy tako 1t bocause thoy can; becauso ihoy have hold of the stringy of tho public purso, “'ho monoy they took was n sacrod trust, and would havo bocn hold as much in ihe hands of ovory honorable man, and the Presldent who signed that bLill, whioh put §100,000 in his {mokoe 18 not ouo bit bottor, in my estimation, llm'x} the mon who voted Zor it and took tho steal. 13 OPINION OF GRANT. You will pardon me for usiug such harsh ox- mem‘m a4 that whon I toll you I have beon o lopublican ever ninco tho party sturtod, snd went ©right stralght along with it ; but, thank God, I did'not voto for Gon, Grant the last time. I have not that sin to snswer for, at any rato, But lot_mo any I do not fool g hit meaner gbout it, and I do not think I degradod mysolf a Dbit moro in voting for Lim tha fivat timo thau an) Domoorat who vated for James Buchnnun, #liould think theva fs but vory littlo to chiooso botwoen thom. ‘Pho Domocrat who voled for Jumos Buolanan, and tho Ropublloan who vot- od for Grant, aro in yory much the samo condi- tion,” Tt i Iflco putting two oggs in o bag and shaking if—it js an even ihing which comes out st liut thore men have fixed tholr own salary, Tow i it with your County Judgo? What oor- responding beneflt have you for tho oxtra pay you gllow him? You lntully urged tho payssgo of & law glving thom elvil jurisdiction.. Iave you stopped Lo think that it will cost you threo or four timos sy much to pun your Qounty Gourt ? Hayo you any correaponding benofit ? ‘RIOTZR OPFIOIAL REKFONBINILITY BEQUIRED, very guufl oitizon should pay his fuir propor- tion of the taxes, and never mfl. It Is the duty of all good citlzons to malntaln the Governe fonr we bave o lstlo influence, and thoy torosts of the whola United Btatos, mont that protocta us, but it is not our duty to ‘ba robbod, or to allow Boma sgoundrol to hnve an cpportnnlly to thrust his handa into our pockets and tako ont the last dollar. It is our duty to Took after thoso fellows now. Wo have wakoned up to this thing ot last, Wo havo boon nslocp ail thoso yoars, and allowed thom tohandlo this nionog, and do just what thoy plonsod with it, without evor call nf thom to a rattlomont a8 you would mo, woro I haudling your funds, Why phould there bo sny differonce? Why should thers bo o strister accountability bofwoen ua ihnn botweon tho citizons who make our Govern mont and their publio sorvanta ? Why notmake thom_nccount for every dollar thoy have ree coived, and soo tliat they do not liave a chauce tochoat us again ? . FEATS OF THE REPUBLICAN POLITIOTANS. ‘Whon Isaid I waan Ropublican, I said what waa pimply tho trath. Whon this movemont b gan, tho Ilepublican- politicians ealled us fa) ora a vory honost sot of follows. * Why, cor- tainly you are right, you aro down-trodden, go right along. 'Tho rallronds aro robbing you. \% aro really glad that you have aroussd youraolvos and aro {(ulug to” stand up aud assert your rights.” That was oll woll and right. Wo woro tho finest et of fellows in the world, snd thesn mon whon thoy wanted something could dross up in formor's Ei;mfl come Into town with Liay- #ood in thelr lair, But when they found wa wo wors not golng to oleot fhom to ony offico, notwithatanding tho hay-sood and sl that, wo bogan to soo tho deslgn of their wholo courso. Horo 8 whore tho trouble camo in This is why thoy hato mo : Dooauso I dara atand right up in tho faco of you all and say to you aa follow-farmers, you Have got to go to Voting ; you must go right down to the bed- rook ; you have got to go to voting a8 farmors, Horo is the root of tho wholo ovil : Men hayo lind spocial chartor-privilegon granted to thom, By whom? By our logislators. If it bo n fact thiat thoy Linve borterod awny, irrovocably, our right to control tho raflronds of tho country,— wfi!ch I do not bolieve, nor admit, for a momant, —~how did it como that thoy dared to do it, against our remoustrancos and our known desiro to reserve these rights to our- solven ? Becnuso wo voted thom into offico for no higher reagon undor God's hoaven than that thoy belonged to our party. That is oll thoro was of it. Thoymused to eay up in Honry Coun- ty, whero there is 8,000 Republican majority, d:n you might nominate the very dovil, and he would bo elected, and thore aro old Bourbon countier down here, whero thoy call thomeolves Domocratio, and whoro they would olect Lim al- 80, was ho on the Domooratio tickot. \ DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PAUTIES DEAD. ‘We might as woll talk it right out, my frionds, The Domoeratic party died twolve yoars ogo, and I was ot tho funaral, and. did not cry over it. Norigthat sl If any of you doubt that wo huirled it twolve yonrs ago, you make Btate and Nationsl . nominations, ond call them, amd tho noxt timo we will fix them aa tho boy did the dog. . “Yknow hois dead, but I wantto malo him deador,” You know that the people ropu- diated that Domocratic party twelve yeara _sgo, on acaount of its corruptions. Do not yon know thnt Tom Bonton, ond such men, tried to stom that monstrous tide of corruption, but could not doit? Do not you know thal tha{l!noplu spowed it out of their mouths because of its corruption, and do not you know that just o cortain s they Qid it, just Bo cortain will thoy spow the Repuba lican party out of thoir mouths for the samo rea~ son? ' 119 ORITICIEN OF RENATOR MORTON. Now here hns Morton, tho vory saint of tho Republican party, beon making a spoech In Ohio, aud ho tolls you low ho fu In tympnthy with thia Tovmora' 1ovoment 1 low yo havo Wrongs, which ought to bo righted, but thoy havo nevor boen brought beforo Btato Logislatures and Gou- ross in ol nahepo os now. Dub Congtoss it s o right, undor tho Constitution, to rogulate commerco bovwoen tho Btates ; therdis & romody for thom, and sl thin mattor will bo fixed up noxt winter, Wo noed not do a thing. Wocan go on and raise 20-cont corn and d-cont pork. It will bo all right noxt_wintor, when Congross moote, ~ Whon think of the impudoncd of much a thing, I fool 08 the old follow did whou tho tail han?l of his wagon came out as he was going up bill, and tho potatoos rollod out. Thoy ssked him’ why ho did not swear, and he snid it was no use ; ho could not do justico to the. .mbfcnt. And whon I think of tho impudence of Olivor P, Morton, standing up bofore te pooplo of Olio, and ay- ing thoso wrongs will be_ righted the coming wintor, I do not swear, because I cannot do i:mfico to tho subjoct, and I will not undortske THE BEFORM POSSIDLE WITHIN EXISTING PARTIES. ‘Higtory has proven that no reform was over yot worked inside the party or sectin which originated the corruptions complainod of. From Martln Luthor down. all the groat socal, politi- cal, and religious roforms_that have ovor boen acdomplishod bogan olear down among tho com- mon poople, and worked upwards, whilo all op- prossions, wrong, and corruptions began up ondor, and worked downward. Whon I began 11 thia movemont, £ safd I wouid ool fo oo~ plish theao roforma '*insido of tho Bcg!nhlicnn partyif I can, outsido of it If T must, But that tinlary-grab, tho notion of our Logisiature lnst wintor, of tho Republican Legistature of Indiana, upon fhis mattor last wintor, and that of tho Jowa Logislaturo, which snubbod the Grangers, s convinced mo that there is no rodress for us insido any party organization oxcept our own, ‘That is what Ihave cowmo to, Honce, Isay, I binve ceased to be a Ropubliean in that sonse of tho word which means o partisan, Thorois o groat difforonce botwoon being & politician und a artisan, for evory time you vote you do a polit- B:nl act ; but lot that voto be something ; lot it be tho oxponent of your principles ; let. it bo, ag the poot Lz it— a thing that falls As falls tho enow-fiska on the sod, Bt oxooutes tha frooman's will As lightning doos the will of God, Let such bo your voto. Do not rogard your porty dootring, but God's ovorlasting principlos of right and justice, upon which all is fouuded, Lot it bo the exponent of thoso principles, and wo aro all right at once. TOW PARTIES COME INTO EXISTENOE. Somo say il;\l connot mako & party out of this Farmors' Movement. Mako o party | Such n thing nevor was dono. You cannot mnken party. Thoy grow as troes do. You plant the sood, the prinoiples, aud if the principles aro those of right and justico, that party will grow and bocomo & powor, just as tho Domocratio ont~ cow tho Fedoral party, and just a8 tho Repub- fl;m outgrew the Demacratic, and just as we will grow up to bo a power in the laud out of the corruptions of both of them, In theso independ- ent nominations and crg:nuixnflnnu ¥ are plant- ing the secd of a party which will grow and prospor in tima, USELESSNESS OF PARTIBANGIHIP, Now, what have you or I, as farmers, ever gainod by boing partissns ? How Lave our pe- Guniary interosts boen promoted by voting for this man bocauso he belonged to this party, or the othor man_ becauss he belonged to some other party? ook this fact right in the faco, that, during tho wholo history of tho logislation of this country, Stato and National, there has nover been a single law onnotod lookiug to the protootion of agriculture, but, on the contrary, every law, if not dead against us, has beon un- friendly to fhe agricultural and pxodgulsg m‘b ud” yo wo havo ataod tho brunt of tho battle, and pxld the largest portion of tho taxes, for the aimplo ronson that wo would not hide our horscs, w}.gln theso money-lenders could hide thoir mortgagos. Owing to unjust and uncqual laws, wo liave borne tho largest share of the burdon of taxation. Is it not timo that wo looked after {hia mattor, and secured the pnssago of somo law which will give ua at least au equal chanca iu tho race for wealth? Thatis all WIIY MEN ITAVE DEEN ELECTED TO OFFIOK, For what did you vyoto for a man to go ta tho Logislaturo? How did ho get thio nomination ¢ o did your Mombor of Oongress get his nomi- nation? Tor whatdid you'vate for him? Be- causo of hia integrity, his honor, hia virtue ? e~ onuso of his \u,mlon. oultura and ability ? Beoause Lo wae n man who, whon ha_gat to Cougrens, would ba incorryptible, and would #ook to prateot that largest shiuro of hisconstitu- ents, ~thot is, tho ngrioultural i ask, ‘prulnflnn of tho conntry,—that clooted him? No guch thing, It nevor ontered Into tho leads of me or you, Why did you vote for him then? Bocauso” tho parly nominnted m, and that was tho solo sud” only rocommondation ‘Lo had, and ljad ou known from tho very bottom of your hearts hat ba would have takon tho last dollar you had the moment he l}wl a ohanco to do it, you would atill bave voted for him to carry out your parti- zan foolings, Tu that wiso? Ta that disoroot? Ta that soting liko mon with comman judgmont snd disoroton, ar{s {tnot? If not, thon lot us tarn abont, Do yau or I cara for the sngors of wmon who say, “*Whatl are you going to make a party P I thought Ynu woro uob golng into walitles, You will kill yoursolyos tho moment you go into anything of tho kind,” o have aon in politics as long as wa huvo lived, aud ot wo iave nof killod ouruclves, I have beon n politiou slnce ¥ was 21, and have killod mysolf ovory yoor sinoo that time, 1% WILL LG VOTED RO LONGER, I havo baou voted—thot iy thq word—over olnco I wus 21, aud now I am Enlng to vote, that iu the differengo, Ws huvo polly ‘all theao yoars liko ‘oattlo, and have boon yoted. Now, In'God's nume, lot us go to voting, Whou you do thal, you will make the fur fly. Wheti you deoido that you will do that, you will #oo mors than ono follow around with huy-sasd i his balr sud in Lig olothes, oon tod up to the [} ly this, to vote as farmers. You may take it or not, just ag you pleaso, but I am going to pursuo tink oourso, and it anyhody olse gons with mo, T will nominato some follow for somo offico, nnd vato for him, and thus make sureke has ona vote anyhow ? NUMERIOAL POWER OF THE PARMENS, DId you evor atop to think that you have three fittha and o fraction ovor of all tho votes in this Btato? Yot with all that numerlcal suporiority, what havo yon dono in cleoting mon to offico to, Emme your fntorosts 7 Chink what n powor you' nvol I8 it any wonder that these follown'nre rondy to bow right down to us when thoy think of tho ancr wo hold o votors ? _Ts it any wou- dor that thoy are willing to coneedo to us s groat many thinga and & gront maoy rights thoy hiavo olwaya donled us horotoforo ? ~ As for mflan]l. 80 holp'mo Hoeaven, no-man who_ has ongo botrayod my trust, no man who took that salary-steal, or voted for it, from Prosidont down to tho lowost one of thom, will ever got my vote for any offico whatever, notaven for path-mestor, and I eay sa T did on tho Fourth of July, that It any ono of thoso mon s ovor olacted agaln, ontaldo of cortain Targo oitios, it will bo agricultural votoa that will oloct thom, and I sald, and repeat tho oxpros- slon, that if thoy aro thus electod, you descrvo to go right in and work thirty moiths to pay thiom for ono in the public servico. LOCK UP YOUR CORX-ONIBS, Then if you aro wrongod in the future, do not complain, * for you haveit inyour power to romody the ovil by thoso comblnations, but lob thom Do for good, mind you, not for ovil. Ido not boliova in axtortion, 1do not want you to combino and say you will have a dollnr a pound for buttor, for that is too much, _That is wrong. That Is what wo_are fighting, But combine to e 25 conts, and I sny God pood. to you overy imo, you desorve it and earnit. Lot us com- bine hore, Isaw o manat our National Con- gross who said, *When I left Southwostorn Goorgis, I pald & dollar & bushol for your _prairio corn, I como out hero sud' I fiud that you aro goiting 20 conta o bushol for it, and that thereforo some- body got 80 cents for fofching it to mo. You ought to havo half o dollar for that corn, aud I ought to got It for 75 conts, and thon the fol- lows who fotch it to us would got 25 cents in- stoad of 80, and that would equalize the thing. I would rather pay 76 conts than a dollar, and Yon nover ought to raisc o bushel of corn for ens than Linlf o dollor,” and 80 say I, You nover nshould soll & bushel short of half a dollar, and you can havo it the moment you say you wl\l. AND THF, WORLD 18 AT YOUR PEET, Qot out of debt now, If your poor neigh- bors must gell, furnisl them tho money, make up o purso for thom, lend thom tho monoy on ther oribs, and enablo them to Liold on till the prige {a up. Thon, {nstoad of those warohouses at Ohicsgo bursting with rotton snd hot corn, of them order " of & doale or ' horo in Camollton, *BSend mo 5,000 bushols of high mixed corn at tho best mlr‘nm {3“ can buy it for.” That is tho way. Thon thia donlor will sayto you, ‘‘Hero, I want 5,000 bushels of high mixed; what will you let mo havo it for7” “Hnlf a dollar.” And do you not know that that balf & dolinr will come as eurcly a8 God's sun shines, for thoy eannot livo without corn. They cannat eat dry goods and nails, whilo wo can bo self-supporting on a farm, oud thoro 18 whers wo havo got tho advantago, for we ean mako our farma support us, as they did whon I was a boy, when wo spun_linen and rasod or mado overything wo uscd. They must have our products, and the powor to fix & price upon thom 15 in our hnnds tho moment wa got ready for it, and that within o_yoar, it we aro wise in this matter. First, bogin by organizing everywlere, not for extortion, not for robery, but to oxocute tho first Iaw. of naturo—that of salf-protection. Organizo, that wo may bo strong pgainst tho strong, While sogrogated,we aro weuk; aggregat- od, wo aro o power which will bo irrosistible for good to ourselyos. GROWTE. OF THE MOVEMENT. I fecl honored by your Immnncn hero to-day, and yot I sm sure that this largo congregation of Indies and gontlomen did not coma simply to hoar mo. I think your presonce {s chiefly due to tho intongo intorost you feel in thia Farmors’ Move- mont. It la a matter which is under disoussion hora fo-doy, and_somovwhoro elso to-morrow. I do not eny it boastingly or egotistioally, but T am callod upon to go somowhoro overy day in the weols, ond_sometimes to four or fivo places o day. X only go whero my frionds will lot me, T 98y this morely to show you how It is . common foollng all over the Woat. Thero is an intonsity abont it that moang succoss, Thoy had tho first mecting of tho kind in Indiana last wook, and thero wore oyer 10,000 in onmo orowd,—10,000 mon and womon, earnost and detormined, overy one of them. Tho firo is kindled down thers, aud it will not bo put out; soo if it iz, The thing is spreading, I hoar overy day. Tho old Macedonian cry arisos from everywhere, ¢ Gomo ovor sud bolp ua,” Tho poople ara arousod as thpy nover hiave bosn boforo in this country on any subjoct,and well they may bo. If mattors had fouo g fivo yoars moro, tho last riyot would ave beon clitohed in tho chaln that was hindiug us to tho car of s monopoly sristocracy. Then ou might have had a revolution, but I do not Toliovo there will be sny now. GOV, BEVERIDGR ADDNESSING FANMERS. 1 bave soon diaplayed on mauy o banner, " Poncoably it We Cany Forcibly it We Muat ;" on othors, *I'ho Ballot or the Bullet;” and on another, ** Gov. Bovoridgze's Resignation or Hiy Hond," T do not Lnow what thnt moeans. I would not oaro if ho mslfinud, for I do uot think that ho s any oredit to tho Stato, nor that ko is any good to the Farmora' Movement, alihough o professos to havo a good deal of friendship and sympathy for us. Bo, too, John M, Palmor made o spoooh at Clinton, at & farmors’ plonio, togethor with Gov. Boveredge, I would as soon think of gotting tho old fellow with a oloven hoof and o long tail to proach a Sunday sormon in & Christian church, It would bo just as much out of placo as to geb those two men to talk to tho farmors. They Lave no sympathy with us, and you may a8 woll undorstand it, only just 80 far a8 thoy can vato us, and useus s votin, cattlo to olect thom to somo offico ; that is all, Racolleot how Gov, Dovoridgo actod last yearin tho appolntmont of those throo Railroad Coms< missioners, who woro intonded by the law to stand botwoon theso privilogod corporations and the pooplo. Ho mado thoso sppointmonts to poy & political debt, 1t hed no othor signif- conco, Ho did not cars o continental whother they would dofond tho farmars or not, 8o long ns it paid off Bovorldge's political dobt. That ig tho way it is run, * Tommy, tickle me, do, and in timo X will tickle you, too,” Thatisall thero {8 of it. Thoy tickled Boveridge, and ho turned round and tioklod thom, when 1t camo thoir furn, We must stop all this, and wo can do it casily, OULTIVATE MORE DRAINS AND LSS CORN. You would be all the botter for coming togothor horo to-day, aven if you hed just talkod to oue unother, and nover hioard o word from this plat- form You will go homo bottor mon and womon, with bighor and noblor purposos, Iiot mo ra- eat what Col. Coleman eaid, ** Gnltivate more ratus, and loss corn,” and you will bo tho richer in tho ond. Make your houses the plonsantost ‘places on earth for yourgalyes and your children ; Burround thom with all beautiful thinga; all them with books and pictures. No mattor if you do nat biavo quito 8o much money when you dio § you will not bohnlf so sorry to loavait. The man ho bas only a thousand dallars whon ho dies con only be & hundrod-thonsandth part aa long a8 Vandorbilt with his huudred willions, Lot us livo, whilo we live, for puroe, rational, intolli- geut happincss, I dotormined yoars ago to gob 28 much of it in this world aa T could, &hlhmll happiness doos no* oanslat in gotting drunk, nor beiug o boast, but in the cultivation of tho higher facultios of tho mind,which mako man God-like. 80 do not try to raise &0 much 20-cont cor, but raise a ook of hrains with which to mooet those cunning sconndrels every time, I thank you for your pationt and kind atton- tion to mo during Bl these hours In which you have boen Hatentng to my remarks, PERSONAL. Ed. Con verso, of Doaton, ia at the Gardner. A, K. Butts, of Now York, ls at tho Gardner. . . Payson, of Now York, is at the Grrdnor. Commodors Morris, U, 8. N, is at tho Pacific. 1. P, lioman, of Cinclunatl, Ia at the Paciflo, W. 0. Johugon, of England, is at the Shorman, Capt. B. P, Willard, U. 8, A,, I at tho Paciflo, Wm. W.Hyde, of Bhanghai, Ohins, is b the Garduer, Thomas Blakey, of Philadelphl, iz at tho Bhormun, * fhe Hon, Jacob Roove, of Plttsburgh, s at the Shorman, J, Dord, af tho Now York Zimes, is at the Bhorman. ‘Tho Ion, P, L, Oable, the Pacifle, Chas, L Bherrill, tho Taoitlo, Col, I, J. § . 0, ‘Moahumn'wunt, of Washington, D. 0,, is at Col, T, Q. Btowart, of London, England, is b tho Sherman, ' % Tho Ifon, Jobn 1. Roddick, U.| Nobrasks, 18 ot tho Pacltlo, ~ 4« Tho notorious Waukeshs Sam fs oxpectad ab of Rook Island, is ot of Washington, D. Q., {a at Beuator from My advico {a sl | tho Grand Paoiflo this morning, He will bo | trasound-st. enitably wolcomod by “ Josns," if tho latter gons tloman fiom in from Farm 8tation on tmoj it not, *'Ghad.” will do tho honora, Both John Dlajsdoll and Nato Baulsbury are 00d swordsmon,—uuusually good, iudeod,—but tho impotuosity of the lattor will have 4 tondonoy to thin ont leatling mon in tho country. Blniss doll baa been out up protty badly, Mr. Saula< ‘bury nood not fiut norvons, but #hould not ba- como 8o oxcited in his fonoing. Nnhm!{ who knows 3Mr. Russell Baggs, tha oxoollont * old man " at Ilooloy's ean fail to ha ntr\mkywmh bLin roasmblanco to'tho Groat Napo- loon, 'A pleco lins hoon writtan for him by Mr, I V. Richardson entitled *‘'Uho Oamp and Court of Napoloon Bonnparto,” In which Mr. Boggs will assumo tho rolo of the groat Coralean, Gon, John A. Lo il Yooons ol gan will be unable to spoak in Goorgo T, Brown, ox-Sergennt-at-A; the Unitod Btatos Sonale, is prgpnnull furm l\?n;gr o.l Alton at tho onsulng election. mgml\vhlhl;m!n s ronovn‘:tlng rf:-mnl hlshnmuk of 4, an 18 Boon quito ofton O Pifladelphis, although ho walks but litha " Tho handsomo residence proporty of Hen D. Huft, at Winona, Minn,, has boen purchaso by H. W, Lamborton for $22,600. Gon. Brinkorkoff has rotired from tho odis torinl ohargo of tho Ohio Liberal, publishod ab Manaflold, and will dovoto his attontion in future to bonking, Goorge A. Buskirk, who shot Rose, o bas~ koopor at Bloomington, Ind,, a fow months sgo, hos roturnod bome a roborer aud, ought to bo, & wisor and bottor man, TRobort Harris, Suporintondont of the 0, B. & Q. Rnilroad, did not appear boforo tho McDon« ough County Fair Asooistion to toll what he know about farming, Judge Clagott, of the Keoluk Constitution, haa Tacoived intelligonce of the death of Lis father, Thomas Qlagott, 8r., who diod at his residenca in Princo Goorge's County, Md., on Tuosday, at tho advanced ago of 84 yeara, ‘Wo hnd s call yesterday from the on. A, M, Cavan, of Woodiord County, whom the Chicags Journal reported killod nt Edgowood. Mr, Cavan agnorts emphintically that he is no such man,— Peoria Transoript, Hteven Btine haa bben spoken of a8 candidate for County Judgo. Ho aays ho would like to ho Judgo just to got & chanca at tho Inwyers, Hia firat judiolal act would be to fino the entire bax §25 par Iawyor, and threo of thom he would sond to jall,—Fairfleld (1) Press, It ia m{‘mrtod from Washington, sccmingly on ood authority, that ono of tho first acts of tho nitod Statos Sonato whon it meots, thin winter, will bo tho oholca of o Buccessor to Mr. Carpentor, 88 Chairman pro tempora. If the Senate fails ta do this, in view of tho scandals connacted with Mr, Oarpentor’s namo, it will not vindicato ita own honor ond scuse of decency.—Cleveland Zerald. 3 Baron Boillean *(brother-in-law of John 0. Fromont), who was koutonced to imprisonmont by a Fronoh court, for his connection with tho Momphis & El Paso Railroad nffair, ia con. fined fn the conclergorie. Boforo lhis trial, M, Baillosu had abandonod sll bis fortune and that of his wife in favor of tho stockholders of tha Momphis & El Paso Railrond. Madame BDoillonu is at Boulogne. 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