The Farmer's Messiah

As I do not wish to be personal, let us ! deal with principies: therefore I wish you would state through the columns of your paper if , in your opinión. H is less j wise or less honorable for farmers to i combine for celf protection against nnwise or dishouest legislation than it is for Cyrus McCormick, William DeerI ing, Walter A. Wood and othem to coni bine for the avowed purpose cí corneri ing the farm machinery business with i their millions of wealth. Also is it less wise or less honorable on the part of ! farmers to ask the government to loan 1 them a portion of the idle millions in its vaults. on good security, for the pur! pose of relief froni their present finan1 cial embarrassment, which is the direct i outcome of unjust legislation, thaa it was when the Wall street gamblers in railroad and other securities asked and received bountiful aid from the government? The United States treasury vaults were recently thrown wide open to Wall street brokers when some of their collaterais were in danger of the auction block. Is it not equally jiist for the I government to loan money to farmers for the purpose of saving their collaterals or homes from the auction block, ! which are being knocked down at a ruin' ous figure by the president and members I of the above named combine. The Messiah craze is not perhaps confined strictly to the noble red man. The I agriculturists of the country are somewhat affiicted, for they also believe their messiah will come not later thau 1892, and he is expected to relieve them from tmjust taxation and laws which discrimínate in favor of corporations, trusts, pyndicates and other combines, which for many years have been sapping the very life blood from the rnost important of all American industries, until it is now on the ragged edge of hopcless bankruptcy. If this messiah does not come by the stated time you may write iny name in letters of fire and hang it upon the outer wall beside that of E. Stone Wiggins, the false weather