Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — APPEAL TO WESTERN FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

APPEAL TO WESTERN FARMERS.

Asked to Send Provisions to the Hungry Thousands In New York. The delegates and speakers to the Farmers’ Alliance and People’s Party State Convention at Sylvan Beach, N. Y., issued the following appeal: Farmers of the West: A cry of hunger and starvation comes up from the heart of the great metropolis—New York. It comes from the throat of tens r>f thousands of American citizens who are without work and without bread. It ascends to heaven amid the noise of the call-board on the f took exchange and the jingling of the gold on the money counters of Wall street. It is intensified bv the tears and moans of starvingmothers and famishing elrl dren. Men are becoming desperate from want, and the gaunt specter of famine stalks abroad unheeded by those who hav • grown fat by the pillage of labor and the ravaging of Industry. The lobby approaching the council chamber oi the republic is filled with the paid agents oi the moneyed oligarchy ready to debauch the people’s representatives and weld the chains of financial slavery still more securely on the neck of labor. The money sharks are unrelenting, the Government' indifferent, and the people desperate. By the pangs of hunger, law-abiding, honest men are being transformed into wri ckless wolves, and this is the condition descried by the enemies of the people. They starve them first in order to furnish an excuse to kill them afterward. This must not be. The starving poor of New Y'ork must not become the prey of designing enemies. Farmers, yon must feed them. Well, now, you are poor. We know the labor of your bands Is unreqnitted and your toll and perseverance unrewarded. But these men and women are your brothers and Bisters. Their cause is your cause. Their starvation and your poverty are 1h; ioint production of our common enemy. Serd speedily of your corn and wheat, your potatoes and breadstuff's, that disorder and bloodshed may be averted. Let the president of each alliance call his alliance and act without delay. Ask your railroads to furnish transportation free as you give your substance. Organize relief committees at once and commnnicate with Mr. David Rousseau, 310 Mott avenue, New York City, who has been selected by us as the consignee of relief supplies and who will arrange for their prompt and effective distribution. J. B. Weaver, lowa. T. E. Dean, New York. Mary E. Lease, Kansas. "William J. Kerr. Colorado. Mrs. Marion Todd, Michigan. L. C. Paddock. Colorado. Delegates and Speakers to the Farmers’ Alliance and People's Party State Convention. No Money to Move Crops. The most serious problem which the Northwest find s itself confronted with at the present time as an incident oi the financial depression, is how the crops shall be moved. There not sufficient money in the country tcreend the stream of golden grain flowing into the markets, and aid must come from somewhere. Severn! meetings of bankers and jobbers have been held at Minneapolis, to decide upon a plan of action, but none has been agreed upon. To harvest and move or market the crops requires within the next three months the use of a very large amount of money. It seems to be conceded that the necessary money cannot be cbtained from the usual Eastern sources, and that the local hanks can do but little toward furnishing the needful in actual cash. To meet the emergency, a proposition has been discussed that the banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis should create a local currency by issuing, on the lines of the tried plan of New York banks, clear-ing-house certificates in denominatic(is of $5. $lO, S2O and SSO, which would be loaned to the buyers to be used in payment of wheat to farmers and freights and charges to railways, and thus carry the wheat to market, when the proceeds would be returned to the banks, thus putting them in funds with which to redeem the lccal currency. Notes of Current Events. Thf, Bank of Albany, Mo., has suspended. Malignant diphtheria has broken out in Findlay, O. The German-American hank at St. Paul will resume business. Floods near Beatrice, Neb., have carried away many bridges. Congressman Dunn, of New Jersey, is seriously ill with heart failure. Detroit bankers are issuing certificates of deposit in place of currency. The Sons of Veterans have adopted black belts instead of belts of gold color.