Congress Ignores Farming and Labor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

Congress Ignores Farming and Labor

A MERELY occasional and casual glance at the record of Congressional proceedings reveals the fact that only the representatives of concentrated wealth are called in consultation when counsel outside of the membership is wanted concerning financial interests. The banking lords, the railroad magnates, or the great manufacturing or commercial princes, are consulted concerning their various interests; but the farming and labor interests—the very foundation stones of all business—are persistently ignored. There is nothing that so blinds men to their true interests, and the true interests of the country at large, as greed.