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on his friends. Don't think I am talking for myself, for I am not. 
If I were to ask you for ten, fifty, or one hundred dollars, to help 
the thing along, I should not expect it; but when you can have 
an organ that will fight for you, doing everything for you, then I 
say you ought to be able to find twelve shillings or two dollars a 
year to support it. Now, I am willing to come here, and with this 
friend, to put my heart and soul into this work. I am not a 
stranger to a good many of you. There are men here who know 
how I have flung myself into this cause regardless of self. Now, 
can you, as a body, or a few of you here, give me the assurance that 
you will each of you, all of you, go home and use your endeavors 
to support an organ in your own State, to advocate your cause, that 
shall be able to deal a blow back for a blow given, and if this paper 
down here says we are doing injury, and that we are hindering the 
business of this country, that we are doing wrong to every body; 
that we shall have some body and some place whereby we can be 
heard on our side. We stand to-day without a single weapon to 
strike back against the men who are crowding us into the earth. 
They ridicule us, they treat us with contempt, because they know 
we are powerless. When I see such things in the papers, and they 
do not give me a chance to say a word, I pray heartily I sometime 
may be placed in a position where I can hit back as hard as I am 
hit. Depend upon it, I will do it if I get there. It is for you to 
do it. Brains may edit the paper, but my good friends, dollars 
must buy the bread and cheese. 
Mr. Clark: After the expression that has been used by Mr. Or- 
ledge, I can speak only for myself. That is, if there is a paper 
started in Madison they can count on one subscription, and all the 
influence that I have to support it. 
Mr. Hazek: I supposed the paper was to be purely agricultural. 
I take it that the resolution offered here is to establish an agricul¬ 
tural paper in this State. He talks to me more like establishing a 
political than an agricultural paper. An agricultural paper should 
leave politics out of the question. Such a paper as that I am will¬ 
ing to take hold and support, give my influence, and raise a few 
dollars to help it along. 
Mr. Orledge: The paper I spoke of here, would be a perfectly in¬ 
dependent paper. That would be my idea, striking straight for the 
truth, without regard to party. It seems to me that experience 
