The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-27

be extended to him, must sink to the
bottom and become enslaved to the
money trust. Hence [ favor equal
protection or no protection. The
government has permitted National
Banks to form a trust on money, and
it seems that they foster all other
trusts Of which we complain and whose
heavy hand we feel paralyzing the
heaven-appointed institution of farm
ing, and fosters protection to M sec
ton and class of people SO as to pau
perize the other. So | feel under
existing conditions the only relief for
us to obtain is equal protection. Let
the Chinese wall be built all around,
or else torn down. And let our
watch-word be protect all or none.
The Republican party, as the protec-
tive party, with so much love for fos-
tering our institutions, with their pro-
LESSONS of love for the wards of the
nation, the negroes, a by assisting
in such a measure, give substantial
aid to this laborer of the cotton fields.
They will hen only be doing justice
to the negro of the South by extend
ing to him the full protection that
they pretend to give the laborer of
the North.
But, alas they say there is 10 hope
Of Congress doing anything for the
South. If that be so, then I maintain
that if Congress will repeal the uncon-
stitutional prohibition against State
Banks of Issue and relegate us to u
natural and constitutional right to
formulate our own system of banking
as enjoyed by the States prior to the
establishment of the present National
Banking System, (which system we
can improve on by experience and
whose issue we can make as good as
National Bank issue with more safety
to depositors,) by which the States
were robbed Of their right formulate
the measure by which their property,
products and labor should be valued,
and the same through National Banks
transferred to the commercial centres
of the country, particularly to Wall
street, which has resulted in such
widespread disaster and the tyranical
reign of trusts, monopoly and unequal
protection. In the interest of the
people Of every State, break this
gigantic trust on money, restore to
the State their banking privileges, and
the cotton States through the medium
of State Banks of Issue, will by
proper State legislation, recognize
these cotton certificates and protect
themselves. Until this can be &C
complished or some similar relief ex-
tended, all assistance should be given
by State Legislation to carry out the
aims and purposes of the Alliance, to
whom the farmer must look for pro-
lection and material relief until the
proper influence shall be brought to
bear to secure the needed National
legislation.
Now | repeat, don't dub my sugges-
tons as impracticable, for nothing ap-
pears practical but the broad way to
the poor house, which I find over
crowded with farmers. Suppose we
adopt some suggestions that may ap-
pear impracticable, perhaps they will
lead in a different direction It seems
practical for the purchasing power of
the almighty dollar to steadily increase
and be drawn tighter and tighter
around the throat of labor and agri-
culture until we behold them gasping
in the last agonies of despair. A
remedy called impracticable may be
desperate, yet it sometimes saves the
patient. 1t is very practical to form
the big railroad deal by which the
South is placed at the mercy of a
soulless syndicate, but not practical to
suggest anything that shall look favor
ably to better prices to the farmer for
his cotton. x. x. x.
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