The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-08-27

Inc question was aSk0u u DOmV
themes, what was the chief part OF an
orator. He answered, action. What
next /? action; what next again {
action. And so with us, u chief
part in this movement is action and
nothing bat action; without this great
auxiliary to every earthly enterprise
fruition is new reached, and the
letters for our bondage will be forged
with links of adamantine steel II we
lay by the wayside in l~istless maction:
Another aspect of the case. 1t
ever a class needed legislation to
shield them from the most grinding,
rapacious greed, we do from the
tribute extorted of us by government
levies of Al per cent. for the protec-
ton or enriching of manufacturers,
thereby accumulating an immense
supply in the treasury, and enabling
these protected corporations to form
trusts to rob the people.
Let's mention a few of the blessings
these financial freebooters who are
fostered by the monopoly tariff tax,
which maintains these proteges of the
government, and uphold and cherish
the consequent monopoly trusts,
grant us the great blessing that alb
serbs the whole of the wheat crop to
pay the railroad tax; the great bles-
sing of the telegraph, telephone, and
life and fire insurance that about con-
sumo the other cereals; the great bles-
sing of the hundreds of thousands of
worthless officials, appointed and re-
appointed by reckless gaustless to
keep the people in ignorance and
slavery, about eat up the beef and
mutton; the great blessing left to the
producers of pork and potatoes as q
source of subsistence and revenue;
the great blessing of over 500, OO0,-
600 s~quandered as government or
party sop, to maintain fraudulent
pensioners, and the inestimable bles-
sing of 1900, 900 poor, destitute out
casts driven from honest toll by pluto
cratic greed to tramp and wander,
houseless and homeless, yer the face
of the earth with no where to lay
their heads and worse off than the fox
that has a hole to shelter it. These
are some of the blessings ~vouchsafed
US. Surely, justice must be blind, or
she would die of grief from weeping
over the misery she would be COM
PEELED to witness from such a blessed
state of things! And surely we must
be bad men to complain of such an
array of ineffable blessings, and hard
indeed we must be to satisfy if we
can't rest content Herewith, but must
need grumble thereat and even think
of going so far as to- elect a represen-
tation to legislate against such a beati-
fc state of things.
Yes, brethren, legislation is the
antidote that will counteract the
venom that will nigh permeate every
vein and artery of our material exis-
tence, and the only way to obtain leg
~islation is through proper repre-
sentation; a remedy which we possess
the undoubted power to apply. There
is a speedy way out of this thraldom
if we will only enforce the oOiH with
concert of action; failing in which our
future, if any thing, will be worse
than it already is-a perpetual Egyp-
tian bondage. Instead of a millennium
to dawn upon frightened prospects,
tie darkness of despair itself will
shed its funeral pail over our offend
ing heads blighting every anticipation
of a future in which no glimpse of a
sunrise of our final resurrection will
emerge above the horizon of blasted
hopes. aa
This representation matter is so all
important that we must begin now to
fix upon the right men to place upon
the arena during the next campaign,
who will prove efficient in confront.
ing that lion in our path; that up
holder of iniquitous monopoly and
murderer of honest competition-the
high protective prohibition tariff enor-
nifty. These monopoly combines
must be broken up, and the only way
to do it is to revise the tariff law, one
!, sentence in which could maintain any
desired measure of protection to man
ufacturers and yet fully protect con.
sumers against monopoly trusts, nine
tenthsp of all the monopoly trusts we
have are the legitimate creation of
excessive tariff taxes, and it is worthy
of note that trusts have multiplied
rapidly since the last election, because
monopoly tariff taxes are regarded as
5 secure against reduction. Our repre-
~sentatives must especially drive home
the fact that the present tariff laws
are responsible for the monopolizing
/ trusts which overtax the people b7
!, specially protecting them in their
robbery. The men we want to repre-.
a sent us in Congress must strain every
nerve of mind and body to break up
S this monopolizing outrage by the
t roots, by honest tariff revision. and