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

scarcely refrain from a less savage
greed for rapine to sack and plumber
at will every vestige of our rights and
substance, whether within their legal
szed monopolistic ~prohibitory protec-
tory tariff government guarantee
enormity power, or 6hnked at illegal
grasp.
In the estimation of some, all this
NAV smack of political intermeddling
and be deemed a violation of our CON
st~itutional injunction not TO SO NEEDLE.
But | beg leave to state that not a
word is instigated from a political
partisan standpoint, and if they come
in conflict with any existing party
issue, it is not with the view to reflect
upon any party, but from a conscien-
tious conviction of the primary source,
irrespective of party, from which u
grievances emanate, and these griev-
ances are so momentous that | hold
them paramount to any political issue
of any party, clique, set, gang, order,
or clan, the principles of any or all of
which may go to the four winds of
heaven if they trench on our vested
rights. Yes. we must have represen-
tatives who realize thoroughly that
the intolerable fraud and audacious
robbery to which we are subjected by
these Modocks of monopolizing com
bi~nations imposes it upon us as a
sacred duty to shield ourselves from
their infamous exactions by forming
a boycotting crusade that, with daunt-
less, inhexible determination of spirit,
will inspire us to submit, if need be,
to the greatest sacrifices, for the time
being, in preference to a~ugmenting
their despotic power over us by a con-
tinuance of cut-throat patronage
They deem themselves impregnable,
and so they are to the extent that
their gangrenous souls r beyond the
reach of any antiseptic to disinfect a
p~utriscence which has seized upon
them with relentless grip, but which
we can remove by the surgery of a
proper representation. We have sown
to the wind and reaped the whirlwind
long enough. We have been beasts
of burden, hewers of wood and draw
ers of water long enough, and it is
high time we were turning the turn
ing the tables on our enemies by
swooping down upon them with a
cyclone that will sweep away the
temples of monopoly trusts from
"turret to foundation stone" And
if we will only be true to ourselves it
requires no profit to foretell that five
years hence this country will be historic
as the graveyard of monopoly trusts.
Never, brethren, / trust I've not
been so obscure as not to impress upon
our minds the momentous necessity of
a proper representation in State and
National counsels, and the vital i'm
portance of beginning forthwith with
the work and go on c~easelessly, with
untiring efforts, so that by the time
the nominating conventions convenes
we will have Jul triggers set, with
everything primed and cooked to
clinch matters without parley or
WrhnSLInS.
The soldier who deserts in presence
of the enemy is deservedly shot. In
civil life there are forms of criminality
which r worse than assertions; they
are open hostilities to the best in,
terests of humanity, and it is this hos
tile criminality against the multitude
of toiling producers we've got to com
bat with all our might. Calamity, it
is said, is the touch-stone to try the
stuff that men are made out of. God
knows if any people eve had such an
incentive, through the robbery and
despotism of combined capital, to
show what stuff they are made of, we
have. So let us, as a solid unit OF
purpose and action, show our gritty
stuff to the world by throwing down
the gauntlet with the bold challenge:
Lay on, McDuf, and damned be he
who first cries, hold, enough |"
UPTON b. GWYNN,