The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
lLRrTRR FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
Rro. Rripham has It Down to the Point.

tatiye of the Farmers Alliance, and
G., M. w. Powderly, of the knights
of Labor. That you did there and
then issue a call for a conference to be
held at St. Louis, December Sd, to see
If some base could not be found on
which all wealth producers could
stand a unity of action be had. Said
conference was he'll, was represented
by honest and able men OF all classes
of wealth producers. The farmers,
artizans, mechanics and laborers,
there agreed upon a platform OF prln-
ciples that every honest man can &C
cept. Speeches were made by I. v.
Powderly, Ralph Beaumont, Gen. Jas.
B. Weaver and Stump Ashby that
should be published in every labor
and agricultural paper in the United
States the monopolistic papers will
not publish), and every mar and wo-
man ought to read them. Those that
have read or will read will know more
after than they did before reading,
at least if they have any brains and
honesty in their make up.
The wealth producer was repre-
sented at that conference by men who
love their fellow men. They were
able and honest men, men whose
whole object and aim was and is to
better the conditin of their country.
That all unjust and inequitable
and class laws shall be repealed and
Just and equitable laws shall be en-
acted in their place. Socrates said,
"Just in proportion as laws are just
and equitable is mans opportunities
In life for health, wealth and happi-
ness" A truth none will deny.
Reader, did you ever examine care
fully to see and know the cause or
causes that have produced such condi-
tons as we see in this favored land
of ours2 If so have you sought q
remedy for said wrongs or conditions2
A country that is blessed with natural
opportunities beyond that Of most
portions of Gods green earth. The
land of plenty where the fields yield in
abundance their fruits for the susten.
ance of mankind. Even the rocks
pour forth rivers of oil and gas un.
limited. Where nature responds to
every effort of man. "A land where
no want should go unsupplied, but
every want met to the fullest extent;
where peace and plenty, where happi-
nes and prosperity should dominate,
not as it now is, SIM. crime, want and
misery in the land. Is it because the
Au-wise Creator has either limited the
inert wealth of the world, or prevented
by Gny law the production of the
Hecessaries of life? No, there is
japlenty and to spare. He tells us in
His good book, l have placed in the
earth, on the earth and in the waters
thereof, sufficient and to spare to sup.
ply every want of the children of men
to the end of time" He also tells US
His laws,are just and equitable, har
monious in their working and benef.
cil in their effect, producing no bad
effects, bringing no wrongs into exis
tence. His first command to man is:
AGO forth, multiply and replenish the
earth" which certainly means propa
gate your species and cultivate that
which I have placed in the earth, on
the earth and in the waters thereof for
the sustenance and maintenance of
my children forever. The next com.
mand is, "By the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread" Not by the sweat
of some other persons face, but by
thy own" The command is positive
andimperative, given by Him who had
and has authority to command, and
. should be obeyed. Alas, it is not so;
it is disobeyed, set at naught by Jew
and Gentle, Saint and sinner. Pro-
fessed Christians and gamblers, greed
and avarice has gotten possession of
mems minds. The love of money
rules. Men teach one another, also
teach their children to love money to
get it by any means so they, will keep
out of prison.
Or is it by the force and effect of
laws that have been placed upon our
statute book by pretended statesmen,
by men who well knew the force and
effect of said laws when their brain
conceived and their votes enacted
them? You certainly cannot offer
ignorance as an excuse. You all adj
NIT that Jas. G. Blaine, John Sher.
man, Samuel J. Randall and J. G.
Carlisle are brainy men, that Gen.
Grant and Grover Cleveland, who
both used their power as President to
enforce said laws to the fullest extent,
we're brainy men. Neither of
them aver recommended the repeal
of any of the laws that has brought
our country into its present d~eplorable
condition, but recommended making
them more perfect in effect and per-
petuating them. As witness both of
their recommendations to take the
legal-tender qualities from the green
back and demonetizing of the silver
dollar, thereby making gold money by
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