The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-28
LETTER FROM HEREFORD
COUNTY.
The Wa on the Alliance-The Sub
Treasury Bill Not Yet Dead.

Mr.. EDITOH:- AS yOu truly S6Jj
the Sub Treasury bill is not dead yet.
1t was many years before Scipio gave
Carthage to the flames, and the rival
of Rome was raisd 10 her foundations,
that Cato in the end of every speech
in the Senate Numbered his prophecy,
" C1yhGgo defend est" We hay
seeders, socialists, ~jacobins, praticides
and communicates have in some way
become imbued with the faith that
this bill is to be the panacea for all
our woes, and you know when such
stupid dolts, as clodhoppers and peas
ants, once get an idea lodged in their
thick skulls it takes no ordinary
blows to batter it out. The worlds
history is full of just such fools, and
among them conspicuously stands
John Hamden, of England, who was
too niggardly to pay the Kings de
mand for a small tax. True the man
was troubled with a conscience per
haps, but it's beating should have
been hushed when high and mighty
lords and barons derided and scorned
such punctillious foolishness. His re
sistance, however, inaugurated a politi-
cal storm, which robbed England of
many a noble son, and sem her King
to the scatfOld.
A great nation holds up its arms,
upon which are clanking chains of
slavery more despotic than those
which Charles the First endeavored
to infict upon his people, and u
wise men in Congress assembled have
devised for them no measure Of relief.
But in lieu thereof have advanced the
price of every necessity; have enhanced
the rate of living among the poor, and
cheapened it upon the luxuries of life.
There neve was nor ever will be a
more splendid bonanza for the mo-
nopolists of trade than Blaine's Pan,
American Reciprocity Treaty. It
opens the gates of our commerce,
closed to the world beside, to our
sister republics of the Western World.
These republics muster, all told, about
SO, 900, 900 souls, and they not only
do not need a single agricultural pro
duct of ours, save for the time a little
-four, All their exports are raw pro
ducts; all their imports manufactured
goods. A fool can real this lesson
and clearly see through the whole
scheme. 1t is to open up new markets
for manufactured goods and for the
manufacturers to get cheap raw
products. 1t will not benefit either
the Southern or Northern farmer a
farthing, but will do them a great in.
jury. 1t let's in free hides and does
not cheaper shoes, for instance. Why
did not the big man from Maine in
clude in his philanthropic ssheme
poor, cherries, ice bound Canada !?
Was he so democratic that he wished
to exclude from this general hand
shaking of America the subject of her
majesty, Queen Victoria ? By no
manner of means. It Was because he
knew that Canada did not need, ALSO
lutely, our manufactures, but our
agricultural products; yes, each and
all of tlem, from the squaling pig and
bleating lamb to the stalled OK and
corn and cotton and wheat. He knew
a howl would go up from the down
trodden millionaire millowners, and a
grateful benediction from the partially
emancipated farming interest if they
were permitted to sell their products
where they pleased and buy where
they pleased.
Time was when any fool could fool
the farmer fool, but he sees and reads
now by such torches as The PRoGREs
sIVE FARMER and National Economist,
and the print looks pleasant to his
eyes as their beams cause the scales
of ignorance to drop from his eyes.
Terrible is the fight against the ALI
ance. They have sought to disunite
it, and they have cemented and
welded it more solidly. They have
DETAINED her officers and heaped
epithets upon them which should have
rested in slum dictionaries. They
have given US a Scandinavian Odin,
an Arabian Mahomet. and told us to
bow u knees to these gods. We
have not caught the hero fever yet,
but having confidence in our non.
political and non-aspiring leaders,
we will listen and hearken TO their ad.
vice, and if needs be, we will follow
them from Jemappe to Waterloo. All
is not lost, but much has been gained.
The battle cry is just raised and
many a recruit will keep time and step
to its inspiring melody.
While essaying to close the gates
of Janus, they have flung them wide
open. While seeking to destroy our
mutual confidence, they have intensi.
fed it. We are proud of President
Polk. He stands upon a lofty pedestal.
Some statesmen's fame is bounded bv
State lines; his reaches to the outer
limits of the Union. He has thrown
oil on the troubled waters of strife;
his clarion voice is pitched TO the kew