The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-22

Gu0 SuO'GLo6ouAy
bill. Kindred wheat might be
safely kept provided the weevlls and
rascals could be kept out OF the way.
When the people own the railroads
az they must, then a system OF grain
elevators, cold storage houses, etc,
can be established safely and wisely.
But for the present needs OF the
farmers and laborers the first thing
to be done is to dethrone the power
of money to enslave the masses IN
poverty and which also enslaves the
few rich to a low, degrading and dis
gushing worship of the great and
powerful god Mammon. Even though
it has to be done by the direction and
the wisdom of the Hebrews god
Phora, in declaring a national jubilee
for 1900.
The only really honest use money
should have is as a medium OF ex-
change for labor and its products.
The old Hebrew law against usury
which in the original means all inter,
est, is founded upon divine wisdom,
human experience and the best good
humanity. And when we get as we
are a wise, simple and practical sys-
tenn of exchanges established through
out the land, one dollar of circulating
medium can be made to do rs much
as 20 does now under our false and
rotten system of legalized robbery.
The New York Clearing House
makes about $4,000, 900 of actual
money to do SlOO, OOO, 900 of ex-
changes, and the same principle a
be applied in the exchange of the
products of the farmers, laborers and
manufacturers. When this is done,
and it must be done before success
will crown our efforts, then the insane
cry for more money will be stopped
forever.
The more money there is put in cir
culation under our present false fnan-
cial system, the more power is put in
the hands of Mammon to rob and en-.
slave the masses. The farmers cry
for unlimited silver coinage. Have
you all got silver mines on your
farms? If not, how are you going to
get the silver coin except to go to
your masters for it who have already
monopolized all the mines of our
country, and pay them their price for
it? No, brother farmers, you must
buy the twin gods, Mammon and
Usury. King Caucus and all
the partisan political bummers who
are covering our land, Disgusting
themselves and our country.
Partisan politics means all the good
possible to the few with the smallest
amount possible to the many.
Our politics, our business and our
religion must NEAR the greatest good
to the greatest number and the least
possible harm to any. And when we
form, as we must in the near future,
an open political party upon this live
and let live platform of the ethics of
the golden rule we must write in let
ters of fire upon old King Caucus's
tombstone: "Let the Office seek the
man and never the mai the office"
We must swear or afim that we will
never vote for any one who ~solicits
our vote. And l think there is an.
other obligation or oath that every
Alliance nan should take, and it
SEEM to me that no one who is or
means to be honest and true can OBJ
ject to taking it. It is this: 81 do
affirm I(or swear) that l will boycott
socially and politically and as far as
legally possible, in all business mat
tiers, any member who shall betray
our order or prove false to any private
or public trust of place or Office,
whether kith or kin or no."
If all millions and the millions
of the labor unions should do this
there would be nothing left for a
traitor or defaulter to do except to
follow Judas and go hang himself.
1t is the strongest weapon we can
use to save our order from the cor
rupting power Of bribery. And [
cannot see how we can escape this
very great danger except by this
right and just means, or by the illegal
and dangerous powers of Judge
Lynch's summary court. Nothing is
more certain than that our enemies
count upon this means as the best and
safest one for them to use to defeat
us, and they will use it freely and
lavishly.
1t has been talked by some that
they would get up a foreign wal as
an excuse to have a Dig army, then
settle the war and use the soldiers to
crush u and all the labor move
ments. [ do not fear this, for thew
dare not play that old game of tyrants
here in this age and land, for they
know the people would bury them so
deep in their own hell that Gabriel's
horn could not reach them.
Forewarned is forearmed and eter.
nal vigilance is the price we must pay
to get and keen orr 6hertv and O1r