The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-14

up up! up! That's what hexihIo
currency means-a sufficient currencT
but not too much. ~
Nov don't you business mep. lam
yers, professional men, everyho4r
think you ought to help us out 10 orJ ,
plans? These plans mean good ~
everybody. and as honest men 7 aeE
you if you don't think you ought to
come to US and help US. Since W.
have been organized we have STUDDED
and learned a great deal. We have
mingled with others and they have
seen our purposes. And I'm glad tO
say that other classes are COMING ~
us In my State able lawyers 6avo
| discussed the matter and have do
clared for us, and now the WHOLESALE
business men are holding meetings
and declaring that these farmers are
entitled to all they are asking for and
they say they will help them.
There are one or two things which
we have to fear.
One is dissension among ourselves
Here Mr.. Livingston made a strono
appeal for unity and give out a rinS.
ing protest against dissension and
strife. He said that such a dissensjon
was nothing less than putting the
knife to the business throat Of the
country and numbering it.
Another thing we have to fear is
the Money Power. Before the war
there we're but two mill %onaires in the
country. Now there are sixteen thou.
sand of hem. TIE financial system
of this country is wrong, and some.
body is getting too much out of it.
There are five men in New York to
day who can bankrupt Raleigh in five
minutes by a telegram. My friends,
is that a safe condition of things for
you to lie down under? There never
was a farmer who became a million.
aire and no nan can become one by
an honest and morally Legitimate bust.
ness, for life is a little too short for
that.
The financial system needs to be re,
formed. | can tell you that if the
money power was proportionateIy dis.
tributed throughout this country,
twenty seven men would control
everything in North Carolina. How
many of you would be willing to sub,
nit to such a state of affairs as that ?
Col. Livingston spoke for nearly
two hours. He showed how the agi.
tation of the Sub Treasury bill had
caused people to wake up and begin
to think on questions of political
economy, and how it had proven a
great impetus to the study of govern.
ment methods. 1t had been a great
educator, and most people owed what
ever knowledge they had of govern.
ment finances and government meth
obs to the introduction of the Sub.
Treasury bill, and the great mass Of
information that had been given out
incident to its discussion.
He closed by saying that the Sub.
Treasury plan vas a measure for the
people and was being supported by the
people; and the people have eve yet
failed to carry through any project on
which they were united. Then he
gave some words to the class which
he designated as CONSIDERS He
said: 81 warn you not to take a stand
against the people now, for just as
sure as you do you will be over.
whelmed. If you oppose yourself to
them the wave will engulf you and
swallow you into oblivion. The thing
for you to do is to join them and 60
along with them, or stand aside and
see them go by; but don't resist them
or you will be crushed. Revolutions
never go backward but forward.
Then Col. Livingston rested his
81 on its merits. He said: owe
are right and right shall. prevail.
There is a Power stronger than all the
combined classes and clans of the
earth-a Power that rules this earth
and all the numerous planets that re.
volve about him. Our plea and our
case is in his hands. We are for jus,
tice and right, and these are the prin.
ciples which that Mighty Power loves,
approves, and which he will cause to
triumph over all opposition and OBJ.
stacles."
AT ELDON
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER reporter
adopts with pleasure the fair and ably.
written report of the Weldon meeting
found in the Roanoke News of Thurs,
day. The News says:
yesterday was a field day with
the Alliance people. Col. Polk and
Col. Livingston came down from RAJ,
eigh on the night train and were here
ali day.
early in the day people began to
come in from the country, and the
trains also brought a number. All
parts of the county were represented
and other counties, too, had repre-
sentatives.