The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-02

witness stand and see if there is an
honest man in America who believes
he is as much entitled to his millions
as the man VINO renders an honorable
service to society for what he receives
from it. Whether he is as much en-
titled to what he receives through
bribery and fraud as the mechanic
who builds a house, makes a wagon,
or the farmer who produces a bale OF
cotton or a bushel of wheat.
"Mr. Gould, did you spend any
money in tie late campaigns in this
State ?"
Eyes, sir
"How much did you spend ?"
why, sir, you might as well ask
me how many cars v my roads
each day as to ask that question, for l
don't know"
care the accounts charged on your
books 2"
Yes, sir"
How are they charged 2"
"To India rubber accounts"
Mr.. Goulo, what are your poll
tics ?"
Well, sir, in a Democratic district
l am a Democrat; in a R. publican dis
trict l am a Republican, and in a dis
trict which is doubtful, [ am doubt
full, but I am always for Erie. jay
Goul before the Hepburn Commit
tee, 1876.
Again. "Mr. Gould, did you take
Missouri Pacific funds to pay the in
terest on Texas & Pacific bonds, know
ing that the T. & P. would be unable
to pay the funds back p
al di1."-Gould before the Con
gressional committee to investigate
the great strike on the Missouri Pa
cifc railroad, 1886.
When the money paid on the bonds
of the T. & P. by the Mo 2. fell due,
Gould sued the T. & P. and had it
placed in the hands of receivers. Ex-
Governor John @. Brown, of Tennes-
see, who had been Gould's attorney
for years, was appointed principal re-
ceiver.
Through a wrecking process by
stock watering and boycotting, the L.
& P. road was placed in the hands of
receivers and the stock reduced to
eleven cents on the dollar. Jay Gould
is said to have bought $4,000, 900
worth in one day at eleven cents. In
three weeks after this gigantic fraud
had been perpetrated, the stock Of the
road was quoted at sixty-seven cents.
The above plan adopted by Gould,
such as corrupting the New York
legislature, wrecking railroads ana
robbing the small stockholders, may
De an honest means of obtaining
money. IF 50, the business Of Capt.
Kidd, John A. Murrell and the James
and Youngers a equally as honor
able.
The people are as just in organizing
against such financial pirates as the
nations we're who placed the ban upon
Capt. Kidd.
The rot that is placed before the
public by the, monopoly press, that the
laboring people want to rob the rich,
is too dirty and infamous for honest
people to consider for a moment. But
they protest against being robbed
themselves. They protect against
special privileges. They protest
against a system which places the
weak in the clutches of avarice and
greed. They protest against the gov
eminent being made a machine to rob
the masses. They protest against
stock :, Altering. They protest against
a system which makes millionaires Of
iobbers and non-prodNeers, and sub
iects honest toll to a system of capital
lstic slavery. They protest against
allowing the corpora ions to outrage
and plumber the people after having
received their franchises from the
government, with 800, 900, 900 acres
of lands and millions and millions of
donations beside from the people.
But say that the government should
be run in the interest Of the many in
stead of the few. What the people
want is Justice, not charity. Give
them Justice and labor will take care
~NO
of itself.
1t is a. bad state of affairs when a
part of The press is so lost to honor,
morality and patriotism as to lend its
influence to conceal the frauds and
rob oeries committed on what was
once the unsuspecting public, when
the men who r engaged in such
treAchery know that it is destructive
of the best interest of the republic and
must end in the destruction of liberty
and the enslavement of the masses.
The eyes of the public are being
opened and the cry of communism by
a subsidized press will receive but lit
tie notice in the future, and the time
will come when those who are engaged
in the infamous work of trying to de
ceive the people will be recognized as
traitors to the hest interest of the hu