The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28

~ on these very things 1ef-yearS, Ou'
now when the farmers propose TO
adopt measures for their relief and
betterment, it raises the cry OF treach-
cry to party.
TX The Ns0s and Observer knows some
thing of the tricks and methods which
prevented the passage of a railroad
commission in this State last winter.
Well, what are the farmers going to
do about it2 They are going to have
the bill to become a law, and they
will not split either party, but they
will be very apt to split some monopos
listic Observation-Disclosures.
In the News and Observer OF the
18th, we find the following dispatch:
among the developments Of last
night is an address prepared by Judge
Blandin, of Cleveland, Ohio, and adi
dressed to the members of the ,legisla-
ture, calling upon them not to elect q
man to the Senate who is identified
with CORPORATIONS. The appeal is
signed by Allen W. Thurman, II. j.
Booth Irvine Duncan and E. Blandin."
The above is all right, and it is
likely that the farmers of this country
will call for that and similar things in
the future with a voice that no one
can fail to heed.
Now let US give one or two in.
stances where corporate power ldOmi.
mated and destroyed the rights of
private citizens. A few years ago a
citizen of this State owr ed extensive
coal lands in east Tennessee II A syn
dictate of New Workers got control of
the railroads in that vicinity. Our
citizen had, previous to this time, sold
q half interest in his coal business to
q railroad corporation. Tho new
syndicate informed him that unless he
gave them the control of his lands by
transferring to them 81 per cent. of
the whole and make it perpetual by
putting it into a stock company or
"trust," they would "squeeze him
out" He declined, and they ordered.
their officers at Coal creekto refuse to
furnish or haul cars to and from the
mines in which he was interested, but
to continue furnishing cars to the
mines on the same road who were
operating on their lands or in their
interest.
In this act and most, conspicuous in
the fight that followed, who do we
find? Calvin S. Brice, of, Ohio, who
has just been elected u. s. Senator
from that State. In the "appeal" re-
ferred to in another place in this
article by Judge Blandin and others,
it becomes evident that they were
guarding against the possible election
of this monopolistic monster.
Now, Brice is a Democrat. Does
the election of such greedy, unscru-
pulous men, even if they are Demo
Gratis, meet the appreciation of good
Democrats?
On the other hand, Senator Quay,
the chairman of the Republican exc
cutive committee, and who is reputed
to be no better than Brice, has ground
fortune out of the poor and out of
the public generally in questionable
ways.
Now, we wonder if the News and
Observer will endorse the idea of the
farmers allowing these and many
other greedy grabbers sitting in high
places for all time to come without
rising up in their might and demand
ing that such corrupt men take a back
seat? "Mr. Ben Terrell knows the
sentiment of the farmers as well or
better than the NeWS and Observer, as
that journal will learn one of these
days.
When the great mass of the Demo
ratio party was demanding a railroad
commission last winter, who was it
that threatened the disruption of the
party by resisting through all sorts of
lobby methods, the will of the party2
Were they not largely those faithful
representatives of the party whom the
NeWs and Observer now claims have
done so much for the people2 The
plain, honest non. partisan expressions
of Mr.. Ben Terrell greatly disturbs
the equanimity of that paper, and yet
it's editor takes direct issue with it's
acknowledged head and leader, Grover
Cleveland, on the free coinage of
silver. How can he reconcile such
positions?