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

votes. How precious is the vote of a
patriot How damning is the vote of
a FOOL Have you votes to sell? Ap,
ply to the secret bureau of the party.
Votes are rising in the market every
day. Be sure you do not sell too
cheap. When you sell your birthright,
when you sell your country, when you
sell the blood of heroes slain on the
field of strife, when you sell the liber-
ties of your children, be sure you do
not sell too cheap.
Do you love your friend more than
the rights of the people? Vote for
your friend and violate the people.
Do you love your party than
good government ? Vote for your
party, and down good government.
The people have spoken. Their voice
is heard from sea to sea. The ALI
ance and Industri1 Union has spoken,
and its voice is the voice Of the people.
No other spokesman have they. 1t
speaks in no uncertain words, "down
with tyranny and plutocracy." Choose
you to day whom you will serve. Will
you serve the people, or will you
serve the plutocracy? If you are go.
ing to sell your vote to the ~plutocracy,
do not sell too cheap. Cleveland,
Carlyle and Mills will tell you what to
do for the one side, and Reed, Blaine
and Sherman will tell you what to do
for the other side of plutocracy and
the oligarchy. If you obey either,
you obey the ~oligarchy. The people
have spoken. More than three mil
lions have spoken, and they speak for
the remainder. If you obey them,
you obey the republic. If you obey
the republic, you obey your rights,
truth and God.
More than ten thousand pumps,
situated in every village and hamlet
in this country, are busily engaged
day and night in pumping up garbage,
slime and lies to Oesmirch the peoples
movement. No other love they know
than that of the party. No other
la VS. they obey than those of the plu-
tocracy. By this they live, breathe
and have their being. Great is Diana
of the Ephesians! Don't speak a word
against these gas-blowers and stump
suckers. Their bread and butter is
dependent on their calling. This is a
country of religious freedom. Let
them worship their little gods and
heroes. Let them howl for their
great Diana, for if this Diana be lost
where, oh, where will they look for
gain! Tens and tens of thousands,
with long quilts, are sucking the pub
lie pap, and near a million more are
looking on with longing expectancy.
You tap their god and the howl will
be repeated. Great is Diana of the
Ephesians Let them alone. Through
many trials and h~ardships they have
succeeded in selling their manhood
and honesty for this public gan.
Who would blight a fond hope real
lied, or a vaulting ambition cherished?
Let them alone. They r Joined to
their idols. Let them all go along to-
gether. Let them go with those
who sell their votes in the shambles.
Let them go with the gas blowers and
stump-suckers who pump uF day and
night filth reeking garbage to befoul
those who do not bow to their idols.
Let the vote-seller, the pap-sucker and
the slime-monger dwell in unity. Very
fitting companions in this world, and
in the world to come. The p%lutocracy
has need for them. These are the in.
struments Of her own choosing, and
she will pay them well.
Come now, let us pass over the sea.
We will find the ~plutocracy on the
other shore. Sixteen thousand left
America last week. It is hob-nobbing
with the aristocrats and tyrants of
Europe. They want to double the
wealth of the rich, and halve the
products of the poor again. The
oligarchy still sits in Washington
afraid to speak a word in truth in be-
half of an oppressed people. A wink
from the money.changers suficeth
them. The government belongs to
the plutocracy, and the p%lutocracy
wants an oligarchy. The thing is es.
tablished and they are satisfied and
gone to Europe to voluptuate among
the nobility there, They carried mil
lions of solid gold with them, a gift
of the ~oligarchy. They will see a
fine time, and learn much religion.
They have passed over the sea They
will return this fall.
Sometimes a beautiful American
girl, noted for her wealth, succeeds in
capturing an impecunious lord. Are
you not proud of that Don't you
want America to raise young lords ?
Sometimes one of our millionaire cap
lures an im%pecunious actress. Are
you not proud of that Don't you
want America to raise young actresses?
We have more millionaires and more
tramps than any other nation under