The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-15

by experience, Will dictate TO Gueu
what articles to add and what to reject,
for ali Democrats believe that the
people are and will remain fully com
petent to manage their own affairs
and that they will surmount every
| obstacle that binders their progress or
liberty. This is only disputed by
~aristocrats.
Again Col. Mills says the Sub,
Treasury system will lock up and keep
out of the markets the products nee
essary to feed and clothe the human
family, and of coursed will bring with
it distress and suffering among all the
roorer classes of the people"
If Col. Mills had remained with his
committee whil3 the friends of this
bill were explaining its workings he
would have been far from making any
such assertion, he would have learned
that these products will not be with
held from consumption one hour
under the proposed system out that it
will facilitate that delivery to them as
fast as need and at even lower prices
than they now pay for them. The
Colonel would have found out that it
is intended through the medium of
this system to carry on the business
without the Intervention of such
worthless as cold Hutch and kindred
gentlemen who manipulate all other
produce with the same results as "Old
Hutch" does wheat.
The process through which these
WORTHLESS gather unto themselves
1921, 600, 900 annually Of other PEG
pies earnings is nov known by all in
teliigent people. They first skin the
producer out of his produce, hoard it
up and then skin the consume till
two thirds of the producers and con-
sumers go half fed and half clothed
because they can't pay the cold
Hutches" their price, then to hide
their robbery they shrek o~verproduc
ton in the fall and laziness in the
spring as the cause OF all the poverty
they create by spoliation.
The farmers of America are in pos
session of too much common sense to
attempt to put up the price Of their
produce to consumers, because they
know that it would stimulate the pro
duction of those very articles in other
countries and thereby destroy their
W prosperity. It's the shylocks, the
curse of all nations in all ages that the
Farmers Alliance is after, none others,
and | am surprised that Col, Mills has
not caught on to this fact since he
represented almost entirely an agri-
cultural people, and if he has paid any
attention to their condition he knows
these same shylocks have been these
many years skinning them unmerci
fully.
Col. Mills says "why Southern
farmers should go into it | cannot
comprehend" Being al old frien Of
the Colonel, l therefore with pleasure
proceed to give the Colonel the
why" as we'll as any other who are
on the anxious seat.
The farmers of the South struggled
as no others ever did to build up
themselves and the country, they
economical in every way possible
even to the verge of stiDginess. In
spite of all they became poorer and
poorer every day till the pinch of
poverty walked them up. They began
at once to take in the situation. They
found their expenses and produces
were increasing while their income
was decreasing. They know therefore
that there was something radically
wrong, SO they began hunting up hat
wrong. One investigation led to an
other till they reached Washington
City. Here they discovered hat
organized pirates had Numbered at
the doors Of Congress and the White
House till they had driven the gov
eminent of the United States into
the most stupendous legalized robbery
that ever ~disgraced any nation or op.
pressed any free people since the
dawn of history. These farmers then
figured out to a mathematical certainty
that they were furnishing IS per cen5.
of the fat that these same pirates were
absorbing. They also found out that
organized bodies were debating the
laws to put money into their Vn
pockets. These fats convinced them
that if they desired to perpetuate free
government they must organize. The
st. Louis meeting vas the outcome.
Tree fourths of the delegates to that
meeting were ex Federal and Exon
federate soldiers who furnished no
substitutes during the war.
After talking over the situation
they found that nine-tenths of the
farmers and nineteen twentieths of the
wage earners throughout the United
States were on the down grade to
oeggary. All were found to be in the
same boat, so they agreed that the re
public must be preserved at all haz,
ards and the first step looking to that
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