The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
R oM SAMPSON COUNTY.
Breakers Ahead.

ULOShO4O ANGAAAS
deathike velocity, and here we are
in our frail and weather beaten n
unable to stand the oDcoming flood,
were the words of an aged and long
used fisherman as he sat on the rest
less SEA in his frail little boat trying
to earn his daily bread, but on that
calm and pleasant day he saw danger
fast approaching. How to shun
it he knew not. There he
was only to perish in the briny
sea, to attempt to reach the
shore with his tattered bark would
have been the same sad fate from this
standpoint. We, today, are just
where that fisherman was and know
not which way to turn. If we stay,
indirect tax born by the waves of un.
lust legistion and called tariff, will
bleed us to death; if we seek the
shore we will meet up with usury,
monopolies, trusts, combines and
numbers OF other things fully as de.
structive, if not more So. What
must we do for help; which way must
we turn ? Is there a remedy for our
ills; if not, can you suggest one?
Something must be done for the labor
ing classes or they will perish. Let
us glance around US for a few minutes
and view our situation and rehearse
what has beeL done for US, which will
not take long. For the last twenty.
FIVE years we have been laboring
under a disadvantage uncalled for.
Our people have been sowing the seed,
flowing the soil and allowing capital
lists to reap the fruits, large or small
They have forced VI to send u cot
ton to English ports for manufacture
and then charge US to allow 1t to re-
turn. We have suffered the stings
of trusts without a murmur except IN
one in instance and that was at the
hands of the Alliance. We have seen
meat go from six to thirteen cents per
pound; we have seen coffee rise from
eight to eighteen cents and still coffee
continues to stay up, while meat has
come down and we have said nothing
In one fall jute bagging ven from
seven to twelve cents, but 1t was IN
tirely too late; the farming class had
opened their eyes and began to survey
the situation with their trail instru-
ments of investigation. What caused
them to open their eyes to the situa
ton d? In one simultaneous proclama
ton we are compelled to say the
Farmers Alliance. F~orbearance has
ceased to be a virtue; the laborers
have reviewed the situation and are
becoming reconclled to what is fair
and just With one loud accord they
said, let's not use jute bagging and the
trust will b forced to disOand on &C
count of too much production for the
supply. What a capital idea. We
need protection, but until late we have
failed to receive it, though many
times We have asked with sad hearts
and weatherbeaten lin Os, receiving a
conGemptuous glance and II word:
IL is unconstitutional. DID Jefferson
one time think, while framing the
Constitution of u country, that he
would Cypress the majority for the
minority; did he one time think that
anything for the assistance of the
la2oring class would be called uncon
sLitutionai; if SO, he would have been
untrue to his mission to have pro
ceeded any further.
AS soon as the Alliance was organ
lied the cry went out cit will die
when it enters politics" out | am glad
to say it is still growing and trying t.
wiring the helm of State from the
hands of the unjust and give it to the
worthy. 1t has prospered upon every
SIDE. 1t tried by every honorable
can to secure the passage of the bill
allowing the free coinage of silver. 1t
then moved on for another object, the
Sub Treasury bill, but, as usual, I'm
constitutional issued from the oppres-
sors and oficeseekers. If the Alliance
waits for others u~ncOncerned to make
laws for them, where will they be ?
Some say the Sub Treasury bill will
not do. If so, suggest something bet.
ter and we will accept it. Some call
it the "biggest trust ever organized,
with the government to back it."
What do you call bonded whiskey
warehouses but big government trusts?
If our Congressman favor whiskey
trusts, why don't they favor agricul
tural trusts, for certainly a greater
proportion follow the latter.
Twenty ive years ago Robert E.
Lee delivered this fair, sparkling
southland of ours to the Union, spot
less and pure, with a few brave free
men as willing to fight for the stars
and stripes as they were for the Con-
federate flag. From a glance as pass.
ing through, it seemed like Gods
most Oounteous mercy had been
poured out upon it without hesitation
or want of material; on every hand
could be seen peace, happiness and
prosperity, accompanied by faxen