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

DIOGu1OA VI bHO LoGO4HA0y
ored race is among us, and we are
debtors as Christians and as Alliance
men to teach them better things
And while we drop sectional st lie, we
would enlist, rather, all the sinew and
b4ck bone of this grand old republic
in the great conflict between cap la
and labor, and would hasten the dl
vinely appointed time, promised by
the Ruler of all nations, when every
man shall rejoice under his W vine
and his own fg-tree. Already the
necessity of such a time has its claims
upon US; already the star of the
promised millennium begins to shed
It's light upon our horizon. Then
come, one and all, who may be
worthy, AMI avail yourselves of the
means for the conflict, which is truth,
justice and honesty, love and union,
by which we will be able to rescue
oppressed humanity. Shall we, then,
hasten the good time coming, or shall
we remain dupes and slaves of mo
nopoly, if we choose the latter, then
D0 WdI0 u d "OIS6 OWL SGIII q!
One of our Supreme Court Judges
and a Roman Catholic priest were
strolling down the streets of Cincin:
natl one day, and the priest disclosed
himself to the Judge on this wise:
Says he, "the Roman Catholic re.
ligion would yet be the prevailing re-
ligion of this country" "That is in
possible" replied the Judge, lou
constitution and laws and free institu,
tions are all opposed to it." to which
the priest replied, " We will change
your laws and constitutions. The
time will come, must come and shall
co ne when it will be So"
Friends of American liberty, awake
to unity, as union alone, we believe,
will enable US to combat slccossively
the threatened evil. With Rome's
design thus portrayed to us, shall our
law makers, or shall we support such
law makers as will be made the dupes
of wealth ? If such continues to be
so, who snail wonder if, at any time,
Rome shall take advantage of so
ticklish a situation and creep in ina,
wares ? If the evils of political brib
cry are not repulsed we need not ex
pect anything better. Then let us
unite In a common cause for the com
non good, and remember once again
the first love of country that so
distinguished our revered ancestors.
1t was in revolutionary times, when
the British crown rendered to Gen.
Reed, President of Congress, a bait
to the tune of 10, 600 English guineas
to induce submission to an u~nconstitu.
tiOnal and unconditional tax and that
wlthou representation. But Gen.
Reed replied to the ambassadors,
gentlemen, l am poor, very poor,
out your king is not rich enough to
Guy me-"
Let Senators and Congressman be-
hold such heroic patriotism and learn
instruction. Just such men we need
to make laws, men who cannot be
bribed for the love of money or any
thing else. Why is it that we are in.
volved IN financial romanism but for
the lack of such men at the helm of
State And just such men will we
most assuredly place there, for we are
sick and tired Of impending oppres-
sion, and herewith publish to the
world that we are abhorrent to roman
ism IN finance, or in politics, or in
ecclesias les.
Union, then, is the main prop of
our liberty, and may union and afec
lion be perpetual among us, and frown
down every attempt to alien any por.
ton from the other. Combinations
serve to organize factions which do
violence in the execution of laws for
a free people, and puts in the place of
the delegated will of the nation the
will OF a party; and often a bare and
artful minority of cunning, ambitious
and unprincipled men who usurp to
themselves the reins of government,
and when led by the spirit of revenge,
is nothing better than despotism.
Yours fraternally,
w. W. OuTIAw So