The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-19
FARMERS ALLIANCE AND IN
DUSTRIAL UNION"
PANACEA SPRINGS, n. G.

under consideration and pregnant
with national destiny. Hence know
ing it's Importance the above named
Union is rapidly educating the masses
on economic and national lssues-1s-
sues upon which all good government
Yest and truths enduring as the ever
lasting hills.
Reposing in the past so confidently
on the solidity of our republican sys-
TEN and with child like faith trusting
too much, all, to its NAL administra
ton the " Van Wrinkle " masses have
suddenly awakened to the perils of
the situation and the immediate neces
sity for concerted action to afford re.
lief to the imperiled masses, Revert
ing to the painful fact that in only a
few decades from the period Of the
pure regime of our fathers, when patri
otism was the chief incentive Of &C
ton, we have, by rapid descent, at
last reached the scum of political in
fanny and official corruption. Z" Fac5laS
dVern5 d~eScenSUS."
The glowing optionism of the fruit
full past is merged in the gloomy pes
simism of the present, and the startled
husbandman, grieving under his heavy
load, is painfully apprehensive of a
confscation of his few remaining
liberties and the ~enslavement of his
offspring in perpetual bondage. Hence
the order with patriotic arder and
grim determination is merging in
solid phalanx, by way Of RS euing the
sinking fortunes of a once glorious
heritage.
Representing as they do nine tenths
of the population of this country,
they have been blindly leaving the
priceless legacies ~bequeathed them by
the fathers to the custody Of unprin-
cipaled adventures, demagogues and
partisans, unrepresented by any of
their Gown sterner mold" until order
has leaped into chaos and confidence
swept into the current of painful dis
trusc. Awakened fully to a serious
appreciation of the crisis which has
confronted them-the fast sinking
glories of a once glorious repu olic,
the confederated laoorers of America
have come in their manhood-in their
patriotism-in their p.urslity-in their
spirit of self protection-in their
righteous indignation and determine
ton to the rescue, under the guidance
Of Providence, that which has been so
dearly purchased and now so nearly
lost-and they haze come to stag.
Don't faEter your selves, We enemies
Of all that is dear 10 American free
men-ye pluto ;rats-ye stultifed ar
bite $, that this movement of the
masses is but the hasty ebulition of
a frenzied hour, but arouse yourself
to the fact that it is the outgrow With of
a stern necessity-a well-diges.ed,
righteous, we'll poised plan of the
honest, Industrious and better class of
your c~oUntrymen to throw off the
yoke which your greed and rapacity
have fastened upon them-that it is a
move lent favored of heaven flor God
loves the right fortified and pro
tectected by the prayers and counsel
of the wise and prudent, aud is rapid
ly recruiting and making acce8sions
to It's ranks from the better elements
of all classes and conditi ms of men.
Unwilling further to trust the mere
partizan, who has wofully disappointed
them, with mature de'i5eration they
have confederated to the end that the
reign of injustice SHALL that
the blessings, privileges and benefits
of this free born republic shall be
more equally distributed, pro rata, to
honest, individual effort, and have
planted their eternal standard in
scrioed in living lines, In hec 8ignes
yincet." This painful, abnormal stu
alton would have been spared us had
the masses been educated in the past
as to the right, duties aud pri gileges
of American freemen and had not
been lulled into the fatal security en-
-gendered by the eloquent professions
and adroit promises of the scheming,
selfish demagogue. AS a rule the
~laoorer, whether in field, shop or fac,
tory, has ever been the most consis-
tent, conservative and unsuspiciOus
part Of his race-the tension uoon
mental and physical system, leaving
but little room for the scheming pro
pensities incident to the merely pro,
fessional and vicious idIer, and |
hazard the assertion that with fair
compensation for his labor and
courteous treatment, strikes, riots and
confusion would b. numbered with
the "dead past" past history showing
that the evil ~prepensities of our fallen
natures have been numbered and set
in motion in most cases by oppression
incident to the dominant faction of
greed and avarice-to multi ly mil,
lions in the Golfers of the cormorant
plutocrat. Let US cal a halt, my
countrymen, look back with exuItant
pride to the purer days of the repub-
lie, c with painful and shameful
emotion the past three decades of orr