The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-26
WHAT THE OLD PARTY HAS
DONE.

mington transcript Messenger Oh d
recent date:
But IL Vance and Ransom, JARVIS
and George Davis, Scales and e
derson, Rowland, and the other cad
ing men of the party are to be rejected
and suspected because Of new issues
and new tests, then the danger OF a
split appears at once, it seems to US.
Old Democrats will not desert the old
ship and run up a new flag upon which
are blazoned new issues Of doubtful
expediency and perhaps ever injudl-
cious and impracticable, and put new
men in charge. Democrats must re-
main Democrats if they are governed
by principles and are conscientious.
II there is anything that decent PEG
pie should be tired of, it is such bosh
as the above. The writer asserts that
1" old Democrats will not desert the
old ship" Well, isn't it about time
that some of the old, rotten planks IN
her decayed old hull vas taken out
and good, new, strong ones put In
their places q? The Messenger admits
that things are wrong, yet doesn't
want the redress to come from any
source save the old party which as yet
has proven itself inadequate to the
task. They call u ideas "imprac.
ticabIe and PERHAPS EVEN in udicious."
Have they given these ideas a trial ?
No, but because they don't emanate
from the ruts in which the old party
brains have ever been running, must
be condemned as impracticable, in
judicious and Of doubtful expediency.
Democrats, if governed by principle
and conscience, must remain Demo
Gratis, whether right or wrong to do
so. Now it strikes me that a man
whose conscience will let him eternally
go wrong, and who can see only one
way, must have a pretty lop sided
conscience, and the only way for the
old party to get things Strengthened
out is to have it's conscience plowed
up and sowed down in strong conser-
vative Alliance principles and at the
harvest they will probably reap a
good crop of nice, ripe ideas which
will benefit some one. But enough
Of this, it only serves to show how
narrow the views and strained the
ideas which can see and appreciate
no good ave only as it come by set
rule and from certain sources. OF
this | accuse the Democratic party
papers who stand by the party whether
right or wrong. Such is the old party
concIence which stretches amazingly
save when others advance ideas with
something in them.
What is all the row about anyhow ?
Simply because a large body of the
most conservative citizens in the ma
ton, tired of trusts, monopoly, rings,
rotten legislation, tariff tinkering
open robbery by law and other in.
justice, inflicted by one party and en-,
forced by another, have resolved to
shake off the yoke which binds US to
old ideas, and in the name of, and for
the right, take a new departure along
the old lines. We have been wrong
ly treated, and party after party has
been in power, placed there by our
votes, and no redress has come. The
time for action has arrived. We will
no longer be blind followers Of a blind
party; the time has come for US tt de-
mand and obtain our rights, and we
know we are right-we only want
what is right. We are tired of hav-
ing laws made for the rich and
against the poor; we are tired of Civ
ing mortgages, paying 8 per cent. on
the sum named on the face and from
one hundred to FIVE hundred per cent.
profit on the supplies purchased; we
are tired of being the political tools
of city rings, and we are done with it
all. We want a government of the
people, for the people and by the
people, and if the old party won't give
it to us land they never have) we will
seek it for ourselves. We will not be
governed by a set of men who know
nothing of our wants and who are not
in sympathy with US.
Laws are made by lawyers, to be
evaded by them whenever the purse
is heavy enough. 1t is notorious that
the man with the most money gets
JUSTICE, while the poor man and the
farmer gets what's left, which is op.
preston and injustice. You a rob
the farmer and it's all right, but
when he begins to kick it's all wrong
and the party whip must oe applied,
but you will find that his hide is too
tough and his conscience too PURE to
further yield to the injustice heaped
upon him in times past. We have
kicked over the traces; we are on the
right side of the fence and we intend
to stay there. We have made no de-
mands that are unreasonable and we
shall endeavor to enforce them. Let
the old party leaders shake their
heads, and the organs crack their lit
lie whips, we utterly refuse to come