The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-14

Nh. EDITOR:-I know not in what
terms to express with how great Gun
ming the adoption and enforcement Of
~capitalistic slavery in place OF ch9ttel
slavery has been marked out and fos
tered upon the people. During the
late war, and shortly after the New
York riots, a circular was issued by
the London bankers to the N. F.
bankers saying in substance, "you are
wrong in sympathizing with and up
holding chattel slavery. There Is a
much better form of slavery than
chattel slavery, to- be effected by
leans Of the great debt to be created
by the war, used as a basis Of bank
ing, and by controlling the products
of labor you a control labor itself,
and make slaves of both whites and
blacks" And what have we seen
with our eyes? Interest bearing
bonds substituted for the currency of
tae country and millions of money
that was needed by the people, loaned
by the government in the interest of
capitalists, and to open the way for
the establishment of the banks. The
interest on the bonds, made payable
twice a year in gold and silver, and
the bonds themselves bought in an in
fated curre4cy made payable in gold.
And worse than all, these bonds are
made the basis of banking, drawing
double interest from the people, as
they must pay interest also on the
money circulated by the banks. To
rivet the letters Of slavery on the
farmer, a clause is inserted in the
charters that no money shall be
loaned on real estate, and the duties
on imports, made payable in gold and
silver, the precious me- ais are drawn
to the great money centeIs, and we
then see the government hoard mil
lions Of the peoples money while
banks discount less and less and de-
crease their circulation by millions
and millions annually, all in the inter
est of capital. We have learned, from
the founders of the Republic, that this
was a hard money government, made
by hard money men, and that the
government had no right to hoard the
peoples monay-the gold and silver
of the country.
l have said nothing of 270 millions
of taxes on incomes no longer col
lected, or of the farmers being forced
to buy in a restricted market, paying
a duty of from As to 800 per cent,
and sell in open markets in competi-
ton with all the world. So it is a
wonder that the Grange, Wheel and
Alliance and farmers and laborers'
unions have mustered the farmer
under their banners, and that a cry
has gone up from the tillers of the
soil such as was never heard before.
l call attention to no impending
danger. The chains of capitalistic
slavery are riveted upon us. Their
coils are felt in the silent hours of the
night as the farmer thinks of the
mortgage that is to he&gar and en-
slave his little ones, and me iron enters
his soul. Their clanklng may be
heard in the sherif's s. IS that resound
all over the land, from California to
Maine, and southwa1u to the gulf of
Mexico.
Let the farmers ar.use and take
the government into their own hands.
Let them break the bands of slavery
that would send their CD. den supper
less to bed, and bind upoa them for
ever the chains of poverty and ignor-
ance that af1ict the toiling millions of
the land. Let them see to it in the
that legislation directed exclu-
in the interest of capital shall
longer attic them and their chill
dren; and, if possible, recover from
the blow that has been struck at their
liberties, and the bandage that has al
ready been fastened upon them and
their children for generations to come.
FARMER.
Carlisle opposes the Treasury
and also OnOOSoa free cOinaUo Of