The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-25
TO SAMUEL ]. CRAWFORD

Topeka Capital OF July %, purPortlng
to answer the question, "Who Is
Polk2" [ desire, as an Abe Lincoln
Republican, to ask you a few ques-
tions. You say "Polk halls from
the great agricultural and stock pro,
ducing State of North Carolina" ga
State which exports tar, whisky and
tobacco only" Allow me to ask,
first. is a man responsible for the ex
ports of his State Second, if the
exports of a mans STATE make him
great and good, or vice versa, what
were the exports of Washington's
State and the States of our revolution
airy sires?
Of course you are a good friend of
the farmers of Kansas, or you would
not be straining yourself so hard to
instruct them. You say that Polk has
t'turned himself loose as a sort Of
Moses among the farmers of Kan
sas." l have been told that one
Pharaoh thought the children of Israel
were all right as long as they would
make bricks without straw, but he
seemed to think Moses was a polit cal
shyster. Can you tell me what be
came of Pharaoh 2 While the "ad-
venturer, dead beat and blatant 1ema
gogue," Moses, vas leading the chill
dren of Israel, did Pharaoh suggest
any means relief to the children Of
Israeli Did he tell them to pillow
deeper2 Did he say they must not
let the hens roost on the farm machin
cry? What remedy have you to
suggest for the relief of the Kansas
farmer 2 You say: "Among other
schemes / clip the following from the
National Economist: J. H. Turner,
Secretary, has made arrangements by
which he can send Alliance seals pre-.
paid to every address for 1925" ]
want to get over two hundred seals to
make an impression on that many Of
III misrepresentation in Washington.
You will confer a great favor by tell
ing me where I can get them cheaper
than | can from j. H. Turner, Score
tary. You inform US that Ralph
Beaumont knows no more about
practical farming or mechanical labor
than a Com4nche Indian" Did you
learn to farm among the Comanche
Indians? If so, why did you not
give the Kansas farmers the benefit of
your exhaustive knowledge before
Beaumont came around ? "He
(BeaumoDt is a laboring man of leis-
Ure, who is able to spend his winters
in Washington and his summers
among the dear people, telling them
how they are being robbed by some
body else" Will you be so kind as
to tell US who has robbed the farmers
the twenty years previous to this one?
You say "such men Polk and Beau
MONTY are disturbers of the peace,
pests to communities, and enemies 10
God and man" AS you are such a
good friend of God and man, Of course
you will tell the farmers how to make
money out Of Is cent corn, and as the
elephant should always go to the
mouse for protection, so you will show
the farmers the advisability of seek
ing assistance from those whom they
have made financially, "Of course
the farmers of Kansas are in debt,
and so they are everywhere, but no
more than people engaged in other
pursuits of life, and not so much"
"The truth is, everybody is in debt,
because the business of the country
is now done on a credit basis"
Will you please explain how they
came to be doing the whole business
of the country on a credit bas s? Is
that the best way of doing it If not,
why not? off the farmers were left
free from the pernicious advice and
hellish influence of such men as Polk
and Beaumont, they would be happy,
contented and prosperous" Whose
pernicious advice and hellish influence
was controlling the farmers of Kansas
when they were rolling up their g.
900 majority? "But so long as they
stop their work and follow blindly in
the wake of political and visionary
schemers who propose to lead them to
untold wealth at the end of the rain
bow, they will be in trouble" The
farmers seem to have been in great
trouble before Polk and Beaumont
come to them. Whom had they been |
following? off an honest, industri.
GUS farmer wants to test the sincerity
of these self appointed guardians and
would be c~ustodians of everybody's
interests, let him loan any one of them
a few dollars in money" etc. The
farmers are all anxious to loan some
money, but it cen Polk and Beau
mont were not around borrowing.
Couldn't they arrange to loan you
some of their surplus? "They are
wolves in Sleeps clothing, and their
clothing has been paid for by some
one else" How many bushels of corn
or other produce of your own raising
have you exchanged for your cloth
ing2 If, none, who paid for it2 Or
does ingalls, clothe you in bripadier