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

have cried enough and learned the
danger of digging pits for others.
Your article, eco to War;" copied
from the Dayton, Ohio, Journal [
consider one of the most damnsble
pieces ever written against a free and
sovereign people, and shows very
plainly to what extreme and incendiary
measures the avarice of the R3publl-
can capitalist is willing to resort to in
order to pile up filthy lucre and per
petuate the power of corruption and
oppression against the American PEG
pie. If war is indispensao ole to the
Republican success, | would say by
all means let the Republicans fight it.
1t is horrifying to my mind for hu
mainly to resort to drinking the life
blood of their fellow beings in case of
great shipwrecks. But still worse is
it to do so on land with an abundance
and to spare for every soul with an
equal showing. The writer reserved
to himself the condemnable price
the secret of the root of the evil which
the peple should strike at. Now |
believe emmigration, as M of your
able contributors has written, has
much to do with low wages, and l
also believe further that we have
patronized our enemies too long,
made them too fat, in fact above
the nselves and have fitted them for
the deplorable position for it to be
easier for a camel to 60 through the
eye of a needle than for them to enter
the gates of glory.
The only feature of your paper that
1 would disapprove of in any wise is
that it contains advertisements of
firms who are enemies or do business
in the enemy's st~rongholds. l tell
you l verify believe patronage the
prince of princes in our modern civil
cation, one whom every crown head is
willing to bow with true homage, and
the sooner the people learn to patron
ize only their friends the better. Let
the oppressor learn that no man can
live and enjoy happiness to himself
that all are dependent on each other,
and with charity enough in all things,
great as in small, to do unto all
others as they would that others do
unto them. Then let the Alliance and
lobor unions stand together upon the
Alliance principles, especially Alliance
men, and show to the world that they
are the enemies of no one. Their
principles adhered to are broad
enough to include the interest Of
every American citizen and teach the
monopolists and business money kings
that prosperity to the masses secures
increased success to the business
world, for if the laborer has ten dol
lars he spends it, and if he has ten
times as much be likewise uses it,
thus increasing the volume of trade
which all honorable branches of bust
ness does and should enjoy. For
proof of the assertion, | will ask Whit
would become of business we're the
laborers debarred entirely for one
year from a single shilling. Suppose
they were deprived that length of time
from making a single business trans
action or purchase, could the money
or profits of any one increase a single
penny? think not. Then the more
the consumer has, to spend the more
he uses and the more there is con
sumed, the more profits there is in all
branches of business.
Wishing you much success in the
defence of the true principles of the
Constitution our fathers sacrificed so
much to establish, of true justice and
equal privileges to all. | am,
Yours fraternally,
W. B. MURRAY.