The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-09

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is getting to be a bankers Office, rail
road headquarters, millionaire's con
sulting chamber. | am told that
some men in it cannot write or spell
correctly. Money put them there.
So you see at once, the Senate suits
but two classes of men-the wealthy,
who are independence the salary, or
those who are not able to make, In
any business as much as the salary.
l am not of the first class, and | hope
am not of the second. Hence say
that, as a matter of personal desire, L
prefer private life"
"But even after your letter appeared
in the Savannah NerS, some people
insisted you we're a candidate, and
they say so now"
"My dear sir, continued the states,
man afectionately, "who can prevent
politicians from preventing truth,
from dlstorting facts, from setting up
candidates in their imagination, just
to claim the credit of being the heroes
who defeated the imaginary opponent?
Don't you remember the bully in
Georgia Scenes who was surprised
by Judge Longstreet down on his
knees, swearing and believing, goug
ing his thumbs into the ground and
et9rnally damning the imaginary fell
low he was beating and gouging, and
who answered the Judges question
by saying he was just seeing how he
mighter fit p Politics is full of just
such heroes. Some of them are in
this community. They are going
round snorting and swearing how
they laid me out in this campaign.
There are fifty of these sparrows who
killed Cock Robin with their bows
and arrows.
COLONEL NORWOOD AND THE ALLIANCE.
requested permission to ask a di-
rect question. at seems" 1 started
to say something to keep up the con
versation, when the Senator inter
rupted:
Understand me, he said. 81 have
no desire to conceal anything relating
to public affairs. So go on"
then asked a home gus .ion-the
circling lancet of inquiry was driven
into the statesman's s breast.
alt seems that the bone of conten-
tion in the election Of United States
Senator will be between the Alliance
and those opposed to them, or their
measures. Now, where do you stand
in that contest ?"
IF you wish an answer to that you
must give me space enough to answer
in my own way. | hope there is no
man, except the robber around, op.
posed to the Alliance or their pur-
poses. I consider the movement set
on foot by the Alliance as the grand
est since the Declaration of Indepen.
dence, or the destruction of the Bastile
and the overthrow of the Bourbon
dynasty. This movement is a second
declaration of independence, and of
equal Importance with the first. The
first was a protest against paying a
tax of a few pence on tea. The
second is resistance to the illegal tax
of hundreds of millions a year. The
first was resistance against paying an
unjust tribute to king. The second
is against paying unjust bounties to a
rotten, moneyed aris!ocracy. The
first was against those who ruled by
divine right. The second against
those who rule Oy moneyed might.
The first was against usurpation. So
is the second. But [ can stop to 20
through the list of wrongs the Alliance
has risen to redress.
These wrongs must be enormous
and cruel to have stung to action the
class of society which has always
been the last to complain of grievances,
though they are the class upon which
the most and the worst burdens fell.
This movement is not for the benefit
Of farmers only. Its success will
people and their prosperity. And l
am aware that the statesmen of the
country have not taken the Alliance
by the hand and cheered them on by
wise counsel and liberal support; for
if this organized effort to arrest the
concentration of all our wealth into a
few hands and the consequent com
plete Capitalization of all power in
the same hands shall fail, [ see no
hope for the impoverished sixty odd
millions except ia open revolution"
Questions were then fred rapidly
as the interviewer warmed up to his
work.
THE sUB-TREAsURY ANALYZED.
" What do you think of the methods
Oy which the Alliance proposes to get
relief from their burdens 2'
"' There is the rub 1t seems to be
the thing to do, to jump on the Sub.
Treasury bill. Did any great move
ment ever start out with everything
perfect p? l do not believe that any