The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
ON THE BULLS BYE
recently ong the.

INOMMENTING recently ,engt the
~ views of the PfessyGRd CGrOlsRSGn
as to the evils which aHict the agri.
cultural interests of the country and
the remedy therefor, we heldtthab the
trouble lies deeper than the protective
tariff, unjust, oppressive and iniquitous
as is that system. That it is to be
found in the corfupting and Unjust
Gnaneialq policylof our egoRernn1ent.
We have always admired ~thegspiFit of
fairness and frankness which has char
acterized our esteemed contemporary
and we were therefore prepared for
it's manly admission that Nit s9e had
"thought the protective SYSTEM ths
author Of all these woes" It says
land we think most sincerely: We
wish o!fnd the prime cause of our
depression and poverty" sIt@caas< on
us to Msspeak clearly, plainly and
p~ointedly." It asks US to lay aside.
our "old scattering shotgun and
shoot that financial policy with a
rife" that. it may see it clearly. WE'LL
brother, we "draw a fine bead on the.
centre of the bulls eye" It Is the ma.
tiiOnal banking system Of thGs government.
Our contemporary asks if the
Democratic partyhas originated or ap,
proved that financial policy2p We
answer:1The Republicans originated
it. One of the prominent leaders, MIR.
Conger, boosted in Congress on the
29th uIt, that at is the highest COM
pliment that has ever been paid to the
history of the Republican government
of this country, but it has been &C.
guessed in by the controlling
of the Democratic party. ..za-z, 90,
The people, from n extreme. of
this broad land to the other, without
regard to party,-Republicahs, Demo.
Gratis, business men farmers, wealth,
producers, wage. earners, thessufering
and struggling millions are demanding
with one voice the abolition of this
unjust and ruinOusly oppressive sys-
tenn. ' .'~'@''
A system which places the absolute
control of the volume of currency or
circulating medium of the. country in
the hands Of 1919. banks-ya system
which loans to a mere handful Of mo-
nopolists its money at n per cent.
and allows them to force the people of
Cstawbs county and Of the country to
pay from eight to fifty, and often a
still greater per cent. for money!
system which, through the manipula-
tions of money spectators, has depre,
cialed agricultural lands and crops
from 80 to 40 per cent. and has forced
the products to prices below their.
actual costa system which is the.
fruitful hot-bed of monopoly, and
grants to a favored few the power to:
Cypress the many, to make the rich.
richer and the poor poorer SYSTEM
which is gradually but surelyEwiping
out the middle class of our pOpu&tion
and is rapidly resolving us into two.
classes-the extremely rich and the.
extremely poor-a system which dis
Grimm 4tes against our agricultural
classes and in favor of great moneyed
centres-a system whose legitimate
offspring is trusts, combines, syndi-
Gates, pools and monopolies. .
The people and the best interests of
the country alike demand that this
oppressive and Ubiquitous system be
wiped out and that the government
shall stop this ruinous speculation in
their money by instituting the free
coinage of silver and issue, if need
be, its certificates direct from our Ma,
tional Treasury. )
This is the great overshadowing
evil which today is sitting and para.
lying the industrial energies of this
country. The people feel it, hence
the first of the demands laid down by
St. Louis Convention, as appropoS to
the matter in hand, we refer our con-
temporary to the fifth demand of that
body, in which it is declared that,
"we demand that all revenues, Nation.
al, State or country, shall be limited TO
the necessary expenses of the government
economically and honestly administered"
and that "We demand that taxation,
National or State, shall not be used to
bw51d up N interest or class at the e1s
pense Of another.
We trust we have made our views
sufficiently clear as to the two questions
presented when we say that we en-
dorse, without reservation or equivo-
cation, the position of the st. Louis
Convention on them, and we have
abundant reason for believing that it
is endorsed by al overwhelming ma
iority of the farmers, wage-earners
and business men of this country.
EAST CARoL1NA's EXPOSITION.