The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-21
REFoRMERs STILL ROWLING.

truth about the farmers alliance. We
talked not about the principle which
platforms proclaimed-but about the
practices and methods in which self
constituted leaders INDUCED.
We have steadfastly maintained that
POLK, who conducts the professional far
mer is a charlatan and a mountebank.
We have claimed that if he is sincere, his
sincerity pays him ~money-and that he
has been a little of everything and not
much of anything. We have boldly
stated, knowing that it made farmers
angry, that all the wild cat schemes
which POLK has promulgated were sui
cidal and against good government.
THE GLOBE early in North Carolina
denounced the sub-treasury bill and said
that the wretched measure was class leg
~islation and that it was inconsistent for
farmers to demand paternal care from
the government.
We held hat farmers were being plum
dered, but the way to right wrongs was
by wholesome and honest legislation.
THE GLOBE believes that legislation is
demanded. 1t believes that the producer
is being robbed by night and by day, by
the giant corporations; the trusts and
combines of America. We have plainly
stated these things-but we never will
believe, if the last subscriber should
leave, that this government has any right
to come in and say, "We will protect the
farmer-the other people may 60 to-"
That would not be honesty and 1t
would not he what the honest man calls
"fair and square,"
The alliance in this state had a legisla-
ture. The members of that body were
elected for reform and upon principles.
But what did they do?
They sold themselves, body, breeches
and souls, for the cheapest mess of pot
tage that ever was put on the market.
They failed to provide for an exhibit
by North Carolina at the Worlds Fair.
They voted to enrich joe daniels at the
expense of the people, and wantonly and
recklessly and illegally gave to that in
crate several thousand dollars of the
peoples money.
They returned VANCE when they were
pledged to defeat him. He laughed at
their wildcat schemes and told them they
were fools, which they were, and refused
to obey them.
They passed a book of alleged laws
which require wheels to move it, but it is
a mass of nothing:
They failed to reach the railroads
which are robbing them. They failed to
give the people any wholesome legisla-
ton which is sadly needed.
1t was a crowd of cheap chumps, be-
ing worked by a lobby which knew what
could be done.
The Farmers Alliance, by the off cial
acts of it's legislature, has forfeited all
rights to respect, and THE GLOBE pro-
poses to print the truth.
POLK is the leader and his record is a
record of mountebank.
He has sold agricultural implements;
peddled diptheria medicine and swore
that he was making nine hundred per
cent, taking it from the sick and the af-
flicted who bought it from him-and to-
day he is bowling for measures which
would wreck any government in the
world.
The GLOBE is an Independent news
paper and it can afford to tell the truth.
1t exists on its merits and is doing
we'll. 1t is not begging on the platform
of true democracy or true anything but
the honest truth.
And one of these days the scales will
fall from the eyes of the deluded farmer
who to-day does not like it, and he will
jump up in his pew and called darned
thing blessed.
They have commenced to do so now.
VERY GREEDY.