The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-05
IS 1T o STRANGE

It is strange and yet amusing to us
to see how hard a part of the press of
North Carolina are trying to make the
people believe that the only issue of
consequence to the citizens of these
United States is the tariff" They
say that the first and leading demand
of order, the Sub-Treasury plan,
and another, the free coinage of silver,
should not enter into the Democratic
party to divide it; that these little
differences of the people should be
buried (by u.s. and should not be al
lowed to have anything to do with the
Democratic platform. Now, this adj
vice is given for the benefit of that
portion of the Democratic party who
favor the platform laid down by the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
at st. Louis and Ocala. These demands
"our friends" say should be left out
for the sake of harmOny-that the IN
teILigence and aUedIth-the d~ristOcrGtic
party-the Democratic party in fact
they call themselves, although greatly
in the minority, should dictate what
the platform of the party should be,
and that these "hayseeders and clod-
hOppers" should attend to their farms
and be quiet and submit to anything
these self-styled "bosses" should lay
down as right. They say we should
do this for the sake of presenting a
solid front against the Republican
party.
Now the writer of this is an ALI
anceman to the core and a true Demo
GRAFT, and believes the demands. of
the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union to be right and he expects to
cast his votes in the future for men
whose voices shall be raised for the
liberties of our people, and not for any
man who fights organization to
keep the accused shackles of the bond
holder and speculator on our arms in
order that we and our children shall
die in slavery. The demands made at
ST. Louis and Ocala are wide enough
and strong enough for any to
stand On-the which hundreds Of
our friends" were willing to swallow
when an office was in sight last fall,
but since then have been trying to
throw up. God pity the fellow, the
politician, who has sold his birthright
to the enemy in order to get a mess of
pottage. All along the line of the
enemy goes the order to down the Sub
Treasury plan. Traitors are hired
to enter our ranks, to turn our forts
over to the enemy, but they will be
foiled. We are ready for the fray.
Moneyed syndicates, bond holders,
spectators and their allies, have de-
termined to crush our order if they
can. The decree has gone forth. No
truer words were ever spoken than
those uttered by President L. L. Polk
at Wadesboro on February oath. He
said: Let me make you a prediction;
let me tell you what I believe. 6You
may see a third party in this country
but it will not be for long. The masses
of the Northwestern States, the South
ern States and the Western States will
be arranged on one side, and on the
other will stand the plutocrats and the
monopolists of the Northern and
Eastern States. There will be but two
parties-the people against the pluto
Gratis. The contest is coming and l
say let it come. x x 4 Iwant to say
that a cyclone is gathering and will
sweep this country in 1892"
Already from South Carolina comes
the sad news that the ''soreheads" of
the two old political parties have had a
loUefeast, have forgiven and forgot
past abuses and ISLANDERS of each other
and have pledged and sworn fealty to
the new neutrality-suspicious.
the-oficeif-we-can party-a regular
mOngTel set.
Now we are not certain, but we
think from the tone of some of the old
Democratic bosses" Of North Carolina
who have lost their grip on the offices
that they would like to head a mon
grel party here.
Once more we want our friends to
understand that "our demands is now
and will be the battle cry of the ALI
ance in 1892. Let there be no vacil-
lating nOr backward movement. Re
member "our demands" is the watch
word.