The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-27

parties to execute a mortgage upon every
candidate of both of them in a presidential
campo gD, and ~foreclose he same as soon
as they are installed into Office. They
have. With their gold, degrad j. de
bauched and prostituted The youths Of our
lard. They have hriked our legislators
until our egi3lative halls are little better,
IN fact, than charnel houses where states
men of mediocre ability may thrive and
fatten upon the loin5 OF the nation. For
fear that I may be accused of overdraw-
in :lls picfG1t cf ~-:ss3 corruption, let
me quote from some Of the sayings of one
o: the leading statesmen Of to. day. No
less a person than the President pro tenn.
of the United Safes Senate, the Hon.
John J Ingall1:
The decalogue and the golden rule have
no place in a political cam oaign. 1t is
lawful to deceive the adversary; to hire
Hessians; to procure ~mercenaIies; to kill;
to mutilate; to destroy. Money does not
stink, no matter how acquired. Votes do
not smell badly no matter what may have
been The method by which they were pro-
cured. The ambitious politician, there
fore, endeavorS to ascertain what is popu-
lar, rather than what is right. We have
been unable to make any history in twelve
years.
The latter statement of Mr.. Ingalls,, that
We have not been able to make n
hist ory in twelve years." is fraught with
great danger. Whenever parties in any
nation reach that ineficiency that they
are unable o ena3 1t any progressive legis-
lation, it has reached that point when it
takes a retrogradiDg position. The Tory
government Of England reached that stage
in its methodof legislation to the colonies.
1t was at this point when the fathers of
his repu bic put forth a document contain
i4g these words: we hold these truths
to be ~self-evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain Inalieu able rights;
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit of ha opiness; that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving thei1 just powers from the
consent of the governed; that whenever
any form OF government destructive Of
these ends, it Is the right of the people TO
abolish it, and to institute a new govern
ment." Just how u fathers abolished
their oppressive government is a matter
of history. But after they had overthrown
that base government, they, in their wis
dom, provided t lat their posterity should
have other and more easy methods Of
overthrow. They provide the ballot as a
weapon oy which it should be accom-
plished.
The agricultural iaborers of the land
who have been despoiled of their homes
have, by a system Of combined effort, set
to work to accomplish that result by the
method as given to them by the father,
and during the last campaign cast upwards
of 25O, 900 votes in that director, which
has resulted in the electing to thenational
hall of legislati IN of some fifteen mem
oers, who are pledged to vote and to work
in season and out Of season, to establish a
better system of government by the re-
peal of special and oppressive laws and
the enactment of new ones that shall be
in the interest Of the whole PEI pie and
good go gernment.
The National Citizens A lance has
been formed for the purpose of accom-
plishment of that education and Organiza-
ton among business men and others who
reside in cur large cities and towns, to
the end that they may cooperate and act
with the great body of agricultural classes
in our land in their effort to relieve the
people from bondage and the restoring of
good government among men as the
fathers intended that it should be, as ex-
pressed in the words of the martyred
Liz coin: "a government of the people,
by the people and for the people"
And to this erd we solic t the aid and
assistance of all citizens wi hout regard to
calling and profession. And all those
who are so inclined can receive the neces-
sary information required for the forma-
ton of local branches, and the necessary
literature to become informed upon the
principles as advocated by the organiza-
ton, by addressing Ralph Beaumont, Sec
rotary of the National Citizens Alliance,
239 North Capital street, Washington,
D. G.