The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-08

fourths of the people of this republic
were born and reared here and yet
don't know that the government be-
longs to the people and that the officers
of the States and Nation are the peoples
agents and are bound by Constitution
and law to obey the orders of the peO-
pie. to hear their petitions and grant
their requests. TIE politicians know
their duty, but manage to keep the
people, through deception, divided as
near equally as possible by the use OF
any QuIbble about money, or banks, or
specie basis, or tariff, or public debt, or
TRANSPORTATION, OF railroad inequality,
or pensions. or a solid South against
solid North. No matter by what means
it is done, so the fool people act and
vote against each other. One of the
imperial anarchists said: We will
nominate our own friends in both
parties and then let the fool people
elect whichever Of our men they
please. What is all this talk about
educating the people for? Does 1t mean
that the people are in fact as ignorant
and as pitiable fools as the national
anarchists accuse them of being? Does
it mean that a common IabOrlng man
cannot see or understand that a Demo
cratic banker and a Republican banker
will vote together on the banking
questions, all real estate interests, all
interests of the rich to rob the poor!
If the people understand that we have
two parties IN elections for the purpose
of deCeiving the voters and only one
party in office for the purpose of rob
bing them, then they know enough to
unite themselves into one honest cleo
4 4 I'm
the rascalS out. Let us, by our acts,
inform the knaves. liars and scOun-
drels that we have no further use for
them as agents for the government,
whether they are Democrats or Repub-
hcans If we, the people, know that
the leaders of the two old parties are
but one party, organized for public
robbery, and that they will not give
the people their requests or demands,
where IS the wisdom in educating
twenty-five years longer and letting
their Democratic Republican dog de-
YOUR the heart and suck the blood Of
this republic? This allc0nsuming dog
has two tails but only one body. 1t
makes no difference to the millionaire,
the syndicate, the banker the bond
holder, the land -grabber, the standard
oil rObber or the public treasury thief
which tail is up or which is down, the
dog devOurs all the same. Does q
farmer or manufacturer know enough
to discharge a hired man when he finds
out that he Will lie and steal? These
public officers are our hired men, Look
at their acts. The funding our money
into interest bearing bonds was a lie
and the greatest steal that was ever
perpetrated in the United S ates save
only its twin sister, the banking lie
and larceny and triplet brother, reduC-
ing the currency to a specie basis.
These national robbers stand out in
plain view with these lies in their
mouths, 50 large they cannot swallow
them and with public money in their
vaults so numerous that they cannot
conceal it; and yet the bOOdlers say:
wait, educate; don't turn the rascaIs
out. Every man that says money is
king is the enemy of labor. Every
man that says money will control is the
enemy Of those that earn all the money,
because he places the product above
the producer. Every man who has
accumulated millions Of dollars is in
pOssessiOnOf what he never earned and
does not own, and is the enemy of civil
lied society. Turn the rascals out the
very next election and repeal the un-
Just laws by which such unprecedented
rObberieS are committed.
d. w. ELDERKIN.