The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
No. p

ton to those, either on the outside or
inside, who were straining themselves
to the utmost tension to bring dissen-
sion and discOrd into our ranks, who
were giving the signal to the enemy to
rush upon us while they saluted with
hiss. So far 50 good, but where do
we stand to day? Where do you stand.
brother? Now is the time to take your
position, We are on the eve Of a revo-
luton. Yea, we are in the very midst
of a mighty upheavaI, the like of
which the nation has never seen. Take
your position, brother, take your posi-
tion, if it pulls the hide off to do it.
What do [ mean? I mean, sir, that
we cannot serve God and mamm0n at
the same time We must take one
side or the other. There is no neutral
ground. Going to stay in the old
party? Are you? Well, sir, if that is
the case, [ have found out where you
stand; but let it be distinctly under
stood that if you are going to fight
with the enemy, you must take your
name off our roll. Get out, get out!
We don't need you, if you are not will
ling to ''go the whole hog" You say
that you are an Allianceman from one
end to the other. You say that joining
the Alliance has not caused you to give
your old party the go by"-must
stick to that old party. Well, my
dear sir, there is something wrong
with you. O, but there is! Your
digestion is good, to be slp,e. If it was
not, you could not mix up things 50.
But you can't see straight. There is
no consistency in your cause. l don't
care a red cent what the name of your
old party is, l say that if you try 10 be
a member Of that old party and the
Farmers Alliance as the same time,
you act with less consistency than the
man did who sent all his sons to the
Confederate army and then went to
making powder for the Yankees.
Why? Because they are just as much
opposed to each other as night is to
day.
Let us take a candid view Of the
situation: Take the free coinage of
silver: Where do the leaders Of the
Republican party stand on this great
subject. or rather demand? Where?
Why, they don't stand on it at ali, nor
III forty rods of it, if they can help it.
They say that it is not their child, and
they, therefore, can't sake any stock
in it. Where do the leaders OF the
Democratic party stand? Right spang
alongside Of the Republican. They
won't claim the poor little child either,
and so there it is. Where do these
parties claim kin with the Sub Treas
ury? Kin! Why, they treated it as a
robber of the people-the poor, for
saken people Of Wall street So these
two hoary-headed landmarks of the
American Union went to work in dead
earnest, and buried it in a committee
room. But that Sub-Treasury bill
didn't stay buried worth q cent-not
from the people, It is more alive to-
day than ever. So far it has harmed
no one, unless, perhaps, some luckless
Senator is haunted by its ghostIy
visage in the still hours Of night as he
takes a retrospective view. Well they
may be scared, for there is going to be
a cIeaning-out spell one of these days.
Not a single demand Of importance
has been submitted to our lawmakers,
which these two parties have not
opposed with their combined strength.
So, then, there is but one logical con-
clUsion-We must take care Of our
selves. We must cut loose from those
old associates, and act with the body
that will incorporate our principles. I
say, logically, we take no other posi-
ton. If we stand there, we stand as
an exponent Of the great principles Of
the Farmers Alliance, founded upon
justice and right. If we are not there,
we must be with the enemy, and. there
fore, against those principles. Is that
where you stand? If not, you are with
! the other crowd, and you ought TO let
us know it, so we will know who to
! trust.
There is an OminOus roar in the dis
| tance; the clouds are gathering blacker
and thicker; the lightning flashes zig
! gag across the darkening horizon.
| Listen. Soon the storm will burst
and out Of it shall spring a new and
| prosperous people. LEROY LONG.