The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09

Anti Wall Street, and Is warranted
to cure-or kill.
The people, the toiling masses, are
aroused as they never were before
they know your devices, they have
been hoodwinked, gulled for the last
time. Your partisan cry will prove
unavailing. The fight is on Wall
streetmay trot out her man men, they
will be beaten. The day Of her glory
is departed, her sway is ended. This
l say weighing well my words, know
ing well the power of her magic, the
influence of money, appreciated as it
is by the corrupt legislation Of the
past % years. Yet powerful as it is,
it is too weak to contend against the
cohorts, the determined host who have
pledged to throttle, to destroy it.
Name it third party, peoples party,
or call it by any name you please, there
will be found gathering, crowding to
the polls in November, '92, such a
vast horde actuated by the spirit OF our
revolutionary sires, the men of 1776 as
will cause the party of Wall street,
the monied aristocracy, to wonder at
their puny numbers -insignificance.
Why will people not need a coming
storm? Why did not our leading
spirits, prior to the civil war, antici-
pate, avert it's dreadful shock, it's fear
full carnage?
Browns raid was nipped in the bud;
he paid the price of his folly, designed
it, too, yet in it he drew the eyes of
the world to wrong that needed to be
righted. He focused the thought of
higher, nobler spirits on this blot that
and too long remained on Americas
otherwise bright page, and led to its
erasure. Shall it be blurred again?
Shall it be proclaimed to the world
that the rivers of blood which were
spilled to erase this blot did but open
the way to blot out, erase the record
of her former glory9 That the freeing
of the negro led to the enslavement OF
the toiling millions? God forbid. 1t
cannot be, surely no such fate is or can
be in store for us. We can, we must
keep our record clean. On it's brightest
pages are written, by the hands of our
sires, the deeds of chivalry- record
of our inheritance On it's pages is
stamped our birth right to be free.
Shall we sell it for mess of pottage4
No. a thousand times no. Free we
were born, free we will die. Monopoly
the Republican policy of taxing the
masses for the privileged few.] AS
surely as the sun shall rise tomorrow,
the sovereign people will ascertain in
the long run whether Mr.. Carnegie is
a normal process, an imperative ne
cessity, an essential condition of
modern society A republic of mil
lions of voters may err for time, the
political pendulum may for a season
unevenly or unequally swing, but there
is always here the biennial opportun-
ity to modify or qualify ones views"
We thank thee noble prelate for your
wise and encouraging words
The Rev. Mr.. Kaufman says "in
Europe the desperation of the poor is
fast driving men into atheism" In the
United States, says Professor r. T.
Ely, ''the methods of millionaires are
alternating wage-workers from Chris
tianity." ''They cannot, says Cardinal
Gibbons, reconcile Goodness with
greed; and one sanctimonious miserly
millionaire in a community works more
deadly harm to Christianity than a
dozen isolated cases of burglary or
drunkenness.
Ex-Premier Gladstone and Cardinal
Manning both notice, comment upon,
and deplore ''the shrinkage of private
charity going on contemporaneously
with the enormous increase of wealth
in England" And directly in the face
of the evil tendencies complained of
by the Cardinal and ex-Premier, Mr..
Carnegie boldly asserts that nineteen
twentieths of the charity, public and
private, is uselessly spent" All is
chaff that is not grist to the million
aires mill
REPLY TO DOCTOR BROOKS.
While our sentinel philosophers,
divines, and statesmen see danger
threatening our beloved land, our
friend, Dr. Brooks, would have us be-
lieve that all our troubles come from
"pessimism," indigestion, chronic
grumbling or "over-production, or
mixture of ALL He argues that it is
insensate folly to raise our feeble
cries against this that or the other, and
try to hew our destinies to the line of