The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-07
HOW THEY STAND IN CALL
FORNIA.

The President of the Alliance in the
great State of California speaks out in
no uncertain sound. Thinking it good
reading from which our Lecturers may
catch some inspiration, we give in full
his address:
TO LECTURERS THROUGHOUT THE ATT
In putting this lecture system into
operation, permit me to indicate some
Of the lines of assault upon the enemy'S
intrenched positions, and urge the lee
turers ali along the line to push the
fight, show the people where they are
being robbed by the whole gang Of
mOnOpOlists and trusts and ~syndicates.
Tell them the truth about the railroad
bonds, the land grant barons and the
whole nest of tax-eaters. Show them
how the Union Pacific railroad gang
invested $2lS, 600 and pOcketed $147,-
29S. no. Show that the Central Pacific
Railroad gang invested 1862, 600 and
.pOcketed about $136, 600, 600. Tell them
these milliOnaireS now owe the people
$13O, 600, 600 and refuse to pay a dollar.
Show them that we have built, and
paid twice the cost of every one of the
railroads to the Pacific Coast, and that
we are paying for them in freights and
fares every five years; that these mon
Ster mOnOpOlieS have the whole Pacific
Coast by the throat and are choking all
our industries to death with their Shiny
grip; that while they wall in the State
on the east, and charge all the traffic
will bear, their friends build a tariff
wall across the Golden Gate that fines
vessels $40, 600, 900 a year to enter and
discharge their cargOeS. Show them
the absurdity of the national banking
system, where the government bOrrOws
500, 600 and pays interest for it, and
then gives them bnck 800, 600, which
they use to Cypress the w~ealth-prO-
ducersN of the country. Demand of the
government a just system of taxation,
where the rich are taxed as we'll as the
poor. Let the people demand Of their
servants at Washington, who are work
ing for a salary, that they cease to run
the government in the interest of Wall
street, or they must retire and give
their salaries to better men. Demand
that Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Sidney
Dillon & Co. OF the Union Pacific gang.
and Stanford, Huntington, CrOCker &
Co., the Central Pacific gang, pay
their debts TO the government, as we'll
as their taxes to this State, or Surren-
der their railroads and retire from
business for the sod Of the State. De
mand that the government shall not
loan 500, 000, coo to the Nicaragua
canal scheme for the purpose of hatch
ing out a new brood of canal million
aires. In short, demand that the gov
eminent incubator be permitted to cool
off, so that some of these millionaire
eggs will not hatch. Tell them the
truth about the tariff; that it is a tax,
and the consumer pays it; that it is
levied for the express purpose Of in
creasing the value Of the class Of ar
ticlcs upon which it is levied, so that
the home manufacturers a compete
with the imported goods.
Press these matters upon the atten-
ton of the people, and explain them in
plain, rugned language. 1t is not eX-
pected that many of YOU are university
graduates, so don't worry about being
grammatical, but make yourself under
stood and success will attend your
laDOrS. MARION CANNON,
Stat0 PTnCiI0nt