The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-14

which guides commerce and the func-
tions of money.
Now for the silver question. First
law: the free coinage of silver will in
crease the demand, and increased de-
mand will increase the price. Not long
ago it went up to 95 cents when free
coinage was expected. Therefore all
argument founded on the present price
of silver is gratuitOus, unsound and
misleading and well calculated to de-
ceive shallow pates. When silver was
demonetized by fraud it was on a par
with gold. Reinstate free coinage and
it will be on par again. But friend
Bean wants A1liancemen to wait until
they know their rights better on this
silver question. Who, pray, are going
to be their instructors? Grover Cleve-
land from Wall street, r. L. Beall, the
faithful Democrat, or B. j. W., Of
Mooresville? The elements of a free
man are to know their rights, and in
knowing, dare maintain them.
The right of freeman is to pay his
debts in the money in which it was
| contracted. The United States bonds
were contracted to be paid in gold and
silver. The right of every freeman
was violated when, by a thieving
fraud, silver coinage was stopped from
being as free as the coinage of gold,
and the bonds made thereby payable
in gold alone. The dignity of the
American citizen demands that this
~rascality and false faith shall be un-
done, and that Grover Cleveland
should be spewed out of the nations
mouth for the betrayal OF his party to
the interest of ~plutocracy and to the
disgrace of the people who conhded IN
him to do his duty.
B. J. w. is not acquainted with the
amount of silver produced in the world.
He does not know that if all the silver
in the world was dumped on the
shores of America and coined, it would
not reach the farmers demand of $50
per capita. He does not know that
those portions of the globe in which
the balance of trade is against us are
silver-cOining countries, and will take
silver in full payment. He does not
know that rather than empty those
huge vaults of silver and pay off the
bonds in the money stipulated, Grover
Cleveland borrowed gold from private
banks. B. j. w. does not know that
the gold certificate and silver certificate
is a better form of money and equally
as good and these heavy metals better
W lSllLdlll Ill III NbO1OS ~ ~. w . NOSO
not know that no sooner than free
coinage of silver is adopted silver bull
lion throughout the world will advance
in price so as to prevent its eXpOrta-
ton. and if not blessed America will
own it all and command her own price.
B. J. w. does not know if America can
issue silver and gold certificates to the
amount of $50 per capita and lend
these certificates on land loans and pro-
duct loans it would be better still than
~greenbacks, for they would have a
double backing.
We have heard this before about
aluminium and the substitutes for
silver. 1t is nothing but a cunningly-
devised fable.
Over one year has passed since the
Alliance at St. Louis and reafirmed at
Ocala, adopted as One of it's demands
the free coinage of silver. Not only
that, but nearly every Sub-Alliance in
the State has endorsed this demand.
1t, by this endorsement, becomes no
longer a debatable question by an off
cial journal nor by a true Alliance
man. The pro and % on the question
have already been sifted to the bottom,
and those who are so FAR in the rear of
the Alliance column as to look visit
fully back to the rich camp of the
enemy, may have a perpect right to
their Individual opinions, but have no
right to force them on their brethren.
If any n needs information on this
question, let him read the writings of
n. A. Dunning, who is Alliance author
ity on this subject, and not Grover
Cleveland and the vapOrings of the gold
bugs of Wall street.
The only plank left to the democracy
is the splintered and shivered plank Of
the tariff, and friend Beall would ad-
wise Alliancemen to desert their ships
and jump on that plank with him and
Grover. Alas for the weakness of
humanity. What does Grover promise
on that? Absolutely nothing that is
worth a row OF beans. He, too, will
run the government by tariff taxation.
He, too, will not repudiate protection
to home Industries. The leVying of a
tariff for revenue only has been found
perfectly disastrous, and no leading
Democrat dares pronounce the theory.
The only question now remaining is,
on what articles shall we collect a high
tariff, and on what shall we collect a
law tariff tax? This is all there is left
of the tariff either for the Republicans
or Democrats. 1t is no longer with
them a question of principle, only a
question of Doodle. There is nothing
in it worthy the consideration of a
white man and a freeman. Friend
Beal says: IF we cut loose from it
democracy we desert our best friend"
Ii he considers it a better friend than
the Alliance, he should at once with
draW from n Alliance as an honest
man for no man can serve two masters.
For the sake of unity no brother can
claim a good standing who fights
| against the rooOp6o6 6opoop1C Of tho