The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12
OUR EXCHANGES.

located between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, the northern lakes and
Gulf of Mexico. The s~ubserviency OF
the people to the ruling nobility is far
more abiect than Athens under the
control of the four hundred or Venice
under the direction of it's sixteen nun
dred mobiles.
The people under the dictatiOn of the
present rulers have nothing to say
about the commerce of the country.
The entire railroad and telegraph sys-
tenn is operated regardless of their
wishes by the controlling power and
no accounting made to the National
Treasury for the enormous revenues
forced from the farming classes and
travelling public and every one in the
land by the few noblemen in command.
Both the railroads and telegraphs
under the a~ristocracy are far more
grinding on the people who support
them than the anne accommodations
under the Monarchy of Germany or
the Empire of Great Britain. Origin
ally the Nation was composed of dis
tinct States with the right to control
their local affairs, but the centralized
a~ristocratical government with capital
r. at New York city now enforces it's
absolute sway over all the land, having
broken down all these provincial bar
Piers.
If a railroad is started in any State
independent of the reigning set, includ-
ing such distinguished peers as Gould,
Vanderbilt, Huntington, Rockefellow
and Sage, it soon meets the fate of
other like private enterprises and is
confiscated and its projectors ruined.
If telegraph lines are constructed for
use by the people Independent of the
lines belonging to the peers of the
realm they are o taken or rendered
unserviceable. So with nearly every
branch of business. No State a pro-
tect it's citizens against their masters
above and Independent of them, who
rob them with impunity like the barOns
who occupied the castles in Germany
at an early date. The commerce of
the country is a p~laything in their
hands. and thousands of business men
are often ruined by the secret actions
of the nobility in their Star Chamber
Hall at New York. Although the
center of government is in the eastern
metropolis it is directly represented in
every large city in the country. There
a local assembly of aristocrats convene,
always in secret session, and act in
unison with the National head, in
keeping down and impoverishing the
masses for the benefit of the nobility.
Every teI6phOne wire, street car line,
gas manufactory, etc, is owned by
them directly or Indirectly, and the
employees, as we'll as the public, die
tated to by the rulers. Society, like
commerce, is controlled by the lords
and ladies of the American a~fistocracy.
Their likes and dislikes constitute the
rule by which every one is to be judged
in the community as far as their social
position is concerned. Families are
taken up or discarded at their com
mand.
In most enlightened Monarchies of
modern times the Emperor or King and
his nobility take interest in the eleva-
ton of the people and protect their
business, but here the ruling aristOc-
racy stOOps to the lowest and meanest
tricks and the blacklist treachery and
fraud to rob their subjects and destroy
their business.
The people are heavily taxed directly
by assessors of local and national gov
ernments and indirectly by the bene-
fciaries of manufactures and trusts,
who procure high tariff legislation
while the families of the rich nobility
escape from paying taxes into local or
national treasures upon nine-tenths OF
their estate. Their estates IRE great
ones, in many cases amounting to
5000, 600, 900, 800, OOO, 900, $4,000, 900,
ETC., and are kept together generation
after generation by means of trusts.
The immense riches of many of the
leading nobility gives them such power
in everything that it is easy for them
to undermine and ruin the people in
their business enterprises and this they
are continually doing. One of these
families controls the entire oil business
of the nation, and has driven out all
competitors, and ruined in many cases
those who were once carrying it on. 1t
now dictates prices and controls or
owns all oil deposits in the country.
The millions thus obtained enables this