The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20
WHICH IS THE BEST DoLLARf

This question was asked by Senator
Hiscock, of New York, in a speech de-
livered by him in the city of Syracuse
recently. He proceeds to answer it.
He said: 1T is the One which has the
greatest purchasing power"-"the one
in exchange for which you receive the
largest amount of goods; or, if labor,
the largest amount of labor" He
boosted that this view of it was ''the
true and honored policy of the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties" in
New York-that there is mo issue in
that State between the parties on
this question, and God grant that the
day may be far distant that the two
parties falter and JOIN issue upon this
policy"
Here is a genuine specimen of Wall
street craftsmanship. THE best dol
lar" exclaims this bogus statesman,
lis the n that will buy the most Ia
Dor. This is comforting to the farm
ers and laboring people. Well, if it
will buy more labor and more of the
products of labor, will it pay more
debts? The cotton planter sells three
bales of cotton to-day for the amount
of money that bought only n bale a
few years ago. These three bales cost
him three times as much as it cost him
to produce the one bale, and yet he
gets no more for the three than he got
for the one. That is, his dollar costs
him three times as much labor now as
then. Will it pay more interest on
his mortgage? No. Will it pay more
taxes? No. Will it go further in the
education of his children No.
And yet this Senator, speaking for
both the old parties, says, lit is the
best dollar ever coined on the face of
the earth" OF course the mechanic
and the labOrer will be greatly com
f0rted, and become recOnciled when
told that the best dollar is the one that
will buy most of their labor. But he
gives the whole thing away when he
said; The keen business man and the
shrewd banker, who know that their
continuance in business depends on
their credit, will see that they are pro
tected. and the sufferers will be the
poor laboring and the agricultural
classes"
The keen business man the shrewd
banker will be protected, but the pro
ducers of wealth, the laboring people,
VIII be the sufferers. And this lis the
true and honored policy of both the
Democratic and Republican parties.
And this is the policy which he prays
God may be perpetuated.
Let the bread winners, the producers
of wealth, ponder well these wOrds,
for they express plainly the true senti-
ments of the money power, and show
exactly and truthfully the policy of
that power. 1t is the deJt-payiHg and
not the purchasing Of the dollar that
concerns the mortgage-cursed and
debt ridden farmers of the land. By
the most iniquitous conspiracy ever
cOncocted, or that ever disgraced the
legislative annals of any country on
the face of the earth, the currency of
this country has been so contracted as
to bring the price of the products of
labor absolutely in the hands of these
shylocks and robbers, and it as their
determined purpose to hold it. Talk
about the "honest dollar! The most
dishonest dollar that has ever been
coined on the face Of the EARTH is the
almighty gold dollar of to-day-the
dollar which is held by Wall street,
and is advocated and defended by
such men as Cleveland, Hiscock, Sher-
man & Co.
The great and grand purpose of the
Alliance is to rob this dollar of it's
power to Cypress by uncrowning it.
Our order will never cease to agitate
and educate until this is done.
THE REAL TROUBLE.