The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-17

vote for the party that creates many
needed offices and raises the salaries of
many more, and that spends a billion
! dollars in one Congress.
! Never! No, ne> er, give up the party
that favOr5 national banks, owned by
! a few milliOnaires, who control the
| currency at will and from ocean to
ocean, and from lakes to gulf. We see
! the despOilers of honest fortunes. the
country teeming with tramp5 and beg
gerry and want possessing millions.
Stand by the grand old party that
demOnetlZes silver and paid into the
hands Of Wall street and others 80 cts.
on a dollar, and together with the
! Funding Act of 1866 have enabled those
money kings to add to their wealth
over $4,000, 900, 900 out of the hard
earned money of the toiling millions.
| They tell you to vote on for the party
that has such expert financierS to
manage The monetary system of this
Republic. who, in twenty seven years,
have paid nearly twice the amount of
the war debt in principal, interest and
premiums, and to day it will take more
to pay this war debt, in products,
(and certainly we can pay it in nothing
else) than it would at the close OF the
war
My brethren, the question is, Will it
do 1t? Shall we, like dumb driven
cattle " go to the polls and vote our
selves destruction, by following these
| old corrupt partisan leaders? Shall we
tighten the cords and lock the chains
chat are already around our stiffened
limbs? Shall we allow those self con
stituted leaders of the Old parties to
| put hooks in our noses and lead us
where they please? Or shall we arise
in the strength of our manhood and
American citizenship and throw off
| the shackles that bind US to corrupt
partisan leaders, and come back to
principle and to pure JeffersOnian
| Democracy? Shall we look to God,
the pole star Of our hope, the univer-
sal deliverer Of those who put their
trust in him?
| Let's stand above partisan strife, as
brothers battling for the right. Let s
enlist under that banner that has
Truth " for its motto and the Ocaia
! Demands for It's watch word. St
Louis, Ocala We are all together
! here. No more national bar ks TO feed
tape worms, and starve the people.
Money direct to the people at per
cent. to stop speculation and enhance
the price of farm products. Sub Treas
ury plan, to meet the demands for
money when our products are for sale
| and to enable debt-ridden farmers TO
hold their produce for better prices
that the circulating medium be in
creased to $50 per capita; that the
! 5000, 800 Of mJTtgaged farms may be
saved to their rightful owners; a law
to effectually prevent dealing or gamb
ling in futures of all agricultural and
mechanical productions. This is to
! stop taxation without representation,
which is effectually done by trusts and
! combines, and to give every article for
sale legitimate chance in the markets
of the world. The free and unlimited
| coinage of silver to raise silver as a
circulating medium to its proper place
! and give 1t the value our patriotic
| fOrefatherS designed it to have To
! prohibit the alien ownership of land,
| lest our country be owned by the lords
of England and we become the tenants
! and slaves to their will. Believing in
equal rights to all and special privileges
| to none, we demand that our National
! legislature be so framed in the future
as not to build up one industry at the
| expense of another, and that a removal
of the present heavy tariff tax from
the necessaries Of life that the poor of
the land must have. A just, equitable
system of graduated tax on incomes;
that every person and corporation bear
their just share of the expenses of this
| government; that all State and Ma
tiOnal revenues be limited to the neces-
sary expenses of the government, eco
nomically administered Remembt +
the 51st Congress. We demand the
most rigid and just governmental con
troll and supervision Of the means of
public communication and transpOrta-
ton. To stop unjust freights and to
see that these important corporations
do not transcend the bounds of their
chartered privileges. To amend the
Constitution so as to elect =. S. Sena
tors by a direct vote of the people.
That those elected to fill such high
positions may be more directly respOn-
sible to the people, whom they serve,
and give less opportunity for rich men
to buy seats in the Senate of this great
nation.
Let us stand squarely upon these
demands, and if we are true to our
homes, our loved ones, to our Alliance
and to our God, we shall see these de
mands upon the statute books of this
once glorious, but now declining Re
public. Fraternally,
S. J. VEACH.