The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-01
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demands that We snail comroit o7rsaIt-a-
TO me worst kind Of class ie..!slation
Ana can see the advocates If this
scheme asking, wAy Should the far,oors
condemn this kind OF legislatiop. and
Why should our constitutions and a..
inao4S 50 openly denounca it2 I answer
ior our beloved order es follows: Because
II was class legislation that robbed The
tax payers OF this country of hundreds
OF millions of dollars by making cur
United states bonds payable in coin.
lt was class legislation that denoae-
tizaG silver and made those bonds pava-
ole Ia gold, thereby robbing the tax pay-
er8 OF hundreds Of millions again.
1t was class legislation That created the |
national banking system and vested in
them the power Of controlling, to a great
extent, the volume of the money Of the |
country.
1t was class legislation that took from
the people of the United States millions
| upon millions OF acres ! the public
lands and vested it il railroad corpora
tlons and syndicates and alien owners.
1t was class legislation that has built
up the colossal trusts, monopolias and
combines of our country that are the
curse of the age, and it is class legisla-
tion that makes it possible for them to
continue their unholy callings
T. is class legislation that lays the
heaviest burdens of Tariff taxation upon
the necessaries of life that the poor and
needy of our land must have, and places
the lightest tariffs on the luXuries of life
thai the wealthy can Go without and vet
not suffer
II is class legislation thai has, in some
cases, shut the ports Of foreign markets
TO our surplus farm products, and in
others has forced Us to pay an immense
toll before we are allowed to com pete, in
the sale of cur surplus farm products,
with the rauper farm products OF the
rest OF the world III these foreign mar
kets.
1t is class legislation that makes us pay
nearly double what We should for all the
machinery and implements we use upon
our farms.
Aud it is class legislation that has
made the abandoned farms IL some
Stat s, and povsrty and distress among
the farming class over our land. That
, has raised and is now raising many Of
5 our children in rags, ignorance, and pow
; erty, and has pastered the farms Of our
| country with mortgages, that has made
: tie farmer the butt Of the jokes of all
other classes Of people. The subject OF
scandalous and humorous cartoons and
{ has socially o5tr&cised them.
4 Or to sum the whole matter up. It is
! class legislation that has driven Is into
4 this org auiz 4tion to defend ourselves,
q wives, children aud homes.
n Then why should there . any aondol
0 at Our depouncjug our common cQra'
and mortal enemy.
It Brothers, we can never expect any re
J lief from such legislation, and unless th'
/ farming classes put it down, aud max
J. it as odlous as 1t deserves to be made, i
IS will continue to sap the substance flon
Is the farmers and laborers OF this countr,
d until corporation farming and landlord
10 ism and tenancy will forever diSplac
:, the od-tine independent American
t, farmer.
ID And | will now most earnestly war
id you against those VINO advocate elias
legislation, for the farming class, whethe
ID inside or outside of our order, for whil
er they are in many, if not all cases homes
ne in their advice, they are mistaken, an
ar are trying to have Us place ourselves
Il such position that We cannot worl
V talk, or vote against national banks, u
inst tariffs, railroad land grants, or 81
ry Of the other species of class legislation
al which We now complain.
I'd SUPPOSE the national banks, land graf
ii railroads, bondholders, tariff baron
should have concluded that the farme
* of tGu United States are getting pollt
lit cally troublesome, and becoming liable
b. take from them, by legislation, the
ry special privileges which they have
we long enjoyed; how would they set abo
'or doing it. Not by buying US up, winir
Vi aad dining US, or any such familiar met
in dds as that, fer our great numbers ar
ed thorough knowledge that such are the
n, general methods, would make such {
;he effort failure. But the method th'
es, would adopt would be to get US to adv
lse eating class legislation for ourselve
This would most eff3ctually shut o
en-, mouths against their class legislation
Ige OF course they would want Us to a
re- vocate, for ourselves, some species
class legislation that would be lmprac
ers cable and unconstitutional, but new
m theless such a one as would thorough
VS., commit US to approval of that class Il
hat lslation that has built their palaces frt
on the unjust tolls on labor.
nen claim this Sub-Treasury scheme
.ith Just the kind Of class legislation, abe
md all, that these favored classes would %
the desire us to approve and advocate. A
bile should our organization ever endorse
scheme there will be great JOY in
lpe ranks Of those men that We now most
ing verely denounce. For how can our
ate, der or our Representatives in Congr
or denounce legislation of a similar kind
de- that which we are advocating2
han For when we protest against the
tending of the charters or powers OF
the National banks, the representatives
CON these banks will point to the 'Farm'
ded Sub Treasury bill"
ber- When land grant railroads ask for
land confirmation of their right to mlllion
it of upearned acres of our public dom;
bats, and we raise our voices against it, t
mot will want to know how we are gett
along with our ''Vance and Picker s
9th treasury bills"
avor Let me, therefore, most solemnly "
own you against following the "jack-o-
they | tarnn Of class LEGISLATION that will