The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-06

market, because of the fact
nation could long pay in gold 'Has no
considerable amount of our Ut any
and escape bankruptcy If We .O 'o0s
foreign nations, we must bnv ~ ssu to
mas much as our farmers su6vIv mem.
fourths of all our exports, tSau 1nfee.
the chief sufferers from anv are
that closes foreign markets aGain pUlcy
In conclusion, Gov. Boies SAID. U.s.
| want now to say to the bn.;o
men o. this nation, and to politicisSs
as we'll, that some plan mnst AG'
devised to get this Industry Oe
different basis or this nation
prepare for a storm, the consensus ~u'
of Wilhelm both a political 0s
economic sense-nom man can ma..n ~uu
l want 20 say further that the moa
engaged in this industry are not ooi~u
to wait for a home market to 9 oray
up around them that is large ep orNS
to consume the enormous surplpa tbSeu
annually produce. 1t is relief e.,
themselves and not for generation.
unborn that they demand.
Agriculturists are not the enem;o,
Of manufacturing industries. Tbor
will readily consent to stand befoEo
the law upon an equality of privileoa,
with every other industry, but thew
will not consent to see their own
destroyed that others may attain ubs.
nomenal success.
They Are already thoroughly
aroused. They are fast becoming a.
thoroughly organized. The law max.
ing power of this nation must revisa
the tariff in their interest or thew will
change the men who con stitute that
power.
Recalling the sentiment of my toast.
" What our farmers have a right t.,
lem and, permit me to add they req.
resent an industry as old at least a.
the civilization of man, as laborious
as=any that has ever fallen to his To-,
without the successful prosecution Of
which the whole human family would
lapse into barbarism and end in decsy.
A business that forms thu base Of
every osher, without which the chan.
nels of trahe would run dry, the cities
of the earth molder into du st, and the
wealth of the world disappear.
Considered apart from their ousi
ness they are the bone and sinew O.!
this nation. With their Wn c .Iloused
hands they have produced the bulk Of
it's wealth; in times of war they have
been its sturdy defenders, in times Of
peace the promoters of its welfare.
Who shall set the limit Of their
rightful demand upon a country they
have made and preserved ?
They have a right to demand that
in the future policy of this government
no discrimination be made N favor
of other industries at the expense Of
their own; that the power of the gov
eminent to levy taxes be limi ie tOtR
single purpose of raising necessary
revenue to be economically expended;
that all property bear its just p0Lon
of that burden; that markets broad
enough to consume the products Of
their LABOR and capital at compenss
tory prices, be as carefully looked
after and nurture as those that COZ
sumo the productions of labor and cap
ital employed in other lines of busl
ness.
They may also demand that a cur
rency which is good enough for one
man shall be made good enough for
all others and plenty enough to pre-
serve a just equality between its value
and the value of the products Of LABOR
in all Legitimate kinds of business
That both the nation and the StHs
shall exercise over lines of transpor'
tat on at reasonable and just control
to the end that their products, The
most bulky compared to their valued
any produced, shall net Do subject
to be charged out of proportion osucA
value.