The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15

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lies OF the last twenty five years might
prefer collaterals and personal secur-
lty. 1t should be left for each State to
decide for itself and to appoint its own
officers and agents to lend out, distrib-
ute and collect its own share OF this
money. The combined wisdom of the
legislators of forty eight States and
the outside friends Of the measure
would undoubtedly frame a good law
tor the lending, distribution and man
agement OF this money. A law good
tor one State, mutatjS nlutUHdiS, would
be good for all.
No enemy of the Sub-Treasury prin-
cIple Of the Alliance can see any Fed
eral government warehouse or officer,
any paternalism, any Capitalization
any consolidation and uSurpatiOn Of
power in this plan The Federal. gov
ernment could issue these notes as
easily and cheaply as it now issues
bank notes to the national banks. 1t
would have but forty-eight States to
supply. The burden of expense and
benefits would then be borne and
shared by those forty eight States in
proportion to population.
The equal distribution of this money
provided for in this plan would great
ly correct the evils Of the ruinOus cen
tralization of capital produced by the
mOnOpOliZing legislation of the last
twenty five years. [ will not attempt
in this article to point out the many
ways in which it Will benefit the cOun-
try at large and promote a better civil
ization. / will make only a few sug
gostiOns. Ii it would require 81, ,625,-
n e
notes to make up the necessary com
plement of money, q State possessing
l. 600. 900 inhabitants would receive
$40 900, 600 Of this money. The interest
on this would be $500, 900 st two per
cent. How this would tighten the
burden of taxation. How it would
tend to correct and refute the idea Of
the Republican party that man is born
only to be taxed by government and
laden with burdens by mOnOpOlistS and
capitalists. What a grand opportunity
it would aifO' d for the amellOratiOn Of
the condition of mankind by good and
wise craftsmanship. How 1t would
help the Alliance in executing and
making good other grand and sublime
resolves of the Ocala platform,
Mr.. Editor, there is no word like
home, happy home. There IS no pride
like that of country. The love of
home and pride of country are akin to
deity 1t is a sacrilege to impair them.
It IS sin not to labor 10 promote
them The God Of love commands
this promotion Obedience to His Will
cOmpels it. This country should be
paradise 1t is not much better than
an anre chamber of hell Is there no
way to change and better this state of
things? [ am inspired with hope by
the Alliance and Industrial Union.
Their fires are kindling. By the light
of their affairs I see, far up on the lofty
seat of canOnized patriots and philan-
thrOpists, that grandeSt statesman of
all past ages, Jefferson, pleading as on
earth for a government Of the people,
by the people, for the people" Death
has not annihilated him. Sublimated
by his cOmpaniOnship, his love for
mankind and political philosophy are
progressive. He is now teaching
through the Alliance and Industrial
Union the sublimest Of all political
truths. 1t has already been spoken
above a whisper and finds a lOdgment
in the human heart. It will echo and
re-echO in every nook and corner of
this broad land, cross the Atlantic, in
wade and pervade the old world till
despOtiSm and oppression shall crouch
in fear and trembling. Oh. that it
may germinate and expand till it de
thrones and topples ali kings, emperors,
mOnOpOlists, pIutOCrats, despOts and
ALL heals the sores of poverty, breaks
the bonds of oppression and be help
to Christianity in redeeming man and
lifting him to the proper enjoyment Of
this life and to the worship and praise
of God When the despOtIsm of kings
mOnOpOlists and plutOcrats snail be
conquered, and the agony is over,
future generations Will read with
astOnishment of the liberation Of
barbarism of SO much cruelty to man.
The industrial system of a nation, as
we'll as it's political system, ought to
and shall be a government Of the peO-
pie, by the people, for the people"
This is the voice of the Allan ;e, and
inspired by the song of Jefferson set to
music on July 4th, 1776. To my ears
it sounds like wisdom attuned to mel
Ody. In this hour of midnight dark
ness | see the dawn Of a better day
Even now [ see inferment elements
that will in a short time, develop a
civilization entirely unlike and far bet
ter than the civilization Of the past or
present time. The Alliance and Indus
trial Union head and lead the armies
fighting for this better civilization.
All laws, all customs, all institutions
in it's way must fall. If the national
bank system be in its way, let it be
abolished. Andrew Jackson, for the
good of the people and our institutions,
abolished the United States Bank be-
cause it was a monopoly.
JACKSON.
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