The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-18

racy, combines, trusts, &C., and never
fail to strengthen the iron grip of Wall
street. They whine "ClasS leglsla-
tiOn every time a petition is presented
for the relief of the producers and
labOrers, when scarcely anything has
been done in Congress for the last
twenty-five years but class legislation
except eXtravagant and useless eX-
pendlture Of money, Cthe funeral escort
and burial expenses of Senator Hurst,
for eXample) when any one who is not
able to pay burial expenses save q
great Senator or Congressman IS
buried at public expense, three dollars
for a sap pine box is the price paid !;
yet one hundred thousand dollars OF
the people money is squandered in one
burial. The name Of every man who
voted for this outrage should be under
scored with a long black mark
This is constitutional Yes, with a
vengeance-all right The one hun
dred thousand dollars is a small
amount. But let relief be asked in any
shape for the living q mean the tOiling
producers and unconstitutional, an
practicable, class legislation, is hOwled
III StentOrian tones. Yet these men
ask the people to stick to the old parties,
when the old parties are crushing them
to death Things should and must be
changed The party and party ser
wants must belong to the people, and
not the people to party and party ser
wants. The party servants IN office
must adapt themselves to the needs
and wishes of the people, and not the
people to the wishes and ideas of their
servants. No longer can 1t be sad
that this is the land of the free and
the home of the brave. 1t is the land
of the brave and the home of the OPP
pressed. The people are in bondage
worse than the IsraeliteS in Egypt,
Theirs was a decree of God, but the
oppression here is the work Of the
devil, carried on by his tools in human
shape 1t was forty years before the
Israelites reached the land, but the
oppressed Of this country intend to
get there in 4 shorter time THAN
that, "and don't you forget II.
If neither party will show It's Wis
dom, then the people Ot both Demo
cratic and Republican parties who are
III favor of justice to all VIII show
theirs One party Will not do any
thing if the other shares the CredlE
w H. f. Lee for authority.
This government is said to be by the
people. but if YOU will look at the work
ingS of Congress for the last twenty
five years. YOU will see it has been by
a set of notorious dcmagOgucs in the
paid interest OF plut, cracy, trusts and
combiucs Il do not mean all, but a
minority who have disgracCd our
National Capitol for the last twenty
five years. 1t behCOVC& all who are
e p 1 II.
meut to put their shoulders to the
wheel and move the chariot Of reform
as fast as possible, and if there Is any
truth in TIE PROGRESSIVE FARMER and
National Economist. land [ think 1t Is
about all TRUTH the people of this land
are on a grand march for the news
from the lashing pillows Of the Attain
tic to the ebbinS waters Of the Pacific,
and from the Northern Lakes to the
Southern Gulf, tells of an onward
march for liberty, relief and justice.
The tariff as it now stands IS an in
cubus hideOus in form upon the tOiling
consumers. The pension bill in its
present shape is a burning shame and
disgrace tC any country; and the tariff
and pension as they now exist are
glaring, bare-faced and inSOlent rob
berry, and any set of men who pretend
to represent the interests of the people
and perpetrate such Outrages are too
mean, too base, too vile, to herd with
the common damned, but should howl
out their misery sep arate and alone
through all eternity in a place of tor
ment more hideOus than was ever pic
tured by the arch tiend himself. There
fore speak to the children of Israel that
they go forward. ROANOKE.
FROM THE WEST.