The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-01
Anr svstem oft l-nnislation

Any system of legislation or adi,,,.
| ment of the tariff that takes h Tm"JuSC-
| out of the country will bring aho1t
contraction Of the volume Of mon
A contraction Of five per cent mnoSy
q shrinkage i'll values of over tLrnS
billion dollars. A balance of traS99
against us Of fifty millions would hrioc
a shrinkage of this amount. A hi%B
civilization consumes more than . I69nnI
civilized people. To meet the wants
Of a highly civilized people. waooS
must be advanced. To bring a bio6ILrS
civilized people in competition with ,
lower civilized one is to force tb""
higher to the lower plain.
The highly civilized cannot lift tbo
I0werup to their plane, but sharp com.
petition Will force the higher 10 their
level.
This law is inexorable. As LONG ss
| one civilization is in advance Of all
Otbers-Cne wants greater-Ona con-
sum tiOn double to tribe per capita
free trade is impossible. Free trade in
this country means sharp cOmDetiOn
| between those whose wants are greater
and those whose wants are small
This competition would result as rLo
flood Of Chinese labor did on the Pa.
cific slOpe-drive out both white and
black labor. The Chinaman.s wants
are one fifth of an American servant
| girl. She must labor for the same a
Chinaman gets or 80 to the wall
Hence the Industrial class of the Pa.
cifc slope declared war on the Chinese
This war was in the interested ufIigbpr
civilization. It was a struggle for thp
supremacy of labor and our white
civilization triumphed, 1t is not far
to China or India and water tranSn0r.
tatiOn is cheap and with free cOm6eti.
ton free trade) the lower would drive
the higher civilization to the wall
Cheap labor will drive out dear labor
The cheap dollar will drive out the
dear dollar. ct will not do it when
we have dethrOned the gold dollar and
this we will do by making silver and
paper dollars the equal of gold by de.
cla1 ing by legal enactEnentS that all
debts can be paid in the same kind If
money the debts were contracted. AS
none of the debts were contracted with
gold, ali these debts can be paid in
other kinds of n hence there
would be no demand for the gold dol.
llr.) Place a party of the people in
power and they will put down taxation
three hundred millions each wear for
eight years to bring the civilization up
to forty dollars per capita. This viii
save the people Two billions four hun
dred millions Of taxes besides save the
immense interest paid to corporations
for the use of their credit.
The manufacturers. with few Pycpn.
tions, are i'll the same boat the farmers
are in. Any Legislation tina: values the
farmers and im~pOverisheS them will
PROSTATE the manufacturers. Theman-
Ufacturers are more dependent upon
the farmers than the farmers are de.
pendent upon the manufacturers. The
manufacturers would ere this have been
at the mercy Of the money power if it
had not been for improved machinery,
concentration of capital, enabling
them to reduce the cost of production
One-half. Don't be deceived by this
howl Of tariff reform and this war on
manufacturers by pretended Demo.
Gratis and the defense of the same by
hypocritical Republican lea iers. All
this hue and cry is to direct the mind
from the real robbers and save the rob
Der credit financial system from the
wrath of the oppressed. Democrats
and Republicans, take off your Demo
crat and Republican spectacles and
study this question from a cOmmO
sense, business standpoint and you will
speedily come to the conclusion that
the tariff as discussed by the leaders Of
the two old political parties is the huge
fraud of the age and should consign
them to everlasting oblivion. Neither
one of the parties have any more re.
gard for the truth in the discussion Of
this question than they have for the
truth in their attacks upon Col. Polk,
Macune, Livingston, Mcdowell and
other leaders. If any Of the tariff
howIers think articles in the third class
the tariff is a tax can lose all the money
they have or until they have Iearneda
little business sense. Gentlemen, we
mean business. A party of the people
will reform the tariff and keep the
money in this country. This neither
Of the old corrupt machines will do.
Fall into ranks and charge the bull
works and route the rObber credit tinan-
clal system. JAMES MURDOCH.
RESOLUTIONS.