The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-18
6.onnrnnrp rnoM TIRsF PAeE

lom the action OF Gn0 p0OPAO a
mo mower to the Democratic parry.
Since the Mckinley tarIn WenC -
o~neration there have e Ten reuu0
tIons of the wages OF the laporLHs nno
to one increase. We deny bnaC C
has been any increase or
fine country since that tarlm WenTL
~oneration, and we point TO GUINNESS
and distress, the wage reducVlons an az
strikes in the iron trade as Ene ~
nossible evidence that no SUCH Pto
perity has resulted from the McN
act. +bo,7obtfuI
Americans to the fact that aICer UnLtS ,
wears of restrictive taxes agalnsU ~
importation of foreign wealGn' Ii %
change for our agrlculIuFdI euLPlCS,
the homes and farms OF tHg 0o
have become burdened WIN Ioo
estate mortgage debt OF over 9L,oOo'
600. 600. exclusive or all oIneI AnSO
Indebtedness; that IN n OF a GhleI
oo-ic,1IturaI States of the West there
oSnoorS a real estate mortgage debt
ooPParooino 1855 per capita of the total
noD1,i9ri6n. and that similar condi-
ffiopssond Tendencies are shown to exist
in the other agricultural exporting
States. We denOunce a pollcy .Wnlcn
fosters no industry so as IL uOeS
that of the sheriff.
SEQ 4 Trade interchange on the
basis of reciprocal advantages 10 Ine
countries participating is a Clme-
onorn doctrine of the Democratic
faith but we denounce the sham reel
procity which juggles with the peo-
nle's desire for enlarged foreign mar
kets and freer exchanges by pretend
ing to establish closer trade regulations
for a country whose articles OF export
are almost exclusively agricultural,
while erecting a custom house barrier
of prohibitive tariff taxes against the
countries of the world that stand ready
to take our entire surplus OF producGs
and to exchange therefor commodities
which are necessities and comforts or
life among u own people.
SEC. 5. We recognize IN the trusts
and combinations, which are designed
to enable capital to secure more than
it's just share of the joint product OF
capital and labor, a national conse-
ouence of the p~rohibitive taxes which
prevent the free competition which Is
the life of honest trade, but we believe
their worst evils can be abated by law,
and we demand the rigid enforcement
of laws made to prevent and control
them, together with such further leg
islation in restraint of their abuses as
experience may show to be necessary.
SEC. 6. The Republican party, while
processing a policy Of reservlng the
public land for small holdings by
actual settlers, has given away the
peoples heritage, till now a few rail
roads and nonresident aliens, individ-
ual and corporate, possess a larger area
than that of all our farms between the
two seas. The last Democratic admin
istration reversed the improvident and
uuwise policy of the Republican party
touching the public domain, and re-
claimed from corporations and syndi-
Gates, alien and domestic, and restored
to the people nearly 100, 900, 600 acres
of valuable land, to be sacredly hold
as homesteads for our citizens, and we
pledge ourselves to continue this policy
until every acre of land so unlaWfully
held shall be reclaimed and restored to
the people.
Sec. z. We denounce the Republican
legislation known as the Sherman act
of 1890 as a cowardly make shift
fraught with possibilities of danger in
the future, which should make all of
its supporters, as well as its authors,
anxious for its speedy repeal.
We hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country and to the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for
mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage
of both metals must be of equal in.
trinsic and exchangeable value or be
adjusted through international agree.
ment, or by such safeguard of legisla-
ton as shall insure the maintenance of
the parity of the two metals, and the
equal power of every dollar at all times
In the markets and In the payment OF
debts; and we demand that all paper
currency shall be kept at par with and
redeemable in such coin. We insist
upon this policy as especially neces
sary for the protection of the farmers
and laboring classes, the first and most
defenseless victims of unstable money
and a fuctuating currency.
Sec. s. We recommend that the pro
hlbItory 10 per cent. tax on State bank
issues be repealed.
SEC. 9. Public Office is a public trust.
We reatirm the declaration of the
Democratic National Convention of
1876, for the reform of the civil ser
vice, and we call forth the honest en-
forcement of all laws regulating the
same. The nomination of a President.
as in the recent Republican conven-
ton, by delegations composed largely
of his appointees, holding office at his
pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon
free popular institutions, and a start
ling illustration of the methods bv
which a President may crafty his
ambition. We denounce a policy under
which Federal Office holders usurp
control of party conventions in the
State, and we pledge the Democratic
party to the reform of these and all
other abuses which threaten individ-