The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-29

established your sub treasures Every
nation you compete with in cotton or
wheat is tied to the money devil of
England. The money devil says wheat
is worth n dollar at Liverpool, and
this fixes the price in Russia and India,
and thew must sell at this price, minus
the freights to European markets.
Suppose the farmer takes his wheat
and deposits it in the Sub-Treasury
warehouse. Liverpool prices fixes the
nrice of wheat in Northern Dakota at
20 cents per bushel. The farmer would
receive so per cent. of this, or 80 cents.
He could receive the 40 cents, or full
price from the speculatOr. What bene-
tit would your sub treasures be? The
farmer would still be at the mercy Of
the money devil. If the farmer says
my wheat is worth 81. so per bushel at
New York or Charleston, S. O., the
money devil says wheat is worth rs
cents per bushel. If thu farmer asks
any more than the price fixed at Liver
pool, India and Russia will export
wheat to the United States at a slight
advance over the price fixed at Liver
pool.
Liverpool saws cotton is worth cents
per pound, and that fixes prices allOver
the civilized worth. The cotton raiser
deposits his cotton at the sub-treasuries.
He must take 80 per cent. or z cents
per pound or Sc cents. He can sell to
the spectators at z cents per pound
What benefit is your sub ~treasuries2
No one would have any use for them.
That which is true of cotton and wheat
is true of all the surplus cereals we
would export. You farmers have
nothing to say astO the price of wheat,
cotton, corn, pork or beef raised by
you. The prices are fixed at Liverpool,
and you must sell at These prices minus
the freights to Europe.
You are slaves without a master
to take care on you. We have
substituted responsible negro slavery
slavery. The white slave holder had
an interest in his slave. The money
devil has no interest in his only as to
what he can get out Of you, The farmer
saws what will you give2 and when he
buys he says what will you take9
1t takes nine men to make m tailor.
The tailor can fix q price on his work.
How many farmers will it take to make
one man when they cannot fix a price
on anything they have to sell? You
are in the majority, yet you are as
powerless to assert your rights as a
new born babe. In size and strength
of limbs you are giants, but you have
been led by the money devil through
parties as easy as 81 child leads a lamb,
You are slaves to the money devil and
tied hand and foot.
Youarefato your backs, financially,
and the foot of the money devil is on
you. You + the sport md play-thing
of the gamblers and spectators, Your
fruit of toll is tossed up and down on
the market, and you stand by apdlOok
on helplessly. Strong and powerful
as you are, the money devil handles
you as easy as a cat handles a o
You have great strength, but you don't
.kpQW how to use il. ~YN1 haVab brains
but You let the emissaries of the money
levil do your thinking. You pride
ourselves on your freedom, but you
hive been servile slaves to parties.
-he farmers have not shed their
sWtldling bands, let alone taken off
theLshort dresses. Gould says he can
hire 9ne-half of the farmers to shoot
downthe other half. What are you
gOlngS do about it? Will you declare
your pGitical independence Willyou
take th&advice Of the modern Demo
cratic patty, vice pull others down to
your leve, instead of lifting yourself
up, You >re down. Pull the manu-
f~acturers tovour level. Thisis the OBJ
Ject of the mis- named Democratic
party.
You must compete with the paupered
labor OF Egyptand India. Compel the
manufacturers % do the same. Com
peu the manufacturers to compete with
foreign manufacturers that employ |
cheap cody labor, and they will soon
be to your level. Foreign manufac
turers can borrow money at one half |
It's costtO United States manufac surers.
n IS the policy of Democracy. They
tell you to buy where you sell. To send
your money gold out of the COUNT
ana bring about a contraction Of the
volume OF money. You sell on a cheap |
market and buy on adear market. AS
you compete with paupered labor of
countries, compel the manufac-
turers to do the same.
Put down prices. Squeeze more of
the n~ecessaries Of life into the European !
money devils dollars. Fix it so the
money devil of England can command
more of the products Of the labor of
the farm and factory. Ninety percent.
Of your market is at home.
Compel the class who can fix a price
on their means to come down to your
condition. Compel them tOsell cheaper
and they will have less money to buy
of you and this will compel you to
sell cheap and squeeze more of your
products into the European;money, be-
fixed incomes, and he will wax
fat and smile complacently. You pro
tected the manufacturers of bleak and
sterile New England, and she grew
rich. To day she has hundreds of mil
lions of dollars TO loan to you at twice
as much as you can make off Of it.
Did you ever stop to think that the
that makes n class rich will
make another class rich7 Will you
adopt the financial policy of the R9pub-