The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04
OUR MOST DANGEROUS FOES.

for the Alliance ana form q
among the brethren and then betray
that confidence by smooth advice to
vote for men just because they belong
to Our party, who are opposed to every
Alliance principle. Among thosemOst
damaging to our cause r partizan
plutocratlc journals, They come like
the midnight assassin and with their
secret poison puncture the bladder
they have set as a decoy to deceive the
unwary. They play the part Of conf
dence men, such as we find in New
York and other large cities. Notable
among those journals who have dam
aged the reform movement the most Is
the State Chronicle and the Atlanta
Constitution. These journals were once
in favor Of the free coinage; now they
are willing to add mor silver to the
silver dollar at the behests OF our alien
creditors and home money mOngers.
There is not a principle or policy eve
in their own party, they are not willing
to forfeit for success, which e
place and plumber, and how can an
Allianceman expect them to adhere to
Alliance principles? bipartisan, either
as a journalist or a candidate Tor office,
or as a mere voter, is a time-serVer
ready to sell principle, honor, Justice,
right and his country for party sue
cess. Then all journalists, candidates
for office or voters who r partisan
will betraY every confidence imposed
in them by an honest, unsuspecting
people. So when you see a journal
protesting the principles of the ALI
ance as the State Chronicle, the Ne1US
and Observer and the Atlanta COnSti-
tuition once did, and the North Caro-
Hnidn now do, they always do it with
a proviso to help myself to subscrip-
tions or to switch off some of the ALI
| ance vote into old ranks. We say al
ways, but they may be honest and sin
cere at first, but when the party slogan
of battle is sounded every position is
deserted at once which may hinder in
dividual or party success. To such a
foul depth has party journalism des-
cended that no man car conduct such
a paper without resting under the
shadow of being a dishonest hypocrite.
Beside the party press who n ready
to 6etr&y, there are partisan Alliance
men in public position, They, too, be-
come party servers and time servers.
They would advise you to vote for
Cleveland or Harrison, the most antag-
onistic enemies of the Alliance In the
nation, to vote for any man, black or
white, Democrat or Republican, so he
is a nominee Of the party, regardless
of all principle. These parties profess
to have a principle away back In the
vaults of the past, but what account
are they when they hold no principle
of the present, sacred. Thehonsst man
and the honest party will stand to his
principles, either in victory or defeat,
hit tho n nv tho -0n~Err -GO aO0
ures his principles by the rule of sue
cess is a moral skunk and a slavish
venal coward.
We were much rejoiced to see such
able and influential journals as the
| State Chronicle and the Atlanta Con-
| StttUtiOn admit the Justice of the griev-
ances complained of by the plain PEG
pie of America, and especially the PEG
pie of our own section, and still would
rejoice if they would not repudiate
these weumeant declarations and ad-
vOcate men for Office hostile enemies
~thereunto. But they strip their backs
to the party lash and bow cringing at
the feet of king gold.
Will s. B. Alexander, Elias Carr, r.
J. Powell, j. j. Young, J. B, Holman,
n. N. Culbreth, A. II. A. Williams, B.
+. Grady, w. A. Branch and others
tell us why they advocate the election
of Grover Cleveland and others hostile
to every essential demand Of the Ali
ance, If not on partisan grounds9 A
man is a man who folio VS. his principles
and endorses them wherever found.
An Allianceman is a true Allianceman
who endorses his principles wherever
found. The Alliance did not come to
bring office. 1t come to bring right
and justice. Right and justice is often
found In the woeful minority. Shall
the Alliance desert it's principles be-
cause it is too weak sometimes to eIect9
God forbid. 1.-The battle Ia not always
to the strong. There is a just God
who presldes over the destinies of men"
1t certainly pains us to see SO many
makeshift arguments made as an ex-
cuse to wave certain rights of the peo-
pie. 1t shows to what a low depth of
moral degradation partisan politics has
brought this country at last. 1t also
shows what a righteous cause has the
nOn-partisan Alliance, and what a
black host of moral enemies stand
ready to do battle against it. Like
the p~rotestants in the Southern refor-
nation, institutions crusted with age
and seething with crime are fighting
against it to preserve life. Mammon
and all his hosts are fighting us. The
~protestants of Germany stood firm
amid fire, blood ard smoke. though
the black clouds of desolation rolled
over them and their enemies gathered
around them as thick as the frogs of
Egypt. They offered them gold and
office happiness and promotion and
many went astray but those whose
faith was grounded In the truth stood
firm and American freedom and Chris
tian civilization are due to their moral
courage to day.
To the Alliance standing firm to
principle wherever found belongs a
moral political revolution no less
Welghty and momentous. Will it be