The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16
TIRED OF FoRG1v1Nc
Misrepresentation of the PeonI.
islative Crime Must and L

islative Crime Must Ceasa DU leg,
The present Congress had
insult II the teeth Of a restless hurled
tuency, a people who have gro1S Soast
of forgiving misrepresentation Tired
who will rise to resent the inal,,, and
repud iation Impartial bistoSuII By
never chronicled a baser miSy. bag
s%entatlon of the American neonS Ioepre
the legislative crimes of 1874 o optS Then
The mantle of the Republican IS92
disgraced by the one and the bbrropEy i
Democracy is besmirched VIII O" Of
other. The one was the strikiTnlcsI The
of silver, and the other was the foG;GITQ
to restore it. lauure
In 1878, while the whole natio,
mapping, John Sherman secnro5 was
passage of a bill which st0nnoI1 The
coinage of silver at the minis 81 TIE
United States: Free coinage, GnfCoDles
1873, meant that any persCn, b rsT Se
citizen or alien, could take his STle
bullion to our minis and have il c %iyH
into money, the Government cbsrniSO
one half of 1 per cent for coinage RRI8
coinage of gold meant the same +b;IIee
The system of free coinage had haon :
vogue since the foundation of orr Ca@l
eminent and not one word of comnI H3Hs.
had been heard against it. ShernalI
the hired tool of English and GarnSaL1
bankers, knew he had to pnrann
stealthy course, and this he did ID
deception-at least both Democro;G,
and Republicans claimed that t5on
knew nothing Of the true imnort y
the bill at the time of it's rasssoo
Without entering into a history Of fiTo
various struggles of the people to baro
this crime rebuked, suffice it to saw
some pGTty relations have for twent!y
years lnterfered with the peoples viii
For these twenty years the Democrat
party has been quick to lay the crime
of demonstration at the door of tba
Republicans, but never more can Il
point with disgust to that fraud; never
can a Democratic convention cengura
the work of 154 Democratic majority
in Congress; the party's mouth Is
sealed, and where is the peoples hone;
It lies only with that political partv
which can speak a bold criticism Of
these frauds and of official prosti.
tuition
OOOAO4J liz N4A LII 4CdLS udS created
such fear and CONSERVATION among the
bankers and gold bugs Of the East as
did the Bland free coinage bill in the
present Congress. It is freely whis,
pered that the stenches of Doodle preg.
mated and befouled the very atmCS.
phere around Washington; and it re.
mains unanswered how the boodlers
captured the twenty or thirty major
ity which the enemies of the bill con.
coded the friends of free coinage. The
result of the vote was a surprise and
the press admitted as much. That the
gold bugs could secure just enough
votes to kill the bill, just a majority,
is a curious fact. The Democratic
party is responsible for this failure of
Congress to meet the demands of the
people. A public reprimand can not
be too severely administered.
What else can be placed to the credit
of this COngress9 Where has there
been a measure enacted intoa law form
which the people could expect help Z
This Congress has been a collection Of
politicians, paid out of the public treas,
ury, to sit in high .couI Gil and devise
ways and means by which their re8peC-
tive parties can hold on to the public
teat.- Weekly TOiIer, Nashville, Tenn.