The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-13
No 81

lZnox is one witness, Mccullough the
second and I am the third. TApplause
and laughter Nowonder prices were
high. want to give you my personal
experience before proceed to the next
point. I have learned, and wonder
If somebody in Colorado has not had
thesame experience, that as my family
increased In numbers my expenses in
creased My family and your family
are exactly like Uncle Sans family.
only Uncle Sans family is the largest,
that is all. Laughter. The man or
woman who thinks that the Govern
ment of the United States is all away
at Washington City makes the greatest
mistake of their life IN politics That
is not the government at all there.
Here is the government, before me
here to night and throughout the coun-
try [applausel and Washington is only
your place Of doing business that is
all. Applause.
Does 1t ever rain In this country until
the sun by his great power of evapora-
tion takes up the water from the face
of the earth and sea and gives it the
elevation to the clouds9 Then the wind
carries it to where it is wanted and it
falls and does good. You are the
evaporating surface in this country,
and you never expect good from Wash
ington until you first send ii there.
Loud applause. Ny family expenses
increased In proportion to the increase
Of my family when we had nine mouths
to feed and nine backs to clothe instead
of two. We have a parallel in this
country since the war closed. There
were added to Uncle Sans money
using population In single day TO-
600, 600 of human beings 10, 000, coo Of
Uncle Sans prodigal children came
home in a day without a penny ia their
pockets and said to their fathers Let
bygones be bygones; take care Of us
and give us another start. Do you
suppose when those 10, 600, 600 came
into the family in single day that
was proper occasion for a.contFaction
of the currency2 Why, when I added
my currency / do not know what wot.ld
have been done.
THE PEOPLE AND THE CIRCULATION.
Come back with me to the present
year 1892 How many people have we
using the money In circulation9 You
have Ga, 100000, using q conservative
estimate. Taking the ri, 600 600 we
had at the close of the war from the
more, $50 per cent more people using
the money than at the time when the
war closed I wish / had the power
the prophet had on one occasion He
prayed that the Lord might open the
eyes of his servant that he might see
that the air was filled with chariOts
ard horeenlen for his defence some
times feel I wish had the power in
the presence of an audience like this to
open the eyes of the audience to the
sublime and inevitable fact that with
In twenty years IN this country we will
have 100, ,000, 600 of people living under
our flag, and that the air is literally
filed with shadowy feet, bone of our
bone, flesh of our flesh, our children
and our children's children, who will
live on this continent and remain here
forever, they and their posterity.
What preparation are we making
for the coming of our young9 lit is an
instinct of the lower order of the ami
NAL creation to make such preparation.
Yet here we are. two great parties In
the nation, standing dumb in the face
of such a great problem as this, allow
ing the nation to degenerate into q
state of business cannibalism where
every man lis trying to overreach his
neighbor for the almighty dollar What
preparation are we making for the
coming of our children9 We have SO,
600, 600 more than we had when the
war closed. They are here. God sent
them here. Their energies are here.
They will live for good or for evil.
How much money have we now in cir
culation among the O. 600, ,O009
MONEY IN CIRCULATION
In 1865 we had $50 per capita How
much have we got now2 Ihave brougilt
along a statement of the present Sec
retary of the Treasury. Mr. Charles
Foster, and it is the last statement that
have been able to obtain He says
that the currency now is 81, 568, 000, 600.
What, and 80, 900, 600 more people and
yet you tell me to come out to Colorado
and tell you what is the matter. God
bless you, put your hand In your pocket
and you can feel what Is the matter.
| prolonged laughter and applause.
Four hundred million dollars less
money and SO, 600, 600 more peoplel
Why, that is like the pair of pantalOons
got for the boy when he was ~ years
old. They were nice fit. He looked
trim and handsome In them. But you
kept on until he was six feet, six inches
high, and now you swear they ought
to fit him just the same as they did
when he was 10 years old laughter
and applause. And the Secretary of
the Treasury insists on sitting down by
the cradle In which the boy lies, and
putting his toe on the rocker, going on
with his knitting and singing
Hush my baby, lie stu and slumber,
Holy angels sguard thy bed,
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head LLaughter.I
And is IL any wonder that the rollicx-
ing Lad kicks the old cradle 10 flinders
the knights Of Labor and the Alliance