The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-09
THE QUESTION OF HOIIOR AND
SUCCESS.

Will Wu1CA Ou0 pdIGlSdu Sit Gus dAu
master whipper snappers frail their
servile tools into line? The thongs are
many and a close crutiny of the barbed
wire sort will be of interest. These
slim, slick conscience and honor brok-
ers, having no conscience nor n
themselves, are trying to lay the con
science and honor of the plain people
under contribution, and by this e
force honest men to maintain the pluto
cratic candidates they may set up.
This is the last fraudulent act in the
grand ~raseRlity of the ~plutOcratic force.
1t is a principle laid down in law that
any man1hasza right to change his will
at n timegbefore his death. 1t is no
less a trueEprinciple that no man can
be bound inconscience nOr in honor to
sustain msHoFmeasures not yet AIMED
nor mad6knoWn. By these dlctatlons,
true beyond doubt, if from more ma
ture reflection the men set up by the
Democratic convention be considered
unsafe and unstable and could be made
the plant tools of plutOcracy, as our
Alliance friends have been, elected to
Office in South Carolina and Georgia,
then any patriot has a right to change
his will in respect to these men. The
worst slavery on Gods green earth is
the slavery of the mind and conscience.
If men knew beforehand what men
or what measures would be proposed
even then and afterwards, they might
become wiser and see that prudence
and their COuntry's good demanded
that other men and other measures
should be promoted, and then he would
have q perfect right to change his will.
Men cannot bind their own conscience
and honor to do an act against justice
on6 OOOH 0-Ouor10T M ont. and Vuh0+ u mon
cannot do for himself all the slim, slick
plutocrats out of purgatOry cannot do
for him,
There is another barbed wire thong
to this plutocratic whip piled with most
telling vengeance. You cannot sue
coed, they say, so you had better join
one or the other branch Of the plutoc-
racy and help us whip the other rascals.
Now if the question of success had been
mOoted in the days the Apostles were
going about preaching the glad tidings,
they would have all went home afiSh-
ing and left the world withoutthe seeds
of the Gospel. If a question of success
had entered the reformation when
Martin Luther stood before the crowned
heads of Europe at the diet of worms,
the Catholic Church would still be
burning heretiCs and securing the
"OI1u GLAC SO4uAC1S VI L1O I4
LAYING the lands in waste and slaying
dissenters. The question of success
or defeat has nothing to do with a Just
cause Of p~lutOcracy. Having thus ex
posed the poisonous villainy now plant
ing the Once honorable titles Of Demo
crat and Republican, we will now pro-
coed to show that they are apostates
and sinners and no longer worthy of
the honorable names they bear. To be
a Democrat, you must obey the rule
and will and voice of the people. This
is what the word Democrat implies.
He then who disobeys the political will
or mandates Of the people is no Demo
crat. He has repudiated Democracy
and no longer worthy of the honorable
name. The Democratic delegates from
this State, from the solid South, yea
from Twenty-Five States of this Union
disobeyed the will of the people as ex-
pressed in convention and nominated
a man for President whom they knew
opposed the expressed will of the people
on free coinage, if not on various other
subjects. In doing this they forfeited
the name. Therefore no man who votes
for Grover Cleveland votes a Demo
cratic ticket. True it bears the name
that is all
PITY It's true
lis true us pity"
The Republican party started out
with the prime idea of equality under
the law. To day it has discarded that
idea in practice and lives and fattens
on class legislation. Thus it, too, is an
apostate from its former creed and
parades is deformity before the Re
public in stolen garments.
The conclusion to which we arrive is
+ho+ ovvoTsv mon whO xO4OC H. Do~oo
cratic ticket votes a p~lutOcratic ticket.
and every maj who votes for the Re
publican party does likewise, for they
both have denied the faith, repudiated
the will and interest Of the people and
gone a WhOring after gods of gold.
This IS indeed a trying time Oh the
manhood and patriotism of the people.
With a united p~lutocratic press poison
ing and inf1aming the minds of the
weak. With a plenty of money to cor
rupt the COrruptible and a plenty of
Oratory. well paid, to make the worse
appear the better reason, with two
gigantic ~plutOcratic machines strongly
~entrenched in the prejudices and
thoughts Of u people, the faint,
hearted may we'll look up with alarm
at the situation. But I've and above
all this is the "God of battles" Justice
anu TIgnG nave q power within them
selves before whose throne devils quail
and tremble. Now as fast as the people |
learn that this is a contest of plutoc
racy and mammon against God and
the people, they will take courage and
move forward.
Truth, though crashed to the ground, will rise
again
Error wounded w2ithesin pain
And dies amid her worshipDers,"
w. r, LINDSAY.
TO THE REFORM PRESS.