The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

| tUOIS, VIC 6S0 GuC R0TIn Oh lLnIuO1 GhAlAUS
This Republic stands to-day with,
out a parallel to judge it. We can
state as a truism that the perpetuity OF
arepublic depends upon it's intelligence.
We possess this intelligence, and when
fully united, it will prove invincible.
| The printing press, free schools, tele-
graphs, railroads, mammoth machin
cry and cooperation Is doing the work
| and will in the end be effectual. When
the Republic is educated to see the fact
that the larger the aggregation Of cap
ital the cheaper the n-eCessarleS and
Injuries Of life can be produced. No
objections will be offered against a
Gould OF a Vanderbilt controlling bill
lions Of wealth so long as it is kept in
the channels of trade and not diverted
and used by them and others for private
display. Let those fu~nctiOnaries abuse
their trust aud the people will step in
and relieve them of a responsibility
they have proven themselves unworthy
to hold.
Vested rights TO other peoples earn
ings is a relic Of a past civilization. 1t
is the highway robbers system which
says stand and deliver; I am stronger
than you. The CO operation of the IN
telligent masses meant death to this
system. II means corporations must
be the servants of the people, and not
their masters. The organization of the
farmers means justice to all, and they
will accept nothing less
Revolutions never go backwards.
This has come to stay, and all abuse of
their chosen leaders is we'll understood
to come from the two old political
otice-seeking machines that is con
trOlled by the money devil and the
soul-damning wbiskey rings. All in
huences exerted to prevent a union of
the best elements North, South, East
and West, is selfish, sOrdid, and will
result in a Waterloo to the Opposers.
Neither one of the old machines wants
the people to organize. They know
they viii study economical questions
and learn the real cause Of their woes,
and this will expose the frauds the two
old corrupt machines have practiced
upon the people. The farmers must
combine and occupy the vantage
ground, where they can dictate the
price of the product Of their labor.
Until they can do this they are at the
mercy of combines, gamblers and
spectators, who can fix q price on all
they have to sell Whena class reaches
a point where they cannot fix a price
on the products of their labor, the
bears can hammer the price down and
squeeze more Of their products in their
dollars. It is insane folly to talk of
free trade in cheap goods. This would
not enable the farmer to fix a price on
his produce. It would lead to increased
imports without any increased exports.
1t would turn the balance of trade
oCoircy& no nvrOTt MN CuCnJn hri17op
about a contraction and a shrinkagei in
values and a panic as it did in 1871
81. Each of these panics were preceded
by a lowering of the tariff and the
flooding of the country with cheap
goods and the export of specie.
The only remedy for existing depres-
sion is a full volume of money and the
overthrow of the credit financial sys
tenn. Cheap cotton goods will not re-
lieve present depression. If the farm
ers would succeed, they must unite
every industry, including the manu-
features. AntagOnize the manufAc
turer and you lose one million votes.
These votes will remain in the Repub-
lican party. The sooner the farmers
learn this hue and cry of tariff re
form is a gigantic fraud that manufac-
1urers of cheap goods T selling SO per
cent. cheaper than they did in 1856,
that they have to compete one with
another the same as the farmers, that
they are selling on small margins, that
there are no mOn0pOlies in cheap goods,
that capital looking for bargains prefer
2 and 4 per cent. United States bonds
to investing in manufacture of cheap
goods, that free trade means the blow
shall fall first on two million laborers
who will be driven to raise cotton and
other cereals, that it will lead to an ex-
port Of specie, that a highly civilized
people cannot compete with a lower.
that to buy the products Of cheap
cody labor of other countries, they
had better admit that class into the
United States and feed and clOthe them
here, that other nations will not buy
of US because we buy of. them unless
we sell cheaper, that we have been
competing with low civilizations for
English gold. That Europe has the
gold interest bearing debts, that as
long as we compete for it, we will have
to give more of the products of our
labor than any other nation to get it;
that this means cheap competition and
low prices. Farmers, would you be
free? Then avoid all competition with
other nations for English gold.
Let 1t be written IN letters of gold
that such things as we can produce on
the farm or in the shop Or mine INSULT
Gent quantity to do US, shall be re-
served for American labor and Ameri
can capital, and all monopolies shall be
suppressed by the State appointing an
agent to run corporation that practice
extortion. Get yourselves where you
can fix a price upon the products of
your labor, and you will be the most
independent class in this country.
[ make this statement, and I chal-
lenge contradiction, that putting
cheap goods on the free list will work
war to the American people, and that