The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07

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products of the soil to pay that DEBT
with. when he is forced to sell his
produce Qet it be corn, wheat or cotton
or ANYTHING else) at a price under the
cost of production? Whysuch a thing
is impossible. Cotton is the staple
money crop of the South, and how can
the Indebtedness Of the Southern States
be paid, and cotton six and a half
cents per pound? These same trusts
that make us pay more for what we
are forced to buy by necessity, compel
us to take less for what we have to sell
Geduce the price of cotton and then
cry Over-prOductiOn, owe production.
Such talk is foolish both by and to
men with any brain in their heads.
Our present condition has not been
brought upon us by laziness nor by
extravaganza as some fools and smart
fellows say. 1t is an insult to the
laboring people of our country for any
man to say that our extreme poverty
is the result of laziness and extrava-
gance. Any man who says so ought to
be ashamed for the people TO know
that he has such a heart and cherishes
such a principle. it is false and can't
be proven. Down with any man who
Is against me in that respect and the
| pCOplS Will "llOlA L GILL COUCO,
The farmers of this country with as
many hours a day, getup as soon every
| morning, work as late at night, con
sidering their profession, with as many
| months in the year, endure as much
cold and go in as much rain as any
other class of people on thi5 continent.
If the farmers and labOrers are relieved
of any Of the burdens of unjust legisla-
ton it must be by this same class, and
politically it must be by electing men
to Office thoroughly identified with us
in all our interests and who favor the
principles that the labor organizations
(the hope and the only hope Of this
country seek to carry out.
Those principles are grand they must
be supported In patriotism as they are
opposed in treason to the best interests
of q majority of the people Of this
country and | believe to the liberties
of the people of the latter part of the
nineteenth century and pOsterity.
Our liberties are gradually going from
the masses. Will they be regained? If
so by whom. The answer Is obvious
the true conservative men who com
pose the labor organizations of the
country Of which the Alliance leads.
These men must save u country if it
is saved.
Ihave spoken Of the exalted great
ness Of America. AS a power it is now
great, it is the fear of kings and the
dread of nations. But this national
power don't make happy citizens, AS
a nation we might have the above
mentioned power and then not have
"a government of the people, by the
people, and for the people. | believe
| God - yrjTh tho common On0D1n urLD
have locked their hearts and hands in
a common cause the cause of a com
mon country" He will help them
throw off the yoke of bondage by
which we are unjustly held. Reader
| appeal to you If you all are a mem
Der Of the Farmers Alliance or of any
other reform organization, fOrsake not
our principles. Be not frightened away
by u enemies. Think Of our course
and its relation to the preservation Of
| American independence. | have writ
] ten much more than | intended. Ihave
scarcely touched the past history of
America, and as this is my first at
tempt to scribble a few scattering
| thoughts for the public, if they shall
happily miss the waste basket, perhaps
| had better stop. But | can't without
again referring to men who | believe
are the hope of III country. The men
who compose the reform organizations
of our land, they are true men. Our
leaders though falsely accused and
abused are standing by u principles.
Pdrtlansand partisan newspapers have
raised war on Col. i. L. Polk, but he
still remains the same and true to the
people he represents. l believe to-day
if the people of the United States were
I 4O C0nOH I1ohInC01 1v yOrO1,YISn, 4I-+
fOur-fifths of the people would say that
Col. Polk has done more good than
any other living man. This is saying a
good deal, but if any one can prove
that L. l.. Polk Is not Americas great
est living benefactOr the way is open
The people Col. Polk represents have
caught the tyrant's hand that held the
dagger to pierce the heart of a nations
freedom. They have caught the f Ill
ing flag of a nations glory. What
means the success of these patriotic
men in the highest sense of The word
and the accomplishment of their pur-
poses? What will be the result of their
failure? In the success of the meas
ures they endorse, his the political sal
walton of America andthe preservation
of the worlds civil and religious liber-
ties. Their failure means that America
will be doomed to inevitable ruin, that
the great central light of civil and re-
ligioUs liberty shall be extinguished.
Their failure means that that class
which shouted victory on the blood
stained battle fields in the great strug-
gle for liberty and independence shall
Join the solemn chorus with the ma
tions that have come and gone and
swell the sad strain in the echo of the
powers that were and are not TO make
the sad, sad confession, the glory of
America has departed.
@. H. UTLEY.
BRUNSWICK COUNTY MASS
MEETING.