The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-13

siderable length, and in detail, on the
system of national banks, illustrating
The injustice thereof by the anecdote
of q father treating two children diff
ferently. Continuing, he said:
The first enemies we propose to rout
are the enemies of the free coinage of
silver. TApplause. After we have
whipped them, if we want any more
money, we will take into consideration
the method of getting it into circula-
tion. We intend, in the language of
Abraham Lincoln-God bless his mem-
ory-that great spirit who laid down
his majestic life in order that this gov
eminent might live, we do intend to
quote his language that we propose to
make this government of the people,
by the people, and for the people.
Loud applause. Tt is not necessary
In our platform, nor have we put IN a
single detail.
Our forcfathers In framing the Dec
laration of independence, the most
sublime document ever given to the
world, did not put In q single detail,
but determined to fight for liberty.
Our movement means that we will
make a certain battle for liberty and
for the rights of men as against the
corporations of this country; that the
government was made for man and
not for a corporation.
We viii make a fight for the second
article in the Declaration OF INDIE
pendence.
A GOLDEN RULE PLATFORM.
The Alliance motto is: Equal rights
to all and special privileges to none"
4 r. AnNIaq1Cn I Tho Don%&n ~ Tho N~Tnh%C
of Labor is: AN injury to one shall
be the concer of aII.S TApplause. l
Between these two great industrial or
CARNATIONS we mean to reintroduce in
the politics of this country the golden
rule and the decalogue.
1t means the religion of Jesus Christ
in motion among men, the brotherhood
of man. 1t is a ground swell a great
battle for the common people of this
country against the encroachment of
monopoly and of class legislation; a
movement that intends to pick up
those two old rotten parties and throw
them into the air where the whole
world can smell them. prolonged
applause.]
/ am rejoiced at the good news that
come to me from your deliberations
to-day. Ipurposely stayed away from
them. This is a movement of the PEG.
pie and began where it ought to begin,
among Gods oppressed children in
this country. / ann rejoiced at the
harmony that prevails In Colorado.
Send your glad sound down the valley
of Missouri and the Mississippi and to
the Atlantic seaboard In the Carolinas.
Let it reverberate across the noun,
tains until it shall strike tie Pacific
Coast, and let us all join in one grand
diapson that the nation is redeemed
and the Republic is alive. Applause.
1t is a struggle in which you must Lay
aside party differences and meet in the
middle of the road. Applause.
Let the story of your deliberations &C
over this nation until the people shall
see that all they have to do in the
worlds to march maiestically, silently
and ~peaceably to the polls and redress
the grievances, now almost too great
to be borne, and advocate the right
listen to what / say-advocate the
right of the laboring men of this coun
try to organize In defense of them
selves and their families against al
kinds of oppression. Applause
I thank you for this manifestation Of
the interest which you feel in the great
industrial upheaval that is now shak
ing the country from the center to the
circumference. It BODIES no evil tc
any class of legitimate business or tC
capital. 1t is simply a protest by the
producers of wealth in this country
against the -aggressions of the CO
federated monopolists and the pro
motors of class legislation, and as such
it must be victorious.
But principles are eternal; truth Il
eternal; and may all the good thoughts
that have come into our minds here
to night be permanently engrafted in
each individual until with the majestic
tread of the American ~soverigns you
shall march to the polls as conscien
tiously as you ever bowed at the
sacramental table and deposit your
ballots according to you best judg-
ment under God, for the benefit OF
your race and the perpetuity of the
republic. loud applause.
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