The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-26
GA ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
WOULD SMELL JUST
AS SWEET"

WARRENTON, N. -.
I sit before a cheerful fire on this
bleak spring day, with all nature
arrayed in an icy coating, and the
question is mentally propounded, what
is the course for the patriotic citizens
of North Carolina to pursue at and be-
fore the November elections? What is
our duty? Shall we, knowing dare
maintain" or shall we be content to
let others do our thinking, and thereby
become mere dunno driven cattle?
These are questions which every patri
otic citizen will have to answer, and by
their votes shall ye know them.
What is democracy2 A plain, every
day answer is, rule by the people. TO
rule means to govern, control, direct
The next question that arises is, are
the wishes of the people the laws of the
land2 Do the people rule in that sense?
1t is hardly necessary to say that they
do not Then if the wishes of the peO-
pie are not carried out, their desire is
not the law of the land, and the people
do not rule. If the people do not rule,
we have not democracy in America.
Then what governs .and controls our
country9 Money! Whoes money7 The
money derived from taxing you and
and the bone and sinew (and truthful
ly the heart and blood) of America2
All, no! That only keeps the machin
cry in motion, and new duties and new
and more powerful exhaust fans have
been added and solely for the purpose
of exhausting for Billion Dollar Con
gress. Our money, theref )re, does not
direct, govern or control, but the i'm
mense sums contributed and used for
campaign purposes money of
lova~ to
sums to maintain a strong lobby and
the further fact that the Senate is com
posed of miliiOnaires who are in the
same category with alien million and
multimilliOnaires Sd. e. have money to
lend. 1t is second nature for million
aires to legislAte to keep money at
premium, and to us common folk, few
and far between. The House more
| correctly expresses the poverty and
will of the people, then it is by COM
parison in worldly goods far beyond
the people. Read the Congressional
| Record, as I have been doing of late,
and turn to the Senate branch of Con
gress If you find anything introduced
for the benefit Of the people, there will
be perhaps few remarks upon it by
the Senator who introduced it and per-
haps a half dozen questions asked by a
! few Senators, and the bill is referred
t. some committee for final instruc-
tions On the other hand let some
matter come up of importance to the
money power-let some appropriation
bill for the purpose of spending the
peoples money, and especially in gov
ernment buildings, and it is passed eX
peditiously, and several per day. Thus
1t is that money is king. The servant
has become greater than his lord.
Money, like fire, is a good servant,
but bad master. ParadOxical as it
may seem, money is the cause of the
depressions of to day, but, it is the
money which has been taken from u.s.
"They got it by forms of law; by means
most foul" Who is responsible? The
Democrats say, "our great enemy, the
Republican party" The Republicans
say, "our old foe, the Democratic
party" And both are right. Who
voted into the hands of a favored class
the right to dole unto the people their
own money and to fix the rate of in
terest and the security9 Democrats
and Republicans. Who re chartered
national banks2 Grover Cleveland
Who is opposed to the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver2 Benjamin Har-
rison and Grover Cleveland, with D.
B. Hill between them. Who is spend
ing the peoples money over a secen-
Diary issueQ Democrats and Republi-
cans. Who is content to watch each
the other and when a measure is pro
posed for the public good 'tis voted
down or not made prominent because
it will make the party in power popu-
lar if the measure is passed? Demo
Gratis and Republicans. Who are
often absent from their seats in Con
gress, attending to their private
affairs9 Democrats and Republicans.
What organs in this State have mis-
represented the Alliance and its chosen
servants? Democratic and Republi
can. What organs in this State have
eagerly clipped and "passed around
articles telling that the Alliance is los
} ing strength in some other State and
going. to pieces, or that some very
prominent gentleman has withdrawn
from the order? Democratic and Re
publican-largely Democratic. What
is the politics of the organ at our State
capitol which, before Congress con
vened, was loud in the call for free
; and unlimited coinage of silver, and
which afterwards as anti-free coinage
men loomed up for the presidency
condescended to give the minority re
: port, with an expression that the ma
jority report was weak, and which
now has quoted from the NatiOna
Economist, not Ue' batine, but that the
Economist says in effect that it Gret
coinage) has been used as a popular
! measure to stir the people up for politi
cal purposes, without in fact being o
much Importance to them" And goes
on to say that the whole agitation
we think, has been On the line indi
Gated by the National Economist
: arousing the people by means of popu
lar measures. that after all promis'
) them but little of economic value.
Politics, Democratic. What is thu
politics of the papeF~at the State capi
tai that utters its valed1ctory to Col
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