The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
THE NATIONAL MEETING.
A Good Deal of Legislation-The Game
Played by the Plutocratic Press
Some Inside Light.

dlanap0lIS perhaps would not be With
out interest to your readers. The heavy
fusillade of the enemy caused the SUI
preme Council to hold on to its old
base of action because it thought it
rather risky to change base under such
q heavy fire. So YOU will find as re
gard policies and demands no impor-
tant change made. Still there was a
wonderful amount of legislative work
done in so short a time, perhaps crude
ly done.
We will now give your readers the
inside light Oh the workings of the
enemies of this reform movement.
These facts brought before the public
may be of Importance. On my way
to Indianapolis, after passing Rich
mond in the same State, l formed the
acquaintance of an old gentleman by
the surname of Harris. We were com
pairing notes on the peculiar character
istics of the Southern and Northern
people. Finally we drifted to the sub
ject of memory Of names and faces,
"By the by" says he, Il was requested
by Mr.. Edwards, of Richmond, Ind to
deliver amessage to a gentleman whose
name have forgotten. l would find
him at the depot hotel. The message
was this, that he could not come con
W6u1C11blNs D1b IL Ul1CI6 was Oil ISCAU
necessity, wire him and he would come
at once. Fortunately, however, I've
his name here on a card. The name is
D. II. RittenhOuse. Do you know him?'
Certainly" says I. Mr.. Editor, l
commenced to smell a rat. What was
the special business of D. H. Ritten-
house in Indianapolis What did he
want with his friend Edwards7 What
urgent necessity could arise demanding
his presence? The answer to these
questions were given further on in
part.
D. H. Rittenhouse and others were
working the associated press racket
and O~fnecessity they must have money.
NcAllister and Yeaman and many
reporters for the dailie5 were there all
manufacturing Jews to order. Ed
wards was not needed. A special
agent came from the eastern parts to
pay them for Their labors. They were
paid well and went home happy.
The reports sent out by this band of
r~ascals, if they were not laughably
lying they would be hellishly malicious.
But it is having its deadly effect in
every city and village throughout the
land. The reader having &C cess to no
other literature, takes a dose every
morning and while he knows at first
the cup is mingled with poison he be-
comes educated TOT it and its taste finally
becomes second nature and is sweet.
This is the nature of the ware being
manufactured by the ~plutOcratic press,
knowingly and maliciOuSly. The
dailies all, with but few exceptions,
are engaged in this concerted and ne
farEDus scheme, and some of the week
lies. taking them as guides, play a sec
ond fiddle. The scheme is this, If we
can consolidate the towns and cities by
working on their ~prejudices against
the laborers and the farmers interest
we will have a solid back bone to start
with and from behind this battery we
can dart our missiles into the ranks of
the enemy. This racket is being
worked by the dailies for all that it is
worth. There is no Democratic or
Republican party in the scheme. 1t is
a strategem of the plutOcracy against
the people.
Why my it be asked that this work
is being pushed by the dailies2 First,
because their patronage is mostly con
fined to cities and they lose nc patron
age by it. Second, because these pa
pers are owned in most cases by CAPT
talists who have no interest in common
with the labOrer and country people.
Third, because some papers are subsld-
lied to preach certain doctrine or are
guaranteed a running support outside
of their patronage. These are some of
the reasons why this scheme is being
showed by the c~apitalistic press.
Knowing the truth as to what Oc-
CURED at Indianapolis and then read
ing the reports of Rittenhouse, Meal
lister & Co., words fail me to express
the deep degradation to which Ameri-
can journalism has sunk and the black
ness of that conspiracy of the plutOc-
racy against the peOpleOf this republic.
IF | was ignorant Of the power of the
press [ would not care in whose hanGs
it fell. If I was ignorant of the I'M
scrupulous methods of plutOcracy /
might look on this malicious lying
with more charity and saddle it all on
the reporter himself, but knowing some
facts as | do we see in it a relentless
war against labor and agriculture and
if the cities are more susceptible to
their influence, the engendering of
bitter hatred and prejudices in the
cities against the producers. This is a
hellish work and if pushed too far will
bear bitter fruit. There is not one sin
In the category of political crime too
dark and damnable for ~plutocracy to
hug to it's bosom.
Great unanimity and good feeling
existed throughout the deliberations Of
the Supreme Council. 1t would have
been the policy of that body perhaps
to have changed it's oficerr and de
mands, but the fire was SO hot from
the ranks of the enemy it was thought
advisable to hold fast on the old base
a change of officers or the line might
prove hurtful under fire.
w, r. LINDSAY