The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-21

tions while the men they bolstered up
with fattery and deceit go under with
| faint praise. Since the Democracy of
this State has such a nice ticket and
such a nice platform and wishes so
much to make itself congenial and har-
monious, uppos it take its platform
to Chicago and stand on it there. Tell
that body on this stand and no other.
The whole world would stand aghast,
| PlutOcracy would tremble in it's dark
| est. deepest caverns. No, it does not
dare to do it. 1t would be an open re-
volt against their masters whose ser
wants they are. It will kiss the hand
of it's king and come home to bullrag
the people into the service OF It's lord.
By the reflex influence of reform
teaching, it has a large majority in the
House. True to instinct or instructions
not a measure has it passed for the
people.
The reform has a large following in
the ranks of both parties Around this
neuclus we will form a band with
unity of purpose and no rich class in
terest to serve. We will not depend
on the money of Wall street to win III
victories, nor on the factories of New
England. We will not buy u vic
tories and we will not have any class
to pay after election. Let the people
come. Let every patriot come and
join us in this last great struggle. We
are arranging the people on l
and all those who live by fraud, Gun
ming and robbery on the other. 1t
amounts to a test of self government.
The measures proposed is only the
l OOoonnt of tho nCcO0TntJnn Tho 1SSITn
overlapping all, is the people capable
of self government, and will they
prove it?
The reform has no platform made by
Wall street and the aristocracy of New
England. The pen of a noble Senator
or Statesman wrote no word therein.
1t came to life from the dire calamities
and rObberies brought into existence
by this very class Of gentry. It is a
move of the people, originated by the
people, and to the people it looks for
success. If the people cannot frame a
platform, engineer a party, make laws
giving prosperity and equal justice, let
the people deny they have a peoples
government, abolish the Republic and
choose their king; for the expressions
and yrannies of our present laws eX-
coed those Of the British.
For the first time in the history of
all ages, the poop e have organized and
equipped a party; we mean without
| the dictation of bosses and leaders, and
the great men of the earth. If they
succeed in attaining power, it will be
the greatest triumph the world ever
witnessed. The people will rule for the
people In the incipiency the old parties
were formed close othe people by their
trainers which gave them strength; but
the people had no hand in organizing
them. Today a new thing appears
which never appeared before except as
a mob or a rebellion, the common PEG
pie organizing a party. Don't you
all the powers that hell can invent?
All the cunning and craft that money
can inspire? Do you think your enc
mics will stop on the shores of America?
No, the gold bugs of Great Britain and
| the mOnarchieS of the continent will
be awakened. Millions for ~plutocracy !
will be the cry. Down with the anar-
chists! Such an adventure of the COM
mon people in the face of such moral
opposition the world never witnessed
before. 1t is a glorious thing to be one
in this contest. The spirits Of the brave
men who fought in the revolution peer
ing from the silver lit clouds must be
looking down in anxiety on their
progeny, wondering whether they are
going to regain by the peaceful ballot
what they SC dearly won by the bloody
bullet. Let every man stand firm.
The contest is not for a day nor a year;
it is till victory-or death to the peo-
pies government. Better t. bring on
the struggle now. Every day you be-
come weaker by laws which impover-
ish. These laws are made for that ex-
press purpose, to make you poor and
unable to resist.
Don't be deceived by party iargon,
I pray you. Many Of the party's honest
men are deceived. They NEAR well;
but they are not up with the weight
and Issue Of the occasion. If you will
be true to the cause of self government,
rally around the standard the people
themselves have set up. From the
Nor h, from the East and the West
the hosts will join you beyond all ex-
pectation. But if you falter and flag
this will discourage them, and many
will seek a retreat from q waning cause.
Stand for truth, for justice for self
government, and the God Of Abraham
will stand with you.
w. r. LINDSAY.