The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04
LAWYERS VS..

Mr.. EDITOR:-This is q campaign on
the part of the Democrats "of the
lawyers, for the lawyers and by the
lawyers" We notice the folio wing,
who if l mistake not, part are lawyers;
some are after Office, others Of course
have entered the contest from purely
patriotic motives: Coke, Doughton,
Osborne, Jarvis, Aycock, Mason,
Glenn, Ransom, Robbins, Henry, Wo-
mack, BedGingfield, Kitchen, Over
man, Barringer, Pou, Able, Leazer and
Gudger. Others of course are or will
be out before the campaign closes.
Their motives r not purely patriotic.
We base our assertion on the fact that
for the past 81 years this class of indi-
viduals have done our campaigning
and the most of them have grown rich,
of course as a result of their patriot
ism. And again, the lawyers of both
old parties have in a large majority of
cases been chosen to make Our laws.
These laws have not been a benefit to
the people, but on the contrary they
have reduced the farmers to the very
verge of pauperism. Any fair-minded
man will not place the responsibility
of bad legislation upon the shoulders
of either of the old parties alone, but
will place it equally upon both. It Is
impossible for any bill to become a law
without passing both houses; n has
been Republican and the other a large
part of the time Democratic. Some
bills have been introduced In Congress
that would have been a great benefit
to the people, but never became laws.
The Blair Educational bill would
have provided the e necessary to
have educated thousands of our chill
dren. The Democrats defeated this
bill the third time, and finally was de
feated by a Republican Senate. The
Democrats claim that this bill was un-
constitutional. That may be, but they
did not think it was unconstitutional a
few weeks ago to use as salaries S25,OOU
or $50, 600 while giving to the Chicago
Worlds Fair 50, SOC, 900. 1t took them
one week to do this and each member
gets $14 per day. Make your own cal
culation. CONGRESS claims that it is
unconstitutional to lend money to the
people under the Sub-Treasury plan at
3 per cent. They do not claim that 1t
is unconstitutional to lend money to
the bankers at 1 per cent.
The defeat of the free silver bill broke
the back bone of Democracy. They
went on Bonded knee so to speak and
covered before their masters, the
money gods of Wall street. They
raised the lash of Jay Gould and said
by their acts, 1.-THE people be damned"
The Republicans are responsible for the
Mckinley tariff bill which has cut off
our expectations as well as our impor-
t~ations, and SO has worked an meal
culable injury to the farmers. The
United States has under this law said
to all foreign nations that we do not
want your productions, not even Zeb
Vance's jack-knife, and will not have
them unless you pay us from 100 to
400 per cent. tariff duty. Go to India
if you please and buy 81 worth of pearl
buttons, ship them to this country and
the United States says: Before you
q land that 81 worth of buttons YOU
must pay US $14 tariff duty, " making
the cost to the wholesale merchant
SIS. He sells to the retail merchant at
say 10 per cent, costing him exclusive
of freight $16 so. The retailer sells to
the consumers at so per cent. making
the buttons that cost 81 in India cost
the consumer in this country $24 rs.
Again, as the United States will not