The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04
ANOTHER FLOWER FADED

- ME- NAVE ShAu g4G
hoWa9+ riSl,t to change his will till
doa+L COMES. and the attempt to bind
%oon,e conscience or judgment to
or measures before known is
aaIIal to popish slavery essayihg to
foTgive sins before they are committed.
P13 bese dictum we find but few honest
noan hound by their participation IN
1oto Conventions. But another Hover
has dropped from the party chaplet,
onothar leaf has withered In Its crown.
Tbev have left the people and have be-
come dancing dervishes before the
Golden calf the ~plutocrats have set up.
The Deople did not knowthat ~ Dem
ocrafic party was going to desert them
and ioin in this unhOly dance; they
did not know they would be invited to
dance at a tune they had informed
their servants in 90 States they did not
desire. But so it is, the dance Is on,
and the decree has gone forth from the
tools of tyranny that he VINO c
not is a thief and a traitor.
We have heard of mothers throwing
their helpless infants into n river
Ganges to appease the wrath OF That
deifed river. We have heard o great
philosophers and statesmen boWlng 20
images of wood and stone, thinking
thew had hid some beneficent spiritual
influence. We have heard of the pro
scriptlon of men and women n various
countries of the worldfor opinion ssake
and made to bleed and suffer and die.
Look upon these things and then medl-
tate the command of the devotees OF
Mammon. Behold Grover Cleveland.
Greater than his party! Greater Than
the people, whose decree let all men
49, II -1-Ixn%h ooI nnn0nRTntIR
Congress obeys. He doth but nod and
80 States repudiate the voice of the
people. He moves his sceptre and De
mocracy falls PROSTATE at his feet. He
points his finger and the party of JEFF
ferson spits upon the people. How
hast thou fallen9 Oh Democracy!
Weep, daughters of Carolina, weep.
The !" party of the people" bows to
Moloch. The Democracy makes sacrl-
fees to Mammon and have quite gone
astray from the standard its fathers
set up. Let the sons of toll bow IN
mourning Let the strong man clOthe
him in sackcloth. The party in whom
the friends of justice relied have gone
after strange gods, EnthrOned upon
a bank of gold they have raised
their king, even the mighty Cleveland.
To the people and to conventions and
to Congress he dictated a master. To
all people and to all voters and to all
America and the freemen thereof to
whomsoever shall hear the sound of
this my awful decree and falleth not
down to worship the golden image that
the convention has set the same shall
be proclaimed through the prints Of
Wall street a thief and a trsitor.
They come. The friends Of freedom
come. From every hill and valley and
field and hamlet they come. To the
bugle call of justice and right they
come. Andrew Jackson, thou who
crushed the national banks and
throttled the money power, your
country calls awake, arise! Thomas
Jefferson, where art thou, your
try bIeeds at every pore. Proclaim
again that national banks r more
ing armies, and that the systems Of
will destroy our liberties, and that
funding is robbing the people on a
great scale. Hark We hear the
voice of Abraham Lincoln, his gar
ments dappled in blood. Listenl For
a government to make a debt with a
certain amountof money in circulation
and to contract that money volume be-
fore the debt is paid is one of the most
heinous crimes which can be committed
by any nation. George Washington
speaks. Let me as an old man war;
you against party spirit which will
crush your liberties under the garb of
pretended patriotism" We have a %
cert of voices now. Who are they9
Listen. Those who contract the money
of a country control all labor and in
dustry and such will work upon the
prejudices of the people till the repub-
lie is destroyed.
IT'S enough. Let the dead rest.
They have said enough, if needed, to
save the republic. To the living turn
your eyes. Men of Drawn and brain!
This government was left you as a
shield to protect you from privileged
classes and today it has more privi-
legged classes made by the law than
any nation under the sun. Young men,
this government was given to you to
afford you an equal chance in the race
of life. P~lutocracy has usurped your
government and is fast shutting every
avenue to honest ambition. Noble
women of America, this government
was made to afford all honest women
an equal dignity under the law; plutoc-
racy won't have any noble matrons
save those dressed in silks and satins
and who wears the jewels of s order.
Let every man and woman through.
out the land rise in their might to put
down this worshipo of Mamm0n. Your
country's laws afford an easy and
p~eaceable way-the white-winged bal
lot. Nothing in the way but the two
headed dragon of gold. This is a dread
full dragon. Both the parties are afraid
of it. 1t swallows everything human,
Christians and heather alike. 1t stalks
into Congress and dictates the laws. It
goes around to conventions and buys
nominations. It walks into the cotton
fields and prices the cotton in the boil