The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
WAITING AND WATCHING.

H. ". Lane, Fort BurnlceU, ~ c.:
DEAR SIR AND Bro, Il was much in
terested i'll your letter in The PROGRES
SIvE FARMER | do not need proof Of
your honesty, [ know it, l have met
your character often and understand
1t. [ live IN the extreme Northwest
of our m0rtgaged country, yet we are
brothers, so let us reason together. To
be brief. let us state q business py0pO
ton: You and I are partners. We
desire to hIake the people surrender
the profits of their industries and the
title to their homes to us. We do not
wish to return them an equivalent.
We know this will work oppression
and impOverish the majority of the
people, and it will give us millions of
dollars more than we need, but not one
cent more than we want. To fully
carry out our designs against the peo-
pie, we will need a variety of advan
| tages. First and greatest of all these
IS law-tO protect our rights enforce
our demands and legalize our piracy.
To obtain these laws we must own the
lawmakers; to do that we must die
tate who shall be nominated; we will
let our victims do the voting, but we
will only allow the victims two party
names to vote under and we will per
petuate the two names our victims love
best, dividing our patronage between.
We will engender hatred between the
unsOphistl2ated yeomanry Of the two
| parties whilst we dictate the nomiDa-
UiOns in both parties so that no matter
which party wins, we get the law
makers. We will endOw chairs of pO,
| litical economy in the colleges to
! sanctify our systems of robbery, and
| only allow graduates Of our school to
| be chosen as law makers. In that way
| honest men will believe they are doing
Gods service whilst they are serving
us. We will have our law makers
compel the government to give us its
| money to issue to the people. We will
regulate the volume and compel every
body who wants money to put in cir
| culatiOn to borrow from us and mort
gage their chattels and homes to suit
our terms and designs; we will manage
| the business so as to keep our money
| and get their lands II any Of the
people discover our designs and pro
| test, we will ridicule, malign and crush
| them; and when our plan is nearly
cOnsummated, and there is a general
! OutCry against us, we will have some
of our honest graduates get up sham
| fight on some eternal issue like the
tariff question, and whilst they are
hesitating. and Quibbling about uniting
under a new name and spelling our
game we will have them vote Us four
more years of control as so-called
Democrats or Republicans and we will
! finish our work.
Now, Bro. Lane, this is just what
has and will be done, and tits business.
You must understand that this is a
business government, with a big B.
How will we solve this question?
You won't join with me in my old Re
publican party and help me purify
that. You know it can't be done. The
leaders of my party would secretly
join the leaders of your old party and
defeat us.
[ won't unite with you under the
left wing machine as a Democrat, for
I know the result would be the same.
But, Bro. Lane, I'll tel you what will
do: [ will meet you half way on neutral
ground, that will break the steam chest
of both cylinders of the machine and
we will double teams on it. What do
you say? / know the South is full OF
true men, and [ will tell you that the
great West is too. Shall we join hands
under the Peoples banner? 1t is our
only hope Witness my extended hand.
w. P. @. ADAMS,
Box 1926, Whatcom, Washington.