The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-23
DISTRICT LECTURER MASSEY IN
ORANGE.

HMLsBORO, n. Q.
srh. YnTYoR: Please allow me q bit Of
your van a1uI a few %6F and I will try t
Nasaev's lecture to Chestnut Ot1J pa.
Alliance. Though the weathSf-e.
nnfavorable, the house was nearly fuff.
the audience listened for about one
and half hours with intense interest.
He said: TIM Alliance would never
have existed had it not been for the
necessity. Remove the cause and it
will cease to exist. 4 backward look
will show US that Il condition is
worse than that of our fathers; it ia
not because the wealth is not in our
country. But because thirty thousand
men have it This is q sad fact. Wrong
system is the cause, for the farmer pro
duces seven-eighCs Of the wealth in the
country. Tnero must be caange.
Introduce a system that viii rightly
distribute i. To do this we must have
concert of a 'tiOn, chat is Our only hope.
We have been convinced that we must
have an issue of our own know
when the farmers try to tell what they
want, the plutOcrat takes off his silk
beaver and kid gloves and says go
home and go to work, you are lazy. If
80. where do the products come from 7
Well, you T extravaganza and in all
my travels I have not seen an extrav-
agant farmer. If [ were to sre extrav-
agance coming in at my front gate |
would run and cry muir Ter. Then the
plutOcrat says 1t is over production
LaEinesS. extravaganza and yer pro-
ductiOn fit No. it Is none of these We
have two million tramps that could
not get work, men and women are
hungry and shivering. The cotton and
wool produced in the United States III
one year would only make them three
garments apiece. Every grain of wheat
would only make them ak biscuit
apiece per day. plenty, of men could
eat that many for breakfast and then
be hungry all day. The people would
commune the products if they could get
them But the producer is too poor TO
hold them and the consumer too poor
to purchase. IF q man has q barrel OF
dOur he will not buy. A weeks prOvls-
ions is all ne can afford st n time.
Tue adviser nex5 says, you don't raise
the right kind of crops, raise corn and
meat and you will bs happy. De we
have a section of this kind 7 Yes. In
| Illinois its said that you have to make
q hog sQuaal to tell where his head is.
| (L&ughter.) Tho people r $3S, 600
O06 IN debt They are too poor to hold
! their crops and are obliged to sell for
leas than cost of production. The
financial system 10 a great fraud and
| ought TO have been abolished twenty
five years ago
The Gold Bugs" fer the price. If
you will let me for theprice I can make
or break any man regardless of his o
cupatiOn, profession or trade. The men
| of Wall St have concluded tn make us
poor. But 1t Is no use to curse them,
change the system. They contra ted
oue-third of the currency, and cotton
fell from 50 to 30 cents. Silver was
demcnetized and the circulation di-
minished from z to 8 billions. The
system is selling out 459 persons every
day and closing out $50 business men
every week. And do you know that
ten thOusand men of England may
call for a panic and it will come in
thirty-six hours, and we would perish
in twenty days A gold sais Will run
any country. Nine tenths of our bust
ness is done on the credit. There
ought to be enough money TO run a
cash business. you can't borrow money
at 8 per cent and not make but ) per
cent on investment.
There is 10 use of making gold the
basis. We could live without it, they
want an honest dollar. There is not
an honest dollar in America, and there
will be until it will buy the same
amount the year round. The credit of
the country ought to be based on some
thing substantial, such as meat and
bread.
He compared the present system to
the old Negroes "pOssum and taters'
which he had cooked and pue aside to
cool, and while waiting fell asleep. A
young negro came along. took the meat
off the bones, creased the old mans
lips and left the bones and potato peel
ingS on the floor by his side. When
the old negro awOke and found his lips
greasy, the bones and Feelings on the
floor, said: Il must have eat dat pos.
sum and taters, but if | did, it was the
most 'onsa5isfying' possum and taters
[ ever saw"
When we demand the abolition of
the national banking system we must
present something better; the Govern
ment's money is the peoples money.
Give us the Sub Treasury plan" and
the price will remain nearly the same
all the year round. The Land Loan
scheme and Sub Treasury plan is a
bridge over the chasm, and America
will get on a boom. The plan will give
us IS houses in North Carolina. and if
it didn't it would control the price all
the same, | have never met an obiec-
ton to it when sifted down that would
weigh an ounce. [ am ashamed to
work till [ get SO tired I have to rest
before [ go home, and then my wife
and children get poorer every time the
moon fulls. But we have freed the
coon and shined his eyes. You know
how to get him downG The seven de-
mands will cut him. The Democrats
and Republicans both say, let us cut