The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-26
JOHNNY, GET YOUR GUN.

Somebody at Warsaw has been civ.
ing the Wilmington Messenger some
advice and warning. The Messenger
goes into him with gloves off, as fol-
lows:
"Our correspondent assures us that
unless the real Democrats follow the
Allan e will'o- the -wisps that they will
be "sure to get sma.hed." What does
that mean? This only: that the intel
ligence Of the party-the men of expe-
rience, of political knowledge, of real
ability, must abandon their lifelong
convictions and principles and bow
down and worship the brazen idol set
up in the st. Louis temple. 1t means
that a party which dates from the Con.
ventiOn that framed the Constitution
and has been it's chief defender ever
since-a party that has illustrated so
many noble virtues, has been so faith
full to the people in war and in peace,
IN prosperity and calamity, in victory
and defeat-a party that has resisted
the entertainments of tyranny and the
usurpatiOns of the Republican party
with ali unfagging energy and q =
faint spirit and a hardy courage-that
this noble party coeval with the gov
eminent, and the only constitutional
party in the Union, shall disband, sur.
render, grovel in the dirt, and putting
on the collar of the st. Louis dema.
gOgues, fanatics, frebrands and ignOr-
amuses, shall accept their foolish and
unreasonable demands, worship attheir
shrine, sing their songs of nihilistiC i'm,
port and throw conscience and the past
to the winds"
Now that is a pretty way for a gen
tleman to talk about other gentlemen.
The editor of the Messenger may not
be rich. But he has lived in North
Carolina all these years. He didn't
live on empty oyster cans nor husks OF
corn, either. He has Jared sumptuous
ly, yet he would smite the hand that
feeds him. The men that hold the
pillow, push the plane, swing the ham
mer have no intelligence. They are
"demagogues," fanatics" fire
brands" and "'ignoramuses." How
far back would we have to go to find
the ancestors of the great, enlightened
Kingsbury blowing, with hayseeds in
their hair2 Yet he would have us be-
lieve that since he got an Ii. D.
tackled to his name and after some eX-
perience in a newspaper office, he and
his associates EnoU all things. They
are the people. Thomas Jefferson, j.
@. Calhoun, Salmon Chase, Andrew
Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and dozens
of other statesmen, who had brains
almost as large as the whole carcass
of some of these diminutive editors
and politicians of this day and time,
were in error if such men as the editor
of the Messenger are to be believed.
The principles and ways and means
that they advocated, the Messenger
are unreasonable" and Of nIhl-
listic import, and throw conscience
and the past to the Winds
We rise and make u best bow and
reassert that there is as much brains
in the heads of Alliancemen as there is
in the heads of politicians. Alliance
men may not know all the mean tricks,
but they do know that there is no good
reason why farm products should be
lower than cost of production, They
know that there is no need of making
millions of paupers to make a few
thousand millionaires. They know
that they have have worked hard.
They know that neither of the politicaI
parties have made q united effort to
remedy these coalitions Now DENY
it if you please.