The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-11-01
RALEIGH. N. G. NOVEMBER /, 1892.

Gee Republican Senate. Both of these
grand old parties" come before the
people every four years, and fight
I sham battle over the tariff to draw the
! attention of the voters from the real
and vital questions Of the times to keep
or obtain the offices of the nation, one
bowling for protection and the
other for revenue only" when the
difference between the Republican
tariff law and the bill offered by the
Democratic House Is only per cent
average less on all imported goods,
reduction so small if taken off no one
OF the laboring people could tell it if
not Informed by the politicians. Both
or these old parties in some States are
| protectionists, while in other States
Goth are reductionists, and they have
| united repeatedly in order to protect
few favored classes at the expense of
| the vast majority of the most needy of
their constituents, while they know that
! the classes and pers ms most able to
pay revenue are taxed the least in pro
! portion to their ability 70 pay 1t is
we'll known that both the United States
and COnfederates had to resort to an
income tax during the war in order to
! pay their troops, and had that law not
b 5en repealed by the y S. Government,
our present national debt could have
been paid, which would enable the gov
e;nment to materially lessen the i'm
| POr5 tariff and do away with the in
terna revenue for that tax brought
into the treasury nearly a hundred
millions dollars a year. And now if
we had such law with sufficient pen
a ties for evading it-one that would
be IN proportion TO what other classes
! pSy-there would not be any excuse to
peTpe6uate high tariff or any internal
| revenue. Yet the politicians meet on
| the hustings and renew their bogus
! fight before each election to keep the
| people in ignorance as to their real
wants, and their party papers take up
| tire refrain and sing the same old song
az if there was no humbug in it; while
ali these who get their bread and but
ter out Of the public pantry unite to
| whip all ''kickers," or those whose
eyes have been opened back into party
traces.
The money changers have been
bringing on monetary panics every ten
YEARS for nearly a century past, but
| the one inaugurate / in 1873 by demone
! tizing silver and reducing paper money
has brought the majority of the people
nearer the poor house than ever before,
and unless relief is obtained, and that
very soon, utter ruin-wil follow. The
! IA 2etsr Cooper, the ouly American
millionaire who has sho wn more love
for his race and country than for his
own f-aggrandizement by giving
more to the poor tn an to his children;
saw what those Infamous acts of Con
gress would do for the country; gave
much Of his time and money, though
| - Al 1SoI1
party known as the 'Greenback
par y, which elected fifteen members
! to Congress and filled some other
! off ces, and if it had not been slaught
cred by the ruthless, unjust, and
wicked attacks made upon 1t and it's
! leaders by the two old parties we would
to day be free from the expressions
brought upon u.s. and which deprived
many of US of our homes and other
! former comforts. The Grange and
other labor organization were gotten
up about that time for personal relief
from these national ills; all of which
comb med failed their desired object.
Finally the Farmers Alliance was
! inaugurated in Texas and another was
! formed about the same in the North
west, these and other labor organiza-
tions have united and petitioned Con
gross for relief, and later they were
presented as demands, all of which
have been treated with contempt,
while the condition of the country was
growing from bad to worse all the time,
! All these efforts failing, and nine tenths
of those people concluding both the
old parties were owned by and run ex
clusively in the interest of the money
sharks. and that they would never give
the desired relief, determined to go to
a party that would And though this
new party is less than one year old and
composed of millions of as good people
as still adhere to the old parties; they
of the Peoples party are denounced by
the old party hacks and their servants
as idiots, cranks, fOois soreheads,
kickers and corrupt Office seekers And
the Prohibition party, which is work
ing, labOring and praying for the same
reliefs and others as well, are termed
fanatics and treated with disdain by
the tools of the mOnopolists for the
same reason, .. e., they are unwilling
to let go the public teats; and these re-
! formatory acts would abridge their
personal enjoyments. They have waved
the bloody shirt and reviewed the re-
construction acts every year to train
the young men to indulge in sectional
revenge, and now threatening the South
with the Lodge or Force bill to keep
their respective parties solid in the
different sections If the owners of
large manufactures are permitted to
continue to force ther employees to
vote sOlidly with them against the best
interests Of the laborers in one section,
and the ballot box suffers and fraudu-
lent counters of votes Of another to con-
troll the elections at the behest of their
masters and their speakers continue to
misrepresent, malign and brow beat
those who oppose them, free speach
and free ballots will soon be numbered