The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05

uOI1dE vi ElBiLSu SOIu III GH0uly 1.-Two
years, and the English money lords
say thanks; please give the screw an
other turn. How fat these English
bulls are you are feeding! You ma
chine politicians say it is Constitutional
to loan money on the sign of the sign,
but it is unconstitutional to loan money
on the substance that must be disposed
of to get the sign to pay off the sign of
the sign. You machine politicians are
wonderfully wrought up when the PEG,
pie propose to legislate for themselves.
You cry "paternalism." "Paternal-
ism" is almost as frightful as the
bloody shirt" and negro suprem-
acy." What are those paternal fellows
trying to do, anyhow, that you are
trying to shoe them back into the
robber foldl They threaten to leave
the old political parties if they do not
get the use of their own Gre dit tool of
trade (money) without paying tribute
to robbers. Why are the machine
politicians fighting this movement
Because the machine politicians Of both
parties are of the money devil. How
can the farmers relieve themselves
when they are in debt and r paying
for the use of their own tool of trade
twice as much as they can make off OF
it? This mOneyed devil was created by
law, and it must be overthrow by
law. 1t will take a union of heads and
hands Of every industrial class in the
United States. We must have pattern
alism, vice a combined aggressive
movement of all the industrial classes.
We have had an abundance of machine
legislation for the soulless mOneyed
devil. The people propose to have
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pie and destroy this machine octopus
that is sucking the life out of every in
dustry.
G. 1--WE demand that the amount of
circulating medium be speedily in
creased to, fifty dollars per capita"
The Alliance demands that the whole
people have a sufficient volume of
money issued to do the business of the
dollar shall be a debt-paying, as we'll as
a debt contracting dollar; that king
gold shall be dethroned and robbed of
his power to Cypress This money
shall go to the people direct without
the intervention of banks; that debts
shall be paid in the kind of money
they were contr acted with, and that
there shall be an advance of prices all
along the line 50 they will be able to
remove the burden of debt. The
mOneyed devil says this money is fiat
aud unconstitutional. 1t is cOnstitu-
tiOnal to make a debt-cOntracting dol
lar, but not unconstitutional to makeit
a legal tender for the debt contracted.
Why Is this thus? They want to create
"a demand for their gold on which they
have a corner, so they a fix prices to
suit themselves By increasing the de
mand for gold, they increase the price
Of it. Every business man knows that
an increased demand for any article
increases the price Of that article. AS
collaborating debts increase the supply
is decreasing By increasing the de
mand for gold they ~depreciate the
price Of everything else.
They have not only doubled the pur-
chasing power of gold in twenty five
years, but they can get together and
demand the payment Of billions of
gold bearing debts and increase it's
purchasing power four hundred per
cent, c~onfiscate all debts, precipitate
a panic that would paralyze every in
dustry in the United States.
The Alliance proposes to remove the
condition that makes this possible.
Where are the machine politicians of
the two old political parties? Fighting
the Alliance, crying "paternalism,"
Unconstitutional " protective tariff"
and tariff reform" and fiat money"
2. 1--WE demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as will effectually pre-
vent the dealing in futures of all agri-
cultural and mechanical productions;
providing a stringent system of pro
ceedures in trials that will secure
prompt convictions, and imposing such
penalties as will secure the most per
feet compliance with the law" Can
the farmers, as a class, stop this2 Can
a State? Isn't it a national evil and
must be stopped by the whole people
acting through their representatives in
Congress3 The farmers and labor or
CARNATIONS object to spectators gamb-
ling on the products of their labor
~depreciating prices when the farmers
sell, and bulling prices when the con-
sumner buys. This is a gambling and
rObber class standing between the pro
ducers and consumers, and absorbing
all the profits. Their calling is de-
moralizing in the extreme, and should
be made a p~enitentiary Offense. These
sap suckers have lived off of the pro-
ducers so long, and robbed them with
impunity, that they think it is consti-
tutional to plumber the toilers. The
Alliance demands that the wrongs
shall be righted. On the outside is the
money devil, resisting every demand
for justice. Where stands the machine
politicians of the two old political
parties3 Fighting the Alliance de-
mands, crying "paternalism, "un
constitutional" and tariff reform"
The Alliance demands that solver shall
be put on the same footing it was pre-
vious to 1873. Can this be done by a
class or StateI It is a national ques-
ton and must be settled by the co
operation of the whole people repre-
sented in Congress, The money devil