The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-27

honest men are advocating it from b
platform, and millions + urging them
on by their assent and hearty approval.
I doubt if there was a single college l
all this land in the session just closed
that did not have several speeches
written and spoken by the young grad
yates on political corruption" and
financial reform" Ihave one to hear
of yet that hadnot such a speech. This
means, if it means anything at all, that
College faculties and young men know
reform to be necessary tothe preserva-
ton of our liberty that once was. We
can scarcely call ourselves freemen
while we are taxed as we are to pay
pensions, revenues, tariffs, combines,
syndicates and corporations. These
things are protected by legislation.
Hon. w. J. Bryant, a Congressman
from Nebraska, in a speech to the
young men of a Southern college last
month, said:
1.-THE subject of money, it's kinds. its
volume and its substitutes, c~oncernthe
whole people. 1t is a problem which
must be met and solved at once. What
more serious subject for investigation
than the proper control and regulation
of corporations? We find the individ-
ual disappearing and in his place we
see the fictitious person called corpora
ton. 1t is long lived; it has neither
shame nor pride; it knows neither
gratitude nor revenge; in it RESPONSE
bility is divided and personality lost.
1t has but one object-the making of
money for its stockholders. 1t has its
advantages; do they exceed its disad-
v~antages? Can it continue to grow as
it has done within the last half century
without danger to the body polite and
without injury to humanity9 What
new laws does its existence make neces
sary?"
Referring to millionaires, the same
gentleman remarked:
"The young man who loves his
country cannot but regard with appre-
hension the rapid accumulation of
wealth in the hands of the few. Is
this condition the result of natural
laws? Is it the reward of superior in
t~elligence, or is it to be attributed to
unwise legislation, or to the absence of
laws that should have been enacted9
Can O man LegitimGteIy accumulate IN
the space of o. single life time more
GUeGlth than he can count dollar by
dollar IN that life time? Does wealth
bear its just share of the public ex-
pense9 Il not how can it be made to do
so2 Would a graduated income tax be
wise? Is the time ripe for an arbitrary
limitation upon the amount of wealth
a person may inherit or p~Ossess7
Where a we draw the line between
useful competence and dangerous opu-
lence2 How can we encourage thrift
and discourage inordinate avarice9
Important questions these; anyone of
which might occupy our time."
Despite what politicians s o-called
politicians may say, reform Is on. The
breeze has swept from the prairies of
Texas to the North, until it's motion
has disturbed the chilly waves of the
ST. Lawrence, and the current has gone
from Kansas both East and West, and
has mingled with the waters of the
Gulf and the Pacific. Tt is the duty of
all men who do not wish to see a strug-
gle between labor and capital TO talk
and vote reform. Capital has now
about reached its ultimatum not to de-
mand the liberties of a free people.
We have no fight with wealth so long
as it Is accumulated honestly, but we
do detest a Congress that can be
bought.
Politician has wrongly become syn
O4y LlOu0 W4UA IdSCdl, LUZ 0ACSDG a DOLL
tician has disgraced his calling, he
holds one of the most honorable Of any
occupation. What more noble avoca-
ton can be found than that of giving
liberty and prosperity to an honest
pOpulaceI We need politicians-men
who are not for sale. We want more
men as Patrick Henry, who would
have liberty or have death; as Henry
Clay, who would rather be right than
the chief executive of a nation.
They both made their monuments
when reforms were demanded. Some
one will gain laurels In this decade, be-
cause we have greater reforms to adj
just than In the time of either of these
men. Every one can't be a politician,
for they r born with that necessary
quality, like Noses of old, who is>to
lead a nation of people. We have just
lost one such, but an Aaron will be
found to guide us on, for a praying
people r never left to restitution.
We may feel assured that while we are
fighting injustice we will not be for
saken. We must rally round our ban
ner and On till we reach the Capital
City, and there deal justice to this
popular desire for reform. The work
rests with us. We must not falter MOI
go back to Jul debauchery, but stand
one for reform, thereby make others
by example, so that with the poet
we al say:
Together shouts Niagara, his thunder toned
decree
Together echo back the waves upon the Mex
lean sea-
Together sing the sylvan hills where old At
lantic roars-
Together boom the breakers on the wild Pa
cifc shores
: Together cry the people and together it shall
be,
An everlasting charter-bone forever for the
Of liberty the signet-seaI-the one eternal sign
Be those united emblems-the Palmetto and the
@. L. MILLER.
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