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

poused the Greenback party in it's in
fancy, served six years in Congress as
one of its fifteen representatives., re-
fused las did Gen. Stevenson and all
the others to go into the caucuses of
their old parties. Yet he, Weaver, is
denounced by the Southern Democrats
as a protectionists," a political
tramp" and other hard names and
pelted with rotten eggs while speaking,
though he never returned to the Re
publican party, which has always had
a large majority in his State as Gen.
Stevenson did to the Democracy, and
is now on the ticket of that party for
the Vice Presidency, and treated by
his party as saint and Weaver as a
devil. 1 was a Whig prior to the war,
voted with the Democrats after until
the Greenback party was formed,
when | joined it, but since its death
have been a Prohibitionist; conse-
quently cannot vote for Gen. Weaver
while the Prohibition party has can
didate for the Presidency in the field !;
yet abhor the treatment he has re
ceived, and the ISLANDERS so Industrious
ly peddled out against him, especially
as his grandfather was North Caro-
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cover up their tracks, keep their hands
work for their plutocratic masters, the
old party tricksters, and their con
federates, the legal fraternity have
the Alliance unconstitutional; when
driven from that, raised a howl of
alacm, that the great expense of it
H<~T gTof hn 10
officers would control the elections, as
if they had not already wasted enough
money in u years to have paid for all
the warehouses needed and every rail
road in the country besides, and if the
government officers and railroad Off
cials are not now controlling the eiec
tions to their utmost ability.
And the remedies the Peoples party
offer for these objections is, to do away
with usurous interest, and the bonded
debt as soon as an equitable income tax
and the warehouse tax can be put In
successful operation, and disfranchise
those officials and forbid their inter
ference in all elections while in office.
It is a remarkable fact that the Mosaic
law forbade the Israelites lending
money at any interest to their own
people, and commanded them to re
lease all poor debtors every seven
years, and their slaves every fifty
years. Yet the prophet Isaiah in the
9Th chapter of his book, in numerating
the expressions and vices of that peo-
pie. said: Therefore hell hath en-
iarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure: and their glory, and
their multitude, aud their pomp, and
he that rejoiced shall descend into it, "
etc. If that awful place of punishment
was enlarged to receive the OppressOrs
and vicious portion of Gods chosen
people over two thousand years ago
what will be necessary to accommodate
the modern money changers, usurers
and oppressors of this Christian era
after they have gone the way of all the
earth?
The Constitution of the United States
authorizes Congress to aid the govern
ment in issuing money for the entire
people, delegated power and control
Inter state commerce, which means to
own or operate our transportation lines,
mail routes, pOstOfices, and all other
means of communication, If need be-
Yet our legal friends who make our
laws, unite them so mistily as to con
found each other, cause the Judiciary
to differ in their opinions on them, and
greatly increase litigation. No wonder
they are solidly against our demands
besides they get the lions share of all
public offices, and greatly increased
salaries. And all the bankers and
bondholders are fighting us with their
money and influence, because their
profits on investmentwill be materially
reduced when the Sub Treasury is in
augurated and they will haveto change
their base. And now, my friends, you
know I am telling you truths. You
have known me as a neighbor and
humble citizen for nearly third of a
century. You ought to know, and
God knows have never been an office
seeker, (although every little petit
logger in the land says all those who
express themselves boldly on public
knows I have never asked anyone to
aid me to obtain any Office in Church
or State without first being solicited to
do so by my friends, and that have
never received in more than three score
years of my life as much money for all
my public labors as paid out to per
form them; therefore you will believe
me when I tell you we must have relief,
and the people are going to have 1T.
The ground upon which I now stand
was my former home, which was the
remnant of a fine estate destroyed for
me by the late war, which home was
wrested from me and a dependent
family in my declining and enfeebled
years by and through the operations
of the unwise and unrighteous and op.
pressive laws to which have briefly
alluded, and my experience has beer
the sad experience of unnumbereC
thou' ands of as g BOD business men anG
honest citizens as this nation affords
and there are now millions on the same
road TO financial ruin, and from the
same causes.
Brethren, be encouraged! The rum
blings of a mighty political cyclone il