The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-24
LETTER FROM WILSON COUNTY.
The State of Affairs in the Country That
God Made.

Mr.. EDIToR:-If you can see fit to let
me into our columns, I shall be pleased
to take part with the many who are
contributing such rich thoughts and
noble sentiments, not that | can
throw any new light upon the theme
so much discussed, but because | feel
an interest i'll the subject and that I,
as q citizen and a constituent Of this
Republic, wish to make myself felt in
some way for the good of my fellow
men. can remain silent no longer.
The sad and deplOrabie condition of our
government to day demands our most
serious and earnest consideration. Ny
eyes, [ believe, have been opened to
the startling realization of the existing
enormity of our financial condition. 1t
IS plain that it is being ruled by des
pots.
For the last few months I have been
unceasing in my eagerness Of effort to
discover, If possible, the true condition
of our country, and more anxious still
was L to comprehend and locate the
prominent causes which led to the
much talked-of evils.
Having in my possession a few of
the records and documents containing
some Of the most important issues of
Jul pO1lIICCAl 1OoOCIS, Cbl1O O6l0I IDoBGCI
containing such facts as are we'll cal
culated to bring into a reasoning mind
the fOreseen relations evidently exist
ing between such issues and certain
classes, viz: capitalists and mOnOpO
lists, have become thoroughly though
sadly convinced that the grievances of
which our people 80 seriously complain
are far from being in anywise vision
ary, but, on the other hand, these
grievances are of a much more serious
nature than most Of us have imag
iued.
Our government is evidently a cor
rupG one, all things working together
for good to them that control the
money, but from them that hath not
the money will be taken away even
that which they may happen TO have.
Though the text is Scriptural and very
applicable in it's place, tell you is Will
not do for the money lords" to apprO
pirate. They appropriate it to their
own justification and happiness and to
the deprivation and destruction of
others. Hence it has been by and
through the influence Of the mighty
money devils" and their co adjukors
that our Republic has been degener-
ated into its present peril0us COndi
tiOn And, dear readers and fellow
travellers so the land of servikudo and
poverty, it is high time for US to begin
to think for ourselves, and not only to
think for ourselves but 40 act for our
selves. and that quickly, for the crisis
Is at hand. We can wait no longer
and save ourselves. So now let us not
stand idle and say within ourselves,
there is nothing can do" We must
open our eyes and behold the approach
ing enemy. We must fix our bayOnets
at the word of command and when
ever the order to "charge !" is given,
let us charge with an irresistible col
umn that is utterly incapable of being
broken.
Leu every Sub-Allance in North
Carolina and the United States adopt
the platform of demands formulated
and adopted by the St. Louis Confer
ence Of labor organic atoms which met
at St Louis, FEB. 90, 1892, and when
they shall have adopted it let each
member stand by it, and with the love
of his country in his heart, defend it's
Just and wise principles in the very
faces of its enemies. Let us go hand in
hand, "conquering and to conquer, "
procl7iming the GLAD tidings of great
joy and good will toward all man
kind"
trust this may find room in our
columns and may it rebound to the
good o. some poor, blind way fairer.
[ am not as you will see, a sub
scriber to your paper, but have been
reading it for sometime. I am an ALI
anceman from head to foot and shall
do all in my power to defend and pro-
mote it's cause. WILEY H. LAMM.