The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-05-12
MARION BUrLER's BUaLE.

strikes at the very root of their exis-
Caucasian.
These "grain gamblers and
loan shark" that Butler prates
about SO fuently are the crea
lures of a party that Polk, But
Ter & CO., are aiding and abet-
ting today. They are the legiti-
mate offspringo of Republican leg
islation and the fruitful source
of our country's woes.
No one knows better than does
Marion Butler and Polk that il
the masses listen to what they
say the grain gamblers and
money sharks will continue to
live and thrive and the people
will groan beneath the heavy
burdens of oppression laid upon
their unwilling backs, by the
monopolistic party-the Repub-
lican party.
They know more-they know
that the Democratic party have
waged an incessant warfare for
the past twenty years az ainst
lust such men and measures as
they now complain. f; they know
it has been the inveterate foe of
monopolies, the uncompromis-
ing enemy of trust and combines,
and have always exercised its
strength in fighting for the
masses against the classes, and
they know that all that the peo-
pie want Or ask tor is embraced
il it's platform and embodied in
it's principles anC that a consul
nation of their wishes can beeas-
Ter obtained by fighting beneath
the Demo :ratic banner and with
it's host than with any other par
ty or power.
But to relieve he masses is not
what they want, they would not
have it ifthey could get it. They
want to break the solid south
and are INSCRIPTIONS as to what
methods they adopt to do it.
Talk about the Peoples party,
and what is the Peoples perty?
Simply an illegitimate offspring
ofthe Republican party with L.
l.. Polk as its putative father.
What is its object? We haye
stated it, it is to rob the white
people of local self government
and turn loose upon us theiv-
ing hord such as ruled and ruin
ed in this state when Swepson
and Littlefeld stole and Kirk
made war on women. These
would be the legitimate results
and would surely follow did Polk
carry out his idea as he started
to.
The real causes from which our
agricultural classes are suffering
have never been discussed By
their leading organ, the Progress
sive Farmer. What is wanted is
tariff reform, source from which
the masses are robbed and the
rich made richer, and abatement
of extravaganza pensions and a
marked revision of our pension
laws by which millions upon
millions are empted in the hands
of camp followers, renegade and
a few worthy Union soldiers; all
of which is being dumped in the
laps ofnorthern people tending to
unsettle and unbalance the fnan-
cial status of our country, inn
poverishing the South by inter
nal revenue collections, fostering
and protecting every monopoly
in the land, taxing the masses
by tariff to support them.
These are what makes the bur-
dens of the people, but Col. Polk
does not care to, relieve them. it
would not answer his purpose.
He had rather throw out thesub-
treasury scheme, a scheme that
is Just about as wild and cratic,
as was the south sea scheme, that
burst like a bubble and hurt
every Lody that tried to handle
it. This was his meatless bone
to the southern farmers, but TO
his northern friends he had some
thing more juicy, it was an in
crease of pensions or kind Of
back pay SO to speak, in fact any
thing toloot the public treasury.
All of which is utterly impacti-
bic and none know it better than
he does.