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

money devil and his adherents want.
If they had justice they would be in a
hotter country than this.
The Alliance demands that the
money shall be kept in the hands of
the people. This don't suit the money
devil and his adherents. They want
it gorged at head centers to be gambled
and speculated on. Every n of those
demands must be brought about by an
aggressive union of the whole indus
trial class. No class or State "a do it.
The cry of p~aternalism won't stop
the people from carrying out these re-
forms. What does these old political
| parties offer in place of these grand
! reforms? Tariff soup. Soup that is as
| thin as mOOnshine i'll the dark of the
moon on a dark, stormy night. Every
! thing that we can produce in sufficient
| quantity to do us on the farm or in the
| factory house, competition forces the
prices down until profits are small and
growing smaller each year. Money is
free to go where it chooses, and where
the profit is the best there it goes. This
war made by the Democratic machine
| upon manufacturers where no mOnOp-
| OIy exists is infamous and is instigated
by the money devil to draw the fire of
the people from them. Where exists
a monopoly in the manufacture of
! cheap gOods9 TrOt them out. Show
us a manufacturer of cheap goods
where capital is prevented from in
vesting their money. They don't exist.
We will pay one hundred dollars to the
party that will point out one. They
are subjected to cheap competition like
the farmer. The Republican party is
the champion of the oddities dollar
and they so legislate as to squeeze more
| and more of the products of labor into
the gold dollar. The Democratic ma
chine would so adjust the tariff on all
| cheap goods as to bring our factories
into competition with cheap cody labor,
! driving two million laborers into other
fields, taking one hundred and fifty
millions of gold out of the country,
bringing about a contraction-a panic
and increasing the purchasing power |
of gold one hundred per cent. more,
c~onfiscating the creditor class property
and paralyzing u industries.
Put cheap goods on the free lis and
one hundred millions of capital would
! build immense factories at Trinidad
Island, employ cody labor at twelve
cents a day and flood our country with
cheap goods and in q few years strip
us of all our gold. The goldite would
then be in his glory.
We make this statement and we
challenge contradiction. that the manu-
factlurers of cheap goods are selling on
small profits; that their labor is poorly
paid that they are selling so to go per
cent. cheaper than they did in 1866;
that hundreds of men with capital
chose to put their money into 2 and 4
per cent. government bonds and into
4 to 6 per cent. city bonds to investing
them in factories in cheap goods. These
are facts-fa0ts well known to the ma
chine politicians and the howlers for
cheap goods for the poor and oppressed.
The Republican policy would cut the
dogs tail off inch by inch by degrees.
The Democratic policy would cut the
dogs tail off just behind the ears at one
single blow. The Republican machine
assures the money devil it is best to
e~nslave the people by degrees just as
fast as they a be seasoned to it. The
Democratic machine assures the money
devil their scheme is the best. Would
the people SUBMIT If it is true, as J.
Gould says, one-half the farmers can
be hired to shoot the other half down,
then it is the best. The methods Of the
two old machines is different, but the
result will be the same.
This tendency to paternalism is
battering down the boundary line of
States and Obliterating the principles
upon which the government is
founded Gov. Flower.
The difficulty with these old foggy
politicians is they separate the govern
ment from the people. They do not
realize that there has been a change in
the last sixty years. Sixty years ago
We had the slow coach and the spin
ming wheel. These could be regulated
by the people, or rather they did not
need any regulation. Things have
changed, We have the iron horse,
~telegraphs and mammoth machinery.
TelegTaphS and railroads cannot be
regulated by States. They are bigger
than any dozen States. It takes the
combined power of all the States to do
this. Is it any more dangerous for the
whole people to exercise their powers
than for a part7 Can't we trust the
whole people rs well as a part2 The
truth is the old politicians have been
legislating for barnacles that have lived
off of the people so long that they have
forgotten that the people have any
rights. The people, who have borne
the burden so long, are rising in their
might and are asserting their rights to
rule. They have come to the determi-
nation to have a government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie in fact as well as in theory. The
people are learning that they must
study economical questions and apply
them in governmental affairs the same
as they would their own business. This
does not suit the money devil or their
friends, the machine politicians.
The system of government of sixty
years ago won't work in this period.
We have had a radical change in our
industrial system, and legislation must
be adjusted to suit the changed con-
ditiOns. The evils foisted upon our in |