The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-08
REFORM NEEDED.
Hod ks and Links in the Chain that Slow
ly Bind Us.

4RAhS GAloU SLOWLY DI4u us. IlObIC0 IL
the National Economist that the Hon
hs7R.'4 Livingston, I'll { Georgia, attributes
our national adversity to four great
cause namely: Eastern domination,
financial domination, commercial
domination and political domination
In few well-spoken words he tells it
all. If you will remove two letters
from the word domination and insert
the letter a, you would see it in diff
terent light. As to the links in this
chain | will take up few of them first,
the present financial system. | will
represent as the great hook to which is
fastened the other links. This financial
system has had so much said about it
the people generally are b. coming ac
qualnted with its workings. So | will
call 1t the great lever power by which
the links are made to work. The first
great ring that Is fastened to this hook
L Will say, ls the manufacture and sale
of strong drink, which eucircles the
world; and as all men are acquainted
with it's workings, | will merely state
it in itself is the devils commander in
chief and the great battle of this ma
ton for God and our COuntrymen has
to be fought; and if we, AS a nation,
tiOn, we must marshal our hosts on
the Lords side and chain this great
general and bind him in prison to
await the judgment. Commerce is an
other link, as manipulated at this time,
that is dragging us fearfuily down.
Too much Of the earnings of labor are
stuffed into the pockets of men stand
ing between the producer and con-
D11V1 rat hT1 mr.
the present high tariff are some of the
rings and hooks that complete this
chain. | notice that the sugar bounty
clause of the Mckinley bill, which has
yet fourteen years to run, the first
year shows that the two cent bounty
on the pound to the domestic sugar
makers will cost the. tax payers of the
whole country about three million dol
lars; and with the annual increase in
population will require an increase in
acreage for years to c2me; and Mr..
Monopoly, seeing this bounty, makes
jump for it and intends to take it all
IN by the central factory system and
buy the cane Of small farmers, thereby
taking all profits in the business from
the mass of the labOrers and add unto
themselves the two cents per pound by
the National Government for the next
IJur seGn yea. 8, ll,ivills1 Jh5 itfcJrer b.Ie
a bare sustenance Talk about giving
labor part of the profits! Never. 1t
is not the nature of the brute combine
to divide He wants the whole earth
and is going to have it, II the people en-
nldSSe, don't wake from their slumbers
and by the strength of their votes down
this giant, now III his infancy, before
he grows so strong they cannot dictate
to him as free people should. Accord
ing to the price of sugar at the mills,
which is 3 to 81 cents per pound, add 2
cents, giving the mill owner cents a
pound, which the consumer has the
privilege of buying at wholesale at
from 81 to 4k cents. Did you ever
hear of a man buying a thing for less
than it cost him9 If not, now we have
it. This is one of the invisible links to
carry In the chain that is binding u.s.
Now we take up another link, that
of the manufacturer of cotton goods in
America, under a high protective
tariff, the farmer selling cotton at 6
cents and the manufacturer making
seven yards of prints out of one pound
of cotton and sells the same to the
labOrer for 81 cents. Coats e Co. re-
ceive about 80 cents per pound for
spool cotton, furnished the farmers
wife to make up those seven yards
of prints she pays the merchant 40
cents for. You will be amazed if you
will walk into some of the dry goods
stores and see the new oak grain writ
ing desk holding 100 dozen spoOls~Ol
cotton, which heard a drummer say
was worth S., given to merchant
to induce him to push the sale of the
spool cotton. Who pays for it? The
consumer. Always so.
The present demOnetized silver dollar
is a round wheel that performs it's part
among these links Stamped on one
side is the word "liberty;' on the other
side in God we trust" containing 6822
cents value on a gold dollar basis
coined by the government at the com
mand of Mr.. Monopoly and sent out
among the toilers, telling them it is a
dollar. Some one must get ready for
Birthstone Lake (as a brother puts il. }
The tariff is the last hook that is at
tached TO this chain, and locks the
wheel of progress on one side. 1t is
said, and true, l suppose, that foreign
splnners buy two hundred million dol
lars worth of American cotton and are
not allowed to sell their goods to this
nation, except over high tariff, which
is claimed by Republicans that it pro
tects labor, DO b in the field and fac
tories. intend to prove the fallacv
of this argument. You have followed
me thus far and find that I am close to
the mark. Now hold your ear close
to the ground and you will hear the
tramp of the mighty host. The army
that General Washington thought he
and our forefathers had conquered,
now marching under the banner of
King Gold, aim to bring us into sub
lection. Europe fixes the price of our
cotton and other produ It's on a gold
basis and pays the top of the market to
the speculator. She is forced to sell her
goods to pauper consumers of her own
and other nation. In this way she will
force us to be pauper farmers Some
claim to remove the tariff from cotton