The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-13

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dollar and now have the impudence TO
tnrn round To the men they robbed
and say: "You are going TO make
something JIG the crime Is undone
Snnnoe now. the bullion owners or
the mine wne should make 80 cents
on the dollar. Who il entitled 20 make
q profit on the silverq The men who
came here and spbdued this hostile
wilderness and made liz bud and bios
som as the rose, or the men VINO SUI
back. the gold gambler and promoter
of class legislation, who has degraded
your silver and reduced it in price2
Who has any title to consideration In
this matter. the miner who takes his
life i'm his hands and goes into the
mines and digs this silver and brings
IL out to bless the world, or the men
who sit back i'm Wall, Lombard and
Threadneedle streets, and is too COW.
ardly to fight for his country and too
mean to pay taxes like an honest mani
TApplause. But, Mr.. Miner, you will
not make all the Offence between the
present price of silver and the price it
will demand when we have full, free
coinage of silver. Wny9
The proposition isto allow the bullion
owner-in his own right to go to the mint
with his bullion, have it properly
assayed, deposit it in the mint and
have it coined in his own right, with
out charge, just as the owner of gold
bullion can do to-day, and the money
will be his. He will have the burden
of putting il in circulation, fit be a
burden. Laughter. And when the
bullion owner goes out to buy silver
with it, the mine owner and the laborer
will say wages are now SO much, they
have advanced with the free coinage
of silver, and when the coin owner goes
to the raiser of wheat to purchase same
for shipment to New York and Liver
pool, he will be informed that wheat
has advanced and the lions share of
the difference of profits will go to the
industries of this cOuntr! to theminer,
the wheat raiser and the mechanic Zap
plause1 and will go out to bless the
whole world. [Applause.]
LET THEM DUMP SILVER.
But they say the great trouble with
free coinage is that if we have it in this
country Europe viii dump all her silver
into America. A man said that to me
the other day and I reverently prayed
i'm his presence that-"Oh, Lord, let
them begin to dump" Applause and
laughter. What will they dump it
over hereford To give it to us7 Oh,
no. To exchange for our commodities
Well, that would not hurt. They say
they will dump iG over here and take
all our gold away. My hearers, do you
own the gold2 Laughter. No, you
do not. Who does2 Those sharp
American bankers, and they are too
smart to exchange the gold, if tits more
valuable than silver, for as the boys
say, they don't have to. Laughter.
But these people say they viii give
them boot enough to tempt them to il
and the gold will all go away and we
will have silver in its place, and all the
boot that the bankers got for it.
Laughter. Let US suppose that that
Is so, that gold is all gone away and
that we have nothing but silver. Who
is hurt9
But, said the men, what are we going
to do with our foreign exchanged That
reminds me of a man i'm Missouri who
was at a meeting and sat there whit
thing a stick and chewing tobacco Wig
orously. He had not any coat and
had one %suspender and his pants he had
quit patching because a hole wore the
longest, and he said: IF these Knighte
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Farmers Alliance men get into power
what are we going to do when we gC
abroad2" loud laughter. He wants
this country to legislate for him when
he goes abroad. Poor soul, he did not
know that the countless number Of
illimitable daily transactions that take
place between man and man in the
whole business of this country are in.
finite in number and aggregate amount
when compared with the little trife OF
our foreign trade"
CONTEMPT FOR THE WORKER.
General Weaver here gave a very
amusing account of a man whom he
had met who had been abroad, and
said: 'sThis is the kind of a gentle
man that the present legislature Of
this country, and the two once mighty
parties of this country are looking out
for. They care nothing about you mel
here who live in the mountains and
struggle to make the world rich, or the
men on the plain who help to feed the
open, hungry-mOuthed world and fur.
nish it with raiment. No, you areonly
miners and hay-seeds. Youdo notlivt
in great cities or belong to syndicates.
What right have you to make any de
mands upon the legislature of this
country4"
Legislation in the first instance liz fol
the men who live by usury and specu
lation, and in the second place for the
interested those who go abroad. but, ,
says the objector to the free coinage
of silver, g we would have no objection
if you would put a dollars worth 81
bullion into a silver dollar Let Ia
go back to the Constitution a moment
and see what it says, namely, tina
Congress-not Wall street, not LON
bard or Threadneedle streets, not the
crowned heads of Europe-but the
American Congress shall have power
to coin money and regulate the value
OF il: [Applause.l But the opponeni