The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-04
RALEIGH. N. c.. July 4. 1893.

Is a political power, a party power
lt stands to reason. The votes which |
elected you cost on an average in cam
paIgn money one dollar each; the Re
publican votes for Harrison about sixty
cents; Weaver's votes ten cents each.
This shows the power of money, the
party power. The largest pole got the
persimmon.
l shall ever admire you, Grover, for
when John Sherman had caught the
fat money hog you, as brave as a i01',
and as cunning as fox, took it away
from and he did not know it Wesup
pose you are anxious to know what
advice Harry Hinton gives in the
present administration. His advice is
do nothing but pass appropriation bills.
See a good time. Enjoy the spoils.
Tinker with the tariff little ar dlower
few items on raw material to assist
the manufacturers and trusts and do
nothing on finance except repeal the
Sherman law, and all things will be in
the right shape for forty years. You
will have all the arms of the moneyed
interest on your side and the poor
devils on the other. Thus you may go
on conquering and to conquer. I'VE
must educate, we must educate or we
will fall by our own prosperity" To
this end thousand suborned sheets
and thousand declaimers must be
paid. Money! the power of money
Hark!
We wish in conclusion to draw your
attention 'to a report being circulated
around that the country is full of rob
bers and some go on to say not having
the fear of law and respect for author
ity, and do affirm that the law and
government both protect and license
said robbery. Between the cyclones
and starvation prices for labor products
and the Asiatic cholera, and the rob-
bers, come doleful complaints. Rob
bers and bloodsuckers. Two billions
interest on home debts, three millions
on alien debts, five hundred millions
on national government about the
same on state and county government.
Without labor there is no value pro-
duced. Labor must pay this annual
debt. They report that this drain
upon labor was caused by the clean cut
robbery of law unadulterated and re-
fined, and they charge upon you, Mr..
President, that you favor such laws.
Just say, to Offset this calumny, that
you are in favor of labor buying the
most for days work. This will
satisfy good many of these silly pates.
It is nothing to them if six cents will
buy as much as dollar, whether they
get six cents or a dollar for a days
work. Don't let them look up at the
mountain, three and one half billion
yearly of interest and taxation which
don't grow any less if money becomes
less and even if labor is six cents a
day. We've got 'em, Grover. Let us
squeeze them. A great many men will
not work unless necessity compells
them to work, anyway, and more are
not fit for anything else. Hugh Nc
Culloch said too much money would
make the people lazy and immoral.
Are not you, as Hugh McCulloch and
John Sherman, looking to better the
morals of the people and the advance
ment of society9 If so, keep them pay
ing interest on debts which never give
out, bring necessity to bear, that scor-
pion scourge for the INDECENT, and let
all their net earnings go % make the
refined and delicious among people of
elegant manners. We've got 'em where
we can work. 'em forever and amen.
Let's keep 'em so.
Mr.. President, there's a certain set
going around here explaining these
things to the people, and there are GER
tain newspapers not under the wink of
party doing much damage. We had
a hot time with them last summer for
every lie we told had to be proven on
the spot Our legulature started out
to demolish the concern in ten minutes
but after a kick or two in the shortribs,
held up. I tell you this for you and
Sherman to get your Congress ready to
pass a law that there sh Ill be only two
parties, the Democratic and RepublI-
can parties and all other parties shall
not be noticed by the election laws of
the government nor of any State or
Territory. We've got it right here.
Let Congress fix it everywhere. We
must educate; but whoever teaches
without authority from headquarters
is traitor and villain.
I saw a man on burning boat once. |