The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-19

of banks breaking, of factories stopped,
of men and women and children starv
ing for bread. Establish the gold stan
dard in fact as well as name, stop the
purchase and coinage Of silver, and all
will be well; the laborers will find
work the banks will gain confidence;
the factories will resume and the
mouths of the hungry will be filled.
Then we can say to our financial sys
tenn este perpetna-be thou everlast
ing"
John Trueman us sing:
All hail the power of the gold bugs name;
Let manhood IrOstrate fall,
And bow the knee to Wall streets cltim
And be robbed, freemen, all.
When this government becomes a
robber of its own people to sustain
Wall street and British creditors, we
begin to believe its honor and integrity
are not worth a thought. The silver
in the silver dollar has maintained it's
intrinsic value against so years Of
legislative war, To pay the bonds in
silver to-day would be equal to have
paid them in the products of labor at
any previous time, The bondsmen
have nothing, aud the bonds are pay
able in coin, gold or silver, and the
contract is not violated. But to htve
them paid in a hun lred cent silver dol,
lar and one hundred and forty cent
gold dollar, the bOndholder has made
twenty cents on the dollar in intrinsic
value at that. Repeal the Sherman
law and cut down half our money, you
pay him in a two hundred cent dollar;
for that dollar will buy double what
the dollar would in which the contract
was first made. We would like to
know how you are going to sustain the
honor Of the nation by thus robbing
the people2 How are you going to put
bread in the mouths of the hungry by
doubling their burdens2 How are the
factories going to resume work when
the people are impoverished and un-
able to buy7 Talk about honor Talk
about honesty 1t is apity that thieves
and tyrants can use such words to
cover up their treason. It took five
and one half millions Of dollars to elect
Grover Cleveland, and it will take ten
millions to manufacture enough Bene-
dict Arnolds to carry this scheme
through. For 80 years the pirates have
been laundering at the doors Of the
government, and have already robbed
the people of billions. Go now, you
self fstyled honest men; pass this bill;
turn the government over into their
hands; divide the spoils among you;
grow so rich you can retire from pub
lie life and spit in the faces of those
you have robbed; but remember there
is another day and God is just"
Jim Emerson would like to
know why there is no talk Of reducing
the amount of gold in the gold dollar,
seeing that the intrinsic value Of the
silver in the silver dollar has remained
unimpaired through all these tests and
battles against it?'
Boomerang. THE honorable gen
tIeman is off his balance. He is as
crooked as a crank. He is humanely
human or hoggishly hoggish. Which,
I will not say. 1t would be violating
our contract with public creditors and
make this nation a smoking stencil in
the nostrils of the nations. 1t would
be repudiation-bad faith-sinful and
Shiny Wickedness. Let us hear no such
rot among a body of honest, honorable
gentlemen representing a chivalrlc
free people"
Jim Jimerson.- Would like to ask
another question. On which side does
the most honor and honesty lay? To
cheat the people for the benefit OF
creditors by increasing the intrinsic
value of the dollar or pay them IN dol
lars according to contract, and to
maintain the use Of those dollars at
parity till these contracts are filled?
Boomerang will answer the gen
tIeman. The house is on fire. Business