The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-23
Anarchists and Socialists---The Socialists
are Blowing I p the Country Every
Day--The Plutocrats and
Their MANY Schemes.

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are Blowing I p the Country Every
Day--The Plutocrats and
Their Many Schemes.
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
R-"Hello! Uncle Z9ke. What can
1 do for you?"
B.-'Nothin', only I wanted ter know
whut you anarkists an soshulists ere
dom now. Betsy lowed that she reck
oned you fellers will be BLOWN up the
world with 'p%aternalism' or sumpthin'
before long. Is there any danger"
R.-@'Yes, there is plenty of danger.
If there was no danger the plutocrats
wouldn't be losing so much sleep and
wouldn't have their newspapers manu-
featuring falsehoods by the thousand
and retailing epithets in lieu of com
mon sense arguments. Every reform
newspaper and speaker that are in
earnest are blowing the ]plutocrats up
constantly. Every vote that is put in
the boxes for reform men are just that
much paternalism or anything that
you please to call it. George Wash
ington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew
Jackson, Patrick Henry, J. G. Cal
houn, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson
Davis, Stonewall Jackson and hun
dreds of other prominent men were
just as much anarchists or socialists in
their day as President Loucks, j. B.
Weaver, Ignatius Donnelly, Ben Ter
rell, H. G. Demming, Tom Watson and
thousands Of other men in the reform
movement are now They were hated
as cordially by certain people and prob
ably abused and slandercd as much.
Yet their names will never die. Honest
people will always speak Of all those
men with reverence"
B.-"Say, you are gittiI' sorter
mixed, amt you? Sum ov them old
fellers you named like jefferson Davis
an Abraham Lincoln and Stonewah
Jackson were on different sides, politi
cally, an fought each other durin' Ov
the last war. Betsy lows that Is sorter
curious like. Why vast they all on
the same side if they were honest re
fOrmers?'
R.-''That is easily explained. Go
back as far as 1776 and you find the
plutocracy Of England had good men
fighting each other. They called such
men as Washington, Greene and many
other good men 'rebols,' traitors, ;
'scabs' and all that, and aroused preju
dice, turned friend against friend, KIN
dred against kindred. All this was
done, not for the good Of any country
but for the purpose of forging the
chains on free men and filing their
pockets with money. The p~lutocrats
were not so skillful in many things
as they are now. After nearly a
hundred years hard study they again
arrayed the people on the slavery
question and have reaped a golden
harvest ever since, but it caused
thousands Of gallons of our best
blood to be spilled and much bitter
ness to be engendered. Here it was that
we saw such men as Davis and Lincoln
leading opposing forces, when, but for
the plutocrats having aroused sectional
hatred and raising false issues, they
would have been fighting the common
enemy. To day the p~lutocrats of Eng
land and America are more close
ly allied. They are still apply
ing epithets to those who pre-
fer liberty to financial slavery.
Only last year they had the people
fighting each other over an imaginary
scare crow-the force bill. There are
dozens of live and vital issues but this
one suited to whip the people of the
South, or a portion of them into line.
In the northeast they fooled the peo-
pie by making them believe free silver
would ruin the country By saying a
great deal about wildcat money" the
mortgage-riden people of that section
voted with all their power right against
their O1Un interests, for no other reason
than that wildcat money" had some
peculiar borrow attached. There never
has been any wildcat money" except
money made for a special purpose in
time of war.
B.-"I reckon you are right. Betsy
says 1T is every word true an I amt
agoln' to dispute with her. But if I
had you off ter yourself I might argify
a little, Tell the %plutocrats that they
can't fool all the people all the time.
People are learning an they amt
going ter stand this foolishness always.
Good bye"