The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-03
RELIEF.
So Much Needed by the Masses.

Alliance. And if you will permit IT,
MI. Editor I want to call the attention
of the good old Democratic Congress
men to the condition that Is rapidly
approaching me with the vengeance of
a western cyclone, and which l am in
spired to say will sweep me up in it's
wrath and hurl me around in it's mighty
and far reaching width till 1 shall be-
come like unto many of our gaudy
Congressman who are dancing to the
tune of Wall street music on the silver
fiddle. l do not know what to do for
myself, my family or the grand old
Democratic party.
Here | am, with a house full of chill
dren (only six,) all of them as smart as
a steel trap-took after mammal
wife as industrious as any queen in her
hive in the height of honey season, a
capital crop of cotton, corn enough for
home use, asparagus for sale, grapes,
apples, peaches, oats, rye, peanuts,
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, IN fact
a full diversified crop, calculated to
make the mouth of any of those hungry
/ party chaps water, who would not
take the good old Democratic advice as
I did, and all true blues should. The
perfection Of these good things more
nearly approaches in the fall-fAll Of
the year, not fall of prices, such as are
pending now and that so nearly ap-
proaches the vengeance Of a western
cyclone that | have been persuaded to
write this letter to you to relieve my
mind and to warn u law makers of
the urgent danger that encompass us,
true blue Democrats and Alliancemen
of the South. Unless, indeed, they
miss in action, ratherthan in name, a
the B. A. member, and plumb the
mark and give us that relief which we
need and have SO long waited for, to
come when the Democrats get in full
power. Grover was too slow in calling
Congress together, and I fear that
Congress is going to be too slow giving
us the relief we need and must have
or we will fail like the banks with q
full hand of assets, consisting Of diver
siied crops, the result OF diversified
farming under Democratic preaching,
simply because we can't realize on the
assets. Since money is so scarce. this
is the picture presented here and is the
impending evil I fear.
now call on all true Democrats who
have the interest of their party aud
country at heart, to go 20 work at once
and give US free and unlimited coinage
of silver, and be it said in truth of that
venerable old Senator Z9b. B. Vance,
of North Carolina, thou art right; thy
way but voices the sentiments Of all
true Southern Democrats, and tends to
dispel the evil that now encompass US
in financial disaster; be of good cheer
in thy old age, accomplish thy way
and the praise and prayers of true
Southerners will follow thee beyond
the grave. Then come with the income
tax, revision of the tariff and sufficient
y. s. paper currency to pay all pen
sions; these acts, I do feel, would
dispel from America her financial
panic and give a new lease OF life to
Democracy. Right here it occurs to
me that in the light of the failure Of
u. S. banks, we don't need old State
banks, rather give usa system of postal
savings banks. I can but feel that the
Populists are right here.
Congressman, get to work, do your
duty. When your mission is filled l
will help to ring the bell for you to
come in, but don't let that cussed Wall
street crowd, with old Ransom and
mugwump Grover Cleveland over ride
and defeat our peerless, fearless and
much beloved Zeb. Vance in his last
and best days work in behalf of his
people, for with the failure of the cause
that Vance is fighting for, will go the
Democratic party. The people expect
relief; they need relief, and are nos in
a humOr to wait several sessions for it.
This Congress can give it and play the
winning card. Will they do it, or will
they let the opportunity pass and drive
us to look to the Populist party since
it would be our only hope, for bad as
that might be, it would be far better
than the tender mercies of a Wall
street demon drunk unto destruction.
Mr.. Editor, since I have got so much
in here for Democracy as well as the
Alliance, I will rely on the Alliance in
terest to open your heart to it's publ
cation. Y. I. @.
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PICNIC AT LIBERTY.
Mr. FDTTOR.-August 18th, 1893. was