The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-06

| at his own sweet will. I want to ask
YOU professional men and politicians
who hear me to-day, you may not have
heard of this fact, for the political
press has been wonderfully reticent
| about it, but [ want to ask you if the
U. S. Government is willing to assist
other countries in depressing her PEG
pie, how long will it be before she will
conclude that it is right to Cypress her
own subjects in the same manner? We
are fast becoming R~ussianized by the
agency of money-proud a~ristocracy.
Look at the pomp and show of the
recent inauguration. Almost super
human efforts to initiate the Skinner
and sheen" of royalty. In contrast to
the plain American idea ms ituted by
Washington it vas a sickening spec
tacle. And when the good Lord
thought proper to send upon them the
very worst spell of weather Of the
whole season they threaten to move
up the inauguration a month later
hereafter as if to get ahead of Omnipo
tence.
Evils Of the kind we speak Of can
have but one result and history shows
what that is. When we read Carlisle's
history of the French revolution we see
that when the famished people Of
France became frenzied with rage from
the wrongs of an overbearing aristoc-
racy that the country flowed with
blood. Retributive justice at length
came and The nobility were compelled
to answer before the assizes Of the poor
for a social system they knew not how
to change. When once proud and
happy Egypt allowed her wealth to
concentrate in the hands Of a few the
sun of her prosperity went down i'll
blood. I DO assert at the risk of being
called a calamity howler' Or q hay
seed anarchist or bullets or any
other foolish epithet substituted in
place of argument, that every prece
dent IN history goes to prove that the
present condition viii bring upon us
the direct calamity unless prevented
by wise legislation such as has not been
given by the solons Of the present gen
GRAFTON.
Thos. q. Shearman, a noted stati5ti-
clan, says that Out of IS, 900, 900 people
about %, coo own one. half the wealth
Of this country and that at the present
rate in thirty years SO, 200 will W the
entire wealth Of the nation. Can you
imagine a condition of this kind? So,
600 is one out of about 1 300. What is
the result? 1900 slaves to one pluto
crat, one oppressor, II lord and mas
ter. 1t is apparent to all that unless a
change is speedily made that the
masses will soon be arrayed against
the classes. History repeats itself.
Every republic runs parallel. Let
things continue for a short time as
they are and no man can claim that
self government has been a success in
this country. The mutterings OF dis
content are heard on every hand. Con
gress fails to grant any relief and be
trays the people. The administration
is the willing tool Of ~plutOcracy and
joins in the crusade of oppression. TIE
legislature Of our own State, It fails to
offer any relief but pass laws to pro
tect 'possums, 'possum dogs, catfish
and terrapins. The unrest and disC0n-
tent Of the people is the muttering Of
the distant thunder before the storm.
The people are finding out that vicious
Legislation Is the cause of their troubles.
Now ask yourselves what you may
expect from such men as you have
heretofore entrusted as lawmakers?
During the recent campaign every
gold bug politician that could stand up
long enough to tell where he was at
promised in glowing colors that the
odious tariff should be readjusted, that
national banking laws should be re-
pealed, that we should have free and
unlimited coinage of silver, that an in
| cometax should be created, that honest
labor should be relieved Of it's burdens
and that equality and fairness in ali
things should prevail. Many months
have passed, Congress has been in ses
sion, our legislature has met and adj
iourned and we look in vain for any
law that has been created or an odious
one modified in the interest Of the
working people. Thousands of good,
honest men voted with the old parties
just to give them one more chance and
now we can all see that there is no re-
liability to be placed in their promises,
Look at the legislature of III own
State. The bowling mob presided over
by Sweps0n and Littlefield in the dark