The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-22
TO THE N. F. A. & /. u.

IOpuOINC u0pOnOS. LILY W |
as they may, the financial crash winch
has been barely averted for three SUI
cessive years is upon us. Inc LaLu
thus far are simply the slIght snooN0
preceding the earthquake eacn $50 80
growing a little louder and lasting"
little longer The crash OF 1895 Will
differ from preceding ones IN TWO re
snecta First, in each preceolhS oilS"
+bonationaI Administrations MADE some
ofFort towards restoring confidence.
Tbe whole effort of the present admin
istration is directed towards intensity
ing the stringency. l know OF no
parallel in the annals OF history AS
an example of extreme heartless crueICy
it is recorded that Nero fddled "hI0
Rome burned" It is a mOOted ques
tion whether Nero started the fire or
enc1uraged the incendiaries in their
avfnI work. He, however, fddled or
amused himself and courtesans, while
his chief city was being destroyed.
Our chief magistrate realizes that our
nation is in peril. Our business inter
ests are paralyzed. The great Shylock
Juggernaut is rolling his merciless
wheels e every industry Of the ma
ton. He has almost unlimited power
at least equal to that of Nero The
people cry for relief. His answer in
effect is, your spirits are not yet sum-
GENTLY broken. You must learn to be
content to occupy the place for which
you were intended. There must al
ways be the servants to wait upon the
masters. I could bring you relief by
calling an extra session of Congress,
but when you nave suffered moro you
will be easier handled | will delay
that special session until you have
been taught a lesson through financial
distress; and he stolidly goes a-fishing,
while the nation rushes to destruction.
There is no question as to his com
plicity. At the proper time Car
Rothschilds cracks his whip. The In
dian council strikes the blow that is to
stampede US, and then his factotum,
Grover Cleveland, acts. The special
session of Congress is called, and with
whip and spur the gold standard must
be fastened upon Us. No autocrat
ever used his power more relentless
ly. Even the appointment to a
vacancy on the supreme bench
is counted as good for two votes in
the Senate. A more humiliating spec
tacle than was that of Caligula in elect
ing his horse to the Roman council, is
this. Our chief magistrate is prOsti-
tuting Congress to crush the people.
Ca,igula, to show his contempt for the
Roman ~consuls, made his horse a con
sui. But he never tried to bring the
contempt Of the people on the horse by
bribery, through peddling public pat
ronage. In history, Nero will be con-
sidered as much superior to Cleveland
as Pizarro ia now to John Sherman.
The second difference is, that in previ
GUS crises there was 1.-The great West"
to which unfortunates might fee when
they had lost all in the East. This is
no longer so. The fight Of the admins
tration on the great industry of the far
West, silver, is practically destroying
that industry. In Colorado alone it Is
estimated that 3d. 600 men are already
out of employment. For want Of pos
tai savings banks, their savings of
years are swallowed up in national
bank failures. They are suddenly
swept from comfort to penury. In this
dilemma Grover can go fishing, but
these poor victims Of his lesson" must
leave their homes or starve. There is
no West for them to move on to. With
stern, sad faces they must once more
look with what little hope they can
muster, to the already over crowded
East, where manufacturers are closing
daily and turning thousands upon the
streets. AS they start East to look for
work, instead of the fertile, virgin
prairie, or the rich veins of undevel-
oped mineral which greeted them on
their former fight, they are met by the
chief of police, as in Kansas City, to
prevent them entering that city or as
in Aberdeen, where they lock them up
in the calaboose or chain them to the
sidewalk.
The immediate danger threatening
us is from the overcroWding of our
large cities with these unimployed, and
treating them as criminals. Without
home or hope, it will take but a spark
to ignite a flame that will destroy and
spare not. Any disaster of this kind
will be taken advantage of by the plu-
tocrarcy to fasten a standing army
upon us to forge our letters more