The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-06
PUBLIC ADDRESS
Of DR.. v. N. Seawe1l, County Lecturer OF
Moore County F. A. and l. u,
at their Meeting April
18th at Carthage,
N. Z.

1t has been Saiu OH"O
the Alliance is a monopoly, thaC al
though ORGANIZED to fight monopoly IL
has BECOME a monopoly within itself.
To some extent this may be true. You
have all heard of the old saying about
boving to fight the devil with fire.
Inst so We are compelled to fight mo
nopoly With monopoly. We are
obliged to fight organized oppression
with organized resistance. We should
strive to break up all kinds OF monoP
DIV that controls the price OF LABOR
products. the n~ecessaries Of life, re
CARELESS of the law Of supply and de
mand. In order to do 50 1T seems we
are to have a bitter struggle, the strug-
ole between equal rights and justice
and the powers Of darkness. In the
first place we will have to overcome
party prejudice, the most foolish of all
kinds of prejudice. Then we must
overcome sectional prejudice which is
both a foolish and a wicked prejudice;
this is the kind of prejudice that causes
n man to hate another because they
don't happen to have been born in the
same section or community, as if men
were ever consulted about where they
should be born. Nevertheless we all
have an abiding faith that we will
eventually gain the battle. There is
no record of a great revolution that
49,, 800 L-1lr-~~r2 C0N-n O0n hos
said: a revolution once begun, is al
ways fought until it's done"
One great objection to il ~organiza,
ton is that as we ask the government
to protect labor that we are in favor Of
pa~ternQIism. This is a terrible thing
in the eyes OF the gold bug, that his
government has to be made II Of pa.
ternalism. He never aIludes to the
fact that almost every m 2nufacturing
establishment the land is a protected
child Of the government. It is all right
to build up and protect national bank
ing corporations and give millions to a
few sugar producers. It is all right to
protect Andrew Carnegie and other
manufacturing barons who Cypress
and shoot down their labOrer5 like
dogs. It's just the thing to protect
nabobs and shylOcks, but when you
speak of protection for the farmer that
is a m0nstrosity that cannot be tOler-
ated. The working man is beginning
to see these things and he will soon
learn enough, see enough, feel and en-
dure enough to learn to apply the rem
edy that remedyisco operation. There
is no remedy without cooperation. 1t
is useless to speak Of the necessity of
co operation on the part Of the farmer
and those dependent on himfor susten
ance. The condition that surrounds
US justifies it; not only that but it ne
c~essitates the cooperation of every
fair-minded honest man that loves lib
erty and prizes an era Of prosperity.
Corruption runs riot and seems TO be
the rule instead Of the exception. 1t
dominates the ball0t-b0x and Congress
and the legislature and even has soiled
the judicial ermine. Votes are bought
and sold like articles Of trade. Most
of the newspapers are subsidized and
muzzled, many Of them u by men Of
little or no character-men who are
ready to do the bidding Of & corrupt
money p0wer-men who are beneath
the dignity of honest, decent people.
Public opinion is silenced, business
orOs+ro+o1 opJ tho Jo-Ic Ovoort-o4Err
in the hands of the capitalist. The time
has come when country people cannot
organize for self protection without a
wall Of protest going up from the
greedy capitalist and Spectator, the
lords Of plumber. Year after year we
see laws enacted to enrich a few at the
expense of the multitude. Our chill
dren and cur homes are to be sacrificed
upon the altar Of mammon. The wide
awake farmer is beginning to see a
state Of things fast approaching Euro
pean conditions. You all know what
kind Of government Russia has for her
people. There the iron hand of oppres-
sion is felt on every hand; there we
are told if a man dares to utter a sim
pie word of protest against the deeds
Of cruelty perpetra.ed by a proud auto
crat whose imperial will is the law Of
the land, he is hunted down like a
wild beast and is either shot or sent
away to the mines to suffer a thousand
deaths banished forever from the face
of his countrymen. The United States
Government has professed to be the re
verse Of this. Here where freedoms
banner floats from almost every hilltop
we have boosted for a century of free
dom's privileges; the port of refuge for
the n-nnrnssnd of every nation 2 haven