The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

clothing. and when short of these must
90 to those nations who have food and
clothing and carry money to buy it as
all went to Joseph in the time OF the
famine.
If an army was besieged in a walled
city and had a full supply of money,
but was short on food and clothing, 1t
would have to soon succumb, but If it
was provided with ample food and
clothing with no money at all, it could
hold out indefinitely.
That is the comparative condition
between the creditor nations of Europe
and those nations who are debtors to
Western Europe, and yet hold to silver
money. These silver nations owe
every portion of the globe that pro-
duces a surplus of food and the raw
material for clothing, and every ma
ton outside of us who has outlawed
silver is short on both food and cloth
ing, and for all time to come will have
to make pilgrimages to these silver
countries and carry money into them
to get food and clothing the same as
everyone carried money to Joseph for
corn or else freeze and starve.
In case we hold to silver coinage, we
silver and producing nations will in a
measure dictate the price to our Gus
toners for the food and clothing that
maintains their existence, otherwise
they will dictate that price to us, max
ing their serfs and slaves and keep us
forever in debt maintaining a few lords
in Western Europe, New England,
New York and Pennsylvania in idle
nessand opulence; adding to the wealth
Of the one half of n per cent. of our
population who already have one half
of all the wealth in this country, and
entailing upon the larger portion of
the other ninety-nine and one half per
cent. of the population a condition of
serfdom and pauperism
Only one twentieth of our trade is
with foreign nations, the rest is internal
consumption and trade. Europe pro
duces nothing essential to our exist
ence; she has no mines; she has moth
ing that she al further develop to
employ her capital and labor. In all
the silver countries of the globe she is
our competitor for trade. If we restore
unlimited silver coinage all these silver
countries can interchange with us with
out suffering a discount on their money
and will be driven out of the European
market to ours for everything we
manufacture, and will bring to US a
great remunerative trade. The money
in Europe will be idle, and her citizens
with nothing to do, will be compelled
to starve unless maintained by govern
ment charity, which will soon tire out
those lords that conceived the conspir-
acy and force them soon to recognize
silver to be a suitable metal for coin
age on the same terms that are ex-
tended to gold. This, too, will be in
accordance with the principles of our
government, it will be legislation in
the interests of the masses and protec-
tive of American productions and of
American debtors against the unjust
exactions of eastern and foreign greed.
In reaching for foreign trade in South
America north and south line of rail
road on the east side of the Andes will
open to us by a short route through
lines of steamers to run from some port
in the Caribbean sea to Galveston, New
Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charles
ton, Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston, which for short
ness of distance, briefness of time, and
using the same money as South Amer
lea will OOH drive England to the wall.
Our factories in the east to supply this
market will multiply, adding to their
operative force those now idle will be
employed, and soon all the wheat and
meat we now export, which is only
5 per cent. of what we produce will be
needed for home consumption and
Europe will be at our door asking to
buy u products to keep her people
from starving, as they will then con
sumo as much as now, and if we do not
carry it to them they will have to come
after it. Prices will advance, our
mortgages soon become liquidated,
Europe paid off when we will nolonger
as now be sending to Europe annually
for interest nearly as much as the total
yearly coinage of the world and our
masses, instead of being tenants, will
be owners of their own homes and the
eastern investor, instead of being com
PEELED to take Western and Southern
lands will have his nrincinal and in