The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-11
AMERICAN
Harry Hinton Believes we Still Have
Tyrants as of old--Ancient and
Modern History--Party
Slavery and Its
Results

scarce now in the world; but other
species of slavery have taken its place
more refined, sublime and gentleman
ly. We have masters. We have tyrants.
We have slaves the same as ever. HUI
man nature and nan have never
changed, only circumstances. WHAT
mastery2 The getting of the service of
others for naught. What is tyrany9
The force or law which grants servi e
of one man to another for naught. The
greatest man says Napoleon is the one
who can control the service of the
greatest number of men. This makes
the greatest tyral t and the greatest
master the greatest man. Well, that
is the way the world wags. What are
the general ways by which the service
of man are C ontrolled without adequate
rewards9
1. By preaching a new religion, as
did Mohamet and Joe Smith.
g.. By government granting special
privileges corporate immunities, etc.
8. By the formation of trusts, mo
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What are the characteristics of the
men who serve others unwillingly, or
unwittingly more often7
Answer. = Ignorance, superstition,
credulity, lazines1 Extravaganza, clan
nishness, poverty and a NEAR servility.
What are the characteristics of the
masters and tyrants9
Answer. "A hyperion intelligence, a
cunning shrewdness, independence,
energy, avarice, pride and ambition.
We will wave the consideration of
Individual transactions, man whitman
in the business walks of life, unassisted
by the laws of the land, by cliques,
rings, trusts, parties and other com
binations. This is individual against
individual, and it is the duty of the
law and custom to demand fair play,
and if this is done let those sink who
cannot compete. Ny purpose now is
to ferret out servility and slavery
brought on by combinations of the
stronger against the weaker elements
of society.
Mohamet and Joe Smith and many
others before them took advantage of
certain cords in human nature igno-
rance, superstition, credulity, subserv-
iency and partisanry and became the
leaders Of men, commanding their ser
vice and effects. Their followers are
slaves if their religions are false. So
far as any religion is false, just so far
-sik-fallGNer slaHe-a religious
slave. Rings, cliques, trusts, boycots
monopolies, combines, corners, our
present political parties-all are COM
binations formed for the purpose
of oppression. Every individual who
falls under the heel of these tyran
MES becomes nor or less injured, ex-
cept those riding on top. We have
said the law steps in with social honor
tesee justice done between mar and
man; but these rings and trusts are
sly, sharp and hellish, and frequently
command the law. They evade the
law or make the law osuit themselves.
They get the products Of labor for less
than it is worth, and they sell to labor
for more than it is worth, getting the
service and toll of millions of men. So
far then as man does not get for his
labor a just compensation, and so far
as he pays too much for what he buys,
from said causes his service is going to
another; he is an industrial slave. Men
are looking now to the parties and to
the law to lift this bondage from their
necks. Fatal delusion! They com
mand and possess the government ard
the law and the parties
The government has gone on protect
ing and encouraging capital in it's
varied uses till capital owns the gov
erpmentAo owns the parties, owns the
people. Special privileges, corporate
immunities, protective taxation finan-
cial schemes and robbery, government
gifts, the changing of contracts-all for
capital. The national bank system
and that the States, the demonetiza-
ton of silver and the greenback, the
contraction of the currency, the doub-
ling the purchasing power of the dol
lar and the doubling Of all debts, both
public and private, by making them
twice as hard to pay in the products of
labor, the concentration of the wealth
of the country in the hands of the few
and forcing the remainder to work for
them Or do worse-all this we call
c~apltalistic slavery. THERE'S another
species otslavery called mental slavery.
the worst of all, superinduced by hero
worship partisan, the glamour of gold,
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