The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

and our wealth are from the mo-,
Oy the people, and both mustt ~ and
people. Wealth, like govorn " Ior the
the product of the co o6eretjonent, is
and ike government, must no - VI all,
10y oL an us creators, not of a PROP
Egs4 Few alone. The princinlapas lVl:
noer!y,, equality, union which r p1es Of
Cne INDUSTRIES we call govern%sIln
musG rule In all industries. Gnnent,
ment exists only by the consAn Ttosern,
governed. Business, propertU VI the
are also governments and M, capital
rest on the consent of the m oono also
This assertion of the inbere59to ,er9ed.
allenable right, and ability. If SSuol In.
pie to own and operate, at their oo PEG
any or all of the wealth thew rOp1on,
the fundamental, irrepregsi6IoU naIEe ls
comprOnlioaOIe keynote of b "ua un-
and with this trumpet note crisis,
lead the people through anv you can
to certain victory. '"cflhce
It is not the parties that bero
duced the pandemonium of intopro
tent panic which is called trade hermit
dustry that the people can IooI1 ana IN,
lief. To vote for them is to 1o Lor re-
more panics, more p~andemo O;e Ior
Both these parties have done uus;
work, but their good work il Sooa
The republican party took tho SSUNuI99'
man of the auction block of The OiIack
power, but it has put the white ~ SIaVe
the auction block of the mona mauOn
to be sold to the lowest bidder liver
the iron hammer of mononoIv "I nue.
Democratic party for a h1ndrcJ aue
has been the pull back against Years
traliZation in American politics 0 1oe9'
ing for the individual against The o' oaN
mQnlty, the town against the Steto
and the State against the nation "'8 PHt,
IN one hour here last July it saorifooSs
the honorable devotion of a century ~
It's great principle and SURRENDERED LotI
the rights of States and the ri0htS W
man to the centralized CORPORATE doS-
potism to which the Presidency If the
United States was then abdicated, VIZ
There ought to be two f~rst.cIass M
litical funerals in this country in 1909
and If we do our duty the corpses viii
% F6auy on Time. Are you going to
the funeral of Benedict ArnoId9" on "a
of his neighbors asked another. No
but l approve of it," We will not on
to the Republican and Democrats
funerals, but we approve of them
There Is a party that the people can
trust because in the face of overwheIm.
ing Odds, without distinguished leaders
money, office, or prestige, it has raised
the standard of a principle to save the
people.
1t is a fact of political history that
no new party was ever false to the
cause for which it was formed. If the
Peoples party as organized in Cook
county is supported by the country,
and the people get the control of their
industries as of the government, the
abolition of monopoly will as surely
follow as the abolition of slavery fol-
lowed the entrance of Abraham Lin.
coin into the White House in 1861.
Then we will have the judges and the
injunctions, the President and the
House of Representatives. There will
be no Senate; we will have the referen.
dun and the Senate will go out when
the people come in. The same consti.
tuition that could take the property Of
unwilling citizens for the railroads for
rights Of way can take the railroads,
willing, or unwilling, to- be the nations
property when the people come in.
Then the national debt, instead of req.
resenting the waste of war, will repre-.
sent the railroads and other productive
works owned by the people and worth
more, as in Australia, than the bonds
issued for them. The same constitution
that could demonetize silver can re.
monetize it, or demonetize gold fore
better money than either. The honest
dollar will come in when the people
come in, for it will not be a dollar that
can be made scarce, to produce panics,
and throw millions of men out of work,
and compel the borrower to pay two,
where he received only one,
Women will vote, and some day We
will have a woman president when the
people come in. The ~postOfice will
carry your kilograms and your parcels
as well as your letters, and will be the
peoples bank for savings, and their
life and accident insurance company,
as it is elsewhere already. Every darK
place in our cities will be brilliant WIN
electricity. made by the municipalities
for themselves, WOrkingmen and Wo'
men will ride for 8 cents and scnOol
children for 81 cents, as in Toronto Oh
street car lines owned by the mlnlcl
palities, and paying by their prottsa
large part of the cost Of government
now falling on the tax payer. Wnen
the people come in, political cor[uP
ton, boss rule, and Doodle Will 60 VI bo
because these spring mainly from tn0
intriguos and 6riberies of syndlcatGs
to get hold of public functions for tn neaI
private profit. We will have a ieaI
civil service, the inevitable n logiG%,
result of the demands of the PeoPl %,
party, founded, as true civil sefV nTbIi,
form must be, on a system OF P obiId
education which shall give every e. ft
of the republic the opportunity " The he
himself for the public service, am.
same constitution which gr an Ple S6,
piresof public lands to create the ar + % cork:
Railroad kings will fad Land TOT o %ela
S1o-ooo-io hopCoo op5 land f0r CO OPNA~