The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06

,.,o+os of the Republican party,
CsnuAIo leaders of the Cleveland democ-
sna 70 c~anvassing the country and
rsey ICING that the tariff is the cause
pro present distress. Tariff tinker
Of 'I :, the only remedy any of them
DS The country has tried a Re-
Prop oor tariff and a Democratic tariff
urro the disease of contraction to the
toG bosis. and obtained no relief. The
gDrsIand Democrats and the Republi
leaders resemble the vendors of
co.. - medicine on street orner har-
ming the people on the universal
quo the drug they sell will produce.
GU onnlication of the bread poultice
the arm to cure a broken leg would
~ reasonable as tariff tinkering to
Dsredv the universal distress produced
~ robbing the world of half its metal
lie money'
The Republican party is primarily
.,nonsible for the distress of gold con
lotion. That party approved the
land of 1873, emitting the silver dollar
t,,m the list of coins, and all occasions
10 hree-fourths of its votes in Con-
2...s to keep silver demonetized. The
S~,mocratic party, until the election of
W Cleveland, was opposed to the gold
.tondard and voted in Congress to re-
store silver coinage. But Mr.. Cleve-
land after his election, took lessons
fom Mr.. Sherman, Joined the gold Re
orbIicans and fought with them. Final
Il in extra session by his power and
notronage he brought over from the
,nks of free coinageD 3mocrats enough
racruits to the gold Republicans to
,atifv the crime of 1873 and perfect the
work establishing the gold standard.
There can be no doubt that Mr.. Cleve-
land and his followers, and Mr.. Sher-
man and the Republican leaders are in
harmony upon all financial questions,
and only differ as to who shall have
the Offices. They are fully in accord
ato the policy which makes gold bar
os and serfs. They also concur in the
use of the cuttlefish policy to darken
the waters b. sham battles over the
tariff or anything else which will con-
ceal the fact that the want of money is
the cause of the disaster, and that the
destruction of one half of the n etallic
money of the world has made money
scarce and difficult to obtain. They
know that Rapublicanism and Cleve.
land Democracy means the gold stand,
ard, dear money, and constantly fall
ing prices.
The Peoples party is the only ma,
tional party organization which is in
favor of remonetizing silver at the ratio
Of 16 to 1 without regard to what other
nations may do. Both the old parties
by their votes in Congress, and by the
administration of the treasury depart.
ment, are firmly committed to the sin
gle gold standard. The gold standard
in this country is the jointwork OF
Cleveland Democracy and John Sher.
man Republicanism. Old parties can,
not be reformed. Party ties must be
broken before the will of thepeopleca can
be felt at the capitol. There has been
no time since silver was demonetized
when the people did not desire it's resto,
ration. They relied on the vague and
unauthorized promises of politicians in
the Old parties and ambiguous expires.
sions in platforms, believing that the
party to which they belonged would, il
in power, restore the money of the con
stitution; but after regaining power
each party has pursued the policy the
people condemned and maintained the
gold standard.
I8it not time for the people to vote for
their own men and their party7 Have
they not been betrayed long enough
and often enough to withdraw their
confidence from those who have de,
calved them2 I believe they have, and
that the time is near at hand when the
people of the United States will strike
Tor liberty and break the chains of gold
contraction by restoring the money OF
The constitution.
Yours very truly,
VIM. M. STEWART.
ok out for bogus and misleading