The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-27

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per capita; tax industries as little as
possible; protect our manufactures so
as not to build up monopolies; tax the
people as little as possible; issue no
more bonds, for a non interest bearing
debt Is easier paid than an interest
bearing debt; last but not least stop the
gambling bells of Wall street, all deal
ings in futures and speculations in
stocks, produce, etc.-then and not till
then will money flow in its legitimate
channels. Then debts will be paid.
manufactures be started, labor en-.
ployed, merchants made busy, and
farmers find a healthy market for all
their products.
The banks of New York ought no
more to be allowed to dictate and shape
the financial policy of this country
than Tammany of New York ought to
be allowed to dictate who will be presi-
dent of this country.
Poor Bland is having a time Of it in
Congress just now. Bland may be a
crank, but many an idle man and debt
ridden fellow is for Bland, and for his
measure.
Poor Wilsonl If he can live through
the attacks on his tariff bill, the typhoid
fever now burning and facilitating his
system will not hurt him. I'd rather
be down in Mexico with typhoid fever
than be the father of a great measure
like his tariff bill, and watch it's fate in
the hands of the gang at Washington.
For, of all the box-ankled, handy
shanked, ea-bitten, bobtail, lop-eared,
NANCY, courageless, brainless jackasses
that ever assembled since God made
the world, I think, for pure, downright
cussednese, the present gang in Con-
gress, headed by Hill in the Senate,
and tailed by mo quorum" in the
House, beats them all.
That there are true men in both
Houses of Congress, no man will deny.
But in their patriotic souls they must
have a contempt immeasurably for
those who block legislation and inject
into their motives and measures their
personal spite and political spleens. It
is ignorance, egotism and infamy COM
bined, and when such a team is COM
bined we find the devil in about az
bad shape as humanity ever saw him.
Washington City is the home of his
Satanic Majesty. OF course he has his
branch offices all over the United States,
but even in Washington, where the
devil is SO well known, and where he
knows the people so well, no doubt his
majesty is looking On the e at
the capitol with wondering interest
and constant surprise, and with a
constant pleasure as an approving
father on his obedient children.
One fourth of President Cleveland's
term of Office has expired. The term
of the Democratic majority in both
Houses will soon have expired. The
repeal of the Sherman purchasing
act" and the repeal of the federal
election laws" have been accomplished,
but the revision of the tariff and the
settling of the silver question, the two
important measures, are now entangled
in the meshes of sectional interest and
political selfishness; with the cries Of
bounty on the one side and protection
on the other, and the tariff measure is
hanging fire while the howl of the gold
bug paralyzes all legislation on the
silver question.
The next United States Congress
elected by the people will be sent to
Washington to actpromptly uponthese
measures. If the Democrats can't act,
then they will be asked to step aside
and give place to others who will.
SAM P. JONES.