The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-31
l. TIL GROWTH OF FEDERAL MO-
NOPOLY.
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a 7bed the Powers of the
tates--Dangers of Cen
G tralized Federal
MONOPOLY.

My address, lately delivered in North
ampton county and herewith submitted
for publication, is intended to show
how. the United States Government
has gradually absorbed the powers of
the States and undermined the rights
of individuals.
The ne1U career of absorption and
1 monopoly, begun in 1861 and continued
ever since, l shall barely touch upon.
This shall be reserved for a darker
chapter of our history than that
have herewith submitted. have
merely shown the beginning of the
evils.
The thin edge of the wedge driven
between the people and their liberties
and between the States and their SOW
ereignties, was started many long
years before the war. The sledge-
hammer blows upon this wedge from
the days of Abraham Lincoln to the
days of Grover Cleveland have driven
it home!
We do not now live under the gov
ernment of our fathers it has been
greatly changed, and not in the man
ner provided by the Constitution. No
amount of discussion can bring the
government back to it's original priz-
ciple, but it may retard the progress
toward Capitalization.
The people have protected" that is
exempted from taxation labor and cap
ital-yea even foreign labor ard capi
tai, until they have built themselves a
home and fo:tifcation in the great
cities from which you may never dis
lodge them. Wolves are sometimes
divided among themselves, as at Chi
cago now, but they are, or will be,
united against the lambs.
1 know now after much doubt and
tribulation that God rules this world
with the closest personal care and love
as well as by law, but it is not in dero
cation either of His love or His law
that corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit. We are now reaping the legiti-
mate fruits of ignorance, carelessness,
neglect and contempt of the nature of
the government and the duties of citi
zenship.
If the people intend to take the gov
ernment in charge they must fit them
selves for it by careful consideration
of it's first principles, it's history and
its tendencies.
The road to national destruction is
broad and easy and many nations have
found it:
1st. Capital creates a preference in
favor of few States and individuals; !;
and labor in the cities, especially in the
great cities, is taken into copartnership
with capital, but it is an unequal
partnership, and the partners do not
always dwell together in peace, as at
Chicago now.
I'd. A factional fight is organized by
the preferred States and individuals
and their dependents against the un
preferred.
Sd. The spoil hunters gradually as
sumo control of the camp of the unpre
ferred and keep the real vital questions
obscured.
4th. State and national politics are
confounded, confused and conglomer-
ated under party names and omnibus
platforms as if ten thousand lawsuits
were being tried at once, and the be
fuddled jury (the people, give their
verdict for oil the plaintiffs zone poiiti-
cal party) or all the defendants (the
other political party)
9TH. Capitalists and monied corpora
tions take charge of both political
camps, mortgage their leaders by cam
paign contributions and other methods
and dictate their platforms and nom
mess.
9th. Federal and State Offices are
distributed by high officials among the
people to bribe and buy them up in the
interest of said officials. The people
are corrupted with their own money !
The aggregate sum of all the salaries
distributed to corrupt the free expires
sion of the popular will is appalling
and growing with monstrous cumula-
tion.
7th. Newspapers are bought up, or
influenced to become mere party
organs, and these keep the people in
ceaseless wrangle and jabber about
parties, Offices, campaigns, war rrackets,
dead issues and personal abuse until
thew become unfit to consider their
own interest. They grow morbidly
fond of political excitement and per-