The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-27
Of 9 portrayal Of his aims and attri-

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CICERO CITATIONS AGAINST CLEVELAND.
When, 0 Cataline, Cleveland) do
you mean to- cease abusing our patience9
How long is that madness of your
still to mock us3 When is there to be
an end of that unbridled audacity- of
yours swagging about as it does nowY
DO not the night guards placed on tire
Palatlne Hill ION the minds of the peo-
pIf)-do not the watches posted
thr~ ughoutthe city-does not the alarm
OF the people, and the union of all good
men-does not the precaution taken Of
assembling the Senate in this mosa de-
tensible place (et Washington)-do not
the looks and countenances of this
venerable body here present have any
effect upon you? Do you not feel that
your plans are detected9 (your plans
to foster the monopolies) Do you not
see that your conspiracy (your alliance
with the gold bugs is already arrested
n rendered powerless (whenever the
people vote) by the kno Wedge which
every one here possesses it3 CHE knowl
edge that you are a traitor to the
masses of the people) What is there
that you did last night, fwhen Sher-
man was present. what the night be-
fore, (when you obeyed the dictates of
Wall streetO Where is it that you
were, (when the peoples money-their
life, blood-was at stakeO Who was
there that you summoned to meet you;
(before that repeal bill was passedO
What design was there hellish design
which was adopted by you, with which
you think that any one of US is unac-
quainted? eve know your aim to
please England } Shame on the age
and it's principles Chat will stand up
for such a tyrant.) The Senate-yes,
it knew too welD is aware of these
things; the consul (people) sees them;
and yet this man lives (politically.)
Lives! ay, he comes even into the Sen
ate. (And the Senators obey him. He
takes a part in the public deliberations
(by monkeying with Republicans and
marking down and checking off for
slaughter (the slaughter of the sill
v~erites) every individual among us
(see Vance and Irby.) And we, gal
liant men that we are, think that we
ara doing our duty to the Republic if
we keep out of the way of his frenZied
attacks. (See the number of papers
that still praise him for policy's sake,
for party's sake.)
You ought, o Cataline, % Ieveland)
long ago to have been led to execution
politically, I mean) by command of
the consul (the people, That destruc-
ton which you have been long plotting
against us ought to have already fallen
on your own head. (Ploting to injure
labor and labor's products by a single
gold standard) What7 Did not that
most illustrious(O man, Publins Scipio,
Senator Sherman) the Pontifex Maxi
mus, in his capacity of a private pub
lic) citizen, put to death Tibenus
Cracchur, (the silver repeal bilD though
but slightly undermining the Constitu-
tion9 (Ghe spirit of equal rights to all,
special privileges to none.) And shall
we, who are the consuls, 1--WE, the
sovereign citizens sf the U S. tolerate
Catalina, (Cleveland) openly DESTROYS
to destroy the whole world with fire
(for Wall streets sake) and slaughter7
|EHo eJoy1ohtnu ~ tho ronnnu IF tho
common people)
Does not this quotation we'll repre-
sent the Democratic dictator7 And
the following quotation from Cicero's
second grafton against Catiline well
express the contest which is now on:
ION the one side are fighting mod
esty, on the other, ~wantonness; On the
one, charity, on the other, uncleanness;
on the one, honesty, on the other, fraud;
On the one, piety, on the other, wick
edness; on the one, consistency, on the
other, insanity; on the one, honor, on
the other, baseness; on the one, con
thence, on the other, lust. In short,
equity, temperance, f%ortitude, pru
dence, all the virtues, contend against
iniquity withluxury, against Incidence,
against rashness, against all the vices;
lastly, abundance contends against
restitution, good plans against baf1ed
designs, wisdom against madness,
we'll founded hope against universal
despair. In a contest and war Of this
sort, even if the zeal of men were to
fail, will not the immortal gods compel
such numerous and excessive vices to
be defeated by these most eminent vir-
tues!