The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
PLUToCRAcY.
Harry hinton Talks About Plutocraey-,
The Plutocratic Press the Nest
Potent Power fer Evil.

MR.. EDIToR:-The fsilings and weak
nesses of humanity are many and
varying We have no quarrel about
these, but the attempt to commit crime
Oy any Of the cunning arts, for selfish
ends, we condemn. If these crimes are
committed for political purposes it is
called plutocrscy, which means q po-
Htlcal rule of sin and crime. The New
York World Americanized the world.
Plutocracy in order to maintain it's
possession of poliSical power has many
agents and means in it's employ The
most potent instrument of crime it
uses to deceive, betray and rob 10 the
press, that portion OF the press in its
training.
There are certain marks by which a
novice can always without mistake
discover a plutocratic journal First
mark, lying. If a paper knowingly
lies, distorts the truth, suppreEses the
facts, bringsa false argumentfor party
ends, such paper is plutoerasic. All
this is a species of lying, an attempt to
deceive. We can mention several pa
pers whose Christian % editors attend
church three times q week measured
by this rule, their columns every issue
containing from three 60 forty lies.
These are church members, understand
me, noae of your hell rake editors,
though their number il legion.
Another mark Of a plutocratic jour
nal is the use of slander, abuse and
rid1cule when some truth cannot be
otherwise combatted. This is an at
tempt to deceive and is a species of
lying.
Tho third mark of plutocratic jour
nal may be found in the advice it gives
as regards candidates for Office. If it
says vote for our party nominee, let
him be suitable or unsuitable, good or
bad, or if you do not you are debarred
from all Offices in the gift of the party.
This mark is extended to she praise of
all party slaves who yield q willing
obedience to this tyranny to the over
throwing Of sound morals and q clean
government.
Watch out for these marks and you
will soon be able to spot the beast.
Another agency for the furtherance
of plutocracy is money and promotion.
1t uses money to hire speakers, to sub
sldize the hitherto Independent press,
to pay the expenses of party work, if
it's work and candidate suits them, to
cheat and buy votes, TO hire leaders in
our legislative halls to put their meas
ures through. Money is the steam
power, the educator and corrupter for
plutOcracy. 1t promises and seldom
fails to secure political promotion for
it's Instruments. Money and Office are
its two powerful agencies.
Subsidiary to these is party preju-
dice. 1t foments party prejudice
through it's press and speakers and paid
hirelings for q purpose. What is that
purpoee3 To blindfold the voter. A
man soaked with prejudice cannot see
the truth though you place in smack
dab before his eyes. He may be a very
intelligent man, a good man, Chris
tian patriot, q Demosthenss or Cicero,
but he is as blind as bat to any truths
running counter to q previous stufing.
This explains the hatred of plusocracy
to such q non partisan organization as
the Farmers Alliance. With q few in
dependents and free thinkers it COM
poses tho only freemen In America, for
no man blinded or wearing chains or
collars fixed on him for q purpose is a
freeman. He 10 either q high priest of
the craft, 40 Elias Carr or Grover Cleve-
land, or he 10 q private, a. Jim Doyle
or John Sawyer. They are f1sh of the
same stream with q hook in their
mouths. George Washington, Roscoe
CoDkling, John O. Calhoun and Abra-
ham Lincoln will bear me out here.
We must educate; we must educate
or we will perish by our own prosper
ityl We must revolutionize; we must
revolutionize or ne will perish by the
hands to plutocracy. 1t has stepped
the nation in sin; it has made Office a
bait for the most unscrupulous crimes
it has made the ermine of the bench,
once as spotless as the ritted snow, a
black drab to CLOAK tyranny; through
and through it has permeated every
crevice Of society, making go9d morals
a mockery and religion password TO
confidence but to betray.
Thanks be to George Washington
and the noble men of his day We can
revolutioniEe with the peaceful ballot
Each man in answer to a good con-
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