The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
A DEMOCRAT IN 1902.
Has Now Put His Shoulder to the Peo-
pies Party Wheel

pies Party Wheel
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer
DURHAM, N. @.
L have been reading your paper a
good while and I have found it to be
the most truthful paper ever read. I
believe am an Allianceman and be-
l1eve in reform I voted the Demo
cratic ticket in the election of 1892 and
expected reform from the Democratic
party, but have not seen any. Now /
have placed my shoulder to the Peo
ple's party wheel and have come there
to stay until it proves to be as the
Democratic party has, and then 1 will
help to tear it down and help build up
another. Iplaced my shoulder to the
Democratic wheel in 1892 and found it
elected to every branch of the govern
ment The old ship was landed unto
that we thought was our own harbor
ana we rejOiced; yes, there were sew
eral barrels of tar brought in our town
and several skyrockets were bought
and to help ring glory hallelujah, but
soon the clouds began to rise, the
wheels Of manufactures shut down,
men, women and children were thrown
cut of employment and were made
tramps. If this is the principle Of the
Democratic party, to cause women
and children to cry for bread when the
fathers would work if they could get
it, but at the same time the women
and children are without shoes, the
little children which, before the winter
is gone, will go in silence to the grave,
the mothers will soon give them the
last sweet kisses and will part with
them at the tomb, and we lay it all to
the fruits of the Democratic party.
They promised as good government.
In 1892 they promised us free and un
limited coinage of silver, 16 to 1 they
promised to repeal the 10 per cent. tax
on national banks, and they have failed
to do any of it, They stood before the
people dressed in sleeps clothing at
the administration as thieves and
wolves, and if this is the fruits of the
Democratic party hope every farmer
will look into this thing, and it won't
be Arg before they will start around
on the campaign with their oily tongue
still dressed in sleeps clothing, teach
ing you this damnable curse of tariff
reform to make laws to rob the poor
farmers out of their labor. They did
the same thing in 1888. They claimed
then for free trade and it brought
panic upon the land as it is now. Great
bodies of working men in this land who
were prosperous before the Democratic
administration, now will hear their
wives and children Cry for bread. We
wait for two years for relief and have
not got any yet, but before the Novem,
Der election they passed a little tariff
bill to howl on the campaign with.
They were mighty scared that they
would not pass it. They will tell you
it is law, but what will it amount to
if it is laws Iwould like for them to
show me the good it will do the farm
ers and laborers Of this country when
the farmers have to pay 80 bushels of
wheat at 40 cents a bushel to buy $12
worth of clothing. Not only wheat but
it takes 800 pounds of lint cotton to buy
a $15 suit of clothes. He ought to get
$50 for the 300 pounds of cotton where
he only got t15. Now show me the re-
lief in your great tariff bill. If this is
the principle of the Democratic party
with it's tariff bill and relief, I say
down with the tariff bill
Ihope my friends will read this care
fully and examine the tariff bill as well
as / have.
Yours truly,
M. M. MALONE