The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-08
.ARTRRRr COUNTY MEETING.

AS will be seen by the resolutions, our
people realize the fact that our gov
eminent is now and has been for the
past thirty years either in league with
the o power against the laboring
and producing people, or by treachery
of some of it's leading men has been
betrayed into a financial system that it
is not now within it's power to correct.
It the proposition contained in the reso-
lutions be approved by the cotton
farmers of the South and wheat farm
ers of the West, and accepted by the
government, it can readily be seen that
while four hundred million dollars in
silver and treasury notes will be paid
annually to the farmers for their wheat
and cotton and pass readily into circu-
lation, the government will receive
from foreign countries, for the same
wheat and cotton, four hundred million
dollars in gold which, passing through
it's treasury and paid out for current
expenses, will ultimately pass into
general circulation, thereby increasing
the circulating medium Of our country
eight hundred million dollars annually.
This can be carried out by the govern
ment without a single officer in addi-
ton to what it already has, and who
are now getting excessive salaries for
the work they do. The collectors of
customs at the ports of entry could re-
ceive and ship the wheat and cotton,
and the United States Consuls could
look after the sale of the same.
Of course if the government is, as
many believe, in league with the
money power, no proposition could be
made that would be accepted unless it
went by way of, and had the approval
of Wall street. If the government is
not in league with the money power
but is embarrassed, as Cleveland indi.
Gated when he said, my God, Oates,
the money power has the country by
the leg and can drain the treasury in
forty eight hours" then the plan sug-
gested by the resolutions is, we believe,
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from that embarrassment. r. II.
RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, 1t is now and has been for
the past thirty years the fixed policy
of our government, under both Repub-
lican and Democratic administrations,
to fasten upon the country a perpetual
bonded debt, to be the basis of a ma
tional banking system, which places
the money entirely under control of
the money sharks of America. asso-
ciated with their ilk of Europe, that
they may, at their will. decrease the
amount of money in circulation, there
by increasing the value of a dollar and
decreasing the value of labor and the
products of labor, the final result of
which will be the enslavement Of our
people to the money power; and
where, the base subterfuge used for the
issue of bonds is that ''the government
must have gold )" and whereas, a large
portion ofthe two great farm products,
cotton and wheat, ara annually x
ported and sold for gold to the amount
of about four hundred millions of dol
lars; and whereas, we are anxious to
preserve our liberties and protect future
generations from a perpetual bonded
debt and national banking system and
their consequent slavery. Therefore
RESOLVED, That we ask our brethren
of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, and all other farmers of the
South and West, to join US and tender
to the government our cotton and
wheat, to be paid for with silver dol
lars of 4124 grains each and treasury
notes or greenbacks, to be made by the
government, a legal tender for all pub
lie and private debts, and redeemable
at the pleasure of the government.
2. That we consider our governments
coin and treasury notes as good as her
bonds, and can see no necessity for the
issue of interest bearing bonds, except
to crafty the money lords at the ex-
pense of the people,
3. That these preambles and resolu-
tions be published in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and the Caucasian and all
other papers that are not subsidized by
the money power and are friendly to
the cause of the people be requested to
copy. D. MCCAIN, Pres.
S. G. GOULD, Sec. pro tenn.