The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

party to power, which is the strongest
anti-silver party we have. Prices will
decline during each year of Cleveland's
administration by reason Of the hnan
cial legislation which has already been
made and cannot be changed until his
term shall expire. The stringency which
will arise will be ascribed 90 Demo
cratic tariff rule, which will destroy
the Democratic party more In the
South and West than it has already
done in the E 4st, because these sections
are more heavily indebted, and will be
more greatly injured.
1t matters not which of the two old
parties shall succeed in 1895; each will
nominate a single money standard
President. The Office holders and those
looking for Office, will be delegates to
the two national conventions. Their
only oncer will be a nomination to
succeed on. They will look to New
York and nominate to carry that State,
and necessarily take a gold man who
will veto any free coinage bill that will
reach him, and then we will be as
much lin the soup" as we are now and
have been for the last twenty years.
Every day the struggle is prolonged,
capital is increasing in power, adding
to its gains, u railroads being wiped
out by debt and foreclosure, passing
to Europeans and our land filed with
penury, crime and woe as the result of
cur inaCtiOn.
There has never been a time since
1873 when bimetallists combined into
one party could not have carried every
Southern and Western State and re-
stored bimetallism and they can never
restore it until they will sink their old
party affiliations and make this comb
nation, and if we do that now we can
carry every Southern and Western
State this coming fall, and in 1896,
when u bimetallist party shall meet
in national convention to nominate a
President we will not care TO know who
can carry New York or New England,
as we WI not need their vote for sue
cess, and on the fourth of March, 1897,
we will have the President and both
branches Of Congress. But to do this
in 1896 We need to combine now and
carry the approaching elections in all
Western and Southern States.
How shall this combination be eff.
fectedi We have a bimetallist party
which has never been recreant to sill
e 1t now has representation in
both branches of Congress, and at the
last election polled over one million
votes, and is continually growing. And
in the recent St. Louis convention asks
us to join on the single issue of silver
and finance WHEREBY we can obtain a
place on the official ballot in the Aus
tralian ballot States of the North at the
coming elections.
Being a Populi5t myself 1 have cor,
responded with the leading members
of this party for the purpose of bring
ing all bimetallists together. We feel
that bimetallism is only one Of many
necessary things, and that most bimet
allists are agreed that in addition to bi-
metallism we need an immediate issue
of greenbacks. We recognize that no
platforms avail to benefit until their
principles can be enacted into law; and
that none Of the things which we de
sire can be enacted into law until we
acquire the support of all bimetallists,
and that there Is no issue on which we
can unite SO many peOpleas bimetaliism
to be supplemented by a sufficient issue
Of greenOacks to restore the cheapness
of the dollar to near what it was, meas
ured by gold and silver, when bimet.
allism vas destroyed, and that such a
step would be simple justice and re-
store our money from being a dishon-
est to an honest dollar. 1t being dis
honest now by being too dear to pay
debts which were contracted when
wheat was one dollar and two cents in
gold per bushel, beef, cotton, corn,
farms and every other species of prop
erty were in proportion to wheat. The
honest dollar should restore the prices
of 1873.
While we feel that government own
ership of railroads and government
banking would be very beneficial to
the government and bring more than
a suficiency to it in profit to run it and
avoid all tariff, internal revenue, in
come tax, or other mode of taxation to
operate the government and meet
pensions, rendering the public cheaper
and better facilities for travelling than