The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-05

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price of money and ''bear" the price Of
commodities. Now let me prove it.
When the Democratic administration
went into office, they said the prices
would jump up, up, until we would
hurt our necks in looking up to follow
the rise of prices, but instead Of going
up as they said they would, they have
gone down until now we have got to
break our backs looking down to see
where they have goneto. Why's Be-
cause of the money trust. You are
familiar with the jute bagging trust,
with the oil trust, with the sugar trusts,
with coffee trusts, with flour trusts,
and you know that when a trust is
formed of all, or a controlling portion,
of that particular commodity, the
price goes up and it takes more money
to buy more of that commodity. How
do you break that trust9 Tt never is
broken until the trust goes as far as it
thinks it safely can, Or a new crop of
wheat comes on breaking the -four
trust, or new crop of cotton breaking
the cotton trust, or a new crop of coffee
breaking the coffee trust, and thus
new supplies break the corner and open
the market. They have made a money
trust. Howl By shutting off the sup
ply of gold, there being no material in
crease of gold money, after you allow
for that used in the arts and sciences.
They have shut off the increased supply
of silver money, and also the increased
supply of paper money-and now Wall
street has made a money trust, and it
will neve be broken until the govern
ment puts in new supplies of money /
As long as that trust exists prices are
bound to godown; wreckagea and misery
are bound to come. Why's People are
increasing; commodities are increas-
ing. The amount of money being
cornered, that in circulation getting
relatively less. cotton has to take less
because there isless to take; wheat has
to take less because there is less to take;
labor has to take less because there is
less for it to get. The price of money
goes up and up and the prosperity of
the people goes down and down. (Cries
of true, true. That's IT'D
You tell me that is all right; that is
true, but now what is your remedy
You say, I agree with you about all
that, but let us Democrats of the South
and West get together. That is what
the Democratic bosses tell us. Where
are the Democrats of the West for you
to get together with9 What Western
State can you Democrats count ONT Is
it Kaneas9 No. Is it Nevada9 No.
Is it California; No. Is it Towa9 No.
Is it Montana No. Then where is 1T
Where is your Western State for Geor-
gia to unite with9 Give me the name,
"a voice in the audience: alabama
and Texas"
You tell me the interests of the East
and the North are naturally the same
and they will go together. Isay so too.
They are manufacturing sections; they
are commercial sections; they are cap
italistic sections, pure and simple,
therefore they stand for those extreme
ideas and they stand together. You
used to think that a. Northern Demo.
crat was just like you, but that amt so.
Oaughter.) You used to think that
an Eastern Democrat was a Siamese
twin linked to you, but you know now
it amt so. You know now if you never
did before that an Eastern Democrat
is as much like an Eastern Republican
as a buzzard is like a turkey buzzard.
Cloud and prolonged applause) You
were a little slow about finding it out
but you got there at last. Oaughter.)
You know that the North and East
are against you because theirs is a
commercial section and yours is agri-
cultural.
Your prosperity is linked to ours;
your store has its foundation on my
farm. Our little homes in the country
are the mountain streams that feed the
rivers of Atlanta's prosperity. ZAP
plause and cries of "you are right
Woe to that man who sows seeds of
discord between you and us. I need
your help for my farm, and you need
the products Of my farm to prosper
your store. Tell me, Nj. Merchant, if
you destroy the prosperity of my farm
where will you get your customers9
Therefore the South, being agricultural,
it's cities have the same interests as it's
farms, and the West, being agricul-
tural, has the same interests as the
South