The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12

| Df0OOu10ab0S ab ali GAuOS3 VIII AOb
from their ilgotten gains erect a mon
ument over our dead leader; but they
will endeavor, as they have already
done. to blacken and shroud his his
tory by defamation and reproach and
then cause il to sink into ~obscurity and
| forgetfulness. Let the members of the
Alliance, from their small amount Of
funds, contribute as literally as they
can afford towards the building of a
shaft that will adorn his grave and fifty
tell ia generations yet unborn how we
loved and esteemed him. And while
we are assembled on the birthday and
in the name and memory Of that patriot
who has made himself glorious; who
has stood up for the people when their
mostsacred rights were being trampled
upon, who has time and again warned
us of our danger and insisted that the
people should be the sovereign power,
and the men and politicians who have
betrayed the people for self or selfish
motives should be hurled from power.
to be remembered no more. I say in
the name of this illustrious hero and
patriot, let us renew our courage and
gather inspiration from his last words
delivered in his last public utterance
do your duty" and thus roll back the
impending tide of devastation that is
now upon us, and prove a blessing to
yourselves, to your family and to your
posterity. These are the sentiments
that the immortal spirit of L. L. Polk
is whispering and appealing to the
heart of all true born Americans who
have honestly said this is my own,
my native land" Will you pass it I'M
heeded9 I don't believe you will. l
cannot believe that patriotism is dead.
Let us put our shoulders to the wheel,
tax every energy and exert every
power until we have relieved our
country from the curses of all central
ization Of the money power and place
Folks name, in his own language ap-
piled to a tribute of American soldiery
''among the richest treasures in the
Pantheon of Immortality, and let the
time-swept harp ofages swell in grander
strains the giant anthem of his praise"
During the last two weeks this oun
try has again suffered a great misfOr-
tune and the State an irreparable loss
in the death of that American states
man and beloved North Carolinian, z.
B. Vance. And from the Senate cham
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hamlet and village in North Carolina
no such imposing ceremonies and pub
lie demonstrations of sorrow and grief
has ever before been seen over the dead
of the "Old North State" all of which
was appropriate, timely and we'll de-
served. The common people will ever
hold his name in grateful rem en-
brance, for his last and best public
services were devoted to their interest.
Especially did he prove himself a hero
and a patriot in the great fight last fall
between the people and the money
power. 1t was in this fight that he
made the last and greatest speech of
his life, pleading for the poor and com
mon people, UNFOLDING their rights and
demanding for them equal and justIeg
islation with the bankers and brokers.
It was in this fight that he denounced
in no uncertain tone the '~'atrocious
conspiracy" to repeal the Sherman law
Internationally. And then and there
he put the pointed, direct and timely
question to that august body in the
Senate chamber: when the Chicago
platform" said he, denounced the
Sherman law as a cowardly makeshift
did it mean a makeshift for the free
coinage of silver or the use of goId-a
makeshift for bimetallist or mono
metallism7" And it is said that he
turned towards the senior Senator
from this State, who he had perceived
to be an accomplish to the goldbug
scheme, and pointed his finger directly
at him with contempt and Indignation
and cried out, Under which king.
Bezonie2 Speak or diel' Further on,
standing by his honest convictions of
a lifetime rather than party harmony
he openly and plainly denounced and
condemned the present political party
now in power as ceasing to be the
friend Of the people and becoming the
subservient tool of combined capital
by committing the greatest crime of
this or any other age. Surely the name
and memory of z. B. Vance will ever
live in the hearts of the great common
people.
But let nothing, save death, over