The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-08
T T R o ROWAN.
r. e. TIsSAL.
Wake Forest, N, @.
MANNING, N. G.


Mr., ED1ToR:-Since the days of Re-
construction the times have not been
40 dull as they are now. The whole
United States are almost ,stagnated,
thousands of people are out of employ
ment, business failures occurring every
hour in the day throughout the whole
year, no money to buy the -necessaries
of life and hundreds of other depress-
ing evils confront the people. Indeed
the people r in a helpless Ind hope
less condition. What is the causeG
Any sane man ought to know, and I
deem it useless to state it. We will sup
pose that the people who caused such
times ought to know why such politi-
cal evils are now rampant. Perhaps
they wonder why they have caused
these times, and I'll wager a mule one
half of them do not know that they are
in the fault. Why, gentlemen, you
are. Didn't you march to the ballot
boxes in 1892 and previously and vote
for ~plutocracy9 Certainly you did and
now you must let plutocracy reign.
You we're told often in your lives not
to do such but to vote for men who
would serve the country for the benefit
of the people, but you turned a deaf
a to the truth and thus you see where
you are at now. Experience is a dear
school, but fools will learn in no other. "
The men who now represent the peo-
pie in Congress stumped the whole
Union before the last election express
ly to tell the people for Gods sake to
give them (the Democrats) another
chance, only n more, and they would
show the ''dear" people what they
could do for them. Give us a chance
and we will turn the Gulf Of Mexico
upside down, coin the great Rocky
Mountains into silver dollars, etc. So
the people, or a part of them at least,
swallowed their silverized lies and
voted for them, and behold once since
the war (as they would say they got a
chance. Well, did they.do what they
promised if they got that chances No,
and the voices of the people echoes no.
We see then that they m~aliciously lied,
and what they wanted with that chance
God only knows, but we can q what
they are doing with that chance the
poor people gave to them. What7 We
dread to dwell on this point, for it
the cold chills trickle down our
backs. Here are the headlines of a few
of their acts, and what they will do in
the future is left for the people to see.
They demonetized silver, an act worse
than the Republicans passed in 1873.
Of course the people know whether
that is what they and their platforms
promised or not, and they also know
by this time whether it is for the bet
terment of the peoples conditions, if it
is we rejoice with them, if not we weep
with those that weep and extend our
heartfelt sympathy to them and would
ask them, hereafter to vote for
q more respectable and liberty loving
set of men the next time. Is that all
they dido Why, no. We know
that they did something else. A few
w~eekssince they killed the Bland silver
Bill. 1t may be true that this bill
not have entirely relieved the
financially, but it would have
helped them some, however, it was
knocked down by a Democratic Presi
dent and kicked out of both Houses of
Congress, which contained a large ma
jority of Democrats, also the fellows
who wanted only one more chance to
ruin the people. That shows what
hey wanted with that chance, gentle
men, take the advice given you and
will not be troubled with such a set
Of plutocrats in many generations to
come. March to the polls this fall and
two years hence and demand your
and if the people whom you
vote for don't give it to you, never
send them back to Washington again.
other classes are organized, so you
must organize and protect your own
interests and vote in a solid body for
them. Gentlemen vote and vote right
the country's sake.
Yours for liberty,
L.. W. SIFFoRD.