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

Money is made by the governments;
it does not grow on trees; it does not
grow in the ground and is not made
bv the Advise Father. Many a man
seems to think that God Almighty
made n With all due reverence,
I saw he no more made money than he
made tenpenny nails; no more makes
money than he makes four by six
scantling; no more makes money than
he makes brogan shoes. Nature sup
plies the materials. but the government
breathes into the materials the breath
of financial life and says: '"This is a
dollar, " and she goes wherever the flag
floats and as long as the government
lives. Great applause and cries OF
''that's rightrD You tell me the gold
dollar is worth a dollar. How do you
knowG Take the stamp of the govern
ment off of it, and what is it worthG
Take your gold watch; how much
money is it worth as a debt paying
commodity Take your gold cup,
your gold breastpin-who wants it as
moneys 1t may have the size and the
weight of a gold dollar, but the man to
whom you owe debt wants the dollar
and does not want the breastpin. You
take the gold dollar and put it under
the wheel of an engine and let it be
driven into the shape Of a mere leaf OF
gold, and where is the thing you call a
dollarR Throw it into the pot and
melt it; you take it out; the same
weight of gold is there; the same
amount is in it; the image On it is
gone; the life which the government
breathed into it is gone, and you have
got a commodity which you have got
to bargain about as you would any
other commodity, but you have not
got a legal tender dollar which walks
the royal highway of the law and kills
every debt which it attacks. You tell
me you despise a silver dollar because
it has only got So cents worth of silver
in it. You may despise it, but do you
despise it enough not to take it. Mr..
Merchant, do you close your doors be-
cause you have got too many of theme
Mr.. Farmer, have you let the dog
fennel and black jacks and old field
pines take your farm because you have
got too many silver dollars7 Has a
single factory closed and thrown it's
laborers into the streets because it had
so many silver dollars that the factory
hands wouldn't take them9 Have the
colored people left the farm because
they got sick of getting so much silver
money! [Cries of mo, mol" from the
audience Grover Cleveland says they
did; virtually says so. He and Mr..
Carlisle says you have got more money
than you use, and Mr.. Carlisle wants
to make his bonds small enough for all
these colored people to buy with the
money they have no use for. Think
of the sarcasm of it; think of the injus-
tice of it. Think of the cruelty Of it.
Think of the financial veins, shriveled
and shrinking, because not filed with
the life giving thing we call money of
his telling these people that they have
got too much money, and therefore
they will close the minis to the coinage
of money.
I say down with anarchists; down
with the anarchists (applause), but
down with the big. n as well as the
little one. Great applause.) The an
archist who hates me because I live in
a pleasant home, and would take a
bomb and tear my roof tree to pieces,
throw my wife and children homeless
upon the mercies of the world, is a
wicked man whom society must crush;
but the ruler of 60, 900, 900 of people
who violates the law he has sworn to
carry out, and thus brings terror and
dismay, wreckage and ruin through
every city, town, village, hamlet and
farm in all the broad confines of the re-
public, is an anarchist more deadly and
dangerous than the wretched bomb
thrower who wrecks my house. cloud
aud prolonged applause.)
say that our President, our chief
magistrate, has violated the law Of the
land: LIST, he violated the law by Civ
ing to Wall street the option to take
silver or gold when the law said that
that option belonged to the govern
ment and ought to be exercised in the
interest Of the people. I'd, he violated
the law by stopping the purchase of
silver under the Sherman law before
it was repealed when the law said he
should continue to purchase. 81, he
violated the law by refusing to coin