The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-20

The Bible records show, when Moses
was above the clouds on the mountain
top, receiving the tables of stone,
| Aaron set I'D a gold standard on the
plains below, and God in his wrath
wiped it away. We also read l the
third chapter of Daniel how NeSu3had
nezzar, the King, cause.-the be erected
an image of gold, and made a decree
that when the musical instruments
| sounded forth. all the people were to
| bow down and worship it. 1t Is re-
corded that on the day appointed all
omceholders of the kingdom were there.
| They were all commanded to fall down
and worship the golden image or be
cast into the fiery furnace. Just read
| President Cleveland's letter to Stone of
Mississippi. / think he must have
modelled it on the exact lines of the de
cree of Nebuchadnezzar.
Three men, Shadrach, Meshach and
| Ab9dnegO refused to bow down TO the
image. and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS command
| ed That after the furnace had been
heated seven times hotter, they be
thrown into it. But when this was
done they walked in the furnace, and
one like unto the image of the Son of
G0d walked with them.
You may set up your images and
heat your furnaces seven times hotter,
nv modern ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and not
| three, but there are three times three
millions who will not bow down o.
worship tn m
I believe that in the Providence of
Cpd all things come right. and Necuch-
adnezzar got down to his level; and
he ate grass for seven years with the
other beasts of the field.
We may feel discouraged in this
fight, but God is on our side. The lad
der upward is all right, only the end is
Obscured in the clouds. You can win
an apparent victory over truth, and
even bury it, but after three days there
will be a resurrection. We are going
to win this fight, because no question
was tver entirely settled until it vas
settled right.
For them to fasten a gold standard
upon this country they must destroy
three of the commandments: Thou
shalt not lie, Thou shalt not STEAL
and Thou shall love thy neighbor as
thyself.'
Last year you got what for your cot
ton on the farm7 (5ome said 45o, some
&c a pound
What's cotton worth now2 (5even
and a half cents, answered several
How much cotton have you made
between last fall and this summers
Oaugh err And yet they say the low
price was due to overproduCtiOn. Not
alone in the United States, but in the
world there was less cotton produced
in 1898 than in 1888. These figures are
on authority of the President of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Yet
you got only a little more than half the
price then that you got ten years be-
fore. The price has suffered steady
diminution year after year. Cotton
and wheat have gone up a little now,
but not until the spectators owned
them all. y X x This spread of sill
yer sentiment that threatens to sweep
away party lines and all the old politi-
clans of twenty-five years, scared those
fellows. They said, I'VE must let up"
We forced their hands a little early.
They have been playing this game with
marked cards and a stacked pack, until
Cleveland threw aside his disguise and
proposed openly to destroy silver and
g~reenbacks and treasury notes, and
put gold bonds in their place The
res 9Oration of better times is due to
this silver agitation.
If we are wrong we will be licked, if
we are right you, my gold bug friends,
can't defeat us. We have all the law,
the logic and the morals Of the question
on our side.
In Liverpool you meet in competition
with India and Russia, Egypt and the
Argentine Republic. You get five cents
in gold for your cotton, and it la just
five cents in this country 8 goods. OTher
countries take the gold five cents home
and get ten cents in purchasing and
debt paying money. Wheat and cot
ton are the staple productsO of the world.
America and Argentine Republic get
the sam9 price for their wheat in gold,
say n dollar. In Argentine gold is
at a premium of g. 81 in the money of
| that country. And so that dollar buys
251 cents worth Of goods, and has 50 81
of debt paying power. 1t doesn't take
the Argentenian one kernel more Of
wheat to buy the dollar than it does
the American We get all the ours 3
and not n O. the blessings Of mono
metalliem
You men Of the South are agricul
turists and raise cotton in competition
with other nations that receive one
hundred per cent. bounty for exporta-
ton.
Plllsbury, the biggest miller IN the
world, commenting on Clev6land's
issuing bonds, said: Il admire him
for his lofty patriotism, for that vast
courage that dares to do. It has kept
the country from going to a silver
basis, and if this happened wheat would
go up to a dollar a bushel."
Wheat in the West was worth from
Is to 25 cents when Cleveland was
afraid the currency would depreciate.
You had a four bushel dollar then.
The only way for a dollar to d~epreciate
is for prices of products to go up.
Cleveland should have said: Il am
| afraid nricaa WoiId rise on the nrCducLs