The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-03

dered the lake, while around the table
were golden plates and golden knives
and forks, with luxuries from all
quarters OF the globe. Hamburg grapes
at ten dollars per pound, and first
hIorlda Strawberries, fourteen in a cup,
at four dollar per cup. Outside the
par qlet hall, woman shivered on the
pavement with q
STARVING BABE AT HER BREAST,
and beyond her were the millions of
unemployed and the suffering men,
women and little children Of this land.
The Peoples party alone declares. in
lVs platform, that those who live in
such kingty magnifcence, ought and
should pay to the government an in
come tax in order to lessen the tax burs
dens of the people. The Democratic
party being in power, and fearing the
growing sentiment of the voters of the
land, passed an income tax law which,
while far short of what it should have
been to equalize taxation, was nullified
by Democratid judges.
How can this be defended9
9Th. Why has this administration
failed to prosecute the trusts which are
sappiDg the life bloc d of the Republic,
and which the Democratic party was
pledged to annihilate?
7Gh. A New York Democratic daily
declared not long since, that when
Democratic speakers we're telling the
people in 1892, that the pension system
was costing the people, after thirty
years of peace, as much per annum as
it rf qlired to support every standing
army in Europe-promising that the
Democratic party would reduce it to
just and honorable basis-there were
100000 pensioners. Now, more than
two years after the Dem 1cratic party
came into power, there are more than
a million On the rolls"
What has this Democratic admins
tration done to mitigate and to correct
the infamous pension robbery so bit
terly and so justly denounced by the
representatives of the party9
So Why are forty per cent of the
r, publican ofticeholders still in Office,
to the exclusion of those who have
worked all their lives for the Demo
party and the a. c9ndancy of its prin-
ciples3
b. Why are fifteen Republican con
suls in office two years and a half after
the inauguration of Demo cratic Pres
Ideni?
C. Is it true that Republican Sena
tors have used their il fuence with a
Democratic President to retain said
consuls2
d. Has the negro postmaster at Fay
etteville been turned out?
e. Why did the Democratic Senate
confirm the appointment of the four
negro United S ;ates consuls appointed
bv Grover Cleveland? Didn't Ransom
vote for their confirmation? Has he
denied it2 Was he afraid the President
would refuse to let him control the
patronage Of this State unless he sup
ported his appointments and policy7
A negro, Charles J. Tay lor, was ap
pointed Recorder of the District of
Columbia,
AGAINST THE BITTER PROTEST
of it's citizens, at salary of SIS, 900 per
annum, and confirmed by a Democratic
Senate, while hundreds and thousands
of the best Democratic workers Of this
and other States were insuIted and
ignored, and hundreds of others, glad
to obtain insignifc snt POSITIONS in the
departments at Washington and in the
Revenue service of the Government
were passed By.
The Washington Post, al admins
tration paper stated that this same
negro Recorder had
Prosecuted WHITE WOMEN
holding subordinate positions under
him by demanding that they submit
themselves to his will on penalty Of dis
missal from office, and demanded to
know why his resignation was not re
uuired by a Democratic administration?
Have these things been done3 Have
these changes been made by the Damo
cratic administration and if not, why
not, if it is expected to make political
capital of the Fred Douglas resolution
episode!
What has Mr.. Cleveland lef5 the
Democrats to say on the color line?
Anglo Saxon supremacy is q mighty
political slogan, but will not the many
negroes remaining in the Democratic
service of the vvernment, under a
Democratic administration, the ap-
pointment and confirmation of negro