The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-08
AN ESSAY.
The Condition of Our Country,
BY MRS. SARAH e MITCHELL.

we all know that the heavy hand o.
oppression is bearing with deadly
weight upon this beloved land Oul
oppressors have gained their power
over a once free and prosperous people
by and through the enactment of I'm
just ard unhOly laws. Contracting the
circulating medium of exchange; I'm
necessarily issuing intere st bearing
gold bonds, and finally eliminating in
the fearful atrocity of placing our
country on a gold basis.
Thus are we at the mercy of a few
m%illionaires who own what little gold
there is in the world. And we may
expect from them the same mercy that
might be expected by a flock of sheep
from a pack of hungry and rapacious
wolves.
They a and do corner the gold at
any time they may choose, causing
panics, destroying industries, lowering
the price of all commodities produced
by labor, and bringing the laborers
themselves into starvation and misery.
And who is responsible for this9
Who has done this awful wickedness7
The first atrocious p~lotters and movers
in these high handed crimes we're the
bankers of England, with the Roths
childs as leaders. They tried the gold
standard in the little island called Eng
land, and finding that they had opened
q stream through which the earnings
of that people we're compelled to flow
ncessantly into their own Golfers,
wished to extend their power to other
countries, They have eucceo I'D, too,
in several kingdoms, as Germany,
Austria and others car testify.
Not being satisfied with all these
conquests, they fixed their greedy
minds on our own fair land, and sent
emissaries here and hired the sauna
evil committed through the trusted
servants of a great nation of nearly
seventy millions of inhabitants.
Not yet content, they still continue
their plundering.
lately read in the news of the day
that Chile, on the first of June las5,
borrowed of the R Dthschilds $40, 600. 600,
and on the Sd of June went to the gold
standard.
I tell you, brethren, that unless the
of the United States PUT a stop
to this thing, they intend to own the
whole earth.
And who are the Rothschilds, any
way9 Brethren, they are nothing
more nor less than Jews. They are of
the same nation who went once into
the land of Canaan and took possession.
And now, having several European
powers under their control, they are
trying to get possession of the republics
in North and South America.
History tells us that they have al,
ways taken what they wished from
great nations. They use force when
it is possible, but when they attack a
great nation like ours, they have to use
subtlety.
So they go sIyly, like a thief in the
night, and hire or bribe the public ser
wants of the people to legislate in their
favor, allowing them the privilege of
robbing, stealing and plundering, and
all by sanction of the law, thus legal
izing their crimes, which are the cul-
mination of meanness and the very
essence of iniquity.
And they have not stopped at this.
But they have put to death those who
have exposed their misdeeds whenever
it Law in their power to do so. Jesus
Christ, because he charged the money
changers with villainy, was by them
cruclfed between the Heavens and the
Earth.
And now, brethren and sisters, what
may we, who are called by His name
at their hands9 We are being
sold to them. Slowly but surely sold
to the RothschildJ. DID I say slowlyG |
should have said rapidly. AS fast as
the wings of time al fly. or as fast as
a beer drinking fisherman can issue
gold bonds.
tell you, brethren and sisters, that
slave through indebtedness is in a
more d~eplorable condition than a chat
tel slave, for the chattel, being per
sonal property, is cared for by his mas
ter. But when the debtor can no
be profitably used, he is of no
value to his owner. So he will care for
himself or go without care.
Brethren, the United States Is called
Christian nation, and it is high time
that all Christians should arise in their