The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-22

these lonely stragglers over the world,
although they had often read OF them
in THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, of Raj
eigh. l asked, You inhabitants oil
another world don't read, do yOuG How
do you get it," They said: " seno
stars to bring US copies every week,
just as they brought you up here Anu
it is welcomed, too, each
I was glad that the citizens OF an
other world were delighted with tnlS
paper. And they treated me as .
King. Everybody loved everybody -
this goodIy land There were no JAZZ
no penitentiaries, no court, no
no police. Tney had no use 49,
things in a comm onwealIn
is the law of life. tho
Honesty, integrity, virtue were on9
ideals IF Greatness and goodness anu
not gold, pride, influence, ETC. as -
the old country. The railroads. I0,o
oranhs and telephones, and all puOI'c
evstems of traffic were owned ana OPP
Grated by the government. Inc rates
were low, the advantages were the
very best, the cost cheap, the profits
right. Justice being the basis of
legislation, no monopoly was allowed
60 live. The land was owned by those
who titled the soil, and no aliens we're
allowed to own an acre. The people
were prosperous and happy. There
was plenty of money in circulation
The public minis were coming gold and
silver at ratio of 16 to 1, free of charge
and in Unlimited amounts. They told
me that if silver was TO be demonetized
it would ruin their country in toto.
They claimed that their present pros
perity was due to the fact that they
had a large medium Of exchange, and
that silver being the unit of value they
priced it moro highly than gold. l
asked if they were to go to a single gold
standard what effect it would have,
and they said their lands and the pro
ducts of their farms and mills aud
foundries would decline at least so per
cent. in value, aud labor's value would
be less than half what they we're under
a double standard, and their national
treasury, now over flowing with funds,
would become bankrupt, and that they
would be compelled to issue bonds,
the last resort of a bankrupt nation.
But" 1 asked, who would you sell
your bonds to!"
"Well, to the United States. of course,
as that is the richest and most prosper
GUS nation" they answered.
who told you so7" 1 asked
MANY years ago Thomas Jefferson
was brought to our land, and he told
us of that great country, gave us copies
of their laws, and under those laws we
have grown rich and prosperous, and
certainly the land he worked so hard
for has proven far richer under the
same laws"
"Sirs,"I answered, "true it is thai
those laws would give any land pros
perity, but there came into power in
our country traitors to the people, and
they abolished such just laws and put
our country on a single gold standard,
and it to day is grooming in debts and
poverty and desoIation."
And tears of pity fell from the eyes
of these good people as 1 recalled those
facts. One old gray headed sire step
ped up to me and said:
81 told them so. Why, only a few
weeks since, there came a stranger int
our land bringing a strange message
He told us that if we would slay silver
and make gold the unit of value anc
the only legal medium of exchange
that our country would grow far richer
than it now is liz q short time. He sale
his name was Carlisle, and that he wa
told all this from Grover Cleveland
the President, who knows all things
on earth, in the sea, or in the waters
under the earth. Oh, he told us 6
lovely story, but wo have school chill
dren in our land who know more about
finance than Carlisle or Cleveland,
They so puzzled him that he did not
tarry long, aid the last words he said
we're: Ga, I've got in the wrong boat.
I thought these people could be fooled
like the people in Am erica, but they
can't. I'll go back home and talk to
the fools who'll believe all I tell them,
yes, aud swear by it, too" Thus he
left Us.
I asked them if they knew anything
of the history of finance in the United
States, and they said yes. The politi-
clans had 50 fooled me- that l didn't
know anything about it, and 80 I lis.
tened while they talked.