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

worst of traitors
Say to those Democrats of the North
who are attempting to enslave you, If
you want these loaves and fishes you
must conform to this great ~principle9
''They know if they don't take care
of the goldbugs they will vote against
the party, but down here they think
you vote as the bosses tell you. What
have your politicians done for youl
Have they been your servants or your
autCcrats2
"A certain Snowman had a dog.
He held up a piece of meat in frOnt OF
the dogs nose, and told him to stand
up, to lie down, to play dead, always
holding the meat just above the dogs
nose, and the dog did all that was told
him. Well, I'll keep the meat for an
other dog remarked the Snowman,
you perform well enough without
That's the way they regard the
Southern Democrats. You have al ways
performed we'll for them in the past,
and they expect you to keep it up III
the future.
"A noted German patriot in. warning
Germany of the evils that would come
from recommendation, said it would de
crease all the values of property and
prices of labor, and breed strife and
promote strikes; and when that time
came the cause would be attributed TO
the strikes and disturbances which are
the fleets of this single standard n
TO every cause except the right one.
A noted English member OF Parlia-
ment said, in an address in that BODY
in defence of the gold STANDARD, that It
tended { destroy Amt RIGA as the cot
ton and wheat producer of the globe,
and to substitute their OWL colony Of
India in its place.
R9ferriDg TO John G.. Carlisle, he said:
AS a pleDeian standing in the temple
pleading for liberty he could speak like
an arGhaDgel, but when a high prie ST
in the temple of Mammon he has fal
len to a lower plane. / refer to John
@. Carlisle, from whom | drank in my
D mOcFacy. He is to day sent out to
nullifY the doctrines of jefferson and
Jackson. II j. ferson and Jackson
wee Democrats. Cleveland and Car
lisle are not. Jefferson said we might
have a moneyed a~ristocracy, but lever
a moneyed Democracy.
On the floor of the House in 1878
John G. Carlisle, in the following Ian
SUdS0S pEGukCbON bAO OWLS "AACA "OA40
torment the race with the destruction
of the money of the common people:
/ know that the worlds stock of pre-
cious metals is none too large, and |
see no reason to appTehend that it will
ever be so. Mankind will be fortunate
indeed if the annual production of gold
and silver coin shall keep pace with
the annual increase of population,
o~~o~nn~n0 o~1 TrAVrckwr AnnO@AS-~
to my views of the subject, the con
spiracy which seems TO have been
formed here and in Europe to destroy
by legislati n and otherwise from
three seventies to one half of the me
tallic money of the world is the most
gigantic crime of this or any other
age. The contamination of such a
scheme whuld ultimately entail more
misery upon the human race than all
the wars, pestilences, and famines that
ever occurred in the history of the
world.
The absolute and instantaneous de
str uction of half the entire movable
property of the world, including
houses, ships, railroads, and other ap
pliances for carrying on commerce,
while it would be felt more sansibly at
the moment, would not produce any
thing like the prolonged distress and
disorganizatlon of society that must
inevitably result from the permanent
annihilatlon of one-half the metallic
money of the world.
Mr.. Carlisle, your diagnosis was cor
rect. Each symptom Of the evils you
then described appear with alarming
import and irresistible certainty.
Let me again quote Secretary Carlisle,
who, standing on the fl rOr of the
House Is a representative of the PEG,
pie at an hour before his eyes became
d zzled with the golden glitter of
Pluto's palace, at an hour prior to
RJttS child fixing a golden halo above
his head, portrayed, in language
stronger than any | am capable of
framing, the nee 9ssity for patriotism
to grid itself for the resistance OF pow
ers financial and powers executive. 1t
seems to me that this great mind has
blaz2ned out a path of duty that in the
present hour of danger we may follow
with safety:
Tee struggle now going on cannot
cease, and ought not to cease, until all
the industrial interests of the country
are fully and finally emancipated from
the heartless domination of syndicates,
stock exchanges, and other great com
binations of money grabbers in this
country and in Europe Let us, if we
can do no better, pass bill after bill,
embodying in each some substantial
provision for relief, and send them to
the Executive for his approval. If he
withholds his signature and we are I'M
able TO secure the necessary votes,
here or elsewhere. to enact them into
laws Notwithstanding his veto, let US,
as a last resort, suspend the rules and
put them into the general appropria
tion bills, with the distinct understand
ing that if the people can get no relief
the Government can get no money.
No man was mora cOpnizant of this