The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
AN ESSAY
Read in Rowan Academy Alliance
No. 1888.

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No. 1888.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
We wish to tell the brethren through
Won. that we are still wide awake and
are trying to keep pace with the drift
of 1896. We like to know what the
brethren are doing, therefore we will
tell what we are doing.
We try to have a lecture at every
meeting so all can keep posted. We
have a resolution for each member to
try to bring in a recruit at an early
day. We have a query box and pro-
pose to put in questions for public dis
cussions once each month. In this we
propose to invite all who are inter
ested to hear what we have to say.
And we have a resolution to respect
fully ask our lady members, land we
have them) one after the other to
write and read us an essay on some
reform subject at each meeting, or as
fast as they can get them up. The
first has been presented by Miss
Francis L. Peeler and read at our last
meeting, and by our Alliance, re-
quested to be sent you for publication
in your noble paper. We give it be-
low.
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING
Are times growing better or are they
growing worse4 This is a question
that every true patriot should ask for
himself. If they are growing better
we should press forward, press o
ward and upward to enjoy those bet,
ter times. If other wise, they are 60
ing from bad to worse, which they
really are, is it not time for some
thing to be done9 I say it is time, and
high time that something be done for
the betterment of our country. II
this money power is not ~overthrown
we will be drifted into a monarchial
government as o as the wheels of
time can bring it on. But how are we
to remedy this great evil2 Chiefly by
opening the blinded eyes of the peo-
pie on this great subject, and by show.
ing them the many evils that have
been and are being wrought every day
and every hour in the day, in the
government of these United States Of
ours.
Beginning at George Washington
and following up the twenty three
men who, one after the other, sat in
A. ohoiu Wbono nm
you find one who has done more harm
to our country than Grover Cleveland7
He has brought about a greater re-
duction in our finance than any other
President ever did, even in times of
war. See the thousands and thou
sands of people who are perishing for
the want of bread, and who are will
ing to work if they could get work to
do, all brought on by Growers doings.
Audit is astonishing that so many
people, and professed Christian people
too, are making no protest. Even
many ministers of the Gospel are
silent while their parishioners are suf.
fering. Are you ministers not called
to preach the Gospel as it is in Christ
Jesus, to show the people their sins,
and to labor for their spiritual and
temporal wellfare2 If so, what evils
are doing us more harm today than
this political financial depression7
Do you not think it is your duty as a
shepherd of your sheep to show them
what is best for them financially as
we'll az spirituality l have heard min
listers of different denominations, but
very few of them ever touch the
money question, unless it is to vote for
less money and beg more. But while
this is so we have a few ministers who
are standing up like men to present
the whole truth and to leave the re-
suit with God. Would to God we had
more men who would stand up for
right. Some say it is out of place for
a minister to preach politics. AS to this
I do not claim to be the judge, but I
do know that it is the duty of every
minister to cry aloud against all po-
litical frauds and the causes of fnan-
cial depression; because the minister
is the guide people do and will listen
to, and his silence on these sub
jects is giving consent to them. When
it comes to a question of right or
wrong, then pastor and people r in
duty bound to go for the right though
it be different from the political name
under which they have been raised.
By and by the time will be here when