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

27Gh and the Both day of December,
and suspensions had taken place, and
more than 600 banking institutions had
been wrecked. involving a loss of $3.50 :
600, 900, while 81, 200, OOQ, 600 of railroad
property passed into the hands of re
ceivers, and more than 4 600, 900 men.
women and children were turned
OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
The South and West were berg edu
Gated in this school of infamy and ruin,
erected by a Democratic President and
his administration. They were being
taught that as long as the Republican
or Democratic parties contrOl-they
have a master in We'll street.
On June 3Oth. Irover Cleveland
called Congress together il extraordi-
nary session; and on the 75h of August
the Sherman silver law was repealed.
Cleveland and the gold
CONSTRUCTORS A TRIUMPHED.
over silver aid the people.
PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST.
When Mr.. Cleveland said, public
Office is a public trust" it is evident he
meant
GOLD TRUST
When he accepted the nomination
in 1884, Mr.. Cleveland wrote:
''Ofice holders are the agents of the
people, not their masters. X X x =
The influence of Federal office holders
should not be felt in the manipulation
Of political primary meetings ard nom
mating conventions"
This principle he e~nunciated and re
affirmed at the beginning Of his pres
ent mol administration.
The Democratic party in national
convention assembled placed this ring
ing decl ration IN the platform of 1892:
I'VE d9nounce 8 policy under which
the Federal office holders usurp control
of party conventions in the States, and
we pledge the Democratic party To re
form these and all other abuses, which
threaten individual liberty aud local
self government"
TINS Is important, not only az q
dt C~laratiOn in behalf oil individual llO
erty and local self government, but as
| u plCuSC Vi pd4LN dCL4D14. III GL0 IdCC
of this clear cat and unmistaKable
declaration, the people no see a move
ment, backed up by the administration
and ali the forces it is able TO control TO
COMPEL THE DEMOCRATIC Y~TERs
Of the country to accept and swallow
| financial doctrines made Cdi1us, not
| alone by tee advocacy of John Sher-
man and the Republic AIS, but by the
terrible results th-t have followed the
success of the shylccks and money
lenders in controlling legislation.
WORD was sent out from Washing
ton the other day that all the office
holders, both great and small, were to
be maTshaled on the side of shyl0ck
ism and against the people.
Naturally, the whole long list of
Federal officials will take bis enthusi
a5m for g%Oldbugism AMI shylOckism to
mean that they also are expected to
"'cOnsCCrate' themselves to the glorious
work Of aiding the money power to rob
the people, and we have no doubt that
a great many Of them will discover
that sound" money for the shylOcks
Is more important than the peoples
prosperity.
The spectacle we now have is the
most h~umlIatlng one yer display I'd
by a Dem cratic administration at any
stage OF the pi4rtys history. Never
before has a Pre- id4Gt, pretending to
be Democratic, sought to array the
H-en he appointed 10 office against the
people who elected him. All this is
brand new-as new as goldbug argu
mems on Democratic lIps-as new as
the theory hat the money that robs
the people for the benefit of the shy
locks Is Is honest" money-as new as
1T Is humlliating aud dlsgr8c =ful."
Grover Cleveland is a r publican in
a poor disguise; the total of monopoly,
capital aud Wall street; q colossal
Civil Service humbug; the political a6-
Ortton Of the c~entury-the negro, gold
bond, gold standard, Republic an-lov-
ing as sassin Of the National Democratic
party.
And yet a large part Of the so called
Democratic party are endorsing this
mans methods, while thousands of
others, awed by his threats and
tyranny, are going about
EITHER WITH CLOSED MOUTHS
or they disseminate the John Sherman,
Cleveland, Carlisle, HIKE Smith Re-
publican goldbug arguments against
the free coinage of silver.
Slightly changing a passage in the
letter of the President to Mr.. Catch
ings, touching the tariff bill, I would
say, the people are not bird to the fact
that the livery of King God has been
stolen by Cleveland and his CO adjutore, |
and w0rn in the service OF the money |
power, and they mark The places where