The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21

uOr Ol0 ELMER attempt to discharge
the duties and obligations placed upon
upon them by the platform or the PEG
pie who elected them. And yet this
same PreEident and Congress seem sur
prlsed and shocked that the people in
their righteous indignation should
repudiate and spit upon them.
Democracy was restored to power
to give the country a tariff for revenue
only, and to blot out and strangle to
death the principle of protection, which
had built up one nan or class OF men
at the expense of another maj or otner
classes, and oneindustry at the expense
of another or other industries, and one
section at the expense of another or
other sections. But instead of doing
this and doing it speedily, they stopped
and partially destroyed all industries
for nearly two years, and turned mil
lions of laborers out of employment,
and at last Disguised the country by
passing q tariff measure equally as
odious in principle and practice as
the Mckinley iniquity, and but a few
degrees below in infamy.
The Democratic party was restored
to power to repeal the ten per cent.
tax on State bank issues. But instead
of repeating this act, they voted against
it's repeal and acquiesced in the national
banks, issuing State bills of credit or
emitting bills of credit without paying
the ten per cent tax.
The Democratic party was restored
to power to remonetize silver and re.
store it to its monetary throne, to in
crease the currency in proportion to
the Increase of population and the in
crease of business.
But instead of doing this, they, as
as possible, cut off the only sup
ply of money by the unconstitutional
repeal of the purchase clause of the
Sherman Act, which increased the cur
rency in value 4, SOC, 900 ounces of sill
yer per month in the form of silver
certificates. They promised upon this
repeal prosperity and progress, but
times Immediately grew rapidly worse.
They promised better prices and gen.
eral prosperity to the country upon the
passage of the German tariff bill to the
farmers, and lower prices on their pur
chases, but every hour and day from
its passage to this day, times have
grown harder and harder, cotton and
wheat have continued to go down,
until both are below the cost of pro-
duction. Cleveland and Congress have
both followed in the footsteps of the
Republican party on both the financial
and tariff questions with identically
the same results-a continual shrink
age in the value of labor and the pro-
ducts of labor. The Democratic party
has added to and increased the crimes
of the Republican party. It has fin
ished the wickedness begun by the Re-
publicans in 1873 in the destruction of
one of the money metals of the Consti
tuition.
The party has surrendered the prin-
ciples of tariff for revenue only, and
adopted the Republican principle of
protection. And after committing all
these political crimes against the peo-
pie, and against the country, and in
violation of and in opposition to the
avowed principles of the party, Why
should they have expected the endorse
ment of the American people9 The
party itself would have been guilty of
perfidity, dishonor, treachery and
treason, had it endorsed the admins
tration of Grover Cleveland, and it
was impossible to vote for it's own
nominees without endorsing the ad-
m~inistration, stultifying itself and
repudiating it's principles and tradi
tions. So the party did logically the
only thing it could do honorably; it
repudiated Grover Cleveland and his
entire administration and nearly all
the leaders of the party in all the
States. How could it have done other
wise and be c~onsistent7 Did not Sena
tor voorhees,, John G. Carlisle, Senator
German, Grover Cleveland, and ali
their followers bridge over the SEEM
ingly impossible gulf between the two
parties, on taxation and finance, and
pass over and join forces with the
common enemy7 Did not Grover
Cleveland and the Democratic Con.
gress declare to the world that John
Sherman, Tom Reid, and the Repub
lican party were right and had been
all the while on both tariff and finance,
and that the Democratic party was
wrong and had been all the time OF