The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-20
ALLIANCE PICNIC AT CARY.
ARE Crowd Fine Dinner Mi. Sibley,
TX President Mewborne, President
Thompson, Maj Graham and
Senator Butler Each Talked.

Senator Butler Each Talked.
the appearance of the weather was
MT altogether favorable for an outdoor
ricnic last Thursday morning, but that
didn't keep a large crowd from assem-
hing at Cary for that purpose. They
came. at, saw, and were conquered
ond charmed by the eloquent Pennsyl
rania statesman. Mr.. Sibley was the
star attraction, but local talent contrib
,,+pd much to the succes of the day.
Ex-President MeTborne opened the
hall He YVES followed by Maj. W. A.
Graham, DR.. Thompson and Senator
Butler. Each of these gentlemen made
short but eloquent speeches, combining
themselves TO the Alliance and a dis
cussion of the overshedowing financial
question.
Dinner w6s announced at the close of
Senator Buffers speech. Three long
tables were filled with the bes7 of food.
Melons, peaches, apples and grapes
we're also in evidence. The good PEG
pie of Cary and vicinity will long be re-
membered by all who partook of their
tempting viands. Alter dinner the
crowd, estima ed at 1000, and a re,
markably we'll behaved one, again as
sembled to hear Congressman S!bley.
Rain was falling at intervals during
the day, but that crowd was not of the
sugar and salt variety. For two and a
half hours they stood and sat listening
with bated breath, as the words Of
truth came from the lips of Mr.. Sibley.
M person in that crowd had ever lis
tsned to an Alliance speech made by a
millionaire. But it was not different
from the speeches made by our speak
ers in the past. He confined himself
mainly to the coinage Question. Mr..
Sibley is a forcible, earnest speaker, at
times / cquent, and won C. ns'derable
applause.
We can't begin to print his speech in
full, as more than half of this paper
was made up before the speech was
made. but will give a condensed steno-
graphic synopsis taken for the News
and Observer, which includes many of
the salient points. After some intro
ductory remarks, he laid down the fol.
10 wing financial axioms:
Double the volume Of money and you
double prices
Divide the volume of money and
you divide prices
Double the volume of money and you
divide debts.
Divide the volume of money and you
double debts.
The whole measure of value has rest
ed on these two metals, gold and silver.
The values of the world, amounting TO
$3.50, 600, 600, 900 rest like q pyramid on
these narrow foundations. We have
taken away One-halt the base; the pyr-
amid must be dwarfed and shriveled
until it accommodates itself to S i'll that
base.
I ask my monometallic friend,
When will tn decrease in valuss
ce&se2' Taere Is not a gold man here
who will venture a prediction as to
when the end will come Thirty years
ago 80, 600, coo of people in the world
we're On a gold basis. tt day the 80,
900, 900 are $50, 900 900. Debtor nanon
after debtor nation has been bidding
for the gold of the world, willing to
give up all their products for this small
volume Of gold.
You can enslave any nation O Gods
green globe if you can impoVeri5h them
sufficiently. Anglo SaXons EVEN have
been put into slavery. Ia Green's His
tory of the English people you may
read how they were held like slaves
by the lords of the manor.
WHAT value is il to you to know that
food is cheap, when you have no money
70 buy2
When beef could be bought for two
shillings a head and wheat was taree
pence a bushel, more people starved to
death ID England than ever before or
since.
We ask cur Father to give us our
daily bread, and then say he has an
swered us too literally by an 'overpro-
ducUi0n' of wheat, yet in these United
; ate8 more people starved, more peo-
pie went n ked, more people were
tramplng last year than ever before;
and yet cotton and wheat were lower
than In any former years.
Arthur 2 German said at Saratoga
This week that he favored the issue of
more bonds. And yet I SEE some
ooutherner5 advocate him for Presi
Gent, and these are free silver nen, too.
rather expect to gather grapes from
IAorIs ami figs frcun thisSles than to
expect to get what you want by elecO
ing a candidate who holds different
views ami different principles from
your own.
In the last Congress | spoke of the
terrible ravases Of the chinch bug and
JIner Dugs among the farmers OF the
West. We are troubled too with the
bed bug and many other bugs, iuClud-
ing the gold bug. We hav found anti.
4o1es Tor ell OF them, including the gold
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