The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-02
run KENTUCKY CONVENTION.

nile. or else ItsheWs sClll more snanIe
loss contempt in which they r held
hv Cleveland, Carlisle 6 Co. After
the straddIing platform CT the Chicago
convention Of 1892 has been advertised
f1r three years and has become the
laughing stock of the whole WORLD the
kentucky people have deliberately
norpetrated the most Infamous stradole
his country has ever seen. Rightly
N the goldbug organs of Kentucky
vi this convention a victory for gold
The gold monopoly gains by every
aomnromise and pretended comPro-
mise of truth and hones'y.
What makes the situation saddest
. the reasonable reflection that this
I,n,n Kentucky straddle can be work
ID successfully in the following South
arm States: Virginia, Maryland, West
virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Alaoa
mo louisiana and in any Southern
gtste with a city large enough to cover
the manipulaticns Of Wall Street unde
the guise of local business and politl-
cal interest. The country populations
IN all the States in which there are
large cities are far behind the people Of
North Carolina in intelligence. Their
ignorance has been intensified by the
proximity to these cities and confusion
Of moral principles incident upon all
great struggles for wealth. The larger
the CITY and the greater the business
interest the greater and the more coz
founded becomes the confusion in re
card to all moral principles, ard all
disilct:ons of right.
TIE financial question is strictly a
moral question in the last analysis, as
are all questions of the greatest good to
the greatest number. The men who
are greediest for gain are the blirdest
in their efforts to g~eneralize for the
pubIic welfare. The average business
man in the cities, especially in the
large cities, thinks little of any public
Question except as it effects him indi
viduallv. Therefore the money hunter
il the bliudest leader of the blind in all
matters of statearaft and government.
He plays for what's in sight and he
can see nothing by faith. A hog is a
good rooter but the best rooter cannot
see a quartz" of a mile ahead. The
more dlligent rooter he is the shorter
sighted. Away with a government of
money hunters and short sighted dol
lar rOoters.
Preposterous is the idea that these
men can govern US except for their
own benefit. Blind leaders Of the blind
in their mad rush for gain they have
already destroyed the government of
the fathers and facilitated the second
conquest and slavery Of Great Britain
more degrading than the first. If the
people expect to overthrow the money
power they must overthrow the leader
ship of the men who dwell in the great
cities. The large cities ? the hot
beds of all schemes of plumber They
are the cancers upon the body polite
and their rottenness has permeated the
life blood of the nation. No great city
was ever fit for self government. All
dead governments have been wrecked
by the greed of their great cities from
NlneVeh to Babylon, from Babylon to
Carthage, from Carthage to Rome,
and from Rome to Venice. Our & )vern
ment has already been put on the road
to ruin by New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Chicago and other great
cities. These cities have accomplished
their mischief to our government by
means of their control of the machine
~ OF political parties. They have
written the platforms of both old polit-
zeal parties for the last thirty years.
Ihey have doubtless paid the expenses
Ola ma )rity of their delegates in con
Ventlons assembled. They have in the
nam dictated their principal nominees.
Ihey have by their organization and
accumulation of wealth forestalIed the
action of Congress by the money
bought declarations of their great con-
VentlOns. They have used their i'm
mense power like Napoleon ussd to
Use his artillery by directing it all upon
one point. They are pretty firmly
nz9d In the saddle, no m after which
party controls. They have cooled their
railroad and telegraph sy stems like
sorpents among the people. They are
the monaIc Chs Of our empire.
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