The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-23

ginning to learn who are their real enc
mics, and to devise plans whereby they
may release themselves from a bond
age as CALLING as that under which the
Israelites suffered at the hands of their
task masters in Egypt.
The leaders of the old parties know
that they are safe from detection and
retribution so long as they can stir the
blood of the people of their respective
parties by appeals to sectional and race
prejudices. So they long ago raised
the cry of rebel" in the North and
''nigger" in the South. How we'll they
have succeeded in their nefarious
schemes, let men answer who we're
once prosperous and have always been
industrious but have seen their prop
erty, through no fault of their own,
year by year ~depreciate until today
some of the best country residences in
North Carolina have been abandoned
to c.lored tenants, and some of the
richest plantations in the State cannot
be rented for the amount of the taxes.
Cato so we'll understood the frauds
practiced upon the Roman people by
their priests Che himself having been a
member of that famous gang Of swind-
lere), that he once said he did not see
how two priests could pass each other
without laughing. Surely it must be a
are thing for the two goldbug squads
known as Republican and Democratic
leaders" to meet without patting each
other on the back and drinking to each
others health, while c~onsigning the
public to the place appointed for them
by one of their bright particular stars,
the late William H. Vanderbilt, of
New York.
As an instance in point, let us exam
inc the financial planks of the Demo
cratic and Republican platforms dur
ing the last presidential contest" A
slight examination will prove beyond
a doubt that both emanated from the
same brain.
THE FINANCIAL PLANK OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PLATFORM OF 1898.
I'VE hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage of both
gold and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for
mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage
of both metals must be of equal intrin
and exchangeable value, or be adjust
ed through international agreement, or
by such safeguards of legislation as
shall insure the maintenance of the
parity of the two metals and the equal
power of every dollar at all times in
the markets and in the payment of
debts; and we demand that all paper
currency shall be kept at par and re
deemable in such coin. We insist upon
this policy as especially for the protec
ton of the farmers and laboring classes,
the first and most d~efenceless victims
of an unstable and a 1uctuating cur
rency."
THE FINANCIAL PLANK OF THE REPUBLI
CAN PLATFORM OF 1892.
The American people, from tradi
ton and interest, favor bimetallism,
and the Republican party demands the
use of both gold and silver as the stand
ard money, with such restrictions and
under such provisions to be determined
by legislation as will secure the main
tenance of the parity of value of the
two metals, 50 that the purchasing and
debt-paying power of the dollar,
whether Of gold, silver or paper, shall
be at all times equal The interests. of
the producers of the country, its farm
ers and it's workingmen, demand that
every dollar, paper or coin, issued by
the Government, shall be as good as
any other"
The Democrats say that they bold
to the use of both gold and silver as
the standard money; the Republicans
say that their party Demands the use
of both gold and silver as the standard
money"
democrats cry out for such leg
islation as shall insure the maintenance
of the parity of the two metals; the
Republicans shout for such Legislation
as will secure the maintenance of the
UGIwe of the two metals" Really, it is
enough to make a cat laugh.
The Democrats demand the equal
power of every dollar at all times in
the markets and in the payment of
debts; The Republicans say that the
purchasing and debt paying power of