The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
THE JUDGES BRAVE WORDS.
We Should Not be subservient to Great
Britain.
Chicago Daily Coin.)

vate letter written by Judge Henry Q.
Caldwell, senior United States Judge
of the Eighth judicial circuit, which
has found it's way into the press, in
order that the ringing words of that
great American may reacht the farthest
bounds of the nation and be heard by
all of his felloW-citizens who honor and
look to him for brave and honest coun-
sci in this the day of their peril. Judge
Caldwell says:
1.-THE country is about entering upon
another struggle for the protec-
ton of the rights and the promotion of
the interests of the laborer and pro-
Queer, which is, in my judgment, of
even more moment than the. first. I
have been surprised that the issue has
been so long delayed. The fight ought
to have been forced years ago on the
line of absolute and unqualified free
coinage Of gold and silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1, without regard to the action
of England Or any other foreign power.
If we are to be subservient to Eng
land in our financial policy why not in
other mattersg The financial policy of
a nation determines it's strength and
prosperity, and the nation which con
sents that another and competing ma
ton may regulate it's financial policy
finds it's producers impoverished and its
industries destroyed, and the nation it
self will soon be little more than a mere
dependency of the power to which it
surrendered the most vital function Of
government.
IF we are not capable and able to
establish and maintain our W fnan-
cial policy we ought to haul down "Old
Glory" which you fought so calamity
to uphold, and turn the government
over to Queen Victoria or ask Canada
to annex us.
The President has thrown down the
guage OF battle. 1 trust the silver men
in all parties and everywhere will take
it up. I am happy in the belief that
platforms that near anything OF moth
ing on the silver question will in the
future go for nothing with the members
of all parties. The people have been
deluded and driven until their eyes are
opened"
Brave words from a brave American
heart big enough to rise above party
and to meet, as en- American should,
the is sue to which all other interests
must be subordinated. 1t is the voice
of the wheat fields of grand old Iowa,
the land of his birth, calling through
kim to the cotton and the corn of sunny
Arkansas, the home Of his manhood.
Il is the great Northwest stretching it's
strong hand to grasp the hand Of the
south to join it in a patriotic propa-
pendence. Those hands ere already
clasped, and woe betld9 the party that
undertakes to bt f13 the demands of
the sovereigns.
CARLISLE BEFORE TAKING"
On February 81, 1873, Mr.. Carlisle,
in discussing the Bland Allison act,
made use of this language:
Il know that the worlds stock of
precious metals is none too large, and
I see no reason to apprehend that it
will ever be so. Mankind will be for
tunate indeed if the annual production
of gold and silver coin shall keep pace
with the annual increase Of population
ard indus ry. According to my views
Of the subject the conspiracy which
seems to have been formed here and in
Europe to destroy by l. gislation and
otherwise from three seventies to one
half the metallic money of the VIZ rid,
is the most gigantic crime of this Or
any other age. The concentration of
such a scheme would ultimately entail
more misery upon the human race than
all the wars, pestilence and famines
that ever occurred in the history of
the world"
CARLISLE CATER TAKING"
In his speech the other day at Gov
ington, KY, Mr.. Carlisle, among other
talk of the same sort, made use of the
following language:
"The plain truth is that this act of
1873, which has been the subject of so
much misrepresentation and denuncia
ton, was simply a legal recognition of
the monetary condition which had
existed in fact in this country ever
since a short time after the passage of
the coinage act of 1884"
The people whom Mr.. Carlisle and the
administration are assuming to lead
in the direction of what they are pleased
to term ''sound money" and IN honest