The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
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We nlacsd at our masthead the
legend. 1.-THE American people must
learn the lesson of money or be lost
We stand pledged to do all IN our power
"a oronsa the dormant interest of the
naonle so that they may know and ap
nre ciate the f~ar-reaching and desper,
o+e character of the conspiracy which
omanated in the brain of the Saylocke
in Lombard street in the early years OF
the present century, but which was
nowerl So to affect us as a people so
long as we were true to ourselves, but
which, by the reasonable surrender
procured in 1873, and since then de-
Tended with the desperation of the evil
one, has enveloped us with it's tentacles
like a mighty cutie fish which we
must destroy now or never, or it will
destroy us. We know of no better way
than to constantly lay before the read.
ing public the language of the great
leaders who have spoken upon the fun
damentals involved in this q lestion.
Much of the vapory newspaper discus
sion and stump speeches, such as Car
Isle INDUCED in at Memphis, is far from
the real issues as they are intended to
be. Senator Jones, of Nevada, how
ever, is the acknowledged leader Of
thought in this country on economic
questions relating to money, and when
he speaks always reaches the founda-
ton. Ia his great speech, delivered in
the Senate in October, 1898 he used the
following pregnant language. 1t is
quick with suggestions and should set
every patriot who loves his country to
thinking.
Mr.. Jones said:
AT the demand of the creditor class
es the gold standard was adopted in
England after the Nepoleonic wars, in
order that the war debt, a large portion
of which was in paper, might be paid
in gold. In his Financial History of
England Mr., Doubleday states his be
lief that for a portion of the war period
the pound note with which the public
securities of Great Britain were bought
was not worth in specie over seven or
eight shillings in the pound-aOout 80
to 50 per cent.
The deb5 being afterward by law
made payable, pound for pound, in
gold, it is obvious that the bondhold9rs
of Great Britain then mulcted the peo-
pie Of that country, as, at a later peri
cd, the public creditors of the United
States mulcted the psople of this ,coun-
try. The English people supposed that
they had long since paid the expenses
of the struggle with Napoleon, but by
the annual increase in the value of the
pound sterling, that struggle is costing
them more as the years go by. AL
though the war is over, so far as con-
Germs the destruction of men in uni
form and on the battlefield, yet their
destruction continues without uniform
and without the fOrmalities of battle
lines. Although three fourths of cen
fury have elapsed since that war ter
minated, the col fjct still RACES.
The bonds that were issued to pay
the expenses of those wars are increas-
ing in value at the same rate at which
gold il C eases, which, for the past
twenty years, is at the rate Of d per
cent per annum Napoleon has been
dead for two generations. In his will,
by formal words and solemn injunc
ton, he b, q leathed to France the duty
of avenging upon England the untime-
ly death to which it had consigned him.
He might have saved himself the trou
BILE. He has found avengers whom he
little suspected, among the Englishmen
themselves.
The public creditors, by the increas-
ing exactions, which, from year to year.
they are making through the operation
of the standard 10 the payment of in
terest on the war debt, already by
means of idleness ard starvation.
brought to ruin, desolation and death,
millions of such brave men as defeated
Napoleon. the masses of the people
of Great Britain, though able to cope
with an open foe on a field in which
they recognized the enemy, have not
been on their guard against the insidi
GUS attacks of the crafty adversary
who presented himself in the guise of
a compatriot, who, under the authority
of law, by a subtle manipulation of
money, has continued the slaughter.
What American can have patience
with the laud atoms he hears of the