The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION,
O~rrespOndence OF the Progressive Farmer,

controlled and influenced by princi-
pies instead of policy and expediencv.
there will be some hopes for the I'D,
lifting and amelioration of the human
family. Great men, honest men, good
men, deep, original thinkers per-
NIT the spendors and allurements of
wealth, power and ambition to lead or
drive them from the path of duty,
marked by the written and unwritten
laws of Nature and Natures good.
To this class of men, who were guided
and controlled by the principles of
justice, equity and love, weare indebted
for the grand and glorious achieve
ments of the mind and heart of man,
in the onward and upward march of
civilization, liberty and independence,
regulated and governed and influenced
by patriotism, right laws and copstitu-
tiOns. But since the foundation of the
earth and until the end of time, there
has been and will be two classes of
men on earth: the n seeking their
own agrandizement exclusively, re-
gardless Of what may befall others;
the other striving to build up and ad-
vance the world along the line of civ
ilization, Christianity, freedom and in
dependence. The former class is much
larger than the latter, but these two
classes do not by any g constitute
the masses of mankind. A large ma
jority of the human family are abso-
lutely Indifferent as to what takes
place or comes to pass among men,
provided they can clothe their naked
ness, quench their thirst, appease their
hunger and satisfy their animal pro-
pensities. Their ambition has never
been fired and set in motion. They
have no inward longings and aspira-
tions for anything great, noble, ex-
allied and sublime. They have no
cravings for wisdom, knowledge,
wealth, influence, dominion, power,
glory and splendor in this life or the
life to come. They are tossed hither
and thither with every shifting breeze,
and are dominated by whatever infu-
ences that crafty their limited wants
and desires.
They are, in plain English, simply
tools or weapons in the hands of the
wicked, scheming, cunning and crafty,
to be used for their W. infamy, degra-
dation and humiliation, and to defeat
the will and purposes of the great and
noble men striving to better the physi-
cal, moral and intellectual condition Of
men and women, and to aid the selfish,
ungodly, ambitious class to rule and
control the masses for the accomplish
ment of their schemes of plumber and
to crafty their wicked, unbridled am
bitlon.
Experience and history both show
that this class of people in a country,
have, since the creation of man, Away,
sooner or later, obtained control of all
governments and used them against
the interest of the people and for their
own glory and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. And
our government is no exception to the
general rule. To-day the people are
completely at the mercy Of the ruling,
controlling class, and the whole ma
chinery is being used for the purpose
of robbing and fleeing the people for
the benefit of the money classes. The
process of contraction has been going
on for more than thirty years, but this
did not accomplish the purposes of the
Shylocks and money Devils fast
enough; so they set about to expedite
matters and hasten the day Of their
glory. The next step in the ownward
move to enslave the great masses OF
the human family, was the destruc-
ton of the instrumentalities of trade.
This accomplished, the victory would
be more than half won. The ball was
put in motion and the machinery was
started up in Europe. The work was
complete. The victory was full. A
serious if not a mortal wound has
been given one of the money metals of
the world. But it was soon discovered,
that without the aid of the govern
ment of the United States the conspiracy
might not prove as successful as anti
cipated. Their agents were at once
dispatched to this country with Doodle
and instructions to capture, buy or
kidnap the leaders of both the politi-
cal parties in Congress and the great
leading metropolitan daily papers on
both sides. This was done with more
skill and secrecy than Napoleon Bona
parte ever conceived and planned a
campaign. Only a few leaders on both
sides were let INTO the secreta- The