The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-20
ADDRESS.
Annual Message of Bro J. M. New
borne, Retiring President of the State
Alliance, Delivered Before the
Alliance in Session at Cary,
N. c, August IS, 1895

| Linth annual session; His love anQ
wonderful beneicence have been
again shown in the prosperous crops
throughout the greater part of u be-
loved State. For this and all other
blessings we offer u grateful thanks
We have assembled for couLcl-for
wise and peaceful council-to make
plans for the amelioration Of our
brotherhood and to take steps for their
speedy contamination.
We are met here in the town of Cary
by special election of your Executive
Committee to view the surroundings
of this railroad junction and to take
into immediate consideration the ad-
visibility of establishing a manufac-
turing enterprise here. This is a great
and grave undertaking, but you have
the power to do it if you 50 desire;
others have done it and are now bask-
ing in the wealth produced by you.
Our people al home expect the off
GERS and delegates to do more than
routine business at this meeting, they
knew from the first that they were in
a wilderness, and are now; and for this
reason they organized themselves into
this great brotherhood to relieve them;
they have learned, and learned it
through great tribulation, that they
have been wronged and terribly
wronged by adj erse legislation, and
that favorable legislation will ultimate
ly restore them to their former con
dition; they have found out by the
education they have received through
this organic alton, which hes been veri
fed by actual experience and pro
claimed by wise and learned states
men, that when the government issues
from it's treasury a given amount of
money-which is only a medium of the
exchange of wealth-to circulate among
{ it's people to be useful to them in their
! business and In sufficient volume, no
more and no less. With this suficiency
Z the people buy and sell; promise and
receive promises; make all manner of
! debts and receive all manner of debts,
and all are contented and happy in "a
smiling land" If by legislation gov
eminent reduces that volume of cur
rency, just in that proportion the man
who made the promise is robbed by
the man who received the promise, and
the man who made the debt, by the
man who received the debt, and gov
eminent is the instigator of these out
RACES, through vile and vicious legisla
tori, either for self interest or some
body eIs9's interest. They have learned
through the Alliance and by unreleut-
ing toll As well, that, if the volume o.
currency shall be reduced one half,
then the remaining half must now do
what all once had to do, and that the
price of the produce of the farmer and
the hire Of the laborer is reduced one
half and the products Of all other en-
terprises are in like manner reduced
unless sustained and upheld by nefari-
} Gus and unlawful combinations. That
by reducing the price of products aud
labor one half the conditions have been
so changed that it will require twice as
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twice as many da. g labor, and twice
!, as many produces (save and except
those up by unlawful trusts to pay the
debt thatit once took, thereby doubling
the energies of the man who promised
the debt, and to the man who received
, the deOt the value thereof. Was there
: ever a crime more criminal or q coun
/ try more corrupt2
They have lea ned also that, by de
r monetizing silver, the conspirators were
only furthering this criminality against
the commonWeal, and to give honor
and credence to a crime, they have
made the Chief Executive of this nation
the standard bearer of a gold standard
I who says to his subordinates ''you
9 shall!' and to the people you WilI2'
j Dictator to the one and deceiver to the
other. These lessons cannot be I'm,
: learned. They are indelibly fixed.
Q The friends who are opposed to the
Alliance call it politics, aud it may be
5 so, but it is the truth, as we'll, and all
J.. truth shall be told. We Il. We told it
e IN love, and time and sad experience
g have demonstrated it to all. Shall we
O not kindly say to our friends be done
fighting us2 Have we not told you the
truth, and have you not received it in
s. spite Of your opposition9
The Philistines are upon us. Gold,
n crowned and sceptred and panoplied
n with the peraphernalia of a MIGHTY
e. warrior, dtfanCly and in advance hid
US to worship at his shrine. Irssea5