The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-03
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by him to whom they owe their prefer
meHt than Mr.. Morton, of the Agricul-
tural Department, member of Mr..
Cleveland's Cabinet and paid by the
people to look after their agricultural
interests. Neither Mr.. Carlisle, nor
Mr.. Eckels, nor Mr.. Preston, no one of
the trio who presides over the finances
OF our country, has shown greater &C.
tivity or given more time to the ex-
pounding of Sound financial doc
trines" than Mr.. Morton.
Such liberal use of time paid for by
the peoples money has called for no
rebuke from Mr.. Cleveland. Those
who hold place from the government
and have given much less of their time
in advocacy of the election of Mr.. Bryan
have been imperiously warned against
taking an active part in politics on the
ground that active participation in
politics on the part of government EN-
pioyees must needs be ''p9rnicious to
the public service" So we have come
to find that active support Of Mr.. Bryan
on the part Of government employees
is detrimental to the public service, and
subjects such employees to dismis 1al
on the ground of "~pernicious activity"
but that active participation in politics
Of those who have espoused the gold
standard in no way jaopardizes the
berths of those who have thus taken
sides with the President.
Thus for an eff ;e-holder to enroll
himself under the banner of Mr.. Bryan
and to advocate American independ-
ence is to count dismissal, while the
office holder VINO follows in the wake
Of the President, strives to encompass
the defeat Of Mr.. Bryan and aid in
s~houldering On our people a policy in
the interest of aliens and those with
alien interests and dictated by aliens.
gains official favor and is allowed to
rest secure in his berth.
We do not find fault with Mr.. Nor
ton, Or Mr.. Carlisle, or Mr.. Eckels OF
any other government employee in ex-
pounding his views as to sound finance
and striving to convince American
voters that they will best conserve
their interests by advocating a policy
that must depress prices and increase
our tribute to Great Britain and the
other creditor nations on the o of
our foreign indebtedness, the burden
of which grows just as prices fall, and
it takes a greater bulk of commodities
to raise the same number OF dollars,
out we do fnd fault with the Admins
tration when it strives to STIFF those
Office holders who would expound the
doctrine of bimetalIism and American
independence on the ground that such
activity is p3rnicious to the public ser.
vice while it encourages those who
are adherents of the gold standard to
go forth and teach the benefits of an
approaching dollar and the necessity
of people holding themselves in
financial subsection to foreign powers.
We do not hold that narrow view that
men should become political non IN
titles On entering the government ser
vice, q to give expression to their
political views, surrender their right to
expound their principles, withhold
their active support from candidates Of
their preference and take no other part
in politics save to record their indiVid-
ual vote without in any way striving
to Influence the votes 81 others, but we
do hold that that which is held to be
~pernicious activity for one should be
held to be pernicious activity for all,
and that the test of political activity
pernicious to the public service should
not be drawn along the line of political
cleRverage.
But to return to Mr.. Morton, who is
given every encouragement to expound
the doctrines of sound finance" al
taught by his benefactor. OF course,
as all good contractionists, Mr.. Morton
denies the power of legislation to affect
the relative values of gold and silver,
and in a recent address we find him
clinching to his own satisfaction, q
point he had been making along this
line by propounding this question: IF
the United States a double the price
of the worlds silver by enactment, " he
said, "why can it not also double the
price of garnets, of wheat, or pork, or
any other exchangeable thing by the
same necromancy?"
Silver let us preface, sells now for
something like sixty five cents an ounce
in gold. By opening u minis 20 free
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